The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-12-08
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 Millionaire Zeig Before Gov, Ga' |Ar'o''H1a AAvE TITS Crow Presents ImputatiOns Aga4llst MiSsUurl. | Defendant Alleges --s Was Not There on the Days Named by Lieu- tenant Governer Lee in HIS Amdavits.

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 Ine aalssOufi 2suIaotttteS were represshS ea py AIeo1ney Genslat Cio" anu s.use l b. 11aEssy, oL SAtissvaAi' anu SAeaAA .,nIln oI Cole County. ar. As.sier Was present ln De. sou ana nis couiisei' SonA al. xooweIs, Ateiancey Sicoi, rsuw@to bau- terpacti, W IiiidIn Unuerwo"u anu Sohn AJ i1anusay. Aar. bvwers ntst oeiaiahueu ao Know upon wnal uases the Alfssoari autnorslles atieseo Ms. 1els4er Was U. sne eIAte oI NlssvuTi ana coLnnAlttins the ai- aeged crinie.
 Upon Dlank dates in March, 1Soi," re- piled Attorney General crow.
 rterc ioliowed wrangle between Mir. bowers and MT. Crow which governor Odei interrupted. saying:
 Governer odell's Advice.
 Come. now, gentlemen. let us come down to the meat of the matter. It seems to me now that the papers in this case are not regular in that they do not allege the date in which the defendant was in the State of Missouri, commttting this crime. I think that if the defendant was not in the State of Missouri at the time of committing the crime.' then t Is my duty to defend him. A very bad prece- dent might be made by permitting a cit- izen to be taken from this State on an iusyIff1csanf haaia of fact.
 Mir. Crow maintained that if the acts ana contentious of the State of Missouri were not to be given full faith. but were to be disputed, the burden of proof was upon those attacking them.
 Mir. Bowers said the attack was not upon "the entire administration of tue- tice in the present gubernatoFial raren in Missouri nor upon the sutiiciency of the charge. but upon this indictment. He manded to know whom he represented.
 Harvey Identifies Himself.
 sI am practicing attorney of the city of St. Louis." replied Judge Harvey. T appear here to assist General Crow with his consent. I am here also in the Inter est of citiSens of the State of Missouri whose businesses have been practically destroyed by the legislation whose re- peal this bribery prevented"
 We could not improve upon that" re- marked Mir. Lauterbach.
 ''It appears to me-" said Governor odelI, that if any crime was committed 1t was in the preventing by bribery of the pass age of this legtslation."
 Certainly cried Br. Bowers, and that shuts them up to the date of March 1s.'
 MT. Bowers then read the affidavit of District Attorney Brown of Cole County, asserting that Mir. Zeigler was in that country on blank date in March, 1901.
 We propose to show" said Mir, Brown, that Mir. Zeigler, however, was never m that county in his life and the swearing out of this warrant was an atrocious crime against the liberty of 6 citizen, an attempt to use the sovereign power of two States to bring this man into the State of Missouri where they can try him on any charge they please"
 Attorney General Crow then rose and repelled indignantly what he called an insult to sovereign State, It's Chief Ex- ecutive and prosecuting officers.
 T do not know the gentleman who makes this charge" he said, 'but I deem 1t my duty to my State and to myself to declare his statement IS false as -" :" Judge Harvey recited the history of the baking powder legislation in Missouri at the legislative session of 1901. especially with reference to the attempt to appeal the antt-alum law. Incidentally 1t ap- peared that an entry of MT. Zeigler's name on the register of the Southern Hotel in St. Louis figures in the case. Mir. Bowers declared that they would show this to be a forgery
 Mir. Lauterbach read a long formal an- swer from MT. Zeigler in which he de- clared that the proceedings against him were inspired in considerable Vna tsxr position to his efforts to ? event the use of alum in baking powder. These enemies he named as Evelyn N. Baldwin, whom he says he discharged for failure to carry out faithfully the Zeigler. Baldwin arctic expedition; Patterson Bain, whose en- mity he says grew out of anti-alum prose- secutlons In Missouri and F. A. Odell, with whom he had a controversy tn. ough Zeigler's attempt to secure control of the Prevalent Chemical Works ip St. Louis. Upon the question of being a fugitive from justice. he declared that he had since the dates alleged been three times openly in the State of Missouri, upon personal business whose exact nature he set forth in his statement.
 Mrs. Vi glnia NJ. Gano of Flushing. who said Mir. Zeigler was "my stepmother's s sisters husband was then called by Mir. Bowers and presented letter from Mir. Zeigler making a business appointment with her for the 18th March. She saw MT. 1etgler that day.
 Datse are Decided on. At this point, Judge Harvey announced that under the Governors ruling confin- ing them to March. they would center upon the 18th. 2Oth and z1st.
 Zeigler's counsel then called for a long series of witnesses including Mir. Zeig- ler's private secretary and business as- sociates to cover almot every day in March 1901, all Of them tending to how that Zeigler was not out of the State or city of New York on the days in aues- ton.
 Judge Harvey then produced a number of affidavits, constituting the Missouri end of the case. The principal of these were by former Lieutenant Governor Lee of Missouri, detailing the alleged bribesy of the legislative Sy mmit .ee through him at the instance oI Daniel J. Kelly of New York who Lee swore declared himself to be the agent of Zeigler in the business. An affidavit by Baldw.n deelar that | r.n aaxrr ZafCfav+ nfF nva fIa Araln nafaual.