Los Angeles herald., 1892-10-26
4 HARD FIGHT FOR LIBERTY.
The Remarkable Features in the
Monroe Case.
Proceedings Yesterday in the Su-
preme Court Departments
Happenings Of Note in the Various
tribunals : Now Suits Filed.
Court tNotes-Marriage
Licenses.

It is q queer trial going on in depart
ment No. Of the superior court, where
w. 7. Williams and W. E. Cox are try
ing to keep George Munroe out OF the
penitentiary.
No public interest whatever is bein 6
taken in the trial. 30 far as curiosity to
witness it is concerned. There were not
half dozen people in the court room
yesterday except those engaged in the
case.
But the remarkable feature OF the
trial is the tactics of the defense. They
are not openly accused OF deliberately
influencing the absence Of Jackson, the
principal witness for the prosecution,
but W. T. Williams regards all illusions
to the inability of the absentee to leave
pressing business engagements IN the
east, with much complacency.
By Jackssn's absence, the prosecution
is forced to prove many things IN q
roundabout way, and the defense fights
over every technical point with q tena-
city that causes Assistant District At
torney McOomas to occasionally lose
that innocent suavity of manner for
which he is noted.
The trial Yesterday was mainly de-
voted by the prosecution in proving that
the defendant gave jackson the alleged
forged order for the city auditor to turn
over to him the warrants for the school
salary of Helen Henry for February,
1892; that it was found to have been al
ready paid that he demanded his money
OF Monroe for numerous orders he held
and that Monroe finally paid him a6d
Jackson returned him the orders. When
II is remembered that these orders have
never been seen since they were turned
over to Monroe, the difficulty of the
prosecution in getting ut the facts may
be realized.
Nearly all the afternoon was taken up
by Mr.. McComas in trying to get in evil
dence as an exact copy OF the alleged
forged order, the copy set forth in the
information, which is claimed to have
been copied from and compared with
the original. Mr.. Williams fought
against this at every step, but little by
little the foundation was laid which
demonstrated to the jury that the order
had been presented by Jackson and that
he afterwards repaid the money he re-
ceived into the city treasury, when it
was discovered that the order was
wrong.
The prosecution put W. e.. Cox. Jack
sons former partner, and of counsel for
the defeuse, on the stand in the after
noon, and attempted to prove by him
that he turned the orders over to Mum
roe after the latter had settled up with
Jackson. but the witness would not ad-
NIT that he had done so. Mr.. McComas
tried to spring his testimony at the pre-
liminary examination on the witness,
alleging that he had testified in that
manner then; but Cox would only cay
that If he made any such statement
there it was injected into his mouth by
counsel. Judge Smith finally put a
stop to the inquiry, shutting the district
attorney off in the line of questions he
was pursuing.
Among the witnesses examined during
the day were VIM. T. Gibson, Ramon
Garcia, Helen Henry, VIM. E. Cox. NJ.
d. Johnson, city treasurer, Charles
Widd, Thomas f. Smith, deputy city
auditor, and Deputy District Attorney
B. M. Marble, who conducted the prose-
cution at the preliminary examination.
The prosecution has few more wit
nesses, and the defense will be pretty
we'll under way today. The trial will be
resumed this morning.