The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-03-09
ge adita Daily gagIe Saturday lorsiug garef 9 1901.

/ garet, tO-wit: Large plate glass WINDOWS
/ valued at $500
Judge Ray then presented the defen-
dsnts' case.
The hearing of the evidence was I'm
mediately gone into. tina state first put
/ ting John 2. Furiong on the stand. The
witness testified II regard to the raid on
! Herrig's place on the afternoon Of Janu-
airy 81 He had seen Mrs. Evans smash
ing on the inside of the saloon.
Jene OBrien, the next witness for the
state testified to practically the same
thing. He was in a hotel near by and at
the outbreak Of the trouble had run TO
where The women were smashing and had
seen Mrs. Evans on the inside making
havoc OF the fixtures, etc, while others
were praying on the outside. lie recog-
uized the three defendants who were IN
the court room as the three women.
Colonel Thomas G. Fitch, another state
witness, saw a commotion in front Of
/ Burns place on Douglas avenue. As he
/ approached the place he saw the windows
and doors smashed and just as he arrived
saw three women come out Of the front
door and start down Douglas avenue
towards the Carey hotel They stopped
at Herrigs place. The doors seemed TO be
locked so the women began smashing
and soon saw them crawl through hole
broken IN the large windows and continue
their smashing on the inside. On account
Of the confusion it was impossible TO see
any particular actions.
The defense asked a question OF almost
every witness, trying to get each TO say
that it was Saloon or ''joint," but
each time the prosecution objected that
it was frrevelent and was sustained by
the court The defense continued TO harp
on this, however, asking another SINH ar
question as fast as its predecessor was
thrown out by the court. This was one
of the most interesting features of the
trial ana while the defense thied in every
way possible they At not time succeeded
in getting it before the jury.
H. NJ Howard testified 10 particularly
the same as the other state Witnesses
concerning the raid, Out was only able to
identify Lucy Wilhoit as one OF the
wcmen who participated in it.
Judge Ray. in trying TO get the witness
10 say what was inside tho place and
what he had secured there, had him name
over everything from a match up, except
Intoxicating liquors. He could not re-
member TO have gotten anything OF the
kind there.
The next witness was n. A. Herrig
John Herrir's brother. He told Of the
raid in a realistic and dramatic manner
which greatly amused the crowded court
room In his zeal the witness rose from
his chair and demonstrated how when
he had run down stairs from above the
''cigar stand" as he called it, he had
crawled in the hole made in the window,
following Mrs Nation and Mrs Evans.
MRS. Nation turned on me after ] was
inside. and said, as she raised her Ratchet
iii a threatening attitude over my head:
".'What you doing here?'
IT tod her I had as much right there as
she. and she turned ana went to smash
ing"
The witness recognized the three de-
PENDANTS In the court room as three Of
the women. and in a unique way describ-
cd Mrs. Nation, the fourth.
The defense examined the witness at
length. rs they had the other state wit
nesses In regard to the front windows or
plate glass front which the defendants
are charged with maIiciously destroying.
! Here the prosecution introduced as evil
deuce the deed to the building, ~9ade in
1890, showing The ownership as alleged In
the Information.
1 Witness had seen number Of bottles
broken. with their contents running out
on Tie floor but did not know what the
liquid was lie said he would not know
whisky; did not think he had ever seen
amy whisky.
DICK Dodd. turnk at the county jail.
testified in regard to statements made to