The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1905-06-01
FAlNTs ON STAND.
ss~7 S~onrebers. Tom Dennison's Lead
Re Witness. Gives Away Unaer
the Great Strain.

He'd Oak Ia. May 31.-Sam Some
berg, an Omaha pawnbroker. who is
one OF the principal witnesses for the
defense At the Dennison trial, tainted
on The witness stand this morning. He
MAS sivsng his version OF the meeting
between Pollock. the diamond rner-
! chant. .tnd Dennisun at his place of
business, when the great strain under
which everyone appears to be lahorlng
proved too much for him and he
sWooned, He MAS revived with sonsid-
cradle effort and resumed his testi-
i mony. He denied having a any inn
proper relations with Dennison or Sher-
cliIe IN handling diamonds.
There Mill be no trial tomorrow, Judge
Green having announced that he Will
adjourt court tor Memorial day. A
tr,ait, wreck at Hehbard, he next sta
tiar, west of Red Oak. delayed Denni-
sons arrival this morning, causing
p~oStponement of the opening of court
until II a. m. Dennison had been spend
ing sunday with his wife and child at
his residence in Omaha.
The first witness examined today was
CGw&rd Doyle. a druggist at HAM
burg. He testified regarding his ac-
Quain,auce With Shercliffe n Denni-
scI at the formers trial and said Den
nisou's solicitude in Shercliffe's behalf
MAS 2ot unreasonable.
w. W. Jnsted, Omaha manager for
the Western Union Telegraph company,
and G. O. Fuller. Omaha manager for
the Postal Telegraph company, testified
regarding transfers of money from
Lennison to Shercliffe in 1908, when
Shercliffe was at SETTLE, a few months
after the Pollock diamond robbery.
Feeling Very Intense.
That the feeling is SO intense here
as to be of the hair-trigger order is
evidenced by the close scrutiny which
everyone keeps OF everyone else. Each
witnesses appear to fear a secret attack.
The town is filled with biacklegs and
ie~X-convicts. Many men carry arms.
The Oklahoma sheriff who carne here
to get Sherciiffe and was forbidden to
Jay hands on him until he has a reQui-
sition warrant from Governor Cum
minis, carries a great siX-shooter strap
ped to his belt in front where everyone
may see it. He appears to seek to COW
Shercliffe. Shercliffe vas asked if he
wasn't afraid the sheriff, who is a
giant, would kidnap him.
What, that big bluffer?" answered
Shercliffe. Il amt afraid of no buffer.
If he'd ever make q false move around
me I'd blow daylight through him be-
fore he could lift one of his big fat
hands,
shercIiffe Went Fishing.
Sabbath was a quiet day in Red
Oak following a week of unusual in
tensity. Shercliffe, loyal to his natural
in~chnations, observed the Sabbath by
going fishing in company with his
brother Morris and two or three kin
dred spirits. Part of the counsel for
both the state and defendant went
home.
Several members oe the jury gladly
availed themselves of the opportunity
afforded by Judge Green to attend
church in charge of a bailiff. Denni-
sons counsel, not unmindful Of the i'm
p%ortance of the dramatic setting in a
sensational criminal trial, and the ease
with which sentiment in the average
juror may be played upon, see to it at
each session that Dennison's little
daughter is conspicuous. She is a
handsome child, with regulation curls.
n easily wins her way into the good
will of every one. Whether from i'm
pulse characteristic of childish inno-
cence or in accordance with the design
of muturer minds-who shall say?-
she hesitates not to make goo-goo eyes
at the jurors, and seldom fails to be
rewarded with a friendly wink in re-
turn. Court room habitues are patient
~ awaiting the our when counsel for
the defense will face the jury and, with
more or less telling effect, exclaim:
Can the father of such a child be as
black as the state would paint him?"