The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1895-07-26
LAWYERS WITHDRAW.
VIM. Powers Attorneys Walk Out
of the Court Room.
A Witness Testifies to Receiving Good
Pay for Evidence.

A Witness Testifies to Receiving Good
Pay for Evidence.
The Broom Bowen Case Decided for
the DEPENDENT.
Two sensations were sprung IN the
district court today in the trial Of
VIM. Powers, OF Amboy, on the charge
of running a ''blind pig" The first
was afforded this morning when the
case was called for trial by Judge
Caldwell. Powers was on hand but his
attorneys of record, Pfan & Young
and Hughes, Rice & Hughes, were not
to be found. The court sent a bailiff
to notify them that the case had been
called, and Messrs. Pau and Byron
Hughes responded. They stated that
they were not Powers attorneys
while Powers insisted that he had re-
tanned them and that they were his
attorneys. They stated that he had
paid them nothing, and he promised
to do so when the case was done.
This was not satisfactory, and the
two attorneys walked out of the court
room.
The case was then called for trial
and two jurors were secured. Powers
had no attorney and was unable to
state whether the jurors were salts
factory to him, and the court there
! fore took recess until l 80 o'clock.
BY that time Powers secured the SER
vices of Attorney Geddes, who is de-
Tending him. Powers is supposed to
have means, and the attorneys claim
he has paid them nothing. The case
/ is not a desirable one and they were
| not willing to do the work for such
| wages.
The second sensation was this after
| noon, when Albert Denny was put on
| the stand by the state. He exhibited
half pint bottle of whisky which he
claimed to have purchased at Powers
place Feb. 9th last. On cross-examin-
1 alton he testified that he had been
given SIS by Rey. T. Ross Paden, pas
tor of the Presbyterian church at Am
boy, for procuring the bottle Of whis-
ky, and promised S25 for his evidence
if the case came to trial. He was
confident that he would get his
money. He admitted that he had
been convicted Of the crime Of steal
ing an overcoat.
This case will probably be completed
| this afternoon.
The next case for trial is that of
Hopkins & Hammond VS.. Riley &
Zempel.
In the case of Broom VS.. Bowen, on
trial in district court, Judge Caldwell,
this morning, on motion of Messrs. A.
M. Rutan and B. D. Smith, attorneys
for the defendant, directed the jury
| to bring in verdict in favor of the
defendant.
| It will be remembered that the
Mankato Mercantile company, last
January, conveyed all it's property to
Mr.. William A. Broom, of Mime
apolis, in trust for the benefit of GER
tain of it's creditors. Many of the
creditors assented to this arrange
ment, but the E. Mayer Boot & Shoe
company, Of Milwaukee, refused to do
so, and sued out an attachment and
,o1o n no dc Of
Bowen, who then levied on a part of
the property in the possession of Mr..
Broom as such trustee. Mr.. Broom
then brought an action in replevin
against the sheri IF for the recovery of
the property back from the sheriff.
This is the action just decided with
the result above stated
The sheriff. attorneys claimed that
the deed from the Mercantile com
pany, under which Mr.. Broom claimed
title to the goods levied upon was
void, as to creditors not consenting
thereunto, for the reason that the
effect was to hinder, delay and de-
fraud such creditors, and Judge Cad
we'll so held.
Mr.. Broom's attorneys, Messrs.
Cray, of this city, and Dodge, of Min
neapolis, took stay of sixty days and
say that they will appeal the case to
the supreme court.
Defendants attorneys say that they
are confident that Judge CadwelPs de-
cision is correct and will not be dis
turbed on appeal. They have hereto
fore compelled the trustee to pay all
of their other claims against the Mer-
camille company in full, and the YER
dict in this case, if it stands, enables
them to collect the claim of the Mayer
Boot & Shoe company in full.
The case Of the state VS.. Powers
was next called for trial.