St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-11-27
ence IN the matter in the hands Of At
tOrney Martin Ryan. saying:


torney Martin Ryan. saying:
He Was Pretty Tough.
but this was too much for him, for the
paltry sum they would give. Ryan put
the correspondence in the hands of Mis-.
Hershfield's attorneys. and the result
was Dee was called to the stand today.
Witness said that as matter of fact he
did not remember ever seeing defend
ant in his life. Witness also said HolZ-
berg had talked with him regarding
what Coates, Freedman and Anderson
would swear to, and that they were in
the same boat as himself. This was
ordered stricken out by court. When
Dee had concluded plaintiff moved to
strike out his testimony on the ground
that it was not shown he (dersntield)
had hired Holzberg to get other than le-
gitimate testimony. Mayor Ball rose 10
his feet. His voice was faltering, but as
he proceeded his strength seemed to
come to him. and with it his old-time
elOQuence. He said that whether or not
plaintiff had ordered his agent to fur-
nish perjured testimony, that testimony
had been produced i'll court, and he had
gotten the benefit of it. Now, when an
attempt was made to show this testi-
mOny in its true light, they could not,
because one for whose benefit 1t was
introduced, perhaps, did hot know 1t
was perjured. The testimony of these
perjured witnesses formed the whole
groundwork of the plaintiffs case. The
court reserved Its decision as to how
much of Dee's evidence be struck out
until tomorrow.
On Cross Examination
Dee told the same story without contra
dicuOn. Several months ago plaintiff
took deposition from Max StIne, OF Chi
cagO. Stine'S evidence was practically
a duplicate of that given by Anderson.
Counsel for defense put detective on
Stinc's tail. The whole story of their
pursuit Of Slime would fill a volume, but
In the end they secured conclusive proof
that he had perjured himself, and had
not even been in Chicago at the time he
swore he had criminal intercourse with
Mrs. Hersh field. However. when the
case came to trial, plaintiff did
not use Stine's deposition, but instead
put Witness Anderson on the stand to
swear to practically duplicate OF its
contents, they having learned of the de-
tPctive work in defense of the accused
wife. The defense wanted the Stine
show it was secured by Aaron Hersh~
field, knowing it was perjured. Plain
tiff objected and was sustained. Depo-
sitions from Adolph Bucher, Joseph
Diar, John f. Major, S. A. Billings and
others were presented. objected to by
plaintiff and objection sustained. There
are detectives and others who conducted
the Stlne investigation. and the defense
said they would impeach plaintiff
and show that he hired perjured
testimony. Part of S. A. Billings
deposition was admitted as evidence.
Aaron Hershtield had tried to get HIM
to swear to intimacy with Mrs. Hersh-
field at the time of their visit to Chi
eagO to get married. Hershtield passed
as a lawyer and called OH him repeat
edly, but finally admitted that he was
HerShfeld. and said he wanted to get
separation from his wife. Billings
steadily refused, but Hershfeld visited
him a number OF times and endeavored
to induce him to give testimony. Once
he left SIS which the witness would not
accept, but Hershtield refused to take
it back. A. B. Schloss, Robert McNa-
mine. Edwin Wilder and Thomas Os-
borne deposed in the Slime matter, but
their dispositions were all ruled out.