The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-05-09
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rounding up of street walkers and
the locating Of women Of the town not
paying protection money to- the adj
ministration. He testified unwillingly
but the states attorney induced him to
testify that he had taken orders there,
had received Expense money" from
Gardner and had distributed it among
the t'plain clothes men on this de-
tail. After attempting to draw fur
Their information from the witness,
Mr.. Boardman exclaimed:
had considerable talk with this de-
PENDANT himself or with some one
representing him, haven't your
mo, sir; have not"
"Have you not talked with .5Dr.
Arnes orr his attorneys here i'm sthe
courtroom or anywhere? ~, a745it5a sseaE
mo, sir. I may have talked with
the attorneys, but not about this case"
Are you sure Of that?
Yes, sir" y.
ttAll right. That's ALL" 1
The discrimination was brief
and consisted Of two questions, which
were:
reported for orders at the mayors
office %
mo, SIR
And you never saw DR.. Ames at
all on these ,visits?'
| mo, SIR And the witness was
dismissed.
| Officers John Knight Edward Hall
and Frank Fern were called and told
similar stories.
| ~ Emma Murphy ''Sweated."
| County Attorney Boardman next
called several Of the women who paid
i protection money to Gardner and
| 40 or IN in6 q
or two of them to own up to having
been "seen" by the attorneys or the
agents of the defendant.
| ..Have any Of the agents for this
1 defendant talked with you about this
case % inquired the prosecutor OF
Emma Murphy.
/ mo, sir" was the ready reply.
j Then why is it that you told me
one story in my office few days ago
| and now tell another one?"
st am telling the same story and
the truth
Don't you remember telling me
i that Gardner told you, when he came
to collect money from you and you
questioned him as to his authority
that you could go and see the old man
if you doubted him."
This was objected to by the defense
and the objection was sustained by
the court,
"Do you remember having such a
conversation in my office? 2" asked Mr.
1 Boardman.
mo, don't remember" And al
!. efforts on the part Of the prosecutor
to elicit any admissions from the
woman were futile. She admitted
paying the money to Gardner fo1
protection" but could not be induced
to say she knew the orders came from
the mayor.
The defendants attorney were more
successful in getting this sort of dam
aging testimony from one of the othe1
witnesses, Grace Vernon, 8 First ave
nue. S. Mr.. Cary, for the defense, in
sisted upon carrying on an aggressive
cross-examination of the witness AM
dwelt with great stress upon her test
mony to the effect that she paid tn
money for protection" and yet dit
not know she was committing crlm
in running a disorderly house.
why did you pay?" insisted coun
sell. "You didn't have to- did you 2
Yes; I had to. They told me !
well, you didn't know you wer
violating the law and so why were yol
afraid q" 3
well, Til tell you. The mayo
gave the orders for me to pay, and
!. had to pay-that's it, exclaimed tn
woman, and Mr.. Cary asked that he
answer be stricken out. But tn
jurors were listening.
Lille Raymond and frankie Buel
z were the other women called thi
\ morning and. their stories simply cor
roborated the testimony Of those WI
! had gone before.