The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1889-11-28
OR0NlN RESTS.
THE STATE CALLS WlrNEssEs FOR
REHurTAL TESTIMONY,

M' j. Crew, detective, Testlaes for tho
Defeuse aud on Gross Examination
heeomes BADLY muddled-TginG 10
oontradiet tho oarlsens' Evidence
Capt setback Recalled aud Denies
that Grow Made Report 10 Him,
omoAuo Nov, eO,-When Judge Mo
Cbnnell's court was called 10 order Will
lam Mertes, tho milkman who had test
llled ior the prosecution IN tho case, was
recalled by Mr. Forrest for tho defense
and won't over hla testimony again and
also testified o. 10 q conversation he had
with two policemen about tho case day
or 10 after the body had been discovered,
The witness told the officers that he saw
hay horse, with a whites face, coming
north 90 he was going SOUTH that the
buggy stopped IN front OF tho Carlson
cottage, and that he saw tall man got
out and SO into the cottage, The wit
neas was then examined NJ length as 10
his conversation with the policemen, and
admitted that he had told the ohieera that
no didnot know what day II was that he
Haw the horse and buggy drive up,
j. W. FralIek waa the next WYnesa,
and testified that tho defendant, lSunze,
had been employed by him from April 20
until June 20, the day OF his arrest
Kunze won't 10 work on the morning OF
May at sclook, and stopped work NJ
800 On the Monday after he went 10
work and quit at the usual time
10 Contradict Carlson'a Evidence,
Dyer 1hompon was next called on
behalf Of O'Sulliyan, Witness was fore
mnn for MCBRIDE, Ia the lee business, ut
90 Union street, and had been Ia his en-,
ploy for eight years, lle tUslled that
On March no, when he went bAck 40 noon
from tho ears, whore he had been un,
loading Ice, ~ th0 office, he saw O'Sulll-
van waiting there, and that he was there
No $3.50, when witneha wentaway, Hcnry
Mcbride, tho employer OF Thomson,
next tool, lho stand and corrobomlod
tho testimony Of hia man, Dyer lhOnp,
son, q son Gf the Thompson who had
Just tealiiled, followed IN the same line,
The object VI all this testimony was 20
contradict the evidence given BY Carlson
30 tho effect that az certain time, on
March 10, he heard tell O'Sullivan that
no had rented the cottage. Tho tcsti'
mOny Of tho witnesses was 10 tho effect
that O'Sulliyan was several miles from
LAlscylcw NJ the time mentioned,
M j, Crow, o policeman for tho past
sixteen years, was the next witness, lilo
had not been q member Of the United
Brotherhood for twelve yeam He said
that soon after tho Cronn murder ho
was IN the ncIghb0rhO0l Of the cottage
with officer Rowan, and that ho had q
conversation with Mlllmpn Mortca In
regard 10 th0 Oycnt Witness told
Mcrtea that ho Understood that ho knew
something about The affair and the milk.
man told him what no know about the
homo and buggy driving up, and "a tall,
Hllm man, who wore dark oyorcOat
and alouCh hat going quickly up tho
steps OF the cottage, MOrtos told wit
mess no did not soe the mana fncO, and
that he didn't SEQ much Of the man In
tho buggy na the top was up, but that
h6 was u smaller man, Mortca told wit,
moss no could not toll what day this oo.
currOd
A rather Suspicious circumstance was
brought out Ia the detectives evidence.
lilo aworc that Mcrtea In the same con.
vcrmtion spoke Of hearing sounds Of o
fight Immediately nftOr hO saw the tall
man enter the cottages he. the doteotiyc,
was asked ON the OcroM-eXaminntion why
IA making hia report 10 hla superior OIL.
Ccrs, h0 had failed 20 say anything about
Morlca having heard sounds Of q fight.
The witness struggled 10 explain his sin.
gulRr conduct, but failed utterly, and
pas excused, leaving behind him u very
bad impression,
Then Attorney Forrest, after few
momenta' consultation with his brother
counsel, arose and In q low voice said;
"Tho defense rests
Rcbuttal Testimony,
Tho state was ready with rs robuttal,
and at once called DR.. Curan, for tho
purpose Of swearing that Jamos Lyman,
on Che night Of the Cronin funeral told
witness that the death Of the physician
had boon ordered by the executive board,
and was therefore adj right, Lyman,
when ON the stand last week. sworo that
no had'said nothing Of the kind
No sooner had the states attorney
naked Dr. Curran the question thnn all
tho attorneys for the defense jumped 10
their feet and objected, arguing that 10
admit the testimony would be 10 open
new line Of testimony which had already
boon debarred,
Lyman'a Testimony striohcn Out.
Judge Mcconnell ruled that DR.. Cur.
ran need not testify, and on motion OF
Mr.. Foster all that part OF Lyman's tosti.
mony relating 10 the conversation be.
tween himself and DR.. Curran was
stricken from thcrecord, Capt Sohapck
was then recalled aud testified that
Officer Crow mover made a report TO him
OF any kind In the Cronin investigation.
Alfred Kittner testified that Peter
Lach, one of tho witnesses for tho dc.
fonso, was not the man he saw lust May
on Lincoln avenue with Dan Coughlin. |
Adjourned,