Telegram-herald., 1891-01-14


Nearly everything ave uay "a PeAies
ooers yesterday Ter tAs 1eke Weich
trial. and only >hass onsss thas aluays
hsss precedence wess dsq,ossd Of. The
follo9lng old oasss vent over; Tin
csewley, sAloou osen On Sunday, -,
John Naiters. failure 10 support. i1th;
Neronscs chapnsn, larceny more than
tsh. len; Clsnd Scott. assault with ~
senapA - murder, hAil ssdaosd % go.
sokh; Terrenoe W. KELLEY. saloon open
on Sunday, IAN; Noille fAxton and
Charles Aldrich. receiving stolen gooda.
itth, Lou Norfsson end fanssy Ames.
violating STATE ilquor lau, l&th, Frank
Murray and David WEIGH. oroach at
Ne psa0e, l1ths Carl kauers har o.
osSue1lou, lath.
Ths principal event Of the day uas the
continuation Of xeke WEIGHS TRIAL Tor
renting = room Tor gambling purpcess-
10 man zap tree, il would seem that
case in which the facts are ~ vel
known - they are in this oase. and IN
which ~ least twenty witnesses stand
ready 70 tsstafy 70 everything there .
- b told, would ~ mado<ohort work
Of BY such "a array Of talent - has
come 60 both aides Of this oase. But
thus Tar, most Of the tune OF the court
has been taken up With . sucoespion OF
battles on the admission and non-ad-
misaion Of this aud OF thai piece Of
testimony. Il sA . rare treat 70 the
crowd 70 zee John fairfleid and William
- thar h&af IfAuM
Holmes, consequently, seems 70 be the
only bored person an the court room.
Various policemen were on the stand,
including Lieut.. Hurley. They all
told substantially the same story. de-
failing the entrance into the gambling
room, telling of the speaking tube THAI
runs from the gambling room "a
Welch's saloon below, and the hack
stairway that connects the Zeke WEIGH
below with the not-zeks WEIGH above.
Yet the jury, if not the court. are get
ting ell fuddled up regarding the pond
erous propositions which the lawyers
are constantly discussing before the
court. Fortunately, Zeke WEIGH 10 =
great, broad -shouldered. six-footer two
hundred FOUNDER, and there le no
reasoii 10 think there Will he any doubt
that Zeke still lives, even though all
other facts should he affirmed and de-
MED, and proved and disprovsd.
The case does not now appear 70 be
half completed. An adjournment was
taken At $50 O'Clock In the afternoon,
and Judge Holmes left the court room
very tired man, and Others very
thirsty. The jury were instructed TO
be on hand again ~ 10 O'Clock thus
morning.
Notes.
Nick Washington 10 . negro srraignsd
on . charge of deadly aasault.
Here are the drunke: II. A. Barnes
paid $3.50, and William Aldrich paid
$500.
There are nineteen adjourned cases
set down for today. Too bad that Zeks
WEIGH should have acted 90!
Charles X. Smith went into George
Fehsenfeldt's saloon yesterday and
broke the mirror, and Was afterward
arrested for being drunk.
Abe Hartley is the young man ar
rested Sunday night for inveiglIng Gill
d Greenley into hltchlng . horse IN
front OF the residence of Den J. Leafh-
ers. The charge upon which he wss
arraigned was "personating another"
He will be more particularly inquired
INTO this morning. The rest of the
gang were ali arrested yesterday after
noon, and will be arraigned today.
Young Hop Walker Is again before
the public. Hop is a negro with thievish
propensities, and has been before the
police court times without number. He
was already under bail 20 be in court
for stealing billiard balls. Yesterday
Hop and Jim Lashe we're arrested by
Detectives Gates and Cast for rohbing
q bakers wagon. Hop Was hand
cuffed. but he managed TO slip one Of
the cuffs and skipped like the wind.
He escaped apprehension until last
evening. when he was arrested, run in
and locked up.