Morning journal and courier., 1889-06-28
THE EoLRRKIN CASE.

Occupies she Greater Part of Court | Time Yesterday - More Testimony
 and Considerable Crcss-Examintng- | The Staxe Rests at she Close of Yes-
 terday,s work-The Defense may 0f- fer no Evidenee-Adjourne Until Satufday-nIr. and Mrs. Callahan do nos Appear In Court-Mrs. Callahan to be Put on Trial This Morning. | The Clerkin case was continued yesterday | in the City court, before Judge Pickett. Clerk Pickett of the town agents office was on the stand most of the forenoon. He was ! subjected to @ long eross-examination by Judge Stoddard, most of it tedious in l character to the few spectators present. A ! question asked him as to whether he had is- sued any orders since last January to persons who were dead was ruled out. Attorney Stoddard said he didn't mean that Clerk Pickett did 1t Intentionally only that he might have done it by mistake, showing that the system in the town agents office Ras lsx. In response to the enquiry of MT. Pickett if | he knew of Q single instance where MT. Clerkin delivered an order to any person not entitled to 1t, MT. Pickett said, No, sir; but ! qualifying the reply to say that he did not see the act of handing it over. MT. Pickett | testified that on May 8, during the absence of MT. CIerkin, four orders, one for John De Forest, $5; another for the widow of George Fitz, $6; @ third for Lois Tritten, $4; and the fourth for the widow of William Wid- ding, $6-these four orders mysteriously dis appeared. Mrs. Callahan called at the time the orders disappeared and she afterwards cashed the one for Lois Tritten at Kohn's, Congress avenue. On May 10, twelve orders worth $19 were stolen. Whether or not Mrs. Callahan called that day, witness wasn't asked.
  reflect at all upon MT. Pickett by his course of inquiry. His object in it was simply to show that orders have been given in that office and not by MT. Clerkin when the beneficiary named in the order was dead. I want to show how loosely things have been run in the office.
 MT. filling vigorously replied, saying that the evidence sought by MT. Stoddard was not material in the case.
 Judge Pickett sustained Mr. filings objec- tion.
 Town Agent Todd was on the witness stand most of the afternoon. A little spice was communicated to the proceedings by Judge Stoddard's vigorous objection to @ line of in quiry by MT. filling. MT. filling wanted Major Todd to tell about one of the fictitious orders issued to Mrs. Chat6eld at the time when she needed none, being in the alms- house, and there supported by the town. MT. Stoddard charged Major Todd with secreting orders that had been made out. I don't mean to say he stole them, vociferated the judge, but that he secreted them and we can prove it, too. He secreted the order in his desk for purpose against Clerkin.
 Mir. filling replied with equal vigor, al- though the air in the court room was in- tensely muggy, and denied the fmputation or insinuation against the town agent, whose efforts were to the end of purifying the office and bringing order out of confusion. The testimony sought for, Ar. filling held, was clearly admissible. Judge Pickett admitted 1t, whereupon MT. Todd gave some further information on the subject desired.
 The remaining witnesses of the day were MT. Cohn, who testified more on the order subject, and MT. Mcdonald, the new clerk in the town agents office, whose testimony was brief, and was to the effect that there had been marked diminution in the number of orders issued at the office since the change of administration on the 1st of January last.
 The State here rested and the defense stated it might decide to rest here also and not bring in any evidence. The defense, however, reserved its right in this matter for decision upon 1t between now and the re- sumption of the case.
 At MT. filings desire, he being obliged to go to Hartford to-day, Judge Pickett ad- journed the case until tomorrow Saturday. \ morning at 10 o'clock. MRS. CALLAHANs CASE COMES UP FOR TRIAL
 TO-DAY.
 Neither Andy nor Mrs. Callahan were in I court yesterday. The case against Mrs. Cal I lahan will be put on trial this morning at ! about 10 o'clock. The charge against her is I simply theft. She is charged with theft of | $2O worth of town orders from the town agents office.