St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-08-01
HE DEFENDS HIMSELF,
Aldrich Says His Transactions
With De Young We're
Purely Business.
He Denies Ever Having Seen
the Burglars or Know
ing Of Them.
The Trio Examined and Held
to the Next Grand
Jury.
Ex-Superintendent Of Schools
w. w. Wraaman Sent to
an Asylum.

and Lewis was resumed before Judge
Mahoney, in the municipal court, yes
terday morning. Judge Mahoney, who
has been over-pressed with work during
the absence of Judge Bailey. leaned
YEARLY in his chair when the case be-
gan. The three defendants, as soon as
they appeared, were arraigned upon
second charge, of the larceny of cigars
from Winecke 81 Doerr, the goods hav-
ing been taken from branch store at
1919 Nicollet avenue. Henry Winecke, the
senior partner of the firm, testified that
July 9 his store was burglariZed and
10000 cigars were taken, valued at S731.
Harry De Young, the pawnbroker,
who is the principal witness for the
state, was recalled. Mr.. De Young
has been seriously sick for
several weeks, and it was
evidently a hardship for him to appear
in court, and his face and manner
showed his condition. This was attrib-
uted by many to the part he had to
play in the drama before the court, but
was evidently an injustice. The story
he told was, throughout, very similar to
that in relation to the former cases. He
said Davidson had come to his store and
talked OF bringing up gang from Chi
cago, which would include Lewis
and Blake. Aldrich had afterward
come to his store with Davidson
and the latter said he knew where he
could get some cigars. Aldrich said he
could use them and Davidson said he
would get them. This was before the
burglary. The next time he said was
when Davidson and Blake brought sam
pies OF cigars to his store, and said they
II nd hnn- af
pipes. Among the latter was one
marked 500. Attorney Jamison asked
what else was said, and De Young
raised laugh by saying:
HE said the bows did not do as he
wanted them to. He wanted them to
clear out the whole store and put up a
sign to rent"
when did Davidson bring the cigars
to the Store?"
The day after the burglary
"What were they going to do with the
cigars?"
An arrangement was made before
hand. 1t was agreed before the burglary
that the cigars were to be planted and
son said: Don't you know that your
coachman, Burnham, will peach if he
gets S100H Aldrich said he knew that,
but he'd fix it all right. 1t was under
stood that after the cigars were planted
Aldrlch was to meet Davidson at 10
O'Clock, with wagon, on Eleventh
street and First avenue north, and go
and raise the plant
''Do you know what kind of cigars
they were?'
''Aldrich said that they were Gin
cinnati or Ohio brands and could not be
sworn to-"
tx,t, Nc,
The next day after the plant was
raised"
"What did he say?'
''He said that Aldrich gave him an
envelope containing S125 for the cigars.
He SAID Aldrich wanted to see me at the
Syndicate bl0ck.''
did you go up there?"
"Yes. | went up and Aldrich gave
me a $40 gold piece and a s. bill"
did you get any more mony from
Aldrich?"
"YeS.''
"When?"
THE day that he went East. He gave
me 49,"
''Do you know what became of the
cigars?'
'Aldrich told me that he was going to
store them in Mr.. Fields cellar. Just
before he went away he told me that he
was going to ship them to New York"
''Did Aldrich say anything about the
pipes?"
''He asked me if could not sell the
pipe marked 500. | said no. Then he
said he could sell it to Lehman, who
keeps The Fair in Chicago, adding
that he had not sold him any swag for
ten years."
Attorney Domaine gave the witness
very severe croSS-eXaminatiOn, bring
ing out that the plant was located near
Twenty-eighth street and Fourth ave-
nue. south, but failing to shake the teSti-
mony in the least. Frank Burnham,
Aldrich's coachman, testified that about
the time of the cigar robbery several
men brought some trunks to the barn
one night and he took them to Aid
rich'S store next day. He could not
identify the men and did not know who
they were.
Frank l.. Preston. an expressman.
testified that on July Is, he hauled to
the Milwaukee depot box marked E.
w. Aldrich, Il Co.. New York.
Capt. Harvey, of the police force,
said he knew Davidson, and had had
conversation with him at De Young's.
July 90, in relation to the burglary.
81 asked Davidson if Aldrich could be
trusted" said Capt. Harvey, in reply to
a question. Davidson said he could.
and that he (Afdrich) drove the wagon
after the plant was lifted"
Capt. Harvey gave some new imma-
terial evidence, and, among other
things, he said he was working on the
case when the men were arrested.
Detective Doyle told of going
through Aldrich's house and recovering
four boxes of cigars, three boxes of
which were in a bureau upstairs. He
also told of going to basement oppo-
site Gen. Washburn's residence and
finding some cigars in cistern there.
He went in company with Detective
Howard, who went into the cistern and
secured the cigars and broken boxes.
Detective Howard was called by Mr..
JamiSOn, and he threw some light upon
the capture. He secured the first in
formation from thief who calls HIM
self johnson now, but who has a dozen
names. johnson lived at Davidson's
and overheard the men talking about
the robbery. Then. with many of the
facts in his possession. Howard went
to De Young. At first the second
hand man tried to bluff it off,
but afterwards he weakened and gave
the whole snap away" as Mr.. Howard
expressed it. He also told of the find
ing of the cigars in the basement and
others in Mr.. Aldrich's house. De-
tective Lawrence told of finding bur
glars tools in Davidson's room, and also
the cigar holders. He also testified
that he often saw Davidson and Blake
at De Young's store, and that he had
also seen Aldrich there. This COM
pleted the testimony in the cigar case.
THE LAWRENCE BURGLARY
About the Same StOry-The Three
Men Held.