The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-01-08


joining Them-some Men From Derby
Tell of Paying Money to Have a Case
Dismissed-Prosecution Shows by Roc
ords That the County Attorney Failed
to Return Costs Collected-Boone De-
mics 1t All.
County Attorney Boone. the prose-
cutor of criminals, is now the defend
ant in case in the district court W.
J. Shelton charged him with various
acts unbecoming the county attorney
and Mr.. Boone is now on trial in Judge
Reeds court If Shelton succeeds in
proving his charges Boone will be dis
barred.
The case dragged along all day and
late into the night. Some of the boys
who are supposed to deal in the pro-
hibited article created a sensation in
the afternoon by testifying that they
had paid Boone money.
Jack Davidson swore that County At
torney Boone had bought wine in his
place and that he had paid $50 TO have a
case against him dismissed in the dis
trict court. He said he sent s25 to Mr..
liquor bill of the county attorney. He
said there were three cases and Boone
wanted s25 in each case Mr.. Boone's
lawyers directed questions which were
intended to show that the former coun-
ty attorney had received fees from
liquor dealers when their cases were
dismissed but Judge Reed shut that
OFF.
Constable Tom Voss told that his
fees in the Gates case were $1,000
after which Luke Willis took the stand
and related his business transa ctions
with County Attorney Boone. Boone
had been in his place great many
times and that he had sold him liquor
since the injunctions were granted.
John Clayton stated that he had paid
the county attorney SIS TO settle a case
against him. John Mahan remember
ed OF having paid 500 to settle for cases
Jake Eckert was the financial agent
for his house and he could not remem-
Der TO have ever paid Boone q cent.
He was very emphatic in the state
ment that he had paid nothing.
John P. Shredder Of Goddard remem-
bered of having given Mr.. Boone s15
TO pay costs in mis- case. The records
Of the district clerk were produced and
they showed that many of these cases
had never been dismissed.
The Boone case attracted a large
crowd in the forenoon. Nearly every
lawyer in the city was present and
watched the proceedings with much
apparent interest. The space set apart
for spectators was well filled and the
remark was several times heard: This
case Will attract more attention than
any case in many years" Even the
Clyde Maddox case was not in it rs
drawing card as compared with the
Boone case.
The prosecution it was considered
would introduce their strongest testi-
mony at the beginning and the young
County Attorney Willard Boone sat be-
hind his lawyers, Messrs. Adams ami
Brubaker, deeply interested in the
opening proceedings It was evident
from the beginning that Judge Reed
intended to allow the witnesses to tell
their stories. John Adams was con-
stantly urging objections which Were
regularly overruied by the court.
The first testimony introduced in the
morning was in relation to the Gates
case. Gates was arrested in 1873 for
writing a threatening letter to John
Helm. The case was tried in Justice
fuckers court and Helm Was handed
over TO the district court. ir. Stanley
and Neruillion for the state set out to
show that County Attorney Boone had
taken money to settle this case. \
troduced and identified by County
Clerk Carvin and Deputy Clerk Phillips
OF the district court.
Great interest ceutered in Charles
Gates when he was sworn and took
the witness stand in front of Hon. w.
E. Stanley. He described his arrest
and his preliminary trial and stated
that County Attorney Boone had ad-
Vised him TO try and settle the case
Mr. Stanley said: Did you say that
County Attorney Boone advised you TO
settle the caseP"
yes. He told me that the case was
serious and that L had better try and
settle it,
Did you pay him any money TO set
tie it,"
Yes, 1 paid one time SIS and another
81. and still another s22.'
Did Boone agree to settle the case
if you would pay that amount"
Yes. Moze Anderson, his deputy,
closed the contract with me-
Then ii was Moze Anderson who
agreed 10 dimiss your case was it?"
Yes. but Boone advised me to settle
1t, and said il could be settled II L
would pay the costs IN the case An
derson wanted S215-
This last answer caused much merri-
ment and Judge Reed demanded order.
Gates is a young German and his
knowledge of American law is not eX-
tensive as was shown by the cross eX-
animation conducted by Mr.. Adams
He claimed TO have settled with An
derson but had a hard time connect
ing Boone with the case. He seemed
10 think that Boone was all the time
conizant of what Anderson was doing
but he could not remember exactly
what Boone had said. He claimed
that he had paid Boone s.5 in meat
r., tA
amount of Boon's bill and he had never
presented the bill for collection.
The cross examination also revealed
the fact that Gates had employed sew
eral attorneys. He counciled with Tom
Wilson and said Wilson advised him
not to settle until Boone, who was alb
sent at that time, got back He then
EMPLOYED Otto Eckstein 70 settlt the
case for him and Eckstein had gone to
see the prosecuting witness and after
wards sued Gates for the fee. At this
poiut he said that Boone asked why he
was employing lawyers if he wanted 10
settle his case.
said:
G.. A. Wolf was next called. IN ans
wer 10 a question of Mr.. Stanley he
II have been about VOLTS meat mar
ket a good deal"
Did you ever see County Attorney
Boone there?
Yes
Did you hear any conversation be
tween Gates and Boone?
Yes. / heard Boone ask Gates for
something and Gates pulled out the
money drawer and said he had no
money
Did you hear what Boone said when
he asked Gates for something?
NO. But I supposed il was money
for the reason that I was not cnto the
fact that lawyers were running after
Gates for money and when he would
see them coming he would take all the
-,,nr.ay- nilI OF HI. drawer and fhsD sX-