The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-01-28
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Church Case


TIE trial Of the case Of Josa9h;ue Church
against the Church CemeE.i leo company. b.
lore Judge Lewis, is causing considerable
t taii IN legal circles. owing to the give and
torneys The case is being tried the second
time. the jury in the first trial failing to
agree Edwin A. Jaggard represents the
plainiiff ard Pierce Batter appears for the
defendant, the Cementico company. Thzre
mas been considerable pickering b-lween
counsel since the trial CT the case c2mmenc d
ara yesterday there was an explosion. Mr..
JaSgaTd CT cross-eXamiIati1n, asked one Of
the witnesses for the defendant il he had
I not been arreSted recently en- charge Of
larceny Mr.. Butter took p rs o III
kind Of questions and the following is given
at the conversa'ion which enaued
MT. But er-Now j~s; .et's see about that.
Minnesota seems to think thst because a ma
IS arrested OF crime he must be guilty. Il
d9nf konw yst tha; they are innocent until
{ney are proved guilty. | happen to know
Fred Wagner as long as I have been in st.
Paul. and [ propose when he il ia ked ha.
way by an &ristocrasc professor Of law.
to blister anybody that attacks that mans
character IN this case. | am gCiBg to do
1t right now and from now en-.
Mr. Jaggard replied that he knew Mr..
esteem for him. He said:
It is the right. it is the duty OF a coun-
sci to ask questions OF that kind ard to let
them go before the jury for just what they
are worth. And when ii comes to the matter
OF attacking characters want to say that
| did this right before the mans face and
looking into his eyes, and without melice
and fairly. But when it comes to the matter
OF attacking characters, MIR Butler does net
occupy that position. Yesterday. before the
court. Mr.. Butler Gssaiitd the character of
one CT the first CT the younger msmbers CT
the bar-behird his back, when ne was out
of the court room, and l submit 10 your
honor thst all play acting is out of place
| submit to your honor that there is an Gle
ment that is simply ridiculous in Mr. Buffers
remarks. standing up here ana trying to
show that because l happen TO be prCfes-
scr of law that, therefore. this man is good
or bad and that. thereto. the plaintiff
should not recover. This is all chld's play.
| don't want to use disagreeabie name
that Mr.. Butler has himself used There
are places where this is the nICde CT prsc-
tee, but submit to the court that ii is very
much more consistent with the dignity of the
court and with the desire to obtain justice
to get at the facts as they are. But thase
theatrical attempts to put me in a pos tiCn
of personal enmity or hostility. or of as
sailing the character of this men, IS all
fudse-the counsel is not, in his attack, re-
spectfCl to TIE court
Mr.. Butler-I desire to say this-the men
dacity OF Mr.. Jaggard goes beyond any thing
1 have ever known. Yesterday he wful!T
and falsely attempted to put in the
position of adversely critici3ing Mr.. Alorecat
Today he says l attack his character, When
he said so he deliberately. purposely. f,-
GRAVITY told falsehoods. Ii was a wicked
vindctiye attack upon this man to arrest
him, and that it was Gn insolent urlawyer-
like. urprofessional. unaristocratic-Iike at
tack upon an honest man.
The trial of the case will be resumed this
morning. and in view of the spirited SEES
sions of the last two days the attendance
promises to be limited only by the capacity
OF The court room.