St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-11-18
Five Witnesses Were Sworn
Regarding the Trip Made
to Montreal.
Failure of Ferrant-Schmidt
Lithographing and Pub
fishing Company.
No Inquest Held Over the
Body of Doyle Corporal
Tanner Speaks.

A0OACA SROQhSs
Enoch Ray, once license nspector of
Minneapolis, is again before the pub
lie as a prisoner on trial for the COM
mission of crime. The regular trial,
which is to determine whether Ray is a
| victim of circumstances or a rascal, was
! begun before Judge Hicks yesterday
morning. \ stranger entering that
| court room yesterday would have picked
out any man but Ray as the prisoner at
| the bar He was the most I'M
| cOncerned-appearing individual in
| the court room. He sat we'll
| back from his attorneys near the END Of
| the table, at times reading the paper
and again gazing abstractedly out of the
window at the drifting clouds. as if the
proceedings had not the slightest inter-
est for him. lie has better color now
| than when his examination was held in
| the municipal court; he is not so hag-
| gard, but he is thinner in both form and
feature. and there are dark circles
| under his eyes. which tell of
sleeplesS nights and much mental
worry, concealed though it may
be under a passive exterior. He never
suggests anything to his attorneys,
| takes no part whatever in the drama in
which he is the central figure. That
man has wonderful nerve,' is the COM
| ment of all who see him.
When the case of The State versus
| Enoch Ray, accused of embeZZlement.
was called in the morning, Mr.. Penny
asked for continuance of the case on
account of the continued illness of Mrs.
| Ray. He asked that it be continued
| over the term, and the motion was
argued. Judge Hicks stated that
| he had given the defense all the reason
able time that could be asked. He
wanted to give ample time, but thought
| the occasion required as speedy trial
as possible, ana denied the motion. AS it
would take some time TO get a jury in
! the case, the defense, he thought, should
have ample time to get the witnesses in
| court. The following jury were en-
paneled, and court took recess: ii.
| w. Holmes, Silas F. johnson, John
| Moren. Frank Johnson, j. Refferty, A.
| NJ. Banker, q. w. Burtram, w. A. An
derSon, II. G. Sherry, G. Demeen. j. w.
Nash and Alfred Lock- Assistant
! County Attorney Nye'S shrewdness was
Illustrated by his securing as jurYman
man who, to all appearances, is his
| own brother Bill.
James Vasey's Testi mony.
| Frank Nye, who yesterday conducted
| the case alone, addressed the jury and
the examination OF witness began. Ray
is not now being tried on the same case
! on which he was examined in the mu-
nicipal court. The charge against him
at that time was based Oh the money
paid Ray by tine Bernheimer Wine COM
pany. The present case is on the money
! paid Ray by James VaSey, whose saloon
is at los Fourth street south, After
Nye had gone over the main points of
| his case, James VaSey was called to the
stand. His testimony is more against
Ray that of any of the other saloon
| keepers.
Vasey said that Ray came to him on
the 22d of Jniy, the very day that Ray
left town, and told him that he must
hustle" and pay over his money for
| license. He had $500 in the bank, and
started to write a check for that amount,
| but Ray objected to receiving a check.
| Then VaSey went to the bank, drew the
$500 and paid over the cash. He gave
Ray the money at about $3.50 in the
afternoon on July %.
On croSS-eXamination Vasey admitted
that MIR. Ray stated to him that the
chief of police demanded the collection.
In regard to the time the money was
paid, he was certain it was nearer
the amount in his possession all day,
but had to get the balance from the
hank. Ray had not told him what he
was to do with it. He had not expected
Mr.. Ray to account to him for it, but
supposed he was to pay 5000 more and
get his license. He knew that Mr.. Ray
couldn't give him his license.
W. NJ. Bracket, superintendent of
police. was next called, and the account
of Rays departure for the East was de-
tailed again, all CT which has been pub
tectiye Towards departure, and of the
kilograms received from him regarding
Rays movements in Montreal. The bits
of yellow paper were introduced as evil
dence.
q. NJ. Douglass, the fuel dealer, came
next. He had gone East oil the same
train with Ray, and his evidence was
intended to disprove Rays statement
that he had gone on to Montreal be-
cause of Mrs. Rays illness. Douglass
saw no appearance OF ill-health about
her.
The Line of Prosecution.
]. A. Modisette, the assistant city
treasurer, was the next witness, and he
was followed by E. A. Crosby, cashier
in the Office of the city treasurer. Both
told the same stories as they did at the
preliminary hearing relative to Rays
| movements, to his visits to the office, to
his tin boX-all the circumstances at
tending the deposit of the tin box IN the
safe, and to their finding it unlocked
| The most rigid cross-eXamination, based
upon the evidence given in the munich
pal court, failed to shake their testi-
mony. Both were positive that Ray did
not visit the city treasurer's office on
July %, at least not in the afternoon.
Court adjourned at the close of Mr..
Crosby's testimony.
The basis of the prosecutions case be-
came apparent yesterday. Vasey paid
his S400 to Ray little before p. M. on
treasurer's office closes at4. The en-
plOyes in the city treasurer's Office are
certain that Ray never came into the
place of business that afternoon, or
after he had received Vasey's money.