The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-10-16

s
 It also dsvelupeu yesterday that
 George Shreve mad called several times at the off1ce of the cierK Of the city court to ascertain the status of the Carfey case. saN Three witnesses were examined. Jes. SC Snreve was on the wltness stand, after which George Shreve was re- called by the prosecution ana then Lee H. Weii. an attorney, went on the stand, by request Gf the prosecution, 70 show that the I.0ou proceeds of the Caffey property was to go to Ieorge Shreve.
 Berore proceeding with the trial of the Snreve case yesterday morning. Judge Thomas took occasion to con- graduate Sheriff Horace Hood on his appointment as sheriff. He was pleas ed that Mr. Hood had been elevated and ne hoped the same pieasahr relations
 between the court and his offiee that had existed under the administration of Sheriffs Waller and Belser would continue.
 Jesse shreve Tesfifies. Jesse, Shreve then mounted the wit- l ness chair. On direct examination he | said. bis home is in Montgomery and
 that he Is twenty-two years old. l The witness testified that he went with the women in the auto to Chee- haw; he was with Mir Cannon. The l women were at Electric Park when he and Cannon reached there in the auto | mobile. He left George Shreve in his ofice that night about g or 10 o'clock The women. he said. had visited the 'Shrevc offices several times. He re- membered the payment of money to | George Shreve by the women while l Rubenstein was there. The women asked George to go with l them and George told them he wouldn't | go, and then they asked me" to go. He. Jesse, went, but he did not hire the automobile or have anything to do with it.. He saw the women pay Cannon at Cheehaw.
 In Atlanta the women, he said, paid I for their tickets. He did not tell them to leave Atlanta. v The witness said he went to Terrell. Texas, to see his uncle about a coloniza- | tfon sche me, and later went to Dallas. He did not say anything to the wo- men about going further. to San Fran cisco He had never given or offered them any money. He heard the women tell his brother that they had appeared before Judge Thomas.
 On cross-examination, MT. Dent asked the witness if he just went along on the auto trip for pleasure. The women he said asked him to go and l he went. They told him to go to Mir. Cannon. He and MT. Cannon left the city bewteen 10 and II o'clock. They left Electric Park about II o'clock. They reached Cheehaw about sun-up | the next morning.
 When the witness went to Atlanta, | he said, he had no other business there. | All he did was to take the women's money and buy their tickets to Dallas. l He talked with the women.
 ShTeve knew details of the retention AA AN~ H~~w t. AANNVN | sel in matters growing out of the Caf- | fey cases. He heard his brother make | the arrangement with the women. He | saw the money pass. Tells of Property Deals. | He bought property from Caffey. In | one transfer, consideration was S3000, but money was not paid. He was to | pay $2,000 to Hill & Hill as attorneys I fees. He denied having told Lee We'll that $1.000 was to be paid to his broth CT for attorneys fees.
 Shreve admitted having bought caf- | fey's horse.
 MT. Dent recalled George shreve to | the stand and questioned him closely | on matters concerning an interview
 which the witness had with Lee Well regarding a bond for the women on
 admitted having inquired at the ofice of the clerk of the city court as to the
 status of the Caffey cases.
 Mr. Dent then called Lee H. Well tc the stand. After being sworn, he saio he had had a conyersation with Jesse Shreve who showed him the piece of Caffey property which Shreve said he had in trust. Shreve told MT. Well
 that he would sell the property for $5,6o0. After lifting the $2.60o mort | gage. S2O0O was to be paid to Hill
 and Hill and $1,O00 was to go to his
 brother, George Shreve.
 Testfmony was completed at 1O:0t o'clock and arguments began after
 short recess. MT. Sanford. represent ing the defendants, delivered what was | pronounced an able argument. Through | out he maintained that, if the defen- dants were to be convicted, 1t would
 be on the testimony of the two wo- men confessed criminals and perjurers
 He rehearsed the evidence and con-
 tended that the court could not con- | vict unless 1t were convinced beyond
 reasonable doubt. In conclusion ne l appealed, in beautiful diction, in the
 name of the youth of the young men and declared that a verdict of guilty would mean wrecking their careers. 1 Solicitor Dent, in the beginning, said | he was not there to persecute the de-
 fendants. He was there to perform
 his duty. having been directed by the court to prosecute the case. After
 tracing practically every link of the
 evidence and. concluding that with the
 circumstances in consideration, there
 could be no doubt of guilt. MT. Dent
 appealed for the upholding of the | majesty of the law and for the con-
 viction of the brothers.
 Says He Told the Truth. | The arguments of attorneys lasted
 full two hours.
 When they had ceased, George
 Shreve, standing erect, declared he | would like to be heard.
 l q desire to make a short statement" | he said, "I have told the court the | truth: how I got mixed up in this mat l ter I have told the court the exact | circumstances in which I have been placed. I told the best that I could, 1 the truth in this matter.
 'I do not think that l have commit | ted any contempt of court in what l have done. If have, I am very sorry. ! I do not think that I have. It is not ] so as I saw it. Of course, I do not | know what the court, in its wisdom,
 will say, but followed the law. what
 I thought was the law, and as I took
 it to be.
 q thought was within the bounds of law and reason, and within bounds
 as an attorney. I thought that I was 1 doing nothing but my duty to my clients. that is all that I intended to do, and anything to the contrary by the solicitor or anyone else is false" There was a hush when Shreve re-