The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-08-18
GLASMANN ON
WITNESS STAND
TeStifies in Own. Behalf and In
cidentalIy Makes Numerous
Learned Arguments.

When the libel case of Viola Lewis VS..
William Giasmann and the Standard Pub
fishing company was called in the dis
trict court yesterday morning, counsel
for the defendants called the attention of
Judge Maughn to the account of the pre-
Yious DAYS session as 1T appeared in the
Salt Lake Tribune and asked the court
10 instruct the jury not to read the &C
count as 1t was misleading. The court
passed the matter up until just before
the noon recess, when counsel again called
his attention TO the matter. Then he is
sued instructions to the jury TO pay no
attention TO the story as IL was published
in the Tribune.
The defendant Gasmann was on the
stand greater portion of the day. He
was all right as long as he was giving
OF questions hurled at him by Attorney
A. y. Pratt on the cross-eXamination
Giasmann insisted on stringing out his
answers until he found himself arguing
the case like an attorney making his fl
nal plea. In. one of these OutburSts GlaS-
mann said he would be glad for the OPP
portuEity TO argue his own case before
the jury. lie said that in so far as he
personally concerned in, the case he felt
that it was nothing more than Vindic-
tiveness on the part of the attorneys for
the plaintiff.
What does Viola Lewis care whether
the damages come from myself or from
the Standard Publishing company" he in
quired
Inc court raped Tor order and INSIST
ed that witness and attorneys confine
themselves strictly to questions and an
Swers. AS each question was put to him
after this Glasmann continued TO argue
the point; in fact, his eagerness seemed
to be such that he could not control his
tongue, and the court had to again ad-
monish him to only reply to questions.
While Counsel Pratt was arguing a point
in support of an objection he had raised
when Glasmann was under redirect ex-
animation, Glasmann "butted in" Sew
eral times when plaintiffs counsel was
consulting Glasmann would call his at
torney TO the witness chair and hold
whispered consultation. In one instance
Attorney j. ID. Skeen called the court $
attention to this work, which he described
as objectionable conduct" on the part
of counsel for the defense, and when the
court stated that the trouble was prob
ably due TO the witness calling his at
torney, Mr.. Skeen said that Mr.. Farms
worth claimed 10 be an able attorney
and that he ought to know better than
to do such thing. He requested that
counsel be forced 10 repeat aloud what
had been said, and the court so ordered.
In another instance the attorney for
GlaSmann wanted the witness to give his
version of the testimony offered by Wit
ness Jones the day previous. When Glas-
mann was asked what articles Frank
Francis, the so-called editor-in-chief. had
failed to print after they had been writ
ten by himself. he admitted that they
were articles attacking +. j. Cannon the
Salt Lake Herald" He said the reason
Francis did not run the articles was that
he did not want to assume the reSpon-
sibility for Glasmann's personal fights.
He then admitted in answer to a ques-
ton from Mr.. Pratt that there was too
much blaSphemy contained in them. Be
fore leaving the stand and after he had
been blocked in giving the same testi-
mony several times he asked his counsel
If It was competent for him TO testify
that the same articles upon which the Ii
bel was based had been printed in all the
papers. He advised that ii was not but
he had the matter before the jury just
the same.
The only other witnesses examined were
Frank Francis and City Detective James
Fender. The case will probably be con
cluded today.
Peter Madison. guardian ad Item of
the plaintiff, stated to a newspaper man
yesterday that Glasmann endeavored to
have him call his counsel off and assess
nominal damages against himself and the
Standard Publishing company. Glasmann
asserted that the attorneys were only
fighting him and that il was a shame to
force young girl to go through trial
of that kind. Madison said he resented
the proposition and told Glasmann that
he should have thought of these matters
months ago.