The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1897-06-03
THE TRIAL STILL ON.
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At 2:Io court opened, and Mr..
Scarlet read the answer Of the de-
PENDANTS to the bill in equity in
evidence.
II. c. SCHROEDER recalled.
l know Meyer, conductor on P.
c. R. also H. c. Moore, papers
shown are their signatures and
punch marks. Train No. left
Pottsville at 9 a. m, arrives at
Reading at 1905. No. 2o5 leaves
Reading at I:46, arrives at Harris
burg at $40. Train leaves Harris
burg on Penna, at $50 p. m, 60
ing west. P. g. R., and Penna
stations are near together in Harris
burg. Reports Of conductors offer
ed, objected to, and ruled out.
T. F. CoNNoR recalled.
On Oct I9 last I got on train at
Herndon and came up to North
cumberland in afternoon. Defend
ant was on the train, came on D.
L. g. W. from Northumberland.
He told me he had been to Potts
vile and Reading.
Mr.. Graham at 2:35 states that
reserving the right to call two con-
ductors, the commonwealth closes
its case.
DEFENSE OPENS.
Mr.. Shields opened the defense.
1t may not be out of place" he
said, ito call your attention to the
business we are about. 1t is a seri-
Gus question. need not detail the
serious consequences that may re-
suit from case like this. Shattered
hopes and broken home are ques-
tons too near to the hearts of all of
you to need any extensive discus
sion. We propose to appeal to your
reason. This charge attempts to
brand upon the brow of this man
the breaking Of one of the great ten
commandments.
"Who prefers this charge? Is it
the great Commonwealth of Penn
sylvania Is her duly accredited
agent, Which, you have elected to
try her cases. or is it lesser in
dividual, surrounded by FIVE of the
bright legal lights of this State, be-
side your District Attorney On the
one side is a witness who has be-
fouled this community and himself,
his family and his dead father when
he came upon his intended victims
under the dark shade of night. We
do not deny the story of Knorr that
he committed this crime we are
not here to deny it, but we are here
to deny every allegation which i'm
plicates Mr.. Wintersteen.
"This case is based upon the bill
in equity and it has taken the com.
bined wisdom of the five LAWYERS,
together with that ofthe prosecutor,
who is himself a lawyer, to attach
a motive for crime to this defendant.
1--WE will show you that on one
occasion, Knorr would blow UP Mr..
Waller, swearing and cursing be-
cause he stood between him and the
money that he claimed was right
fully his There was implanted in
that man a disposition to commit
crime, for before Wintersteen was
connected with this case Knorr had
shown himself to be past master
in crime. In the years he lived in
Reading, nobody with whom he
came in contact would trust him
under oath.
Continuing he referred to Sallie
Cast as known to the people in
Reading as Zone ofthe most nefari.
Gus liars they had ever met" and
deplored the spirit of "some one
who had brought the Kitchens wo.
men here to unblushingly swear
away the honor of man and break
up the home of a devoted wife. He
then narrated that it will be shown
that before the time that Knorr saws
Wintersteen wanted him to 90 tc
New York and hire an assassin that
Knorr had Dragged that he had
gotten man from New York to Kill
Agnes Devices in her room in Read
ing; that he had carried dynamite
about in his satchel for two years
before the time that he testified tha,
Wintersteen first showed him how
to use it that instead of there being
a necessity for his buying a revoi,
yer, he had carried such weapons
in addition to a knife, for three
years previous; that instead of Win.
tersteen's having been in Reading
seven times, as represented by the
prosecution, he was there exactly