The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-02-09
THE TRIAL OF
CAPT. DONOVAN.
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PENDANT, to which negative replies were
given, witness was excused
OFFICER DE VOTING.

PENDANT, to which negative replies were
given, witness was excused.
OFFICER DE YOUNG.
Officer De Young was next called.
He related substantially what had been
told by Gillespie regarding the raid and
said he was detailed to take the women
up to the station after Pack and Cap
tain Donovan had gone.
Judge Powers, in cross-examining
him, tried to elicit the statement that
witness had seen the captain at $3.50
o'clock in the morning, but this was,
| after some elaboration, denied by the
witness.
COAL WAS STOLEN.
Joe Richards, sporting man who
was occupying the room with the land
lady when the officers came, was then
sworn, but his testimony did not in any
way strengthen the prosecutions case.
1t was. in fact, inmateriaL He had
been there two hours when the Of
ficers called. He also stated having
told Captain Donovan that coal was
missed from the shanty behind the
house and thought if someone would
go there at daybreak the thief might
be caught. Witness said he parted
with Captain Donovan in front Of the
went to his room but shortly after
went to ILLS house and turned in.
Witness was not cross questioned
very severely. His testimony was
given in scarcely audible tones and he
looked very much embarrassed, al
though he replied to all questions in
a frank, straightforward manner. He
added that he did not see Donovan
in the house until Officer Pack and he
entered together.
JUDGE POWERS OPENING.
The prosecution then rested and
Judge Powers made the opening state
ment to the jury in which he took oc
casion to roast the police department
and what he termed its peculiar meth
DDS
The facts in the case he said in
part, "are substantially these; under
the law of the state, whenever the chief
is absent or off duty, the control of
the police department comes under
the charge of the captain of the po-
lice, who is, under the statutes, as
much an officer as the chief, and is
supposed to be informed as to what
takes place in the department.
NOT KNOWN TO DONOVAN.
when the so-called raid was made
and the officers for some purpose saw
fit to round up these women at an
early hour in the morning, it was not
known to Captain Donovan, although
he was on duty and had charge of the
! department. 1 want to call your at
tention to this because it shows a very
bad state Of affairs in this well organ
lied department. 1t seems from the
developments Of the past few days
that some one is engaged in a great
crime against morality. Every news
paper Haunted it to the public. The
papers went into the hands of young
girls of this city and we're filled with
just such stuff that would make young
girls prostitutes.
THE PURPOSE BACK OF IT.
There was some purpose back of
this, gentlemen. They had run Cap
tain Donovan down into a corner to
get him where they could drive him off
the force. Every man on this force, I
say, gentlemen, under the present con-
dition, should be made to go to work
at something else and let up on this
farce comedy business that has been
enacted during the past year. There
was an intense anxiety here to secure
the arrest Of Captain Donovan and
have him subjected to a public trial
on the evidence Of Gillespie, Pack and
De Young (sarcastically.) We shall
show you beyond a dispute, however,
that Captain Donovan was in that
| house In the performance of his duty,
and we shall not rely on the testimony
of such men either.
CLAIMS OF THE DEFENSE.
I'VE shall show you that the captain
went to Lii Evans house to capture
some coal thieves. He had been told
by those people that coal had been
missed and that if one went into their
shanty behind the house early in the
morning he would be able. to see and
catch the thieves if they came. Cap
tain Donovan, we will show, went
there and while stationed in the shed
looking for thieves saw Officer Pack
standing at the corner. The captain
| thought the officer was on the same
mission and stood and watched him
for few minutes through the window.
The rest has already been told you by
Of1cer Pack and others"
Judge Powers then outlined what he
intended to prove, which in effect was
that the arrest was the result of a
desire on the part of Chief Pratt and
his men to get the captain out of the
department.
MISS EVANS TESTIFIES.
Lii Evans, keeper of the house at
which Captain Donovan was found,
was the first witness for the defense
She said the captain had not been in
her house that night. She always adj
mitted visitors and no one could come
in the house without her knowing it.
She closed UP the house at 2 o'clock
in the morning and after that time no
one entered the house excepting Rich
ards.
NO THREATS MADE.
The officers, she said, had interro
gated her at the station about Captain
Donovan being in the house, but did
not make the suggested threats that
unless she testified against CAPTAIN
Donovan the officers would lodge sew
eral charges of fornicatton against her.
Mr.. Whittemore asked why she did
not open the door to the officers at
once.
-! had to go and get my key" she
replied.
She was then closely questioned
about the back door, but said it was
locked and no one could enter from
the kitchen without her knowing it.
The prosecution did not seem to care
about details and let the witness go
without throwing much light on the
subject.
Fay Valentine, an inmate of the
house, was then called, and told how
she went to bed at 2 o'clock and was
certain no one entered after Richards
did. Her testimony was unimportant,
and so Captain Donovan was called.
DONOVAN ON THE STAND.
There was a craning of necks and a
perceptible stir among the throng of
spectators as he began to tell his story.
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