St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-02-11

Wells was on the alert, however, and as
soon as - he saw that Harris
dld not have the satchel he pursued
Harris partner, Ryan. Before Ryan
had gone half a block Wills caught him
and recovered the Satchel. Ryan was
turned over to the police. Harris was
also recovered later on.
wills was the first man to testify.
lie said he was sure Ryan was the man
who attempted to take his satchel full
of money. lie was sure that he had
seen Kid Harris and Ryan together on
tho West hotel stairs on Nov. %, be-
tween G and Z O'clock. Before leaving
the stand Wills stated that Kid Harris
was the man who attempted to hold the
door at l. 'gg'S jewelry store when he
willis was in pursuit of Ryan. Charles
IreSk, who was with Wills at the time
corroborated Wills story.
When Wills left the stand Harris was
put on. He made very poor showing.
what few statements he made he gave
in an unsteady manner and all through
failed 10 prove anything in his own de-
Tense. He stated that he now lived at
403 Minnesota street, st. Paul. He came
from Chicago originally. He said that
he was in Legg's store when the at
tempted robbery was committed. He
was waiting for lady. He went into
the Loan and Trust building, where he
was caught. because he wanted to make
Wills believe he was the man who had
stolen his satchel. He did this for fun.
He stated in direct testimony that he
was but nineteen years Of age. He adj
mitted, however, later, that he was at
least twenty-siX years old.
Harry f. Legg stated that he "waited''
on Messrs. " ills and Track. While he
l,rx .
OF by Wills he noticed three other men
in the store. lie could not say
positively that Harris was one
of them. III. A. Weld. teller of
City bank. followed Legg Oh the stand,
ald stated that lie had seen Harris in
the bank several times. On one or two
occasions he had seen Ryan with him.
Harris was at the desk outside when he
had seen him. Although Harris APP
peared to be writing out check. he
was SIMPLY ''sizing up" the bank.
The only testimony Charlie, Trask.
the man who was With Wills. gave was
that Ryan stopped at the West from
Dec. TO Dec. g.
When Detective Joe Lawrence took
the stand Harris seemed to he greatly
interested. He was nervous, and drank
in every syllable of the detectives testi-
mony as drowning man takes in air.
He said that he had stopped the ele-
vatOrs. and had gone on a search after
Harris. He found him on the third
floor, Harris told him that
his name was Myers, and that
he worked for lawyer on
the third floor When Lawrence got
him to the central station Harris met
Ryan. He asked Ryan how much
money was i'll the satchel, and Ryan
replied that it must have contained
5000. ut is too bad we did not get
get away with it," replied Harris. Both
Ryan and Harris requested Lawrence 10
go 10 John I. West and square things
the detective said.
The jury was out about an hour. Har
ris will be sentenced this morning.
MIR. Wilwerth was seen at the city
lookup last evening and d;sclaimed all
knowledge of the cause of his arrest.
He said: am secretary and treasurer
of the Minneapolis Blank Book Manu-
featuring company. and in that capac-
ity, of course. have charge of the funds
of the concern, but there is no shortage
in my accounts, and l defy them to
prove anything of the sort. | don't
care to talk much about this affair, but
l will say that there has been some
crookedness on the part of the presi-
dent, Thomas c. Cunningham, and he
is now trying to throw it off onto me.