The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1900-03-27
(From Fridays Daily.)

think had been in the party that
created a racket at the preaching
service or had spat on the wall and sat
around on the benches with hats on in
a house of worship. ..r
After this particular dinner the de-
tective pulled out a
BUNCH OF PHOTOGRAPHIC
and turned them face up on the table
and told Isaac to look over them. The
first one he picked up he didn't know.
then he picked one up that he did know,
or thought he knew. 1t was picture
of a Canton man. The next one Isaac
looked at was the picture Of q man
that Isaac thought might be one of the
fellows who visited the meeting ROOM
The detective tried to talk him out Of
it, telling him that he didn't know the
fellow at all, that he was from distant
city and had never been in these parts
Whether this was done to fool him or
to test him as to his knowledge, Isaac
does not know, but he believes that he
saw there, on that day. the picture of
one of the men, and that one was not
William Henderson. Another picture
Isaac thought was Of the man who spat
on the wall and who raised the religious
ire in the proprietor of the church en-
terprise. He wasn't so sure ofthat one,
but the detective told him that there
was no use for him to figure on it as
it was not anyone he had ever seen.
Isaac still thinks different.
Then picture Of William Henderson
was found in the bunch and Stripe says,
while it was not real good likeness,
HE RECOGNIZED 1T.
The detective again laughed at him and
told him he couldn't have ever seen that
fellow as he had never been in the state.
Stripe says he saw there was some game
in it, and he began to agree with the
detective on most any proposition.
Another picture was one of a well
known Canton crook, now in the peni-
tentiary, and who. it is claimed, had
nothing to do with the Greentown case,
in direct way. He recognized that one
and named him. as he had known that
fellow since he was lad.
What became of this investigation,
Stripe does not know. but he felt that
he had been pretty thoroughly tested
and thinks he was just being put
through a case of sprouts by the state
to see how he would stand fire. Whether
the sprouting had anything to do with
it there was evidence Thursday after
noon of how Isaac Stripe stands fire.
Since the picture episode Stripe inti-
mates that he has been told the names
of some of the men whose pictures he
saw, but he did not know from his
own knowledge, and he therefore could
not tell on the witness stand that he
knew them, for, as a matter of fact, he
had nothing direct on that point to
offer.
NO DISCLOSURES.
At one time it was thought that
Stripe was going to say something
about some of the men who had been
to see him. He had said that he knew
that the men who were at the church
were from Canton, and then added that
he didn't know positively. He was ask
ed why he said they were from Can
ton and he said:
"Well, If you want to know, some
Of your Canton men,"
That is as far as he got. Judge Bald
win stopped him there. 1t was not
competent, he thought, to show what
some Canton men had told him, If
| they had told him anything, and the
verge stage was again passed with
out getting anything further.