Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-05-30
EXPECTED SENSATION FALLa
FLAT IN DENNlsoN TRIAL
AT RED OAK.
SHERCLIFFE is WANTED
Star Witness Against Dennlson ls
Much Sought After by sheritts from
Western states--stats May Gail
shercIffe's Mother as Witness.

! Red Oak. May 29.-Politics and the
Dennison case are separated. The
practical ruling Of Judge Green that
Hon. H. G. Mcmillan of Cedar Rapids
will not be called to the witness stand,
and 9. G. Hipwell of Davenport and
Judge A. Van Wagenen having testi-
fed to extremely minor points, the
strain which has been felt In some
quarters over the fear that the lid Of
an alleged scandal would be lifted is
easily and quietly relieved.
On Saturday afternoon the probab-
bility of Mr.. McMillans being called
was discussed in court, and In the
| course OF the argument as to the pre-
sentation of further evidence by the
state Judge Green announced that he
had received a communication from
Mr.. Mcmillan IN which it was set out
that the latter Is now engaged In q
term of court at Sioux City which will
require his undivided attention for the
next two or three weeks. He asked,
therefore, If he could not be excused
from any attendance Oh the Dennison
case. Judge Green said that If Mr..
4 Mcmillan was badly wanted by the
state he would issue an order for his
appearance at the Montgomery court
house, but otherwise he believed that
there would be no necessity of calling
him.
just before closing its case the state
on Saturday asked the privilege OF call
ing other witnesses after the defense
had commenced the presentation of
evidence. his was taken to mean
that Mrs. Chesley Evans, the mother
OF Frank She.cliffe, would be brought
to the city as a last resort and placed
on the stand to tell that while she Was
In Omaha attending the exposition
Dennison made confession to her in
which he stated that he went to the
Missouri Valley church and unearthed
the Pollack diamonds and brought
them to Omaha
shercliffe Not Frightened.
The constant fiourishes of sheriffs
and kilograms from officers from other
states asking for the body of Frank
Shercliffe have not bothered that per-
sonage in the least. Deputy Sheriff A.
O. Lund of Blackwell Okla, who is
still In Red Oak, seeking to arrest
Shercliffe as soon as the trial OF Denni-
\ son is over, that he may proceed to
the governors Office for requisition
hearing, states that he will prove Sher-
cliffe guilty of burglary committed in
Oklahoma in the period during which
he was out on parole.
n He says that when the first tele-
;. gram was sent to the sheriff of Polk
county asking for the arrest OF Sher-
u cliffe 1t was the first knowledge In
r Blackwell county that Shercliffe was
IS the man wanted, and that the officers
, have been persistent since that time
in an endeavor to get custody OF him
Mr.. Lund was asked whether he
s. thought he could get possession OF
q Shercliffe by merely telegraphing to
% Sheriff Thomas of Red Oak, where
= upon he replied that he did not know
q that the trial would be such long
10 drawn out affair or that he would have
q to wait SO long. When asked whether
:, he did not know that he would have
- to undergo hearing before the gov
'e ernor and make a showing as to the
evidence against Shercliffe before hi
could take him out of the state, he re
piled that he had brought some eyi
dence with him which he would pre-
sent to the governor as soon as tn,
Y, present trial is over with.
Frank Shercliffe had an interview
with Lund on Saturday, In which h'
= found that Lund had not recognized
ar him as a person he had seen before
er but that he knew him only as the re
id suit of a study of newspaper photo
le graphs. When .Shercliffe left Lund h,
le was in happy mood, saying that b,
had proven to the satisfaction of tina
individual that he did not know al
much as he thought he did
Saturday afternoon second tele
gram was received from Sheriff Mea
hony, of Lake county, Col, asking tha
Shercliffe be held until an officer from
T that state could reach Red Oak to tax,
N charge of the prisoner. The dispatcl
was consigned to the waste basket.