Daily Yellowstone journal., 1889-06-16
A Smooth Customer.
Thougr H is not Quit Suffci.
emily Smart Enou-h 10 Keep
Out Ct Trouble.
A Jury Il Six OF the Realm Sit
on His Case and Then
on Him.
TRIAL BI JURY

TRIAL IN III Ky
In Which Mclaughlin, the Man of Many
ALIASES, l. Pound Guilty nf Being a Com.
mon Cheat.
As was indicated by the public in.
terest taken in the case. the probate
court was illed to the utmost capacity
yesterday morning when the case o!
The Territory vs. Mclaughlin with
his many aliases was called. A venire
Of ten jurors had been summoned, out
Of which 10 select six for the trial Of
the case and as soon a. everything was
in rea illness Mclaughlin, who had
elected 20 conduct his own defense,
started on the examination of the
Jurors. The examination was con-
Quoted In manner entirely new IA
legal practice, and during its progress
caused much merriment among the
spectators. Ike Silvsrman was
bounced unceremoniously, The only
enquiry made of him beiug as to his
name. r. NJ. Judd had formed an
| opinion and he was let out. T. John.
son, of Alzada, had also formed an
opinion but IL appearing on further
enquiry that the opinion was that the
defendant WAS a pretty smart man"
he was deemed acceptable. His
brother, j. Johnson, was also retained
on account Of his being Scotchman.
r. ". Doyle was asked If he was
Catholic, whereupon Mr.. Fairfield,
who appeared for the territory, oh
jected and quite discussion ensued,
touching the question as to whether n
mans religious belief disqualified him
as a juror, which ended in Mr.. Doyle
being rejected, although it transpired
that he was not Catholic. H. b.
Twombley was next interroga'ed a. 10
his calling, TO which ne replied that
he was a "roustabout." Defendant
then asked for a translation Of the
term, which evidently was not salts.
factory, as Mr.. Twombley was also
fired. w. r. Granam, the last Of the
original venlre, was accepted and q
recess was taken 10 enable the sheriff
TO secure some more talesmen. Dur
ing the recess Mr.. Watson came and
was most cordially greeted by the de-
fendant. who addressed him as Mr..
McAuslsnd. This caused much laugh.
ter, in which, when the mistake was
made known to him, the defendant
heartily joined. When court recon
sened Mr.. Middleton appeared for the
defense and proceeded with the ex-
animation Of the jury with more expe-
dition than had heretofore character
lied the proceedings, resulting in the
selection of the folio wing jury: w. r..
Graham, T. johnson, J. johnson, Ben
Smith, VI. Kircher and r. Sporup. Ii
was now IL o'clock and as the probate
court room was uncomfortably crowd
ed an adjournment was taken to the
large court room. When here assem-
bled the case was opened by the prose-
cution calling Rev. Il. e. Armstrong
TO the witness stand. Mr.. Armstrong
had answered the usual interrogatorie'
as to name, residence, etc, and said
that he knew the defendant, had seer
him at his house, and was about /,
reply to the question, "What did b,
tell you his name was ~ when Mid
dleton internosed an objection on tn
point that as the prosecution bad no
not introduced any testimony bearin,
directly on the crime charged-whicl
was the cheating OF Father Pauwelyn-
II was not competent to introduce cor
relative testimony. As without tn
testimony Of the other victims, show
ing the different stories told by the aC
cused, the territory could not make
case, this point vas most earnestl
and ingenuously contested by bot
sides for nearly an hour. At the con
clusion Of the arguments the cour
ruled that correllative testimony wa
not competent at that stage OF tn
case, and IL being noon, q recess wa
taken until l:30. The afternoon sessiol
opened with Father Panwelyn on th
stand, who testified In substance .
follows:
Am clergyman OF the Catholi
church; have been here since October
1887; know defendant; first saw him q
my house on Thursday last at hslf-pas
nine or ten o'clock in the morning
he told me he was Just from Belfast
Ireland, that he had expected TO find
two brothers at st. Cloud. MINI, bu'
on arriving there found they had gone
to Bozeman, Mont, where they nov
lived on.s ranch 20 miles from town
bad just enough money TO bring hin
here; had enguirsd OF conductor or
train where there was O Catholi'
CHAPEL and where the priest lived;con
ductOr told him at Miles City, which