The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-03-14
Some of LeVeen's Testimony
Denied by Floyd
LOUISVILLE DISPOSITIONS
Colonel Duncan Denies That He Has
Occult Powers
He Admits, However, That He Has "Subbed'
Successfully on Occasions For Celebrated
kentucky Editors

The plaintiff in the damage suit against
the Evening Express yesterday morning
put on the stand in rebuttal Leo Longley,
official stenographer of the Federal courts.
He read the notes taken at the time that
Colonel Duncan made his application for
admission to the bar there, during which
he addressed Judge Ross at length. deny
ing that he had ever countenanced the
violation of any laws, but claimed on the
contrary that on the previous night he
had counseled moderation to some of the
strikers and advocated peaceful proceed
ings.
Mr.. FLOYD, father of Mr.. Smith, was
called by the plaintiff to rebuff the testi-
mony of City Editor I. H. LIE Veen.
Some of the statements made by the news
paper man while on the stand on Tues
day were confirmed by witness, and 9TH
ers denied He did not recollect whether
he had alluded to Colonel Duncan as a
gray-haired old fraud, but he was positive
that he had not asserted that he would
like to whip him, if he were able, or that
he ought to be put in Jail. He had told
LIE Veen, however, that he had no use for
so-called prophets, and he had not yet
Certain dispositions taken at Louisville
to establish the character and occupation
of plaintiff were allowed to go to the jury,
against the objections of defendant, who
excepted. A considerable amount of the
matters contained in them was ordered
stricken out, however, when being read
by Judge Brunson, on motion of Mr.. Gage
as being incompetent and not in rebuttal,
and after that there was but little left in
the Louisville dispositions to be digested
by the jury.
Colonel Duncan now took the stand.
He said he was not quite 6S. Came here
in 1887 from Louisville, Ky. Has been a
bar in Kentucky. He acknowledged writ
ing the major portion OF the article en-
titled the Evil Eye. He was not allowed
to state if the facts alleged in it were true
Witness said he did not claim occult pow
ers over anybody, or had laid the
claim OF being a prophet. ) ,conclu--
sions as to political events We're deduced
from facts known to him and from in
formation impaired by others.
Colonel Duncan said he had written
many editorials and other articles for q
number OF local papers. He had owned
the Peoples Union, which appeared five
times. His attention was called by Judge
Bronson to the following part vi the tx
press answer:
AS to Colonel Duncan's occupati ton, de-
PENDANT has been informed that it consists
in his being q man of great wealth, great
learning and great leisure. assuming lit
erary pursuits and using the columns of
the public press in publishing severe
structures upon public officers and private
citizens; publishing his oral and written
arguments in cases in which he is the
plaintiff or defendant, or the qualification
OF his personal ambition.to be a journal
list; publishing predictions. calculations
and theories in support OF the vagaries of
Professor Falb; political and social
events, and publishing the results of his
alleged uncanny evil eye.
Colonel Duncan admitted having parti-
ally supported the Falb theories. He
said he was man of great wealth at one
time, but he was not allowed to say
whether he had also been a man of great
leisure. During the absence of several
celebrated Louisville journalists he had
edited the Commercial Advertiser The
Worker and the True Democrat. He did
not recollect having attacked private cit
izen in the papers, during his stay in Cal
ifornia.
A dispatch. published in the Express
on August IL, 1894, which was an ac-
count telegraphed from Denver OF Miss
Floyd's trip while seeking to escape from
the tidal wave, was read to the Jury by
Judge Brunson. After that Colonel Dun
can said that he had never claimed to be
a soothsayer or 20 have the powers of
one. Then a recess was taken, and in
the afternoon the evidence being all in.
Colonel Blanton Duncan addressed the
jury on his own behalf.
Society is the master and man the SER
want,