Omaha daily bee., 1905-06-24

he had not been restored to his civil rights
by pardon, and that having served his full
time of three years on a conviction OF
forgery he was not competent witness. A
peculiar feature of the case is that Judge
Homer Sullivan of Columbus, who is at
torney for C. E. Tullis in this case, was
the judge who sentenced Penn to three
years in the penitentiary for forgery Judge
Sullivan holds that Penn's evidence in this
case should not be taken into consideration
at all. He cited numerous authorities in
support of his contention and asked leave
to present other authorities during Friday
afternoon. The witness, Penn, was there
upon withdrawn from the stand until Judge
Munger makes a final ruling upon the
question.
Misdirected Letter starts 1t.
The case against Tullis and Penn results
from a misdirected letter. which instead of
going to its destination intended by its
writer's got stalled somewhere in Iowa and
its contents being suspected the letter fell
into the hands of the postoffice inspectors
and it was found that it was an order for
$500 of counterfeit money to be forwarded
to Tullis' address by express at Oconto.
In the interval of the mailing of the letter
and it's investigation by the postofice in
spectors the package of supposed green
goods, which had been ordered by tele-
graph, arrived at the express office at
Oconto. There was $3.50 c. o. d. charges
on it, but Tullis declined to pay the $3.50
until he examined the package. This the
express agent declined to allow, as there
were no such instructions on the package.
In the meanwhile the letter episode had
ripened and its origin was traced to
! Oconto with Tullis and Penn as the sus-
pected writer's. Their arrest followed and
/ they were taken before the United States
| commissioner at Grand Island tor eXamina-
| ton. The package had in the meanwhile
! been turned over to the United States
| authorities and upon it's examination in the
| commissioners Office at Grand Island il
| was found to contain but block OF wood,
| or a compound OF sawdust and glue, solidly
| welded together. The package was an
oblong box of zinc about inches square by
! S inches long. Inside the box, after it had
been opened with cold chisel and hatchet
! so securely had it been soidered together,
was found a note saying that this box had
been sent out merely as a blind to deceive
the authorities, but that the genuine green
goods" would be forthcoming later. They
had not arrived at last accounts.
TuIIis Brought TO Omaha.
Tulns was released on bond after hi:
examination at Grand Island and Penn was
brought to Omaha and has since been in
| the Douglas county jail.
The case is attracting considerable inter,
est with the United States postal authori
| ties and the secret service department OF
| the government, from the fact that it /.
an opening wedge into the green goods
| circular business, which emauates from
/ New York City, with branches in New Jer
sey and Illinois as well as at Orangeburg
n. Y. Postoffce Inspector Boyle Of New
York City, one OF the best known post
office inspectors in the service, is here
witness in the case.
The trial is likely TO continue all da!
Friday and may possibly run over int
Monday next.