Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-31
WILL GO UP HIGHER.
Iams' Case Sure to Be Carried to the
Supreme Court to Settle
TIE QUESTION OF JURISDICTION,
Deep Interest Felt in tho Trial by Judges
and Attorneys
CLOUDS OF WITNESSES TO TESTIFY

Whatever the verdict in the case OF
Private Iams vs. Colonels Streator and
Hawkins and DR.. Grimm may prove to be,
and it is not likely to be reached anyhow
till Wednesday or Thursday, an appeal
will be taken to the Supreme Court. The
attorneys for the defense make no secret of
their belief that the question Of the juris-
diction of civil court, elaborately argued
as it was all day Thursday and several
hours on Friday, is by no means finally
decided. The record Is being prepared as
the case proceeds with marked care, the
Court sharing in the endeavor to have every
scrupulous nicely.
The special plea, which the defense made
before any evidence went to the jury, to
have the indictment quashed on the score
of lack of jurisdiction, was denied by Judge
Porter, and judgment for the Common
wealth was entered upon the plea The OBJ
jections which the defense have made to the
Courts rulings have been noted as they oc-
CURED, and they already number dozen
or So
The Course of the Defense.
Of course Messrs. Buchanan, Braden,
Braddocks, Sprowles, Robbins and the
other legal gentlemen who form the legal
battalion protecting the defendants, do not
for moment doubt that they will estab-
lish such defense as will carry conviction
to the jury's minds that Mr.. Iams has no
grievance. What their line of defense will
be has been indicated pretty clearly in the
cross-examination of the prosecutor, Iams,
and its general drift has been further out
lined, upon good authority, in The DIS
PATCH. There will be a cloud of witnesses s
on both sides, but the defense's list is like
ly to be larger than the Commemorative
Iams' attorneys express themselves as
entirely satisfied with the progress they
have made, and do not consider that Iams'
testimony was shaken or impaired to any
considerable extent BY the cross-examina-
tion to which he was subjected. They, too,
have legal ammunition in reserve If, as
they do not permit themselves to believe is
possible, the verdict should be adverse, and
they are ready to resort to higher court if
need be- Judge Porter has pleased both
sides so far by the precision and delibe rate
character of his decisions, and even the
laymen present have been able to appre-
ciate the absolute impartiality of the Court.
All the Judges Deeply Interested.
If they could shut down the other courts
and join Judge Porter the whole bench OF
the county would be we'll pleased, for it is
evident that the judicial mind is as open to
the infection of the human interest in the
Iams' trial from the fact that Judges Ewing
and McClung sat with Judge Porter at the
initial session, Judge Slagle dropped in for
an hour on Friday afternoon, and Judge
Over stayed as long as be could in the morn
ing.
Among the notable lawyers in court at
various times since the trial began, outside
those engaged in the case, were noted:
Thomas A. Marshall, Major E. A. Mon
tooth, R B. Petty, Colonel W. D. Moore,
Mr.. Elphinstone, City Solicitor of ALLIE
gheny; F. c. McGirr, Willis McCook,
William Scott, r H. Baird Patterson,
George B. Gordon, P. c. Knox, T. B. AL
corn, NJ. A. Woodward, j. McF. Carpen-
ter, John Robb, W. R. Blair William
Yost, john Marron and William NJ. Nc
Gill Indeed, at no time during the trial
have there been much less than 100 full
fiedged lawyers in court, with no end of
studenA thrown in. The county officers
mostly found time to look in, and Control
ler George Won Bonnhorst patiently stood
up in the crowd for couple of hours on
Friday. The military men and the Home
stead delegation were the other noteworthy
elements in the big crowd.