Sunday morning globe., 1901-09-15

Size gave an exhibition on the witness
stand OF how II happened, using one
of the attorneys for the figure Of my
self. When shown a photograph OF
the street where she had paraded up
and down for years, and every store
in the block as we'll known to her as
her own domicile she selected as the
scene OF the shooting "A store half a
block distant from the scene Of the
shooting. The States's main witnesses
the ones who swore l fired the FIRST
shot and whose testimony convicted
me-testified, to the number Of about
100 and with the exception of three
wellknown disreputable perjurers that
at no time during the battle between
Osborne and myself was either man
or woman between us, When the State
dropped the development of this line
of prosecution, | insisted on my coun-
sci asking every State witness the cat
egorical question: "Did the defendant
hold or rest his hand on a woman's
shoulder at any time during the shoot
ing with Osborne?
The invariable answer was mo"
| The three exceptions were a degraded
| Miles, an assistant constable named
Gus Johns, and a sanitary officer who
was an uncle Of the Cook brothers,
news agents for the Dispatch and sun
day Enquirer, Of Cincinnati. Taking
these three men up, and their motives,
! | commence with Miles. This disrep-
utable shyster visited me in the cell at
the station-house and suggested the
manufacture of a defense by the subor-
nation OF perjury which he would
manage. declined in no uncertain
terms. He claimed on the stand that
he had been in the saloon when the
firing commenced, and rushing out, he
| saw me firing over a. young girls
shoulder as he broke for cover behind
| the saloon sign, where he watched the
| progress of the battle. Miles was the
seventh witness who testified to hiding
| behind this sign, which, when meas
| ured. was shown to be incapable of hid
| ing or shielding but one person. Gus
| Johns, notoriously infamous charac-
ter, whom my paper had scored for
/ evicting a widow and her children In
the snow, causing the death Of the
| youngest child, and whose vile reputa-
/ tion as an eyictor was such that he
was avoided as a leper by even his fel-
| low constabes testified that he saw
| the battle and that / held the young
! girl around the shoulders IN front Of
| me while / fred at Osborne. He said
he was so scared that after the battle
| he drank seven glasses Of whiskey to
steady his nerves The reporter for
! the Press-P Post Of Columbus was put on
the stand and impeaChed Johns. This
reporter testified that he rode on a
street car with Johns and conversed
with him, and that the battle was over
dfteen minutes before they arrived on
the scene! But this impeachment was
not as extraordinary even as that OF
the uncle of the Cook brothers. This
old reprobate was animated with the
family motive of helping his nephews
ne Sunday Enquirer was the only sell
ing rival of the Sunday Capital. The
latter had reduced the sales of the
Sunday ENQUIRER 1900 copies in Co
umbus and thereby depleted the
Cooks profits to that amount 1t oc
Cured to the uncle that It would be
fine stroke Of business to hang the Cap
itaTs editor, bust his paper, and then
the nephews would have the town TO
themselves. One Of the peculiarities
of this old fellow was in picking up
cigar stumps on the street drying
/ them out and re-Chewing them, or
smoking them in his pipe. He would
accidentally drop his handkerchief in
walking along the sidewalk but always
over a cigar stump. When he picked
up the handkerchief he gathered in
the stump or cigar butt,
This old perjurer. whose hair was
as white as his soul was black. testified
that he saw the whole fight, and the
woman incident. The firm employing
him in his spare hours to solicit insur-
ance voluntarily came forward and
testified that he was in their office at
the time Of the shooting, and that
when a member Of the firm came rush
ing in to tell the news, this old wretch
inquired about the particulars, and did
not leave the Office for halt an hou1
after the battle iCGS OUer!
Were these three perjurers support
ing the street walker punished? Not
much. Judge Pugh grinned and made
one of his cheap jokes, which the news
papers commercially published, and
that was the end Of It. And yet, this
single circumstance of holding a young
girl, or resting my hand on her shoul
der while firing, did more to prejudice
the public mind than any other cir
cumstance Of the tragedy" in the
early phases Of the shooting and fol
lowing my arrest. Charley Grosvenors
brother-inlaw, w. w. Bond was the
author of the affair. caught him steal
ing while he was public printer OF
Ohio and exposed the theft This is
how he got even by trumping up a
mean and pitiful fabrication as easily
disproved when brought to the test
as his cowardly sneaking and thievine
career as official and citizen.
Two hundred and twenty-five wit
nesses for the State and defense testi
fed and but the three named saw me
rest my hand on a woman's shoulder
or use her as a shield. And thus
leave this phase of the case.
The two salient points in the trial
were Who fired the first shot, and the
introduction Of the article which caus
ed the tragedy" The State establish