The herald., 1896-01-29

the court room. Compton wanted to send
out note to a friend, but | am no messen-
ger boy and did not send it. l have no
| authority to.
Mr. CoIver- Your instructions are then
not to permit prisoners to communicate
with their attorneys?
| A. My instructions are that If anybody
comes from the outside with pass from
the captain to let the prisoner see him.
| That is all my instructions "is.'
GOODMAN CoNTRADiCTED
Officers McGraw and Tyler then testified
as to the arrest of Compton by Goodman
on the morning of the 18th in the room of
Wenzel in the Victoria hotel. Their testi-
mony was also irrelevant and not aermane
| to the issues involved in the investigation,
except that Officer Tyler testified, in re-
sponse to a question asked by Commits
sioner Long, that Goodman had, at the
time he made the arrest, informed Comp
ton that the charge against him was having
forged checks in his possession. This is a
statement contradicted by Compton and
Goodman himself, who never at any time
up until noon yesterday had claimed that
he had preferred any charge whatever
against Compton. If he had preferred any
charge, what right had he to release him
on Monday, ,he 18th instant, upon SIM
pie request of Compton's attorney, without
bail? Mr.. Goodman had the same evil
dence upon which to hold Compton on the
18th instant that he has today.
MR.. NORMAN's STORY
James K. Norman, a jeweler doing busi-
ness on San Fernando street. testified that
he had been engaged there in the same To-
cation for seven years and over.
He told the commissioners how South
ern Pacific conductor named Charles Howe
had come to him with a badly battered
| watch case which Howe desired him to sell.
| .~I. I.
road wreck and was really of no value save
| for the gold it contained. Mr.. Norman had
agreed to sell the case for Howe, had
wrapped it up in package for the purpose
of sending it to the Deuber Watch Manu-
featuring company in the east where he
| thought he would receive cents per carat
for the gold it contained. He had started
for the express office with the package done
| up ready for shipment, and on his way
down town had stopped in the pawnshop
of one Cohn. Here he asked tho clerk
what they were paying for old gold. and
| the reply was cents per carat. Goodman
was in the pawnshop at the time, and Nor
| man testified that he had the wa ch case
| in his pocket and had never taken it out,
although the pawnbroker had requested
| him to do 50. Goodman then arose and
| demanded it and he declined to give it to
him.
GOODMAN POLITE
Goodman claims that he demanded the
watch of Norman in his customary polite
and gentlemanly way by asking, please,
| let me see that case" This Norman de-
MED most emphaticaly. Norman stated
that he left tho pawn shop and proceeded
| to the Wells Fargo office. At Third street
| Goodman came upon him, and grabbed
him and jerked him with regular "police
| jerk"
1t was slippery and Norman being an
| aIdarIxy nd ciox hat ha n ,pi
the officer by the coat sleeve to sustain
| himself from the vigorous assault. Nor
man said to Goodman, "Don't tear my coat
off me,' for it was then giving way. To
this Goodman replied, "If you don't come
along [ will tear the coat off altogether"
Goodman blew his whistle, assistance
came, and Norman was conveyed to the
station, searched and locked up upon a
charge of resisting an officer.
| Norman claimed that he was not aware
| that Goodman was an officer at that time;
| that he was not in uniform and that he at
| no time displayed the badge of his author
ity. His bail was fixed at $25, which he
gave. His gold watch, costing $l02 whole
sale, was taken from him and kept for two
days. The resisting an officer charge is
| still pending against him and has never
| been tried Norman swore that he had
never before been arrested save for throw
| ing man cut OF his store about l years
| ago, and was then acquitted.
ATTORNEY HEWITT EXPLAINS
| Attorney Leslie r. Hewitt testified that
he was counsel for Mr.. Norman and that
he knew the case to be an outrageous and
arrogant exercise of authority by the ar
resting officer. The charge against his
client of resisting Goodman, he said, was
still pending in the court, and although the
arrest had occurred some months ago it
had never come to trial, being continued
each time on the request of the district
attorney. AS attorney for Norman, Mr..
Hewitt stated that he had been ready for
trial at any time.
MORE TO COME
The investigation was then adjourned
until Saturday afternoon at o'clock whe II
it will be resumed. At that time the facts
of the arrest and confinement in the city
Jail of Alexander Me MILAN will be laid be-
fore the committee. Alexander Mcmillan
is a poor laboring man who in March of
last year was thrown into the city Jail and
confined for period of twenty-five
hours without warrant, legal process or
probable cause. He has taken an oath
that in OBTAINING him in this fashion he was
wantonly oppressed and that he was con-
fined in dark cell with stone floor which
was damp and unwholesome, with no bed
ding or furniture of any kind therein and
kept in solitary confinement Mr.. McMil-
Ian was in delicate health at the time
and was under the care or doctor.
AS result of his imprisonment
he asserts that he contracted a cold and
that his physical health was impaired per-
manently. Mr.. Mcmillan has filed suit
against the chief of police and others, ask
ing 100000 damages The suit will prob
ably never be brought to trial, as Mr.. Nc
MILAN has disappeared and the report
comes back from Florida that he is dead
His attorney is authority for the statement
that the police authorities considered it a
wise move for them to see that Mcmillan
absented himself from the city and re-
mained away. If they took this view of
tho case the authorities have succeeded,
for Mr.. Mcmillan is now "absent or not
voting"
There is another gentleman who will be
called before the committee on Saturday
to give some testimony which is of an i'm
portant character and which has a direct
bearing upon the issues in this case.
CAN HE DO 1T?