Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-14

| The two remarks were made by Mr.. Yost
and the Squire In the confusion they
could not be heard, but were taken for
gaunted to have been, "Object," "Sus-
| tanned"
'1sn't your name Wilson, also?"
Objected to and sustained.
What 1t Was Desired to Show.
"We want to show that the witness isn't
a reliable and competent man," broke in
Mr.. Brown, addressing the Alderman, but
no amount of argument could secure any
thing but sustained" to Mr. Yost's obiec-
tions The witness was allowed to state
that he had been employed by Mcclure for
two weeks, but when asked what he was
employed for, Mr.. Yost objected, on the
ground that Attorney Rodgers was attempt
ing to entrap the witness, in order to get in
formation to be used in a suit for con-
spiracy against the Law and Order Society.
Mr.. Rodgers assured Mr.. Yost that he had
no sinister designs against the witness, but
Yost thought he had and put q little trap
door of objections over the mouth of Mr..
Stately that prevented further examination.
After young Larner was fined S25, Frank
Witt was called up. He is the Union News
Company agent at the Union depot. De-
tective Stately testified that he had pur-
chased DISPATCH from young Witt last
Sunday. After, the usual examination he
was fined S25, and appealed to court. While
the audience was waiting for the curtain to
ring up on the fourth act, Attorney Rodgers
very confdentially told Mr.. Yost that suit
was going to be entered against the latter
for running the Braddock street railway on
Sunday. After the crowd got through
laughing, D. S. Irwin, the Union News
Company agent at the Baltimore and Ohio
depot, was called.
Has Lived Hero Off and On.
The Stately detective stuck to his post as
witness. During the examination of the
witness Mr. Rodgers attempted to find out
where Mr. Stately lives The only in
formation to be secured was that he has
been in Pittsburg ten years "off and on"
added the witness
tHow much on?" asked Mr. Rodgers.
The remainder of the examination was valu-
able only as a source of amusement for the
crowd. 1t ended, of course, in the defendant
being fined.
The last defendant called was James
Hughes, of 2, ,505 Carson street. He keeps
a small store and is well known in that part
Of the Southside. A man named Chambers
appeared against him. He claimed he had
purchased Beadle 5-cent novel in Cham
bers' place at 1885 last Sunday from q lady \
back of the counter, and that Hughes re-
ceived the money.
''Did you see Hughes more than once?"
asked Mr. Rodgers.
"That is all. p"
"Didn't you see him last tuesday,"
II object" broke in Mr.. Yost.
"And l sustain, answered Mr. Rome.
"Are you sure you never saw Mr.. Hughes
after last Sunday?" insisted Mr. Rodgers.
"Once," said the witness hesitatingly,
realizing that he was contradicting himself
"When?"
Attorney Yost would not permit that
question or any other on the same line to be
answered. He allowed the witness to state
that he lives at So Townsend street, and that
he has been detective two years, two weeks
of which time he has been in Mr.. McClure's
employment.
At Church at That Hour.
Mr.. Hughes was sworn in the defense and in
vigorous language asserted that he could, not
have sold q novel to Mr.. Chambers at 1875 be-