The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-03-14
. ''CHAW" CASEY
WOULD NOT
FIGHT DOGS
There Wasn't Any
Real Fight Anyhow.
AND he DIDN'T PROMOTE II
WITNESSES as VERBOSE AS A
BASKET OF CLAIMS.
The Lawyer for the Defense Tells
Them What to Say, aud so
Achieves Glorious
Victory.
AND he DIDN'T PROMOTE II
WITNESSES as VERBOSE AS a
BASKET OF CLAIMS.

Chaw Casey has been indicated. No
officer of the law can point finger at
Chaw and say correctly, You done it. -
He goes forth among his fellow men free.
The awful charge of being 8 dog fighter
no longer hangs over him. However. that
he celebrated his triumph by giving a
pink tea to the other gentlemen who were
with him at the pit and who have yet TO
demonstrate that they share with him
the benson of an innocence complete and
Childike, is believed 10 be a canard-
The trial was resumed and finished yes
terday afternoon. 1t had been announced
to open at p. m. and in Judge Tread
wells court, This, of course. was suffi-
Gent reason for its resumption at 2:40 in
the court of Judge Mogan, The apart
ment was filed when Acting Police Judge
Barry called time. On q front seat was
Chaw, the center of a throng of admiring
friends. They seemed to hang on the
words of the great man and TO yearn for
his smile. Close TO him sat one Riley
whose ordinary title lacks the refinement
fCha-w and is naturally omitted.
The star performer was Attorney Mack
lie grew red of countenance at the slight
est provocauon, swung his arms fear
sonelyr ard wouldn't let witness say q
word that in the judgment OF the lawyer
for the defense should not be said. He
winked almost au6ibly. held up warning
myers, and II physical contorttonS failed
to convey his meaning. coached with the
bawling vociferation of a man steering q
basee--runner; Occasionally the Judge
mildly sought 10 check him, and Prose-
clung attorney carpenter entered warm
tsh protests, but only when he got
through did Mack stop. He aruculated
freely, except as the aspirant H came
along: This he dropped so frequently
that had it been material instead Of
ethereal he would at adjournment have
stood a least knee deep in HIS
Perhaps, Uncensciously to both, a subtitle
bond OF sympathy existed between the
ClaW defender
would be bald on top were nature per
United 10 take its course, and each has
length OF e horses tail, these being deftIy
draped aloft and glued Yet this is
tribe, and could have no real bearing on
the issue.
The FIRST witness was Grocer Mehan.
With manifest difhdence he told his name
1ls emparrasSrnent was painful when ne
had 10 tell where he lived. He pleaded
crlmlnate himself. be pleaded similarly
when asked whether there was a base
ment under his house. At every question
Mack jumped up 10 object describing the
witness as an aCCompliCe Of Casey's. At
tOrney Carpenter was willing 10 accept
not agree. although he still stuck 10 the
phrase. Possibly Mack will now consider
that as Chaw's purity has been made
Enown 10 the world an 'accomplice'
must be equally pure
AIehan finally did manage to admit that
he knew where he lived, but that wicked
men bent upon the iniQuity of dog-hghting
had designed 10 sullv the integrity of his
premises ne could not be brought to de-
clare He thought he knew Casey, al
though the hesitancy of his reply was, in,
leased that basement to Casey or any
body else he declined TO say. He thought
Feb I-Sia i9. but but did not recognize any
Of them Had ne seen any dogs thereE
CARPENTER wanted TO ask questions de-
signed TO extract information from the
witness, but Mack promptly pointed out
the wanton iuegality OF every such ques-
ton and the court sustained the obJeC-
ton his ruling being IN effect that wit
ness had a right TO decide for himself
peater took of his glasses for the four
hundred and NTH time anq mace loren tore n
sic ado over Mack's verbal instructions to
the witness. If Mack felt momentar1iy
depressed he came back like a released
When Mehan left the stand there had
been' yielded 9by him as much detail con-
corning Casey and the unIought hght as
by hydraulic pressure there might nave
beer. squeezed blood from a turnip.
The. second witness was smooth-faced
boy named McNickeT OF course he could
not expect 10 place upon reticence the
value ascFibed TO II BY the older ana
wiser Mehan but with cultivation he will
reach the Mehan standard after while
Nobody accused the lad of lying, for be-
sides a feeling OF kindness toward the err
would nos say a word to in any manner
incriminate Chaw, making the plea that
a. he was arrested at the same time he
might tncrtminate himseII: Ihen Carpen-
ter figured out a coup d'etat warranted
not to rip. ravel nor run IN the wash. He
moved. that the case against McNicker be
dismissed and then there was presented
the peculiar spectacle Of a defendants
attorney arguing that his client be held
for trial II did not work. Barry granted
the motion, and the joy OF being able 10
incrininate. himself was no longer NC
NickeFs Carpenter took of his glasses
for the six hundred and tenth time and
with the air of victor renewed the m
QUESTION.
Alas for his hope. The coup d'etat
was counterfeit. McVicker would not re-
veal the mystery Of the basement He
had seen nothing there indicative OF I'M
friendly contention between CANNES. The
dogs had been there. TO be sure, but they
represented either. sex. and for aught the
witness knew were there for friendly pur-
poses. He had not heard word about
q fight Somebody had mentioned the
= there, too, but not near the dogs and no.
body had shown the least desire TO pro-
mote a conflict.
CARPENTER next tried TO impeach his
own witness, and when this boon was de-
MED him, quit IN disgust Neither law
Yer made much OF a speech; One as
serted that the dog fight and the presence
and active interest of Casey had been
proved; the other that there had been
nothing to hint at the possiplIty that a
fight had been contemplated or that. had
such an event been planned, nothing 70
connect with It the spotless Chaw He
stood before the. community, did Chaw,
a rna1ieued and Tnisrepresented individ "a 4,
with no more inclination toward dog
fighting than an angel toward poker
These were not his precise WORDS, put
they convey the idea.
The Court agreed with Mack. he said
that while he did not approve of dog
lighting and would be glad to jadicially
soak anybody guilty of conniVlng at tine
There was a cheer, quickly scared TO
silence By the meuacing eye of the court,
Carpenter took off his glasses the nine
hundred and forty-seventh time, and
the rabble '.scooted,'' all anxious to get
close though TO Chaw to get tip on the
next dog-lght ne did not intend 10 ar
range.
The status seems to be about this:
There was no dog-fght thought Of II
there was the gentlemen clustered
around the pit knew nothing of II; II
any in the lot had known 1t would not
have been Casey. Probably the dogs were
IN the basement by. accident, anyhow, and
the spectators happened in TO discuss a
MIN for ha srnraad of mission work