Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-02-10
All Evidence Has Been Sub mitted in the Ghlbraith- Murray Damage Suit Fridays Session.
M U BRAY ON STAND.
Says He Has No III Feeling Toward Captain Galbraith and Had No De. sire to Iniure Him-Other Import. ant Witnesses Give Testimony.

All evidence has been submitted in the Galbraith-Murray damage suit. The case will go to the jury about Monday noon, after arguments are made by the attorneys for both sides. The interested counsel were to have submitted their final arguments yes- terday, but when the session opened Judge Grace announced that he would not hear the legal points argued until tomorrow. A verdict will probably be reached by Monday night.
 The case has attracted no little at- tentiOn during the past week. The attorneys, Major N. T. White, w. F. Coleman, E. J. Kerwin and Ben J. Altheimer, have exhausted every ef- fort to present convincing evidence to the jury for their respective sides, and many little points at law were argued during the proceedings. Major White and Ben J. Altheimer repre- sent plaintiff in the case and the de- fense is being looked after by Attor- neys Coleman and Kerwin. The ar guments Monday will be lengthy and interesting from legal standpoint.
 Fridays session opened with the defendant on the stand. He stated that before publication of the articles complained of, he was called arouM to the Citizens bank by Mir. Langford or by Mir. Bloom, and shown all the records of the meeting and the re- ports of the committee. This was &oout June 6, and before the publi- cation of his articles in the paper of June 12, which is not sued on as l- belous in this action; that he did not wish to publish the articles until the citizens had chance to see the re- ports and comment on same, and went to the citizens meeting on June l6 for the purpose of ascertaining what was done there. At the meeting MT. Voss and MT. York were present and when they were askd to produce the vouchers showing the balance of the expenditures claimed for gravel, they stated that Captain Galbraith had charge of the matter, and they could not explain it, but to wait until he returned from Jacksonville, Ill.,, where he then was, and then Captain Galbraith would explain It. On motion of Mr. Austin, the meeting was adjourned until June 1, to give captain Galbraith the opportunity to explain the matter. He further stat ca that there were rumors around 5lne Bluff of which he heard that
 commissioners were short $7,OOO m their accounts, and acting on these rumors, as we'll as statements made to him, and in good faith, with out the desire to injure Captain Gall oralth or the commissioners, he pub- nsned the articles in controversy He said he had no i'll will against Cap- tain Galbraith.
 but the most interesting part of MT. Murray's testimony was devel- oped under the rigorous cross exami- natlon to which he was subjected to oS Major N. T. White. During the eourse of that examination he admit .eu having seen the report of E. c. howell and PsFP. Byrd, two of the ..'onlmlttee, in which they stated that .ne books of the commissioners had uoen we'll kept. and also that Mir. -ofA and MT. Voss had stated that when Captain Galbraith returned from innols' the matter would be explain. sa satisfactorily. He had also seen
 e artlcles in the paper published by .ho, . atwood and MT. Howell. in which .ney stated that his article of June
 z of which no complaint had been ma In this suit, was false and mis- 1ea0'ns' and that there was no short sse' and with that article before him ne wrote the editorial charging the committee with having misappropri- aeeo the funds of the district to tho tune Of $7.0oo.
 After the publication of June 1s.