The Saint Paul globe., 1904-12-17
SUsPENDS LAWYER
LANE FOR one YEAR
Supreme Court Finds Minneap-
oils Attorney Guilty of Un-
professional Conduct

Freeman P. Lane, of Minneapolis, a
widely known attorney of the North
west, has been found guilty of un-
professional conduct as an attorney by
the state supreme court, and has been
suspended for one year from practice
in all the courts of the state.
The courts findings were handed
down yesterday in a per curiam de-
cision by the supreme court. The de-
cision is founded on the admissions of
Mr.. Lane himself relative to his con-
nection with the disappearance of Ada
Hubbell, the states star witness, in the
bribery charges against Roberts and
Leland, two men involved in sensa-
tional attempted delivery from Still
water penitentiary in 1899.
Pending the trial of the men, Ada
Hubbell escaped from the Washington
county Jail. and it was admitted by
Mr. Lane in his evidence before the
referee in disbarment proceedings that
he had furnished the woman money
after her escape with which to live.
The money had been given him by his
clients, Roberts and Leland, and by
him forwarded to the woman. The
court holds that the attorneys con-
nection with the concealment of the
woman defeated the ends of justice
and was breach of professional con-
duct that should be punished. The
supreme court therefore SuSpends him
for a period of one year from practice
in all the states courts.
Charges alleging unprofessional con-
duet on the part of Freeman P. Lane
were fled Dec 4, 1903, by E. South
examiners in law. The specific charge
was that he had received large sum
of money from Edward Leland, a con-
vict at Saltwater, to obtain a pardon
for him from the state board of par
dons and then had abandoned his case.
Lane Assisted the Woman
Later an amended complaint. was
fled, charging Lane with assisting Ada
Hubbell, woman confined in the
Washington county jail, to escape that
she might not testify against Leland
and Roberts, who were charged with
conspiracy to deliver from the Still
water penitentiary Leland, whom Lane
was employed to defend. 1t was al
legged that Leland had given Lane $50
to be sent to the woman and he had
sent her. $50 of the amount.
The court found in deciding the case
that the charge that Lane received
$500 to secure pardon for Leland and
then abandoned him has not been
proved. The court further found that
the testimony of Leland and Ada Hub
bell that Lane encouraged the woman
to escape has not been proved. But
the court finds that on Lanes own ad-
missions he knew that the woman had
planned to escape; that her escape
necessitated a postponement of the
case; that he knew she was keep
ing herself concealed and knew
of her hiding place; that he ad-
he himself made remittances to her for
Roberts for no other-reason than to
keep her in concealment and to pre-
vent her from being a witness.
Treating every other claim as not
having been established, the court
holds this accusation that he assist,
ed the HubbeH w man to escape and
provided for her during her conceal
ment, as proved. The offense is found
that cannot be condoned and that
should submit him to the discipline of
the court
Other Decisions
Sixteen other cases were passed on
ny bilC oupl CtIlc COuIL duQ uGCISIOIlS
filed yesterday. All but four cases In
volve affirmations of the lower courts,
the four being reversals. The syllabi
follow:
Nels Haramen. respondent, vs.. c. E..
Krause appellant.
l.. Where the public authorities have
for thirty years refrained from opening an
alley originally dedicated to the public
use, and 1t is in the peaceful possession
of the owner of the fee, a stranger to the
title Is not justified in removing a fence
incloSing the same and in cutting down
fruit trees growing thereon.
2 Prior to the adoption of chapter SIS
of the laws of 1899, the public easement
in and to streets and highways might be
lost by fifteen years adverse possession.
City of Hastings vs.. Gillitt S5 MINI. S31,
Railway company, so Minn., 1876, and Vii
lage of Glencoe VS.. Wadsworth, 4S Mimi,
402. followed.
Order affirmed. Douglas J.
Caroline Lesch, respondent vs. Great
Northern Halfway company, appellant.
Under the claim of plaintiff two watch
men were employed by defendant to re-
main at its shops and yards to protect its
property from being removed or purloined
by trespassers, and We're authorized to
search for such property when taken
away. Upon information that some ties
had been removed to plaintiffs home they
went there, entered her house. r,immaged
the premises and conducted themselves
that they were burglars whereby seriously
frightening plaintiff, held that the facts
stated brought the case within the general
rule that a master is responsible for the
torts of his servants II committed with a
view of the furtherance of the MASTER 8
business, whether the same be negligently
or wilfully done.
Order affirmed. Lovely, j.
Daniel w. Webb, appellant, vs. Patrick T.
Downes, respondent.
In an action for conversion against a
warehouseman who sold two lots of house.
hold goods of similar character to satisfy
claims for storage and notes for which
they were pledged, it was objected to the
course pursued by the bailee in making
the sale that proper notice thereof had not
time Of the sale the owner of the prop
erty was present and made no objection
to the manner in which such sale was
conducted heidi
l. That section 8, chapter 149, laws of
1896, which requires that no sale can be
made of personal property stored with the
warefiOusemen TO satisfy his lien, except
within thirty days after the passage Of
that act is invalid. under sections SO, 81.
article A. of the state constitution :
g. That the property sold, including
some carpenters tools. a violin, with other
articles of domestic use were properly de-
seribed. in the notice as household goods:
g. That the plaintiff. having attended
the sale and making no objection to the
manner in which it was conducted cannot
| maintain his action for conversion upon
| the ground that each article was not sold
separately but was disposed of In bulk,
in the absence OF any showing that he was