The record-union., 1896-04-19
CALLENDINE ROBBERY Case.
II Will Surely Come Up for Examina'
ton Tomorrow.
Baker and Townsend Are Depressed,
But Callendine and Wife Are
Quite Jolly.

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The preliminary examination in the
case of the people against l..
IL. Callendine, Harry W. Baker
and Fred w. Townsend, charged
with having robbed the street car office
at Twenty eighth and N streets in this
city in November last. was called be-
fore Justice Davis yesterday morning.
The courtroom was packed to suffoca-
tion and many were turned away, but
stood around the closed door with
craned necks, bent upon catching a
glimpse of the men who are alleged to
have kept the city on the strain OF inse-
curity for nearly a year
| Townsend, theone of the trio who made
the confession duplicating the others.
sat beside Deputy Sheriff M. Fisher and
Officer Pennish and toyed with a hand
kerchief fresh from the laundry. His
hair was closely cropped, and the nu-
merous scars covering his scalp stood
cut in bold relief. Townsend seemed to
have stood confinement well, but it was
noticed that he was in a very serious
mood and scarcely smiled, which for the
Townsend of old was something extra
ordinary.
Callendine, on the contrary, was near
ly hilarious. The wrinkles around his
eyes crinkled up in smiles as he talked
in whispers to his wife, who only few
weeks ago was the widow of Jack Har-
ris. made so by Callendine's pistol.
Mrs. Callendine was apparently as un-
concerned as her new lord and master,
and across her shrewd, firn-set face
smiles chased each other until one
might have believed that she was. really
enjoying herself. Mrs. Callendine. in
her way, is rather comely. She wore
glove fitting bodice of some gray stuff,
which brought out her rounded form in
bold lines which seemed to concentrate
and lose themselves in her cold, steely
gray eyes. She wore bunch of full
blown roses upon her breast, and sway
ed back and forth as she whispered to
her husband, and was more than half
graceful as she did so.
But it all seemed hollow, and was
strongly in contrast with the demeanor
of Harry Baker and his wife, who sat
alongside.
Harry w. Baker has as sharp and
glittering an eye in his head as is to be
found in the entire city, but it was a
revelation to see how that same sharp
eye softened when it was turned upon
his wife. Baker worships his wife. He
is as tender toward her as she could be
toward a babe. Yet he was very quiet
and undemonstrative, and at times,
when he thought himself unnoticed
patted his wife's hand in reassuring
and affectionate manner.
| Z lya~ 1ro1y Elyo
ber either He has the look of an hon
est, careful mechanic, and the opinion
prevails and grows stronger each day
among those who know him that she
was led into the alleged difficulty by the
persuasive powers of the artful Callen-
dine.
| But Harry Bakers wife is only the
shadow of what she was two weeks ago
Her trouble seems to be killing her.
Lines are drawn across her face each
day which were not there the day be-
fore. She dotes on her husband, and
hts trouble is hers, greatly intensified
| by her wOman'S nature. She is but
shadow of her old self, and yet through
it all she made a CHASTITY attempt to
smile, but even through the smile her
pain and misery. were .discernible. The
men gathered in that courtroom pitied
Mrs. Baker from the bottom of their
hearts, and some of these had long been
calloused.
Hiram w. Johnson, attorney for Ba-
ker, asked that the matter go over until
Monday He was connected with the
Raten case In the Superior Court, and
Judge Hinkson had refused to release
him from his duties for any time what
ever. He had explained, he said, that
the case against Baker was of some i'm
portance, and had once already been
continued to suit the convenience of the
Superior Court, but Judge Hinkson had
informed him that he should be in the
Superior Court until midnight, if neces
sary, as a further continuation Of the
case would be a hardship upon wit
nesses living at distance.
/ Mr. Johnson further urged a continu-
ance, and said that is was enough that
he had been obliged to work week in
the Raten case without compensation,
and that he had no desire to pay fine
CT S100 for contempt of court And
glancing uneasily at the clock he init
mated that he might be mulcted $40
worth for being late, as matters then
stood.
The latent ire of Justice Davis had
/ risen, and his usually placid brow be-
came visibly ruffied There was also dig
nifty to be preserved in his court, and he
had something to say on that point, and
said ii something after this manner:
IF this matter was presented to Judge
Hinkson as stated by Mr.. Johnson, the
former has acted in q very arbitrary
manner He has evidently forgotten
the days when he was practicing at
torney himself, and in acting upon a
matter of this kind a Judge upon the
bench should exercise sound judgment
i he case set for examination is OF as
much importance in some respects as
the Raten case, and seeing that con-
tinuation had once before been made to
suit the convenience Of Judge Hinkson
the latter should have used good judg-
ment before he refused the attorney his
request"
General A. L. Hart, Callendine's at
attorney, was ready to proceed, as was
also City Attorney Brown, but after the
latter had had his fling at the Superior