Omaha daily bee., 1905-05-27

to admit that he knew that Dennlson had
been shadowed by the police Immediately
after the Pollock robbery, but Deuel. re-
fused to say It, He had not even read
Of it in the trial on the habeas corpus pro-
ceedings, he said.
\ He added incidentally; Many men have
been accused who are not guilty"
n. Il. Dodge was called to Identify entries
in the books of the Omaha Savings bank,
Of which he was manager at the time Den
| nison was alleged to. have borrowed the
money from the bank. Mr. Dodge had not
made the entry. and one of the clerks was
dead and the other was in Wyoming The
| items were introduced over the objections
of the defense.
| Reporters Notes Missing.
W. E. Cody, court reporter from Sioux
City, testified that he reported the Sher-
| cliffe trial. That Dennson brought him
the notes and asked him to make a trans
cript of the proceedings; that he had done
so and had received between 1925 and $3.50
| from Dennson. He did not know what
had become of the original notes and had
since been unable to locate them.
w. f. Garrett, pardon clerk TO Governor
Cummins, brought over all the records
| filed in the office of the governor bearing
| on the Shercliffe pardon and on the APP
| plication for the Dennison requisition. He
said neither the original notes nor the tran
script of the Shercline trial were in the
Office of the governor.
Robert Il. O'Hanley, stenographer to
| John N. Baldwin, testified that Senator
! Hipwell had brought the notes of the
| stenographer in the Shercllfe case to his
| office and he had made abstract of
the proceedings and testimony. He then
! identified the abstract he had brought with
| him. What became of the original notes
| he did not know.
| "At that trial did Tom Dennison tes-
| tify, L never saw ShercIffe until this
trial?" " was asked him.
! HE did," was the answer.
The defense objected to this and asked
! for time to examine the papers.
You may examine the papers in the
presence of the clerk of the court" hotly
retorted Attorney Smith, according to the
agreement with the court, but you can't
take them out, for we have lost enough
of these records already" Judge Green
| scowled and peace was restored.
The witness then explained that he meant
by abstract that he had read over the
testimony and put his own Interpretation
on it.
you made 1t as favorable to shercliffe
as possible, didr't you" asked Connell.
NO, sir I was impartial"
He admitted that while the notes were
in Baldwin's office other people had access
to them.
You put your own Interpretation on the
Dennison testimony regarding when he had
seen She-cline?" asked the attorney.
Yes, SIR" answered the witness. Il just
| made an abstract of the testimony"
Grand Jury Minutes introduced.
c. L. Hyde, clerk of the grand jury which
| indicted Dennison identified the minutes
of the grand jury and then said that be-
fore signing the minutes Shercllffe had
protested against the minutes showing
that he said Dennison had telegraphed
him that he had the diamonds. He said
Shercliffe said Dennison had telegraphed
80. X"
w. T. Seeman testified that John Denni-
son lived in some of the rooms over his
livery barn on Sherman avenue and that
James Wilson, his brother-in-law, had
lived in the rear rooms during the year
1892
| The witness then described the location
of the rooms in detail in corroooration of
| Shercliffes testimony.
''Who lived there in 1902" asked Coch-
ran.
| 1 uOIl knOW, duSWOicu NaiO "iN''SSS'
II sold the property in 1896.
Then you don't know whether Elmer
Thomas or Shercliffe have been to those
rooms and located them or not do your
| NO. sir.'
A. w. Blackburn, deputy clerk of the
district court of Harrison county, Iowa.
testified that these much wanted notes and
transcripts of the Shercliffe trial were miss
ing and could not be located.
Identifying DennisOn's Residence.
Billy Donnelly of Omaha was the first
acknowledged gambler of the large bunch
here TO testify. He said he was saloon
| keeper and gambler He was brought on
| to establish Dennison's residence in Omaha
and incidentally helped the defense In its
| forthcoming effort to establish Dennison S
| residence in Iowa.
1t was brought out in cross-examnation
| by Connell that Donnelly had also been a
faro dealer in Des Moines, and incidentally
the bringing out of this information
| brought on much embarrassment for Con-
nell.
Wasn't you a faro dealer in Des
Moines," asked Connell.
"Yes SIR" answered the witness, land
Mr. Connell was present in that gambling
house,
The Judge Joined the court room in the
laugh that followed. Then the court al
lowed Connel to ask some immaterial ques-
tions to set himself right with the people
of Red Oak.
'I merely asked that question" said Con-
nell, ''to show the jury that Omaha Is not
the only place on earth where gambling
hourishes. But l now want to ask the
witness II didn't go to his gambling house
to ask him where l could find gambler
from whom l wanted a deposition"
"Yes sir" was the answer.
COFFEE CONGESTION