The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-10-15

\ women said they had plenty of money to leave on. One of the men was heavy set with a dark mustache, and the other was tall. slender and clean shavenA The women told her, fl they
 were going to be hung, they would never tell their names. A man, she said, called her up few days after the women left and said he had pass for them. She did not
 know who he was.
 Sa cross examination the witness
 said the first time she saw Jesse Shreve
 was last week in court. She never saw George Shreve before today. She had seen Mir. Barden before but never knew who he was until yesterday. He had been to her house several times,
 Barden took Mrs. Johnson's trunk from her house before the women were
 brought back.
 w. B. Davidson foreman of the grand jury which indicted Frank Calf | fey. testified that Mrs. Brown was ex- amined in that investigation. She ap- | peared twice before the grand
 jury. The two appearances were on
 'ns MT. raaa Sanford ass, asked Mir. Davidson if the woman. on her first appearance. | testified to the grand jury that she
 knew nothing about Caffey.
 Mir. Dent objected and Judge Thomas | instantly sustained the objection. MT. Sanford made a lengthy appeal l to the court to go into the grand Jury | testimony, on the ground that the wo- men fled. not because they were wit nesses but because they feared prose- | cution for a feiony.
 Told Different Stories. Judge Thomas again sustained MT. | Dents objection. He, however, al- | os,1 I.at.x, fsarA aa s1 Tn swer the question whether Mrs. Brown swore differently the two times she ap- peared before the grand jury. Mir. Dent entered strenous objection | but was overruled.
 Tn answering, Mir. Davidson said 1t was fact that Mrs. Brown swore diff l ferently.
 W B. Rubenstein of Opp, took the stand for the defense. He testified to being present at Shreve's office when | the women called there. He saw one
 of the women hand Shreve some green
 backs out of a black purse. After that shreve tapped him on his shoulder and said that he was in good | luck; he had just made S2o0. On cross examination. the witness ] said he had been acquainted with the Shreyes about five years. George Shreye put him into bankruptcy. He didn't know which one of the women passed the money.
 Not Employed by Caifey. George Shreve. one of the defendants. | testified that he was not, Is not. or has not been employed by Caffey. He was retained by the women. At no time did he send for them to come to his office.
 ..The first time believe Matte Brown came" Shreve said the next
 day believe both came"
 Matte Brown. he said, had come to see him about two or three days after CafEey's arrest. She was in fear and said she had been advised to get an | attorney Mrs, Brown told him the
 details of the criminal operation and
 of her misstatements before the grand jury,
 The women came to his office the
 next day. he said. and paid him s109 as a retainer fee. They told him all their friends were telling them to
 leave. Some of ttleir close friends were especially anxious for them to go.
 shreye denied in toto the details, as told by the women. of his connection with their flight. He gave them no
 money either directly or indirectly, he declared,
 The women were at his office four or five times. The day before they left, they had told him of their ap' pearance before Judge Thomas. He auNtssu tt1fH es " "S
 He received a letter from the women from Atlanta four or five days after they left Montgomery. He never sent the telegram signed "J c" He knew hathing about 1t. He received tele- gram from Crawford and Crawford, attorneys Of Dallas.
 T vent out there to assist Crawford and Crawford in defending and resist ing requisiton," he said. He insisted that he never proposed to the women in Dallas that they should go further.
 Women Left Money Witb EIim.
 Shreve said that day or two before the women went they left s700 with him and he gave them a receipt for 1t. He used some of that money on his DaIias trip.
 In conclusion, he declared he never advised these women, paid them any moaey, or assisted in getting tho women out of the Jurisdiction of the court.
 On cross xanlination, he said each of the women paid him &l0o.
 What was that for?' asked Mir. Dent.
 gro represent them In anything that came up," said Mr. Shreye.
 He was to defend Miss Brown if she were charged with aiding and abettiRg in the operation. said he, and he told Mrs. Johnson her prosecution was dis cretionary with the court,
 Shreve said he was in his office the night the women fled. He had under stood that his brother, Jesse Shreve, went with MT. Cannon and the women to Gheehaw in the auto. They tried to get him, George Shreye to but he wouldn't. The night they left he did not go to Electric Park.
 Solicitor Dent subjected Shreve to a rigid fire in reference to the s9o0 paid him by the women, what it was used for. how 1t was used, and how the women drew from the fund. also the details of the proposed bond for the women at Dallas, and further as to what the witness knew about the flight of the women.
 On redirect examination. Mir. Shreye said he had been pFacticing law about eighteen or twenty months and Is 26 years old.
 At s:Ss p. m., Judge Thomas adjourn ed court, until o'clock this morning. Jesse Shreve Is the only witness to be heard and it is probable the case will be submitted without argument.