St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-01-05
He MIS- UNDER DURESS.
cYANBE 5LAiH'S "c0YFESSf09" CAN
NOT co BEFORE THE J.RY
JUDGE JAu.soN RULES 1T OUT,

attorney Rees An Indnce-
ment Offered Chamberlain to
Confess Ho.brook Resumes.
The defense IN the Chamberlain case
has scored Il significant point. Judge
JamisOn ruled yesterday that the alleged
confession of Chamberlain. made in the
office of the chief of police in the pres
ence of the mayor AMI his mlnlons,
could not go before the jury. This
ruling was based OH the testimony of
Mayor Eu'tlS him self. L;eut.Gov. ID. NJ.
ClDugh AMI Detective Hos. The jury
WAS excluded from the court rIom
Wednesday afternoon in order that teS-
timony might b. taken befor, lht court,
showing what had TRANSFERRED i'll the star
chamber that night when the mayor
ordered Chamberlain AMI Mrs Za5lin
brought before him. Uatil hearing the
testimony or Mayor L lStiS and Mr..
Clough the court WAS disposed to allow
the confession OF Chamberlain to 90
before the jury, but Mr.. Bracket, OF
counsel for the defenS Sc, asked that their
testimony be heard before the court de
cided the question. Tie request was
granted. and the result was victory
for the defense. Judge Jamison ruled
Chamberlaiu'S confession" out, be-
cause it was shown that he made it TO
Detective Hoy as the result Of an in
ducement held out 10 him by that officer
while on the WAY 10 the jail. As for
Mrs. Zubiin'S alleged confession in the
star chamber, that Will never be heard
fnnrt fDr FIRST that she
claims to be Chamberlain'S wife. which
the state Will hot try 10 disprOYe, and
secondly, because it also was gwen uiI-
der duresS.
Mayor Eustis was the first witness
called yesterday morning. In view of
the confusing testimony given by Mr..
Clough the day before, what the mayor
had 10 say was awaited with consider
able interest. The mayors story was as
follows:
chamberlain was brought into the
room of the chief OF police. There were
present 5. T. Holbrook, D. NJ. Clough,
Inspector How. Mr.. MouIton, Mrs. Zub-
lin and several others. | asked Cham
berlain If he knew Holbrook. He said,
That's the'-Pll leave out the numer-
Gus adjectlvcS he uSed-'man l found
this afternoon in the room of my wife,
He then pulled out lot of stuff from
his pockets which he called evidence i'll
the case. There was 81 in money, some
papers, diamond, truss and other
things. l finally asked Chamberlain re-
garuing the matter Mrs. ZuDlin had told
Ine-if lie had lot agreed with Mrs.
dublin that they should pretend to be
husband and wife, in case any trouble
arose? lie said that was not true
Then we called Mrs Zubiiu in and
asked her II this agreement had not
been made, and she said Yes.
She SAID we agreed, in case any
trouble arose. to claln we had been
married in Milwaukee, Wis. l then
asked Chamberlain TO ask her some
questions. Chamberlain asked her:
Are you not my wife? She answered
No How much have they given you
told the truth The officer took Cham
berlain to the lookup, but before l left
the office he was brought back. He
asked to see me alone. | asked the
others to go out. anu Chamberlain came
i'll and closed the door. He told me
that woman had been his ruination;
that this was the first time he had been
caught in such scrape, and asked If
could advise HIM Oh some course to pur-
sue i'll the matter: if he could not settle
the matter with Mr.. HoIbrook? told
ii1iii h0lNl duNiCC lOI lndl
would have to 20 and see Holbrook aud
settle with HIM. [ also told Chamber
lain that we did not compromise things
at the police headquarters. After that
Chamberlain was taken back to- the
lookup"
Then Attorney ReeS cross-examined
Mayor Eustis sharply, and succeeded in
showing that it was the purpose of the
mayor and the police to extract a con-
feSsiOn from Chamberlain. although the
mayor took exception to the language,
Get confession out of him."
Now, Mr.. Eustis, why did you send
for Chamberlain?' asked MIR. Rees.
II wanted to see how he and Mrs.
dublin would act together, and get at
the truth. if possible"
GU merely wanted to see how they
would act at II O'Clock at night. Is that
the fact?' asked Ar. Rees.
Nv ell, L dOu't know about that, John.
We simply wanted to find who told the
truth"
Can't you give any reason for calling
Chamberlain at this time?''
No, except that l tried to do my
duty"
What was your duty? Was it to get
confession out of this defendant"
No"
rs it possible that you did not seek
contession?"
"Well, can't tell you that explicitly.
You may draw your own inference,
John"
do you deny, then, that your motion
was to get confession?"
Il don't deny anything. John"
You know something of the sweat
box system, don't you, Mr.. Eustis?'
No, don't"
This was part of the sweatbox
system OF obtaining justice, was it
not?;'
You may call it what you please. 1t
was all done in the chiefs Office, and all
done to get at the TRUTH
why do you bubble, Mr.. Eustis?
am trying TO be fair
$50 am |, John. l tel! you, we were
simply trying to get at the truth"
After the mayor left the stand the
defense argued against allowing the
statements of Chamberlain made at the
inqusition. and the court sustained
him. Court then adjourned until after
noon.
AT p: m. the jury was recalled and
Mr.. Holbrook resumed the witness
stand, and Attorney Rees took I'D the
cross-examination where he left off the
day before. Mr.. Holbrook again told
what happened in Mrs. Lublin's bed
room. lie described in detail how
| Chamberlain made him disrobe down to
his undershirt and how he rammed a
revolver into his mouth and forced him
| to sign S20,0 worth OF notes and give
up 81 in cash. The story created much
amusement, as Mr.. Holbrook inter
| spersed his narrative with facetio va
comments. When Chamberlain poked
the revolver in his mouth, HolDrook ties.
tilted that he said:
Have you got false teeth? If you
have, I'd like TO jam them down your
| throat"
Court adjourned at p. H., before the
| conclusion of the crUsS-eXsmlnation.