The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-01-05

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| ton to this threat to expose you, was Miss
Overman present?
| Objection sustained.
At any of the meetings at which you had a
| conversation with Mrs. Davidson, testified to
| by you here, was Miss Overman present?
Witness-She was not present.
| Did you ever make any attempt or did you
ever request Mrs. Davidson to procure rooms
Tor you over Liebes' store for you and for Miss
ove1nan?
Objection sustained.
Did you ever ask her to give you q duplicate
key to a room over Liebes store?
Objection sustained.
Do you know where Miss Overman has been
| living for the last week?
Objection sustained.
Did you see Miss Overman on or about the
22d or 23d of December, 1895
Objection sustained.
| Do you remember stating anything in your
direct examination to the effect that you had
any conversation at all with Miss OVerman
concerning Mrs. Davidson?
NitnesS-I don't recollect that I made any
statement TO Miss Overman about Mrs. David
son.
Did you have any conversation with Miss
OVerman concerning Mrs. Davidson's conduct
and In the presence of Mrs. Davidson?
Objection sustained.
What motive, if any. did you have for hay
ing Mrs. Davidson arrested
Loyd-Wait. The motive has nothing to do
with the offense.
Gallagher-We claim that the prosecuting
witness may be expecting to gain the good
opinion OF the community by succeeding in
sending this woman TO jail by creating the idea
that her story was not true.
Objection overruled.
Witness - Ny motive was to punish the
woman for doing wrong thing in taking nv
money. That was my only motive. To rid the
community OF blackmailer.
a 1HT1lC ,oI
cute this case?
Yes.
At this point it was announced that DR..
Browns son had returned with the writ
ten statement that Attorney Gallagher had
asked for. After considerable contention
on the part OF the opposing attorneys it
| was allowed to go in as evidence. DR..
Brown had shown considerable hesitancy
III acknowledging that this was the paper
that he had read to the newspaper report
ers, but finally did unqualitiedly make the
! ADMISSION. This led Attorney Gallagher
! to ask him why he had not been frank in
the matter, and DR.. Brown replied
Because you're tricky man. l realized I
was dealing with tricky man. That is all.
Gallagber-It was not because you are little
| tricky yourself?
Objection sustained.
Attorney Gallagher then produced the
statement of DIR. Brown as printed in HE
! read the print, and began to question the
! witness with reference to it. His reason
! for this, as explained to the court, was
| that he desired 10 show that the statement
| showed that what the witness had said
! was done on the Dist or 22d of Novem Der
was not done as he stated. He made
! comparisons between the witness teSti-
mony on direct examination and that in
| the written statement, for the purpose of
! showing that the witness had testified
! differently from what he had written for
| the information of the newspapers. These
| apparent contradictions were explained by
! the prosecution by stating that the writ
| ten statement was q narrative of all the
! circumstances connected with the alleged
| matchmaking, written without regard to
specifying time and place. when and where
particular incidents occurred.
Attorney Gallagher finally struck new
! lead. He asked:
| Did she in either of those interviews at the
! church refer TO the enemies you had made
during the Heron discussion?
| think there was a reference. l am not
! absolutely sure about that. There was a refer
! ence TO my enemies.
| You only remember one conversation in
! which there was any reference to your enemies?
Objection sustained.
! Did she say to you in this conversat ton at
! the church that the young lady herself would
swear that what the clearinghouse keeper
| stated was true?
She said in the first conversation that the
young lady herself would be one OF the three
| persons who would sustain the lodging house
charge. That conversation occurred at s
! o'clock in the evening.
| That was in the church, was it?
Did she in that conversation tell you of the
| state of the public mind etc.? Did she tell
you that the lodging house keeper demanded
No, she did not
How many times did Mrs. Davidson tell you
that the lodging-house keeper wanted money?
| Objection sustained. Exception taken.
Here Attorney Gallagher went off on
another tack, and in response to his inter
! rogatories the witness stated that he was
| born near Battle Creek, Mich, that he was
| 90 years OF age on the I'd of last July, that
! he was ordained as a minister at Grand
| torate was at Rochester, Mich, that it be-
! gan in September, 1876, and continued for
/ one year, that he next was called to Gales
| burg, Mich, where he served for one year,
! then he went to Kalamazoo, remaining
! five years, thence TO Dubuque, Iowa, for
the same period, and to Tacoma, Wash,
five years ago on the 18th of December,
where he remained for year aad half.
Gallagher-Did you get acquainted with
! Martha Overman at Tacoma?
Objection on the ground of immaterial-
! ity, ETC., sustained.
! Dir. Brown then further testified as
/ follows:
1 left Tacoma the first week in August, 1892
| have been back several times and returned
| there once in the company OF Matte Qverman
! Gallagher-In what capacity did she go
! along?
| Objection on the ground of immaterial-
| ity. Objection sustained.
! Did you give the defendant here before her
conversation about the nameless woman, Mrs
! Baden, any instruction TO make any arrange
ment for you on the 2lst or 22d OF Novem Der !?
! Witness-I never made Mrs. Davidson my
| agent in any sense whatever.
| Gallagher move to strike out the answer
| of the witness as not being responsive.
! So ordered.
On the question being repeated the witness
| replied: did not.
| Did you tell her to see Mrs. Baden and to
! keep the thing quiet?
1 never did.
When you dictated that receipt you fur
nished all the words used therein, did you not +?
| think so.
Why did you dictate it in the shape it is in ?
had one main reason in debating that doc
ument l wanted to get the name of that
nameless woman.