Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1888-02-24
THE TALLY SHEET TRIAL
The Attorneys Have n Lively Tilt 4. the
Court Room.

The Attorneys Have a Lively Tilt 1. the
Court Room.
CoLuNBUs. O., February %.
Charles T. Blackburn took the stand ye~
terday morning and was examined by Col
onel Taylor. He was asked in regard to
his ccncealmeut in Cincinnati subse
auent to the finding OF the indictment in
this case, and testified that he learned that
il was the intention to rush the case to trial
and not give the defendants any chance to
get any testimony whatever. His counsel,
Hon. Charles ". Baker, advised him to re-
main concealed, and he did so. When he
finally came, he came voluntarily. His
conceslment was for the purpose Of pre-
venting his trial being precipitated. He
learned the faot of the indictment against
him from q newspaper while absent from
Cincinnati, to which place he Immediately
went and placed himself under the instruc-
tions of his counsel, by whose advice he
was governed.
Cross-ensmined by Mr.. Huling: Witness
denied that Mr.. Campbell was his counsel
or had been at any time in this case; was
not aware before he came here that the de-
PENDANTS in a criminal case had the right of
demanding a separate trial; did not send
word here inquiring what Vas being done,
or that he would be here as soon as bond
WAS furnished; remained in Cincinnati
until he was notified 70 come here. His
place OF concealment was on Freeman
street He communicated with his friends
here through q Mr.. Kuertz; had seen Lew
Bernard present during the trial; saw Gran
vile in Cincinnati.
Re-eIamined: Was receiving teller at the
bank OF Coon & Sons for three years. and
left because of poor health. Was married
| twelve years ago; his health had never been
robust; was a civil engineer by profession.
John CreDane was next called and eG-
amined by Mr.. Converse. He testified that
he was employed as night wostchmsn at the
Court House in the fall OF IS. He cor
roborated Steube's testimony as To the dis
turbance Thursday night, and said that
Steube was not in the habit OF being away
| from the Court House. He was at the
Court House at two O'Clock Thursday
night, William HeinmilleT was there also;
was also there Wednesday night; was in
the building all the time awake, and on
duty He did not see how any one could
have come in and carried of any tally
sheets without them knowing it. rs the
doors were all locked and they couldn't
get in without being seen or heard in some
way.
He had no knowledge of any tally sheets
being taken out either Wednesday, Thurs
day, saturday or Sunday nights. Steube
was not absent Thursday night or Wednes-
aay night Ii he had been, We tCrenanel
would have known il. lie saw Messrs.
kiesewetter and Beck at the Cour; House
Sunday night, but no one else, at that hour,
or afterwards, besides the regular watch
men. John 0'Neill. night waochmsn OF the
Treasurer's office. was the last witness call
ed in the forenoon, and testified that be had
no information concerning the altering OF
the tally sheets.
AFTERNOON sESsI-N.
William II. Luchtenberg. former clerk
in the County Auditors Office. where he
was employed in October. 1885. was the
first witness called in the afternoon. He
was at the Court House Thursday night, the !
date Of the alleged Ninth ward forgery. |
Was present when Beatou and Cherrington |
were there; remained until William Helm |
miller came. Steube and Crenane were |
both careful wstchmen. and were ably as- |
sisted by persons who would come in.
William Heinmiller, son OF the ex-sheriti. |
was ne St sworn, and testified that he assist |
ed Steube and CrcnaDe 10 watch the Court |
House the Thursday night after the 0cto- |
Der election in 1885. Steube was not ab- |
sent from the Court House while he WAS
there. There was a lull in the proceedings |
at this point occasi0ned by the absence OF
witnesses.
When after a delay of several minutes,
the voice OF Mr.. Converse was heard, asking |
Mr. Huling 10 take the stand. there was
general attention. Mr.. Huiing was exam
inei BY Mr.. Converse. He was asked If he
knew a woman named Lizzie Rsiner, and
replied that he believed he had seen her
once 1T the Penitentiary; did not know
where she was at present: did not know
that anything had been done 70 get her
away from the city beyond the jurisdiction
OF the court so that she could not testify for
the defense, had been party to no such
action; had heard something of her where
sbouts in the city since her release from the
Penitentiary last month, his information
being derived partly from Detective Ferrell.
Mr.. Converse questioned the witness
closely upon this point, but Mr.. Huling
denied all knowledge OF anything of the
kind. lie knew Of her being with q fam
ily by the name OF Mansfield at one time
since her release. He denied any knowl-
edge that Lizzie Rsiner had been finally
released from the Penitentiary to avoid
babeas corpus proceedings which were
did not know that she had
been illegally detained at the Penitentisry
from October until January for the pur>
pose of testifyinS in this case for the State;
recalled a conversation he bad with me of
the Penitentisry officials concerning her,
in October; understood that she had sur
sent out letter which was
published in 8 GAINESVILLE paper part Of il
being also published in the TINES Of this city;
he understood that this was On infraction
OF the rules and that she was detained for
il; knew of no other reason why she was
detained; something w1s said in this con-
versatien about her having information
which had bearing on this case, but he
did not understand that she was detained
for that reason; had forgotten whether
his advice had been asked or
not The person with whom he had /
the conversation, he was quite sure, was
either with Manager SInesd OF Toledo.
Manager Howard of this city, or Warden
Coffin; had another conversation with
some one a, the Penitentiary about the
woman, after she.had been detained some
time; said that 6cy could let her 60, as far
Is he was concerned. He knew of no
measures taken 10 get the woman out of the
city. He did not know that she had been
detained even longer than she could be
egslly for the infraction of the rules.
Mr., ,HU!ing was examined in regard 10
the treatment OF Lizzie Rainer while the I
investigation was in progress I
He denied any knowledge that she had :
been i'll treated 80 get her tu testify corrob-
Drating Francis ana Campbell; went 10 see :
ler once, to find out what she knew; did ,
rot go to get her to swear 20 certain things
Knew nothing about her being alternately ,
threatened, caioled. and punished for the
purpose Of getting her TO testify for the
state: had no knowledge OF her being
AIKEN 10 public restaurant and given
repast; had not heard that Mr.
converse was in poSSession OF certain letters