Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-04-25
GUILTY AS CHARGED .
Rev. g. w. James Suspended
From Clerical Work.
YESTERDAYS TESTIMONY
A Statement by the Defendant
More About His "Pnrity
Publication"


IL O'Clock on Monday night when the
clerical jury finished their days labors in
investigating the James case at Long
Beach, they were on hand at 8 O'Clock
yesterday morning. This pressure OF
business was made because the majority
of the committee had little time to spare
from their own missions, and were
anxious to get back to town as soon as
possible. 1t will be remembered that
on the preceding night, just before ad-
iournment, DIR. Bovard, the prosecuting
attorney, stated that he desired to rest
his case on the evidence already in, as
he deemed it unnecessary, In order to
suspend Mr.. James, to bring all the
filthy details before the committee. This
was q matter for President Van Clere to
decide, and he withheld his decision
until morning.
When the proceedings of yesterday
were commenced, the result of the courts
deliberations was announced, and proved
to be in favor of the prosecution. DIR.
Williams then opened for the defense
by calling James to the stand, who was
then directed to state all he had to say
in response to the charges against him.
He thereupon began a rambling state
ment OF his life for the past seven years,
but, this being all immaterial and irrel-
evsnt, he was called to order by the
chair. The following examination then
took place:
sDid you believe this document, sealed
by the notary public, to have been a
sworn statement" ?"
"I did,"
"Do You now SO believer"
ssI do not"
''Did you until yesterday"
81 did,"
"Were you in the Office of the Notary
at the time no said that about the affida-
Wit and the seal ?"
stI was, but l don't remember that he
did say 3d."
"Why, then, did you tell the Notary to
Just take the acknowledgement?
II did not know the difference between
hem"
''Have you ever before been sworn in
this country?"
ssYes; three or four times. have
raised my hand and said, This is all
right l have never known the form of
oath is this country, but presume some
person must be duly authorized to ad-
minister an OATH"
s'Did you tell Mr.. Lowe that Mrs.
James paper was medical statement ?"
mo, did not; for told him her paper
was a personal statement, which she
wanted kept private"
flames then gave description of how
the paper came to be signed, and, in re-
ferring to his own paper, named in
specification 8, he said that it was a sur
prise to him when Mrs. James asked
him to swear to it.
HER SISTER CALLED.
Miss Tillie James, the sister of the de.
fendant, was next placed upon the stand
and was directed to tell the Court about
the occurrences of the Sd day of April
She said:
ST knew that Mr.. James and his wife
were intending to 90 up to the city and
heard him get up about train time. As
he came out of his room, he saw her
room door open. She was then playing
with the baby. He said to her, Are you
not going up to the city with me?' /
knew by the tone of his voice that he
was terribly disappointed, for he seemed
TO have been resting SO well on her
promise. got out of the bed, partly
dres sed, and went into the room, for !
saw that he was in very disturbed state
of mind. / was afraid of him at the
time. He walked about the room as il
In q state of frenzy. Mrs. James
laughed at him, which only tortured him
the more. She lay very quietly in bed
and took little notice Of him. She said
that she did not think it best to GO, but
gave no reason. He, in a moment,
picked up the chair and SWUNG
it around his head as he
stood by the side of her bed.
She put her arm up to defend herself.
He said, Am to dash your brains oui
now? cannot stand it any longer,
must do something. You have driven
me to desperation. I'll dash your brains
out, and then kill myself Mrs. James
said nothing at all while he was speak
ing thus. took hold of his arm and he
put the chair down and sat in it. 1 sat
on his lap and gave him wet towel to
put on his head. had cup filed with
water and dipped my hand in it and put
il on his forehead. I said, George you
must be quiet, You don't know what you
are doing. No l don't know what / am
doing he said, but must and will be
caim.' He then sat on the side of the
bed by the side of Mrs. James and his
calmness to me seemed SO intense that
was as much alarmed as when he was in
such frenzy. He began to talk to Mrs
James to get her reasons for not going to
the city. left the room and went to my
own room and sat on the bed. I could
hear them talking very quietly together.
i finished dressing and went down stairs
and did not see them again until
o'clock. Then saw that my brother
was quiet in his manner, but noticed
that his eyes had strange expression"
MR.. LOWE RECALLED.
O1 account of the nature of Mr..
James's testimony it was found neces-
Eary to call Notary Lows to the stand
again, in rebuttal, but the hour of noon
having arrived, adjournment was taken
for lunch.
THE AFTERNOON SESSION.
On reasseml ling Mr.. Lowe took the
Sand and was rigldly cross-examined.
He said. however, that the original
statement he had made was all that he
could give in evidence, and no effort of
counsel could shake his words. At the
conclusion of bis examination, the evil
dence was announced as all in, and the
case was submitted to the committee. 1t
did not take long to arrive at decision,
and by 2 o'clock the verdict had been
rendered, that James was guilty as
charged, that is to say: he was guilty of
the specifications Of lying and fraud,
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