New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-04-27
GONG ORR THE OLD GROTND.
HEtRING IL THE CASE or CARLYLE W. HAE2l>
BEFORE Mr. RAINES.

HEARING Is THE CASE or CARLYLE W HAE"lN
BEFORE MIR. RAINES.
The h,arlnc which cx state senator George Rancs
i, conducting In the CITY Hall III the Of Csrlyc
". Harris has turned ont 10 be merely review "i
Recorder smy'h'S action ia refusing 70 grant new
trial The testimony given Yesterday was that which
before the Recorder IN TIE form Of aidavlts ana
wlch h" held 10 be- I'm efficient :" warrant new trial
Assistant District Attorney Wcliman BY his ross-cx-
animation OF the Witnesses. showed hcw hay. shad-
owy. lndenni'" and uncertain their testimony was
Dr. Hugh : Kinmouih. an Asburv Park druggist.
wae tie first witness, He said that In the summer
Of 1880 Helen Potts came 10 ds stor with two women
and asked for morphine pills for her mother They
were to b. taken for Il headache. Dr. Kn'nouth wrote
a prescription and clerk, Henry NJ Woolmaa. filed
II and gave the pills TO Miss Potts. T1c witness said
e had been arrested because clerk In his store sold
liquor
To Mr. wcllman Dr. Kinmou,h denied that he had
told J. Townley Crane and Charles King that he had
never sold Miss Potts morphine.
"Wheu ID you see the Potts prescription last ~
Mr. Wcllman wanted 10 know.
"On Yesterday. II IS In my book at A,bury Park"
In what part OF the book Is II ~
Between the covers" ;he brilliant reply. but
the witness couldn't tell TIE date OF tn" prescription
lie admitted no might have told several persons that
he never sold Helen Potts morphine. becauN" the
drug was "a he believed. for her mother. DR.. KIM
mouth said Ee sold only or two barrels of whisky
each summer In his drug store. lie had forgotten
from what irm he bought t.c liquor.
To Mr. Raines. Or. Kinmouth snid h" couldn't idcn'
ufy The prescription which he made ont for Miss Pots.
although h. had Just declared that he saw the paper
Tuesday.
Miss Susan F. r. Jackson, who formerly kept The
Jackson Seminary IN this city. repeated the story on
which Recorder smyth had passed. Helen Potts was
+, pupiI nj her school I'm $3.50. and once. when Mis-
Iaclson Threatened to send her home, the GIRL cN-
clam,d according to the school teacher s." am going
IN d,own MYSELF or cut my throat take opium or
something Of Tho Kind. Ny home IL hell On earth
Nil Jacl,or didn't know that Helen Potts ever took
morphine
In The. afternoon Dr. Henry n Wo0inar. Of New
,.,, corr,b.rnird Dr. Kinmnuth about the sale or
morrhipe 10 Mis- Potts. Ethel IIarrs. who said She
was nisrficd but lived with her parents NJ siNyihlr'
8, ard p,rl, ave. inld Of having received m0rph'n"
ill. fan, Mis- Potts. When Mr.. Wc'lman asked her
,lout certain Inoidcnts affecting her character. sh"
r.,rs,d f., answer ON ihc ground 'hl. 10 do world
tend g., degrade aud incrminatc her. Her moihc'.
yr, rr.n.t,n was IN the room but did not testify.
-hc had made nm affidavit. bmt Recorder Smy' paid
utlc attention 10 H. recount of evidence abol' the
wOmaus character. . 49,, a.. .r,,.
seventh. ST. knew Miss Potts. having formerly been
co,orncs. IN lie COnSoci school she said the girl
~ nf.p Irritable and high tempered ana that she
,onl, mills md powders ior hradach's The herring
was adjourned until Ia morrow