Omaha daily bee., 1899-10-18

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cry Of the goods, As he had made no agree
ment respecting Prince he had Mrs Prince
and one OF Princes friends shadowed in
Chicago In the hope Of getting him, but did
! not succeed
The chief stated that his only motive in
going to Chicago was to recover the goods
and get the "squeal' Ccomplaint) of the
"squeal book He had not withheld any
evidence at any time. The only evidence
that had been added since the beginning
| was the identification Of Mrs. Bachelor,
made on the stand the day before But he
| had looked up Mrs. Bachelor Immediately
after the robbery, through his detectives,
| and at that time she was unable to give any
description of the men and didn't think she
| would know them again.
The chief had told the accused that he
could prove they carried the goods across
the street, which was not true. He might
have threatened to railroad" them; he did
not remember. He had recovered forty-one
garments all but one Of those stolen, and
he believed he could recover the other.
shields Appears at Last.
| County Attorney Shields, last witness for
| the state took the stand late in the after
noon. During his examination all he said
bearing on the reasons for his refusal to dis
miss the men as he had agreed to do was;
~ got to thinking The turning point in
my mind was the circumstance that the
property was shipped from Des Moines TO
| Chicago. There seemed to me to be some
thing wrong about that and that's why l
telephoned in the afternoon that would not
be down to dismiss the prisoners"
The county attorneys mind, in looking
| back over the last few months, the last
| few weeks, or even the last few days, seemed
| to be staring vainly into a fog. Police OIL
| GERS became confused with fur merchants.
| expressmen with attaches OF his own office.
| dates and hours of the day became flotsam
and jetsam, conversations with various per-
sons drfted hither and thither, and few
were even lost over the edge of the dim
horizon. He did not specify any particular
evidence which had been withheld, nor did
his deputy who was examining him, ask him
to do so. His testimony was in substance
corroborative of all that had been said by
Chief White Captain Donahue and other
witnesses, with the exception of a few unm-
portant points. He denied, for instance, that
he had asked Miss Anderson and Miss KEEP
Ter to allow him to collect their reward for
them that he had talked of releasing the
men ten days before Chief White started for
Chicago to get the goods, or that he knew
then the suspects had made efforts to re-
store the goods. He asserted that he heard
OF the offer of the defendants TO help in the
recovery only after the goods had arrived In
the city. He admitted having promised un'
conditionally at one time to release the pris-
oners and having started to write an order
to that effect.
Identification Fails.
Two witnesee, upon whom the prosecution
evidently had counted to show UP some "sup-
pressed evidence" an employ Of Shukerts
store and a man who had roomed where the
SUSPECTS are alleged to have taken rooms
failed to establish any vital connection WIFI
the case and Mr.. Dunn demissed them read
ily enough. Miss Gilfeather, one Of Shu
kert's clerks, testified that she saw mar
pass in the rear and along the side OF th'
building lust as another man entered tn'
; front of the store on the Saturday Afternoon
before the robbery occurred. When asked
: either of the defendants looked like the one
, in the store she replied:
Really, neither one Of them looks Jus
like him
She could not describe the other man
|, When asked IL he resembled either DENNIS
or Monaghan she answered.:
"I can't say | did think this man (Mon
aghan) looked like him, but he didn't hav
any whiskers and l did not see his face.
I merely glanced at him as he walked past.
Carl Jacobs, a Bohemian, was called II
knew no English, and officer Nanous wa
5 sworn as interpreter. Jacobs hao roohe'
, in the building Of which Mrs. Bacheide
had charge and had seen two men ther
at about the time of the robbery. He wa
= then asked by Mr.. Dunn to look around tn
+ court room and tell II he saw either OF tn
men, but he replied that there was n
e | one he knew He thought he would knoN
n one of the men II he saw him. sallow ma
= with a dark moustache. That ended MI
= Jacobs usefulness
d When the state recalled Mrs Bachelor |
J. identify the photograph of Prince on tn
e circular sent out by the police the defens
" objected on tho grounds that Prince ha
nothing to do with the guilt Or innocenc
of the defendants, but the picture was ad
It mitted.
r The only serious question of law so ia
e raised in the case was over the admissio
IS In evidence of letters and kilograms !
e possession of Chief White relating to tn
h case. Mr.. Dunn put the chief on the stan
@ and asked him to produce the letters an
d kilograms The defense objected claimin
Y, that nothing written between an agent an
II a principal could be introduced in crimini
o proceedings against the principal and thi
n it had been universally held In all crimini
: courts of standing that condolences that pas
" between a man in custody and the othc'
Id in charge were not admissible evidenc
II Judge Gordon held that the defendants wei
not electing to stand on the promise ar
10 that they were on trial entirely as thoue
y there had never been any promise whaeve
y He thereupon ruled out the letters and tie
II egrams and the chief was excused from Il
~ stand.
e. Mr. Shukert was recalled to the stand
ey explain what Miss Anderson and Miss Ke
as Ter had done at the station in the way
ne an Identification. He said that Captain Do
ell ahue brought the men out and walked the
he back and forth before the girls The gir
an had said that they were sure of their ident
NJ icatiOn.
nd During the afternoon Captain Donah
ue shed some light on the value of the ident
fication by the girls. In his presen
ut Shukert had promised that II Miss Anders
lis would go to Chicago and identify the m
ad he would pay her expenses and give her
en- sealskin cloak, made to measure She
et piled that that would be all right. Witne
It. warned the girl not to let the promise