The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-11-06

| that the court direct the jury TO return
a verdict for the defendant. In case
this should be denied the requests to
| charge were submitted to the court.
Gen. Clapp spoke for about an hour.
His argument enlisted the closest at
| tention of the crowd in the court room.
Gen. Clapp contended that under the
testimony there was nothing in the
entry of the plaintiff into the House
of the Good Shepherd and her recep-
ton by the authorities of the inst1tu-
ton, that constituted false imprison-
ment. The mere influencing of an in
mate to remain, through the exercise
of moral suasion, was not false i'm
prisonment. Gen. Clapp read portions
of the testimony of the plaintiff in sup
port of his contention that she was not
restrained of her liberty.
Mr. Butts followed with his a9gu-
ment In support Of his request that the
court direct the jury to return YER
dict for the plaintiff. In case the court
declined to do so, Mr.. Butts also sub
mitted requests to charge the jury,
considerably different from the de-
PENDANTS requests.
Court adjourned at $50 p. m.
When court opened yesterday morn
ing the defense called Martin Bohen
to the stand.
Bohen is now employed by Peter
Stems, but was formerly employed by
the House of Good Shepherd, where he
worked a year and eight months.
Asked if he knew Selma Clewett, he
He had heard that Selma Clewett
broke out of the house. That morning,
while on his way down town with the
wagon on his usual route, he saw
three girls, one Of whom beckoned TO
him. He drove up and saw that they
were inmates Of the Good Shepherd.
One Of them said: I'VE want you to
take us back" "All right" says,
Jump in," continued Bohen. All were
agreeable except Selma Clewett, who
held back. Said the witness: Il then
said to Selma, come on If you're go
ing. 1 don't want to be made holy
show Of Finally they all got In
and Bohen drove back to the House Of
Good Shepherd.
Did you put her in?" inquired Mr..
Clapp.
my life" said the witness, "and she
knows that wellp'
Selma Clewett also caused a delay
when the house was reached, and Bo-
hen told her to get out.
you told her to get out of the
wagon, did you?" inquired Mr.. Butts.
81 did, sir"
Were you in earnest?"
"Well. if 1 wasn't. 1 wouldn't have
said it,"
well, how did you tell her TO get
'The same way I'd tell you If you
had been there"
When Sister zephyrine saw Selma
Clewett, the former said, Loretta,
you're a nice girl to run away in that
manner when you knew you could go
when YOU wanted to-" Loretta said:
''Well, I'm going to leave" And the
sister replied, you win do so in the
proper way through the door"
Rohen described the usual route he
took in coming down town after the
laundry and what occurred when he
came up to the three girls, the morn
ing of the runaway.
Mr.. Butts-NoW, as matter OF TACT,
Selma didn't want to go back, did
she?
Witness-I don't know what she
wanted to do know what she did do.
There was some laughter at this
sally, which the court was called upon
to restrain.
sister Zephyrine testified that she
was the sister who received Selma
C!ewett the night the latter came to
the house When Selma Clewett saw
the sister she breathed sigh of relief,
and said: How glad l am to be
here Selma Clewett was in the
sewing room for eleven days. She
told the sister she wanted to come to
the house some time before, but had
been disappointed. The girl did little
or nothing in the sewing department,
because of her delicate condition.
Witness never heard her say word
about desiring to leave.
On cross-eXamination the sister stat
ed that her true name was Josephine
Kearney; that she was forty-one years
of age and had been a sister for TWEEN
ty-seven years. She described the po-
sitton that Mrs. Root, Selma and her.
self occupied upon the latters ar
rival with respect to the door OF the
house. Mrs. Root did not enter the
house.
Stanislaus, one of the inmates,
eighteen years of age, said she knew
Selma Clewett in the laundry depart
ment. Three days after the witness
arrival she had asked Selma Clewett
to run away with her. Selma CleWett
then had the keys, and was one of the
trusted inmates. Selma answered that
she did not care to go; that the sisters
were kind to her, and that she pro-
posed taking the consecrated dress In
the morning and evening Selma Clew-
EFT would go to the outside gate to let
in the man to get the laundry. The
witness said she wanted to leave be-
cause at first she did not like the
place.
On croSs-eXamination, counsel in
uuired if the witness was a bad girl,
and how she came to go to the house.
She said her parents objected to her
going to dances Judge Twohy had
sent her out to the institution for
ninety days. Before her time was up
she grew to like the house, and con-
Guided to remain there. She stated
that she was a member Of the Sodal-
ity society, when asked the meaning Of
a badge she wore. She had charge Of
the basement, and it was her duty to
report infractions of the rules and
regulations.
Mrs Ella Reed, who is engaged in
philanthropic work, told of a visit she
made to the House of the Good Shep-
herd. She and another lady were
thinking of starting home for fallen
women. AT the time, she visited all
parts of the institution, and made a
thorough inspection. Everything looked
neat and clean, the girls were dressed
comfortably, and the relations between
the sisters and inmates appeared most
cordial.
w. L. Wilson stated that he had
resided In st. Paul for about forty
years, and had taken lively interest
in philanthroplc work Of all kinds. In
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