The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-11-20

The pIaintlll : sue OF III" ldul'uN
McHugh case had a decidedly scnsa-
tional roundup yesterday afternoon
It was i'm the shape of a batch of tes-
timony to The effect that the defend
ant. Mrs. Bridget McHugh, now Mrs
Michael Hand. attempted to fahricate
evidence ana fix jurymcn.
After the rcbuttal testimony direct
ly bearing on the case had all been in.
Mr. Kelly, Of counsel of the plaintiI.
called Walter German. Of Penn avenue,
to the stand aud made an offer To- show
that the witness had been approached
10y Mrs. Hand and offered certain in
ducemcnts if he would testify i'm her
behalf in the case at bar That the
jury might not be unduly influenced,
Judge Gunster and the attorneys re-
tired to the law library while the Of
fer was being passed upor. The judge
decided to allow the evidence, and Mr..
German procc ded to tell his story.
Mrs. Hand. he said. came tn his house
on two occasions pctitioning him to at
tend the new trial and testify i'm her
behalf. He answered her that what he
would testify 10 would ne to her detri-
mcnt. and that. at all events, he didn't
want To have anything to do with the
case. Ou the second visit Mrs. Hand.
llt says, ''ll ''fil u S'tult l'l HIS sun
all the plumbing work at her husbands
brewery if he would testify i'm her ia
vor He refused To- consider her prop
osition at all or as ne put it himself:
81 was indignant that the likes of her
would try to bribe me-"
Colonel Fitzsimmons cross-cxaminod
the witness at length and caused him
to become quite agitatod. He let him
go with tn remark: "Well YOU didn't
get the plumbing, Walter did you
COACHMAN FERGUSON
Next was called Martin Ferguson.
who until about seven months ago
was Mrs. Hands CoaChman, and who
is now employed as sewing machine
agent. one day last fan, he went ON
to relate. he was driving Mrs. Hand
from the South Side towards Scranton
and on Cedar avenue encountered
Philip Foy. Mrs. Hand told her coach
man to hail Mr.. Fog and call him
over to the carriage. He did and when
Foy came over there was a long con-
Versation between them regarding the
trial. Mrs. Hand, Ferguson says, Of
fered Foy a job in the brewery if he
and his wife would be witnesses for
her side. FOy testified at the former
trial the witness remembered, but
could not say as to whether or not
he went to work in the brewery.
Then the witness went to swear that
while he was i'm Mrs. Hands employ
and at the time that the proceedings
for a new trial We're under way Mrs
Hand suggested to him that as he was
"a great society man" and wsll ac-
quainted throughout the county he
ought to be able, with four or five
hundred dollars, to fix the jury when
the new trial came up. He could find
out from the newspapers she said,
who were going to serve and see those
of them that he knew and make things
right
Major Warren, on -eNamina ton,
tried To bring out that the witness had
been discharged from Mrs. Hands en-
ploy ana that he was aCtuated in Civ
ing his testimony by spite. He also
endeavored to show that the witness.
only yesterday morning i'm the court
room, had said to Mrs. Hand that
there were several "Molies" ON the
jury, ana he would see to it that she
would regret having discharged him,
or words 10 that effect; and also that
ne would follow her the longest day
she lived"
FERGUSON INDIGNANT.
The witness emphatically denied all
this, and resented with much indigna-
tion the majors alluding to the An
cient order Of IibeTnians a the Mol
lies. Tn" major explained that it was
not he hut the witness himself who
had applied the dlstastcful applica-
ton, and the reference was made only
as Mrs. Hand had repeated it to him
Richard Flynn, another sewing ma
chine agent who tended bar for John
J. Flanaghan when he kept a hotel in
the McHugh buiidnG, on Wyoming
avenue, testified that Mrs. Hand had
asked him 20 be a witness for her and
promised q if he would she would not
forget him. He told Mrs. Hand that
he knew nothing that would he of
any use 70 her, ana she did not fur
thor insist on his becoming a wit
ness.
He admitted that. Mrs. Hand sim
Fly ask q him to tell what he knew
concerning the case. She came to him
and said; Richard, they are trying to
rob me, and I am looking up people
who would likely know something
about the dealings between Mary and
my former husband. You have been
here in the same building with them
for years, and YOU must have heard
what was going on" Flynn told her
that he had never paid any attention
to the matter and could not recol-
lect ever having heard anything that