The record-union., 1896-07-31
CARROLL'S Shoe BUSINESS.
Il Was Quite Lively Among His Portuguese
N0ighbOrS.
The Goods Taken From the Callendine
Residence Shown to Have
Been Stolen.

The sequel to the Callendine rob-
berry case is now in progress in Judge
Htnksons court, where the trial of the
case of Barney Carroll, charged with
receiving stolen goods, was begun yes
terday.
Carroll, it will be remembered, was
the witness at Callendines first trial
whose testimony served to establish at
least a possible alibi for the robbber
leader. Subsequently quantity of
stolen goods was found in Carroll's pos
session, and he was arrested early in
June on the charge for which he is now
being tried.
A couple of weeks ago he "squeaIed"
and made a statement admitting that
his testimony given in the Callendine
case was untrue, as he had been mis-
taken in regard to the date of the night
he met Callendine. This admission
killed the alibi that had previously
saved Calllendine, and ON the second
trial he was convicted.
CarrolrS statement went further,
however. In it he acknowledged that
the stolen goods found in his possession
came from Callendine's house, but he
did not admit having any knowledge
that they were stolen. The District
Attorney and Sheriff were satisfied he
knew all about them, however, and are
now endeavoring to prove it.
1t was clearly proven in court yester-
day that the goods received by Car
roll from Mrs. CaHendine-her husband
being in jail-were stolen from Geiser
& kaufman's shoe store and Schaw,
Ingram & Batcher's powder magazine.
Mr.. Kaufman testified that ninety-nine
pairs of shoes were missing from the
firms store, the result of burglary.
AS only about dozen pairs were ac-
counted for, the question is, what be-
came of all the others.
Assistant District Attorney j. Charles
Jones is conducting the prosecution,
and C. A. Elliott and ]. 0. Prewett are
attorneys for Carroll. The forenoon
session was consumed in impaneling
the jury.
At the opening of the court in the
afternoon Mr.. Jones made his opening
statement to the jury. He said it
would be proven that one day Carroll
went to Mrs. Callendine's house and
there received the stolen powder and
bank near where his scow was moored,
about four miles down the river; that
ne buried the powder for a while and
afterward attempted to sell it; that he
diG afterward sell some of the shoes;
that he told the officers who discov-
cred the property IN his possession
that he knew it had been stolen; that
he knew that Callendine had given
the Chinaman All Jim pair of the
shoes; that the shoes, when received
by Carroll. were moldy, showing that
they had been concealed; that some of
them were sold by Carroll at a ridicu-
lously low price, and that Carroll made
contradictory statements regarding the
manner in which he had come by the
property.
Relying on these facts, said Mr.
Jones. the prosecution confidently ex-
pected a verdict of guilty at the hands
OF the jury.
A. c. kaufman of the firm Of Geiser
& Kaufman was the first witness. He
testified that in the early part of De-
cember last the firm discovered that
many pairs of shoes were missing
from the store. The shortage was
ninety-nine pairs, worth to the firm
about $3.50.
The witness said an investigation
showed where one of the rear windows
OF the store had been pried open.
Mr.. Kaufman then examined the
shoes recovered from Barney Carroll
and identified them as having been a
portion of the stock in his store.
In response to a question by Mr..
Jones' the witness said he had exam
i1ed the shoes worn by Harry Baker,
awaiting trial for completely in the car
office robbery, and
Here the defense objected to any at
tempt to prove that the shoes worn by
Baker had been given him by Callen-
dine, and the objection was sustained.
A: l. Ward, a salesman in the en-
ploy of Geiser & Kaufman, testified
that in December last L. L. Callendine
vas in the store and made certain in
quiries regarding the stock. He pur-
chased a pair of shoes at the time. On
his first discovery of shoes being
missed those unaccounted for amount
ed to fifteen pairs.
]. F. Spencer, a clerk in the employ
of Schaw, Ingram x hatcher, testified
that during the latter part of last year
one of the company's magazines out
side the city was broken open and
ten or a dozen kegs of powder stolen
tberefrom. He had identified the
powder in the Sherifr's office taken
from CarrolD as similar to that stolen
frcm the magazine
Deputy Sheriff Hinrers testified to
having gone to Carrolrs boathouse
with Policeman Hayes and recovering
- H. i
Subsequently he recovered other shoes
from persons in the neighborhood who
had purchased them from Carroll.
The defendant told the witness he
had found the shoes buried in the sand
up the river. At first he denied having
any powder, but finally admitted he