St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-11-20
TO-DAY WILL END IT.
Enoeh Rays Attorneys Have
Slipped in Some Surpris-
ing Evidence.
On That Account the Jury Did
Not Get to the Case Yes
terday.
Complaints Innumerable Are
Launched at the Street
Car System.
Dr.. Milburn, "the Blind Man
Eloquent" in Town--In
the Courts.

The attorneys for Enoch Ray are max
ing superhuman efforts to clear their
man. They gained little point yester-
'lay morning by putting couple of new
witnesses on the stand. 1t was sup
posed on Tuesday night that all the evil
dence was in, but yesterday morning r.
l.. Penney bobbed up and requested
permission to introduce more evidence.
The consent of the court was gained
and john KirStner and nj. II. Hits,
saloonkeepers, were put upon the stand
| to show that the employees of the treas
urer'S office Knew the contents of the
tin box. They each testified to in
stances of going to the treasurer's office
with Mr.. Ray and seeing him hand
money TO the employees with instructions
TO put it in the box. The $500 thus
handed in by Hits is part of the missing
money. Kirstner swore that he told all
the circumstances connected with his
deposit TO Supt. Bracket. Both men
sWore that SOrensOn HAD received the
tin box from Ray and put it in the safe.
When o'clock came Frank Nye put
the city treasury people on the stand
again 10 rebut the evidence of the
saloon keepers. They denied any
knowledge of the facts sworn to, and
Bracket said he was positive that
neither of them had ever told him of
the circumstances. Mr.. Modiselte stated
that kistner had told him previously
that Ray had handed the box TO Crosby.
He knew nothing about the circum-
stances sworn to by the witnesses. They
all stated that Sorensen could not have
put the box in the safe, as he had no
means of gaining access to it.
The arguments fOlluwpd II r Pen
ney being the first to be heard. He
went over all the evidence and argued
that it failed to show Rays guilt. His
deduction was that Ray was being
prosecuted because he had gone to Can
ada, which was assumed to be evidence
of guilt. He also did his best
to throw suspicion upon the EN-
ployes of the city treasurer's
office. Frank Nye followed for the
state: Those who were waiting for a
brilliant effort on the part of MIR. Nye
were not disappointed He never made
a stronger plea. The contradictions in
the testimony for the defense. of which
there have been not a few, were made
the most of. All of the circumstances
against Ray, his flight. bis actions be-
fore leaving the city, his weak excuses,
were all taken up and diSSected in Nye'S
best manner. Then he turned his at
tentlon to the attempt to cast suspicion
upon the men in the city treasurer's
office. men who have handled large
sums of money for years Without mis-
take and who could steal $4,000 instead
of $1,000 il they were dishonest, and all
his power of denunciation and sarcasm
was employed in dealing with it.
w. Il. Donahue closed the argument
for the defense. The case will be given
to the Jury this morning
Opinions as To what the jury will do
are various. Few expect an absolute
acquittal. the majority of those who
have followed up the case banking on a
disagreement.
The attorneys for the defense worked
a neat little play in the afternoon. Mr..
Penny asked to be put upon the stand,
that he might swear that he and Mr..
Donahue had at noon gone to the lock
shop and obtained two keys that would
unlock that little tin box. Judge Hicks
would not allow the evidence, but Mr..
Penny had made his statement and Mr..
Donahue had unlocked the box before
the Judge and il had its effect