Arizona republican., 1905-01-17
MEN,S MOIST EYES
When the Story of the
 Orphans Was Told
The Most Interesting Day Of the Trial Of the New York Foundling Hos. pital Case.

If the New York Founding Hospital case now being tried in the supreme court toud be settled by a jury it would have been settled yesterday and the s'N enteen little foundlings would already be firmly established in the possession of the people who have adopted them The hearing of yester- day was the most interesting of the series. Notwithstanding the opening day of tue legislature the crowd called out was bigger than any previous one.
 The first witness yesterday for the petitioner was Sister Anna Eloyisa whose testimony was quite the same as that of Sister Anna Michella last Sat urday. The witness described the bringing of the foundlings to Clifton and Morenci, the stormy experience there of herself and her associates and the final forced abandonment of a part of the children.
 She was succeeded on the stand by Sister LC dIsa Liguori whose story did not var from those of her predecess- ors. The chief witness for the peti- tioner, because he had been brought in to more direct contact with the indig- nant people of the two mining towns
  York Founding Hospital who had car ried on the correspondence with Father Mangan, the parish priest at Clifton and Morenci, relating to the placing of the children in homes there. He had accompanied the children to those places and had assisted the priest in the distribution of the children.
 !. was brought out by the evidence of the witness that next to the misrep- r--Sentations which had been contaIna a1 in the letters Of The priest, the witness himself was responsible for the indignation which had been aroused by the outrage. He had done nothing to conciliate the angry citizens, but had told them when they remOnstrat- ed with him against the putting of the children into these unfit homes that they were there to stay; that the hos rItal people knew their business, etc. He also said in a dramatic manner that he felt at times that his life was in danger but when he found that the pOpulace would not permit the half breed Indians to retain the children. that he would take the children back to New York with him or perish in the effort. He repeatedly made this state mcnt on the stand notwithstanding the obvious fact that he had not yet per lSlleu ana me CnllOESn were SLlIl M1lIl their respondents at Clifton.
 The witness said, that at one time during the negotiations the feeling grew so high against him that there were threats of hanging and of tar and feathers. The crowd, he said, had the implements necessary for the car rying out of their threats. In his first allusion to the crowd he described 1t as Q ':mob." The court ordered the objectionable word stricken from the record and then the witness substitut- ed for it the word people"
 The witness afterwards described the crowd as a lively" one and believed that but for the protection afforded him by Deputy Sheriff Dunagan he would not then be sitting on the wit ness stand. He said that at the re- quest of the deputy sheriff he had per mitted him to take two of the children of those at Morenci. The rest of them, about nineteen, were taken back to New York, but the fifteen children which had been left at Clifton the day before remained there.
 The cross examination by Walter Bennett was brief but rigid and caused MT. Swayne to attempt to qualify much which he had said on direct eXamina- ton. He denied that he had permitted Deputy Sheriff Dunagan to take two of the children, in consideration of the services the officer had performed for him. This qualification was made to fit ' with an earlier statement that he had i no control over the children.