St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-12-06
LAST DAY OF FLEURY CASE
WITNESS STANT0N'S REPUTATION
ATTACKED.
CASHIER BAILEY REBuTs.
Bailey Testifies That Stanton
Asked What There Was in i'd
for Him if He Informed Who
the Robber Was-Three Men
From MantorviIIe Swear
Against Stanton.

The Fleury case was given to the Jury
at $3.50 last evening. and the body re.
tired. for an all nights session, as il
proved later.
The feature of the day was an attach
upon Witness Stanton's reputation foI
truth and veracity.
Mr. Erwin did not address the jury;
but Attorney Johns performed that part.
AT the opening of court yesterday
morning Darwin L.. Stanton was rex
called for cross-eXaminatlon by County
Attorney Butler. He walked to the
witness box upon the call of his name,
and after taking his seat, turned with
the utmost sang froid and unconcern to-
wards Mr.. Butler and looked him stead
lily in the face.
"How long have you lived in st.
Paul?"
About two years."
You lived in MantorvilIe, this stateon
"Yes, went there when five years old:
lived at Kenyon and conducted the
Leader; have lived atLitchfeld." Butler
then questioned him as to the different
places he had lived in in this city, to all
OF which questions objections were
taken by counsel tor tdefense. He said
Mantoryille is village of about 1000
inhabitants. There were about half a
dozen people in the First Natioual bank
at the time he was there: he described
the man that took the bag and clothes
ne wore as he did the day before. and
said in reply to the attorney that she
saw him best on the back and that was
brown" He was questioned as to the
men he saw in the bank and the clothes
they wore; their hats, color of eyes,
hair of the man who got the money, and
TO every question returned ready and
decisive answer in manner wholly un.
concerned. Il went to the bank next
morning, and into the cashiers Offices
cashier e. IL. Bailey being asked to
stand up, witness identified him as the
man he had seen and talked with at the
bank on that occasion, but denied that
ne, witness, had proposed for a satisfacs
tory consideration to give information
as TO the person who had really stolen
the money. Bailey had sent him to
Seymour at the Merchants National
bank; but he denied telling him that
he, witness, ought TO be paid for lie had
saved the balance of the money. He
denied that he had said anything to
Cashier Bailey or to Mr.. Seymour about
the information published in the papers
OF the robbery being incorrect, and of
his having asked if there was ANYTHING
III it for him if he gave them correct in
formation about it. He did tell Seymour
that II they were looking for the man
described in the Dispatch as the robber,
they were looking for the wrong man,
and, in talking with him, had inci-s
dentally mentioned his recalling Jacobs
to look after the money, as he, Jacobs,
was going out toward the door at the
time he spoke to him. On re-examina<
tion he said ne had no interest in this
case, and had told the same story td
Seymour. the police, and to others with;
whom he had talked. Here followed a
series OF objections and exceptions
noted. Among them defendants eouns,
sci offered to prove that Jacobs. the coll
ored porter i'll charge of the three bags
of gold at the time he was called back
by witness. had gone twenty feet away. :
Objected to by state. Sustained and ex-
ception noted.]
Attorney Johns read from the affida VI
of Detective Lawrence, of Minneapolis,
as to certain matters to which he would
testify if in court, as agreed upon be-
tween counsel, the same stipulation I'd
apply to the testimony of Detective
Hoy.
E. H. Bailey, called in rebuttal, said:.
81 have no recollection of seeing Wit
ness Stanton that day, and have no rec-
objection of sending more than one man
to Seymour" He testified that Stanton
spoke about the robbery, and asked
what there was in it If he would gle
correct information as to the real rob-
ber.
Henry A. Smith, sworn: Reside at
Mantorville; printer, and publisher of
Mantorville Express; have known Wit
ness Stanton for twenty years, and
know his general reputation for truth
and veracity, and know that it Is bad.
Cross examined: Know Attorney
Stanton and Mr.. Edgerton; am not in-
debted to d. l.. Stanton in the sum of
$50; witness stated that he had a three
years verbal contract with Stanton,
which the latter failed to keep; he did
not pay Stanton, and denied that he had
refused to pay the mother of Stanton,
but had offered to send her his paper
the balance of her natural life; he gave
the names of certain parties with whom
he had talked about Stanton's reputa-
hot ~ ~.
the first Fleury trial that witness had
ever talked about Stanton's reputation
with any one, or had heard others
speak of it; he named Stringelund and
Buker as among others he had talked
with on the subject; but he was unable
to state what was said by them against
Stanton's veraclty.
G. j. Anderson, sworn: Live in Nam
dealer in hardware; know
Stanton and that he had a bad reputa-
tion for truth and veracity; am in the
hardware business still, and was post
master of the town; / am member of
the Sunday school there; have had no
direct or Indirect dealings with Mr..
Stanton; knew that Stanton owed bill
of IS to his employer; we were boys to-
gether; heard, before this trial, Charles
Wells say not to trust him; heard no
one speak before this trial of Stanton'f
for truth and veracity.
George Parker, sworn: Live in Man.
torville; know D. l.. Stanton: know his
reputation for truth and veracity, and
it is bad. Cross-examined: Am a far.
mer, but don't belong to Smiths Sum
day school; l never heard Stanton's
for truth and veracity I'M
peached before this trial. Counsel then
moved to strike out witness testimony.
Motion denied and exception noted.