Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1901-03-29
DEFENSE
Makes a Strong
Showing.
Witnesses For Attorney
N. ChaIker.
lhey UiVe leStlmOny
Favorable to Him.
Effort TO Show That
They We're Paid.
The Hearing Will be Concluded
Soon.
The Hearing Will be Concluded
Soon.

Having preceded her testimony with
by no means calm statement to At
torney Newton Chalker that she would
'tear his eyes out" Mrs. Anna John
ston, mother of Ethel Johnston, the
complaining witness in the case of Ohio
VS.. Chalkcr, proved herself the princi-
pal witness for the state as the prelim.
mary hearing progressed In Police
Court Thursday afternoon.
Mrs. Johnston told of going down
town one afternoon and seeing her
daughter go up the stairway leading
to Mr.. Chalker's office, she followed her
but found the outer office locked. She
looked into the office through the glass
panels of the door, she said.
What did you see there OF in the
hall?" asked Judge 1ibbals in the cross
examination.
Dirt" calculated the witness, who
is Il woman of temper and q sort of
high-tension energy, which made her
small black eyes snap in emphasis OF
all she said.
Attorney Rogers laughed and Judge
ribbals appealed to the Court to re-
quire him to be more decorous.
Mrs. Johnston said she had talked
with Mr.. Cha.ker and accused him of
assaulting her daughter. She stated
that he told her the girl was able to
take care of herself. 81 went away
then" the witness said, land he called
TO me not to be in Il hurry, that he
wanted to talk to me-"
Mrs. Johnston denied emphatically
that she had lived in lne tenderloin
district in Youngstown. She denied
that she had been arrested there under
the name of Bessie Mcguire or any
other name.
81 am Innocent of that, so help me
Cod she cried, with vehemence, when
asked II men had not repeatedly come
to her home in Youngstown. When
asked if ii WAS not II fact that she and
her daughter had been with two men
who came there, she burst into tears,
and answered only with the eXclama-
tion, "Oh, my Goa,"
Mrs. Johnston told of going to see
Sarah Reed or Roden in Cleveland
with reference to her being Il witness
in this case, but denied that she told
Sarah that there would be $100 in it
for her
Didn't you tell her that Chalker had
| offered $1,000 to settle the case, but
thnt NntI could npt 81 lnnt'
II didn't"
Didn't you tell Ethel that If she
made any more accusations against
her step-fathcr, you would cut her
| tongue out?'
An objection TO this was sustained.
Mrs. Johnston sworc positively that her
daughter was but IL years old and thar
IL record of her birth was preserved in
a bible which her sister in Findlay has.
She told at length of the different
places in which she and her husband
had lived, he being Il stone-cutter and
frequently going from place to place
working on large contracts.
The prosecution concluded the pre-
| sentation of its testimony with the eX-
animation of newspaper men who had
| interviewed Mr.. Chalker, and hearing
the stories of two Young men-Edward
Her and Frank Frary-who were init
mate with Ethel Johnston aud hel
friend, Sarah Roden.
The testimony submitted by Her
and Frary related to their having gone
with Ethel and Sarah to Mr.. Chalkers
Office and lingering without, while the
girls talked with Mr.. Chalker. During
the alleged conversation between the
girls ANA Mr. Challier, the boys said
they waited at the bottom of the stair
way, walked up and down it time OF
two, promenaded in the hallway of the
building in which Is Mr.. Chalker's
office, went into saloon and returned
in time to meet the girls when they
left the office. According to their tes
timouy the girls were In the Office Il
little more than half an hour. Ethe
Johnston was last TO leave the office
remaining there at least 10 minutes
longer than the other girl.
During the cross-eXaminatlon, which
| lIt DDys
were made to describe AT great length
and detail chase they had had after
the girls one day, when Ethel and Sar.
all announced their intention of going
to Cleveland,
1t was to secure car.fare to make the
trip that the appeal was made to Mr..
Chalker for money.
| Edward Isler and Ethel Johnston
worked together at the Troy laundry,
according to the boys story, and they
became intimate friends.
"What did you work at, Edward"
asked Mr.. Frank
Most eyerything?"
what did Ethel work atT'
"rhe same"
| When Frank Brary was called he