The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-12-17
ON TRIAL.
|. Refuses to Speak of Cleve-
land Street Scandal.
3 upuTyToHis FELLoW-MAN. !"
...pter, q Scotland Yard Detective,
rare Him to British Soil--Other
Court Matters-BIotter.

trial of Charles Z. Hammond, OF Cleye-
= = ssract house Betoriety, occupied the entire
~. Judge Humes' court yesterday. The
j. shsrres Hammond with having stolen n
Eshle scalskin sacque and gold watch and
-. rom Mrs. Augusta Simens, u woman who
a srinking cocktails and carousing with Ham
- = the WINE room of his Haymarket salonn
~ night OF September go Mrs simons saws
ssr.asd took the things while she was drunk.
u alexander Todhunter, who has plsyed the
=. a informer In the case, says he saw the
me IN Hanamonds possession, and that he
united taking it.
~ deicnse showed by severa, witnesses that
s.shuater had made var. ous threats against
usuuond, whom he w. .nted to send to the peni
tsf;sry Tor twelsas years, and Todhunter's
nixnleBts were all contradicted by the defend
81 gisaess.<.
ii Is r.n,ored that Todhunter is something
noss nan he appears, and instead OF being a
kFx,eper and lunch house proprietor he is a
vecfiye from Scotland Yard, sent here to lure
hammond across the line into British territory
/. o,der to get him back to London to be tried
- ne crimes and immoralities that were prac-
,;ad BIZ the scions OF nobility at Hammond's
,oree No 10 Cleveland street. Todhunter, soon
ss,r couaipg to Seattle, cultivated Hammond's
n<ru1t1x8UCt, Euu III |id. MN W tohc ~
& - d Victoria to celebrate the Queens birth
B ~ Not daring to enter upon English soil
B Ssmraond declined the invitation. Failing TO
q Hammond across the line, Todhunter be-
ssne intimate with him and went to work for
Ajyp As bsrkeeper at the Haymarket saloon in
Eptember. A difficulty occurred between the
tu,a men In November, and soon afterward the
shsYre Of grand larceny was preferred by Tod
lun!cs against Hammond
The testimony is conflicting throughout the
epe the states witnesses swearing one thing
"A The defendants another. Among the wit
s,,.s who testified yesterday were Mrs. Ham,
,.ond. her son Charlie Hammond, and Charles X.
hammond, the defendant. The most interest
- testimony was that of the defendant. He
,elated the circumstance OF the visit Mrs. Simons
psId 10 his wine room, the relations he had had
sth Todhunter, and the efforts of the latter 10
= him up 10 Victoria. He said that he left
iondon about two years ago and went to Bel
xiun, but only remained there short time,
den went TO France, and thence came TO Amer
isa He remained in New York q short time,
after which he came TO Seattle and located here
IN August, 1850. He owned the Haymarket
nloon and also cigar factory on Front street.
On cross-examination Hammond admitted
having lived In London at No. 19 Cleveland
,rees When asked what business he was en-
RACED In at London, Hammond fired up and
aid. II decline to answer that question. 1t
has nothing to do with this case. ] refuse to
snswer II because am duty bound to my fellow
men not to betray them. People have offered
me big money to get me to give certain infor-
nation, but will not do it. / refuse because
tits to save my fellow men,"
Herbert Ames 16year old boy, who was at
DC Cleveland street house with Hammond, also
testified He said the house where Mr.. Ham,
nond lived In London was private house, but
rooms were occasionally rented to gentlemen.
he seemed to be bright boy, aud not one who
would disclose any secrets. He said that Tod
hunter had threatened to send Hammond be-
hind the bars, even If he had to tell lies TO do
Co.
Todhunter was recalled and reiterated his
burner statements about Hammond's having the
ncque In his possession, and denied having
made any such threats as were attributed to
him by defendants witnesses.
The argument in the case win be finished this
morning. and the fate of the noted Cleveland
street house keeper will be left in the hands of
the jury to say whether larceny is to be added
70 the charges against him, or whether he is the
victim OF conspiracy