St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-12-29
Where did you pull 1t to, sergeantq"

inquired Judge Emery.
Il mean | raided it and arrested the
inmates replied the officer.
"Some time after that" continued
Krnmweide, Il went to police headquar-
tiers and told Chief Bracket that the
Lepla house was running worse than
before. The chief told me to let her
alone awhile and that he would see that
she either got out or quit. Then he told
me TO tell the officer on the beat TO keep
away from the Lepla house, and did
So"
On cross-examination Krumwede
testified that he had arrested the Lepia
woman on Jan. z. and that she pleaded
guilty in the municipal. She had made
complaint against the witness to
the police commission, charging
that he had chokpd her when he made
the raid. He denied that Cher Brackett
had told him when he complained of the
Lepla house that burglaries were being
committed in his district, and that he
should put in his time looking after
other things besides houses of i'll fame.
He also denied that he had ever been
connected with any movement to de-
pose Chief Bracket from his Office.
Chief Bracket took the stand in re-
buttal and swore the Lepla woman had
prosecuted by Sergt. Krumweide. From
what the woman had said, and from the
statement of the sergeant. he thought
she was being prosecuted, and he repri-
manded krumWeide and told him
that buTglarieS were being committed
in his district, and that men
were being held up. He told him to
pay more attention 10 preventing these,
and TO the arrest Of the robbers rather
than in watching the Lepla house. Mr..
BrocRet admitted that the parts of the
atfidavitS made by the women Lepia and
Hall, and Detective Hall. were true 50
far as relating to his visit to the house
was concerned, but he denied all other
parts relating 10 conversation. acts.
etc. He explained his presence in the
house by saying he had gone there at
the request of Commissioners Babb and
Guile to investigate the charges made
by the women against Sergeant Krum.
Weide, and only remained then about
twenty minutes.
W. II. DOnahue was called and asked
il he had requested a retraction of Mr..
Maben. He said that he had. and, al
though called by the state. he made an
excellent witness for the defense. Il
met Mr.. Maben at Fourth and Henne-
pin avenue" SAID the witness. II had
known Mr.. Maben for a long time and
! knew he was falr-lninded man. When
| met him [ said, 'Maben, you have
done this man q damnable injustice,
and you should retract.' The word re-
traction was used there again in my of
fee. and again in Chief Brackets Office
when we went there to examine the
counter afldaYitS. Mr.. Maben CON-
pared the signatures on the papers in
Mr. Brackets possession, and he said
after the examination that he
thought he was sure we had been i'm
posed upon, and that while he would
make any retractiOE he offered TO pub
iish the counter affidavits. He said that
he had no desire to do Mr.. Bracket any
wrong, and that he would give ms all
the space in his paper We~Would want
TO publish anything about our side of
the case.
y. W. King was called and identified
the signature to the affidavit made by
! Blanche Arthur at Brainerd. Then
both sides rested. Counsel for the de-
Tense handed up number of requests
for a charge 10 the court, and the Judge
declared short recess while he consid
cred them.
LANES PLEA FOR THE DEFENSE.
Freeman p. Lane, for the defense, in
his speech to the jury said: Our the
! DRY is, that we have not come into court
with the intention OF proving the
| truth of these affidaYitS but that before
! we published them we carefully exam.
! ined them. There is one question, did
I Mr.. Maben, after all investigation. pub
! lish those affidayits in good faith? In
/ view of the fact that the great dailieS
will not publish anything against a
man IN Mr.. Brackets position, it was
! right Maben should do so. Bracket is
not so high above other men as to be
above criticism. The first thing to de-
| termne is, whether Maben published
| them malIciously. This we claim he
| did not do. In support of his position
/ he read 2 number of authorities OH the
! subject of privileged communications
/ which be claimed the publication OF the
| affidavits was.
| NYE ROASTS THE FREE LANCE.
| In closing for the state. Frank NJ. Nye
/ made a strong plea for conviction.
| After drawing q beautiful picture of
! friendship and its ties, he scathed the
| Free Lance as a Scurrilous sheet which
| sows Islander throughout the city and
creates fear ami distruSt in the families.
In burst of eloquence Mr.. Nye ex-
/ claimed: SIS Winn Bracket guilty of
/ the vile things he has been charged
I
! three months will show us whether he
is innocent or guilty, for we will 90 to
the bottom of this matter" He de-
| clared that men do not honestly make
these publications. for they were
not made in the belief that
they were true. Maben has been
made the tool of the designing
personal and political enemies of Wins
! low Barrett. Mr.. Nye turned his bat
teries upon Henry Giertsen. and roasted
him numerically as the man who had
| hunted through the slums to get the
| affidavits. He declared the publications
bad been brought about through the
factional fight in the police commission
| without any foundation in fact, and
wound up by asking the jury, on behalf
| of the state, TO return a verdict of
| guilty.
In adjourDing the court until O'Clock
| tomorrow morning, Judge Emery eau
toned the jurors not to discuss the case
nor to allow any one to approach them
on the subject or to discuss it In their
| presence. They were also warned not
to read any of the published accounts OF
| the case or comments made in the news
| papers. They were told that the at
tempt on the part of any one to talk
about the case with them would be a
serious contempt of court, and in case
any such attempt was made he warned
the jurors to report the matter to him
as soon as the court was opened.
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