The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-02-05

There were no hearings in the coun-
cilinanic bribery cases yesterday az
ternoon, as planned. on account OF
the Illness Of Attorney Joseph O'Brien,
of counsel for tho defense. and be-
cause the Municipal League failed to
round up several witnesses for whom
| subpuenas had been issued.
j.. Il. Sturges stated TO q Tribune
man yesterday afternoon that there
would probably be no more hearings
| for some little time yet, or untlt il is
| an off week in court. He said that The
league was desirous Of devoting u
half or whole day In the near fu-
ture to final hearing In the cases
now pending. so ae to prevent the
| proceedings from dragging out 100
long
1T might be inferred" said he,
from one of the evening paper To-
ports on the continuance OF the bril-
berry cases against g. w. Mckinney
and L. J. Maloney, that the league
was going TO settle with these men,
so as TO prevent the cases from ever
being tried. II such an impression has
gone abroad. I desire to correct It..
NO INTENTION TO SETTLE.
THE league has no intention, what
| ever of settling either these cases or
| any others which we now have pend
| ing. We simply agreed TO q continu-
ance because of the illness of Mr..
O'Brien. who assured us that he was
physically unable to try the case.
| Even if he had not heen sick. we
| would probably have agreed to a con-
| tinuance in Mr.. McKinney's case, on
| account of the serious illness OF his
wife. We are not brutes.
The league has an interest i'm the
Maloncy case even though he was
| indicted as the direct result OF an in
! Vestgation conducted by the grand
| jury. The men who were behind the
! movement got rather disheartened and
came to us for assistance. We took
! the matter up. and / believe have OBJ
| tanned some very good evidence
against the defendant.
Personally / am in favor Of having
! our cases pushed to trial as quickly
| as possible, for the reason that ! de-
| sire to exercise my powers as jury
| commissioner before my term is half
| over. Under present conditions, l take
! the position that l cannot conscien-
| tiously put any names in the jury
wheel until the Municipal League
cases now on the list are disposed
| of.
81 might have the legal right To do
| this. but I have determined not TO
| exercise 1t, so that you see ii would
not be my wish to have these cases
! put off unless when absolutely ncces-
sary."
THE HATTON CASE.
The reporter asked if thcro was any
! truth in the statement that Mayors
! Clerk II. G. Hatton was to he arr
rested on the charge of perjury.
every man who has committed
perjury" said he, with IA smile, every
| man who has gone on the stand and
| solcmnly sworn that he had no knoWl-
edge of transactions which we know
he did have a knowledge about, will
| be arrested and the cases against
| them pushed to the end, / am not
! prepared to say just now, whether Mr..
| Hatton pcrjured himself or not"
Robert Wilson, agent FOR the Munich
| pal League, applied to court yester-
| day for rules to show cause why the
| licenses of @. Il. Morris, corner of
Spruce street and Raymond court; j.
j. Morris, corner Of Penn avenue and
Spruce street, and Joseph a. Cassesc
and stephen McKenna, OF Lackawanna
avenue, should not be revoked.
lie alleges that the places kept by
both the Morrises are lisordelly and
that they are freQuented by disreputa.
bic people. Cassese and McKenna
have been selling on Sunday, he
claims. Court granted the rules, and
made them rcturnable on Wednesday,
| Feb. 20.