The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-03-13


With Few Friends.
Henry Lorangle was on trial yester-
day for passing and attempting to pass
counterfeit money upon several store
keepers. The jury heard the testimony
of the witnesses attentively and several
of them were present to testify in the
case.
II seems that Lorangle went into town
on Saturday night and going into store
purchased pair of pants and a few 9TH
ef things TO the amount of s1.50 paving
Ior them with two counterfeit silver dol
lars Going on down The street he sue
ceeded in obtaining a quarters worth of
TOBACCO and % cents in change for an
other dollar of the same character. the
clerk in this case being a little girl. In
a trade with farmer another dollar
was disposed of.
In court there was seven or eight of
the counterfeit dollars displayed to the
jury, who were handed them for in
sPeetlon- They are very poor affair.
and are easily detected at the touch or
almost any other way. They are evil
IDENTITY made in the old clumsy way of
making plaster of paris mould upon a
good coin and casting others in il Of a
bsser metal The figures are not clear
and the metal is plainly inferior and the
character or the coins indicate a bung>
Ing lob.
The defense put up by Lorangle is
that he had bene victimized by some one
else in obtaining them. he being entirely
Innocent of any knowledge as to their
being counterfeit. He claimed this all
through and said that he passed them
in every case, fully believing that they
were so0d money.
diary also was in The case which
was used to locate dates and occurrences
written therein by one Of the witnesses.
This witness was the only one who adj
nitted having any acquaintance with
the defendant for any length Of time.
Lorangle himself claimed to be farm
hand. but produced no one who had
known him for as much as six months
or a year, and this point was taken ad-
image Of by the United States attor-
ney- Mr. Perry in his plea charged the
Wltress in the case TO whom belonged
tbs diary with being in league with the |
defendant, and also of having written |
the diary purposely to veil his real ac- |
ton. He also charged him with writ |
ing several accounts at time in the !
book at the same time, each account |
pLIpOrting to be made on a different day. |
In showing this book to the jury, Mr.. J
Helm. the attorney for the defense, (,
opened the book at a certain page TO |
hand TO the jury, and wanting them 10
look at certain portion of it with his
explanation to assist them, but Judge
Williams forbade this and promptly or
dered the jury to take the book and
look it over from the very first page,
which they did.
Messrs. Helm and Crusen defended the
case, which was given to the jury last
evening. Lorangle is a young man
about twentyfour or twenty-five, with
black hair and eyes. and he sat in the
court room just behind his attorneys,
resting his head upon his hand His
hair, IS cut pompadour and stands
straight UP from his head. every individ-
udl hair seemingly separated from the
rest
The decision OF the jury may be reach
ed by this morning, but will not be made
public for few days, several Of them
being given out at once
In the case OF Frank Algood for coun-
terfeiting, the jury threw ii out of court.