The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-06-27

| There is. now, no telling when Ed
win T.. Everhart will be released from
jail. He is in a condition, physically
| speaking, that borders on collapse, and
until he regains his strength it is
| thought best not to permit him to be
at large.
Warden w. T. Simpson, who became
an expert in the treatment of such
cases. during his long service as desk
sergeant at the old Center street bas-
tile, IL personally attending to Ever
| hart. He has succeeded In bringing his
| patient out of the tremens, with which
he was attacked when first imprisoned,
and hopes in short time to have his
nerves settled sufficiently to warrant
| his being set at liberty.
When Everhart was brought in, the
warden's trained eye saw that the
prisoner was on the verge of the Jim
| jams" and at once took steps to
straighten him out. The debtors cell,
| which adjoins the Keepers office and
which is occupied by Richard Little.
the Sunday Scrantonian editor, who is
serving six months for libel, was as
signed to Everhart, that he might be
| closely watched by the keepers and his
fellow-occupant. it being feared that
harm might come to him if he was
placed in one of the corridor cells.
BECAME DELIRIOUs.
He became delirious for a time. but
the treatment applied by Warden
| Simpson checked the working of the
| alcoholic poisoning and in day and
night he was brought safely through
| the attack.
The medicine which the warden ap-
| plies, and which is known in the sta
tion houses as bug juice" is an heroic
| remedy and when heroically applied,
! as it had to be in Everhart's desper-
| ate case, has fearfully debilitating
| effect. Everhart was shaking all over
| like an aspen leaf when a Tribune re-
| porter saw him yesterday afternoon.
He said he expected to go out yester-
| day. but when he found himself go
weak and nervous he concluded that
| the best thing to do was to remain in
the Jail and have Warden Simpson
| finish his course of treatment.
II have made only IA partial state
ment of my side of the case" Ever
hart said to The Tribune reporter
| What have said was only to let the
public, and particularly my friends,
| know that there are two sides to the
story, and that l am not as bad as my
enemies woud have me painted.
II will make a further and complete
statement when 1 recover my full
| senses, and corroborate certain things
! that / want to be able to positively
prove, and of which, just at present,
have only a hazy recollection.
Lewis story will be viewed differ
emily from what it Is now, when get
| through with him.
II will also show that 1 never stole
a dollar in my life, and that those
checks, which it is alleged I forged,
were my own checks, given on my own
account for gambling debts, and that
the only trouble about them resulted
from my having stopped payment on
them"
REITERATED STATEMENT.
He emphatically reiterated his state
ment of the previous day, that Lewis
broached the crime to him, and that it
was his firm opinion Lewis was not
alone in the conspiracy.
Attorney Clarence Ballentine, who
defended Everhart at fridays hearing
corroborates his clients claim that he
could have secured bail if he wanted it..
Mr.. Ballentine says Everhart was Of
fered his release Saturday, but would
not accept it, preferring to stay in Jail
till he could get the liquor out of his
system. The man who is become Ev-
erhart's bondsman, according to Mr..
Ballentine's statement, is an intimate
friend of DR.. Everhart.
Had Everhart's father been done
away with the son, 1t was supposed,
would have come Immediately into vast
wealth. AS explained previously in
The Tribune, this is erroneous. The
father had his estate so tied up in his
will that the son could receive only
sufficient to barely maintain him. Now
it is as good as certain that he will get
nothing except what will be dealt out
to him through an attorney or other
agent to start him in business in South
Africa. Despite this fact, the Rinsland
trespass suit is being proceeded with.
A hearing was had yesterday morn
ing before Arbitrators l.. p. Wedeman,
Russell Dimmick and John F. Murphy
and the testimony of four more wit
nesses was presented by the plaintiff,
City Assessor Philip Rinsland tending
to corroborate the story told by his
sister of the intimacy of Everhart and
Mrs. Rinsland, on occasions when she
and her gentleman friend" Healey
made up a quartette that went to New
York, Clifford or some other place on
a protracted lark.
HAD A SNAP, HE SAID.
Robert Healey, a boy who worked in
Everhart's brass foundry, told of hav-