Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-07-03
MORGAN ACQUITTED.
The Soldier Gives Testimony and 10 Severely
Scored hy the Judgs.

Scored ~ the Judge.
There wac quite Q large crowd in the Police
Court this morning when, after . short recess.
the case OF the contractor Prank p. Morgan,
charged with wronging he young girl, Nellie
Godfrss, was resumed.
The soldier who has played such = prominent
part IN the case was put on The stand again.
On the statement that Fitxralin, the soldier,
could not understand Ensiish very vsh IN in
tsrprster was called for.
Mr.. Sutherland for the defense placed IN evil
dsncs certificate from the health department
that careful search Of the records OF the Office
child to apssayus and Elizabeth aodfree ON
October ., 1875 He sid that this would play
an important part IN the cass - going TO show
| the age Of the girl.
rHr soLDnn's TEsTxoSI.
Mr.. Mullownsy begsa BY asking the soldier
how often be was allowed to leave the arsenal.
He answered that he could leave sometimes
once, sometimes twice week. but that
he often got away - many as four
~s' sy a.pn sn II: ' s;s The he s s
in May, 1880. He had not been intimate with
the Boyd girl, though he was With her In L.
Droit Park when a policeman caught him. II
was several weeks after he met Nellie 0odfree
that he first became intimate with her. She
took him out to the reservoir and encouraged
him.
In ansver 10 Mr.. Mullownsy's questions he
| rehearsed all the details Of the alleged occur
renee at The reservoir, insisting that it vas
Helen Godfres and not Bertha Boyd that he
was with. He knew that the Godfrees lived on
the east side OF Sth street, but he never had
been In the house. He was married man
married about eighteen months ago-and wss
forced TO marry r. ...
JUDGE MILLER SCORES THE wrTNEas.
Il Il IA.
Miller. ''It's travesty on justice to let such
person pollute the witness box. know where
You ought to be instead Of here Step out Of
the box"
! VIM. Z. May, = young painter, was put in
the box by the defense and stated that he knew
Nellie Godfree; had seen her around the flying
horses and know Of her being intimate with
other men. Had seen her and . man In lie
| Droit Park about May, 1890.
AROUND TIE FLYING HORSES.
| Harry speake, young white boy, also testi-
fed to having seen the 6odfree girl having
intercourse with man. Had seen her around
the flying horses nearly every night and had
| also seen the soldier with her twice Ernest Hum.
phrey also testified 70 having seen Nettie God
free around the flying horses almost every even
ing. Was with Harry Speake at the time they saw
her with Q man near the Gurley Memorial
| Church and described that occurrence in de-
| a good deal last summer and saw Nettis God
| free there about every night.
Storrs Anderson saw Nettie around the
horses almost every night and had seen her
| flirting good deal with strange men.
| Mrs. Annie NJ. Gantz, sister Of the defen-
! dant, remembered very well seeing Mr.. Morgan
At home on the 9th of December. Saw him
| going home about r. M, and later she went TO
his house. He WAS in the parfor and called up
to his wife that they would be late as they we're
nntnov 10 &ho ,tar H6al osa
| because it was the first performance Of the
week of Stuart Robson in the Henrietta"
TIE DEFENDANTS DAUGHTER
The first witness in the Morgan trial after
the recess this afternoon was Marian NJ Nor
gan, daughter of the defendant. She re-
membered the date Of the alleged occurrence
and went to meet her father that afternoon
with a sled. He went home with her, and soon
after that they had dinner. He stayed at home
| until he and her mother left for the theater.
They returned together later in the evening.
Cross-examined she said she remembered the
date because it was the evening Of the first per-
| Torrance. She took little cousin out on a
sled and met her father at the corner Of New
| Jersey avenue and street.
Mr.. Sutherland read from TIVE EVENING STAR
| Of December 8, 1880, notice Of the perform
ances Of the Henrietta during that week.
Daniel Mcclure. a stoneeutter, testified to
having worked alongside Of Mr.. Morgan in New
York in 1887 Morgan came to the yard in New
York in June and stayed until October or No
| vember. ..,
Recalled, Miss Morgan said she remembered
! being in New York. Her father wen. over in
June and stayed until fall
| Mrs. Ida White, q sister of the defendant, tes-
summer and fall Of 1887, during the time it is
alleged, Mr.. Morgan first met the Godfree girl.
THE DEFENDANT TELLS HIS STORY.
| W.. A.
stand in hiso own defense. He testified that he
remembered December 8. He left the Office
about O'Clock and met his daughter,
his cousins child and his little nephew
| and then went on home with them.
4 After dinner he went to the theater with his
wife and was with her all that evening. Bust
| ness engagements kept him from going to the
always preferred the first night Of a play.
! Mr.. Morgan then rehearsed all his actions
| Of that week with respect to business failure
and trip to Hummelstown TO show how he
came to remember that particular Monday.
On June 5, 1887, he went north and on June
8 reached New York. stayed there all summer
and came back to Washington in October. He
read from his diary Of 1887 10 prove his absence
from the city.
| DID NOT KNOW THE GIRL.
Morgan stated positively that he did not
know Nettie Godfree at all, did not meet her
in 1887 and did not see such person on the
9th Of December. Did not know Mrs Godfree
| and never saw her until about five OF six weeks
J ago, when she came to his Office and
| called him out. She told him that
he had got her daughter in . delicate con-
dition and she said she had thought Of using
the pistol and ball on him. However, she said
that II he vould do the square thing by her in
a financial wry she would keep it all quiet.
| He asked her how much she wanted, think
| ing to msks . case Of blackmail against her and
| abe said she would let him know in q week. He
/ went to see Cook & Sutherland to ask them for
advice and they told him to let her 60 ahead
while they hunted up her past record
| The next time she came to see witness he was
| out, but his clerk told her 10 come on the fol-
lowing week. By advice of counsel he told her,
IN presence Of witnesses, to call on Cook d
Sutherland, in whose hands he had placed the
| whole matter, and whatever they did would be
satisfactory to him.
Mr.. Morgan said the matter did not worry
| him at ALL as he had entire confidence in his
lawyers. He said he had denied to Mrs God
! free that he had ever had anything TO do with
1 her daughter but she insisted that he had.
| On cross-examination he said he did not
| think he had ever seen Nsttis Godfree until
last Saturday in court 1t may have been six
| weeks ago when he saw the mother the first
| time and he wanted her to come back again.
for he thought it was q case Of blackman and
| he vanted In nail IL etraiQht aNny. He dis