The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-01-13
EVIDENCE WAS
NOT AT HAND
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cuffed and walked along in an irregu-
lar group, chatting in a. nonchalent
manner with the officials. Langan was
not among them. 1t appears the prose-
cution refused to accept his surrender,
after talking the matter over.
The new addition TO the throng at
the 'scuire's office crowded the stutfy
| little office TO the suffocation point.
When the august magistrate with due
solemnity emerged from the door OF
his private office and saw the crowd
he refused to ascend to the bench, say
| ing he would not go on with the hear
| ing until the crowd was thinned out
and order restored. A quarter of an
hour was consumed in picking out and
eiecting those not directly concerned in
| the case, and at the end of this time,
when the alderman was satisfied that
| there were none present except the par
| ties to the case, the witnesses, the at
| torneys and reporters, he announced
| that he was ready to proceed. He took
| q few moments more, to express his
regrets to the newspaper men on hav-
| ing given them a wrong tip on the
] ''iail hearing" and for not being able
to provide them with better quarters.
Then he gave UP his seat to the dis
| trict attorneys pretty stenographer.
helped to arrange stools at the wings
Of the judicial bench for some of the
newspaper men and then taking sta
ton behind the chair in which the pret-
| ty stenographer sat, bowed his readi-
ness to proceed.
| SEIDMAN ON THE STAND.
District Attorney Martin called Seid-
| and hoA 60 hax
subpoenaed Wisnoski, Vanofski and
Mrs. Mcdonald, as told above. Max
Fierstne was next sworn to tell of the
| second summoning of the two Polan-
ders.
Mr. Shea then brought out on cross
examination the admission from Seid-
man that he knew of the testimony
these witnesses possessed more than
3. week ago, yet he made no effort
to subpoena them until yesterday
District Attorney Martin had Se:d-
man explain why he failed TO reach
the witnesses yesterday and of his
summoning them today.
Mr.. Shea questioned Seidn al closely
as to his efforts to find the witnesses
Yesterday, but Seidman cIull give no
details, except that he looked for them
In house in 3arbertown What street
it was on, or whose house it was, or
whom he talked to Or saw there Sed-
man could not say.
TEen came the arguments for and
49, inst the remanding of the prisou'rs
and the continuance OF the hearing
Are there any NOR, witnessee:' the
alderman i'quired, when the attC- .yS
paused and the crowd waited breath
leSsly for his decision
why yes" the district attorney re-
marked in a hesitating way. Let me
see. We might call Mrs. Mofit."
Learning from Seidman that Mrs.
Moffitt, was at hand, the district at
torney called her name, and a gray
haired, pleasant-faced woman elbowed
her way through the crowd and took
a chair within the bar enclosure.
In answer to District Attorney Mar
tins questions, she stated that her
name was Mrs. Julia Moffitt, and that
| she lived In Scranton: that she was
at the Corcoran wake and in general
talk among the roomful of persons she
heard Mary Monaghan say that the
robbers took the ring and the watches
and everything" The statement was
made in response 10 a question from
the witness The witness later asked
the Monaghan woman If the robbers
had light. She answered in the neg
ative, but a minute later spoke about
"the robbers having a torch" TINS
was the extent of her story.
Mr. Shea dismissed her with a few
questions tending to show that the
statements were made in a crowd
where everybody was talking, and
| where there was no end of excitement.
In explaining Miss MOnaghan's man.
ner on this occasion, the witness said:
shed no sooner tell one story than
she'd tell another that would be diff
. ferent, just as if her mind was wan
dering."
Mrs. Mofitt admitted that she was
an aunt of the deceased, Corcoran. She
made these statements to Seidman last
Friday, she said, when he was at her
house looking for her boy. from whom
he was trying to get some informa-
tion.