The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-06-17
BARRETT TRIAL BEGINS
MASS OF TESTIMONY IN COM
 MrssIoNER's COURT.
Government Produced Witnesses Who Swore That Newspaper Man Was in Buggy With Kris
 teller in Crenshaw County.

The preliminary hearing of Edward J. Barrett, charged with obstructing secret service officers of the United States in their attempt to arrest Fred w. kristel- Ter, alias Fred w. Mills. consumed all of yesterday in the court of United States Commissioner John A. Elmorc. The tes- timony was practically all in when the court adjourned at o'clock yesterday evening and the lawyers will argue the case this morning.
 Barrett was formerly employed as one of the editors of the Montgomery after noon newspaper. Since he became in- volved in the Kristeller case he has pur- chased an interest in a whiskey saloon on Dexter Avenue.
 Kristeller, it will be remembered, was wanted in Brooklyn, N. Y., to answer an indictment for perjury. He formerly held the position of Deputy Collector of In- ternal Revenue and it is said was indict- ed for embezzlement of government stamps. This indictment, 1t Is said. was dismissed because of technicality and Kristeller was subsequently, indicted by the Circuit Court of the United States in Brooklyn for perjury.
 Kristeller was finally located in Mont gomery where he had assumed the name of Fred w. Mills and was reading law in the office of a we'll known Montgomery lawyer. He had graduated in law from Columbia College and had a pleasing ad- dress. Barrett came to Montgomery ahead of Kristeller and secured employ ment with an afternoon newspaper. He and Kristeiler, 1t developed upon the trial of the latter had been warm friends in Brooklyn.
 It also developed at the trial that Kristeller came to Montgomery with let ters of introduction from John w Mar tin. formerly Captain of the Montgomery Police Department, who Is now living in Brooklyn.
 Julius Sternfeld, Assistant United States District Attorney. prosecuted the Bar rett case yesterday. and several witnesses were examined. Among these were James 12 Haygood, proprietor of a Montgomery livery stable. Hilliard Moore. a negro buggy boy; Mrs S. J. Richardson. who conducts boarding house at Pattsburg Crenshaw County; J. w. Mills. of Patts- burg, Dick Grubbs. negro boy of Patts- burg; c. H. Parritt, railroad station agent at Pattsburg; Frank Bryan of Sal soda. where Kristeller was captured; E. P. McAdam, d secret service officer; w. H. Murphy, J. R. McNeill and Kristeller.
 Through these witnesses it was estab- lished that on Sunday night May IS, E. P. McAdam, secret service officer and Police Captain w. H. Taylor. went to the house on South Perry Street. where Kristeller and Barrett lodged. A note was sent to Kristeller by McAdam This note was received and opened by Bar rett. who was subsequently, found at the saloon of J. R. McNeill on Dexter Ave nue. Barrett admitted having opened the note. but told the officers he did not know of the whereabouts of Kristeller. He said Kristeller was his friend and if he knew his whereabouts he would not tell the officers.
 Monday afternoon. according to the testimony of Liveryman Haygood. Mo Nell ordered horse and buggy by tele- phone. A black horse and a rubber tired buggy was delivered at McNeilrs saloon by Hiliard Moore. Kristeller. Barrett and McNeill disappeared and nothing was heard of McNeill and Barrett until Wednesday morning, May ?. when Me Nell returned to his residence and was arrested
 At this point the government pr roduced witnesses from Pattsburg who testified as to the movements of Kristeller Bar rett and McNeill. Mrs. Richardson. who conducts a boarding house at Pattsburg swore that the three men took dinner at her house Monday. J. A. Mills of Patts- burg, testified that McNeill had bought from him and paid for the feed of the horse and Dick Grubbs, d negro boy of Pattsburg. swore that he rubbed down a black horse which had been attached to a rubber tired buggy and that McNeill and Barret had helped him to grease the buggy.
 These witnesses also testified that the three men left Pattsburg and drove in the direction of Salsoda. where Kristel- Ter was caught; that the horse showed evidence of hard driving.
 It was also established through Frank Bryan of Salsoda, that the three men stopped near his home and left Kristel- Ter. McNeil and Barrett, he said, drove off in northerly direction over road called the Montgomery road. This was Tuesday evening. Several days after Kristeller was captured in this neighbor- hood by E. P. McAdam, secret service officer, who had been at work on the case.
 Barrett did not go on the witness stand. Kristeller merely swore that he and Barrett were good friends and had roomed together McNell declined to an- swer several questions while on the wit ness stand.
 At 6 o'clock the court adjourned until 10 o'clock this morning when argument in the case will begin.
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