The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-27
REOPEN PlGG CASE.
Af1fdavits Filed to Prove Testimony of
Star Witness False.

AS means of strengthening their
motion for new trial for Robert Pigg,
who. was convicted for violating the
prohibitory law in the conduct of the
Canadian club, F. j. Lynch and Cap
tain McNary, his attorneys; have filed
afhdavits attacking the testimony of
Leona Larson, the fifteen-year-old girl,
who testified at the trial that she had
been served with drinks in the place
by Pigg in person.
This young girl was brought from
the reformatory at Beloit for the pur-
pose of testifying at the trial and
among other things she swore that on
some occasions she had visited the club
in company with a girl named Kittie
Edie and had drank cocktails and beer
there with her which was served them
by Pigg.
1t is the claim of Pigg's attorneys
that this girl perjured herself on the
witness stand and they present afh-
davits to this effect. One of these is
from Kittie Edie.
The motion for the new trial for
Pigg was to have been heard in the
district court by Judge Dana this
morning. Pigg's attorneys were on
hand and so was ]. J. Schenck, the
county attorney, but he was not just
ready to go on with the proceedings
incident to the motion for new trial
He said that the affidavits which had
been injected into the case were of
vital Importance and he wanted time
to-, get evidence to show that they did
not state facts. He said that he could
prove that the Edie girl had perjured
herself in her affidavit and he asked
for time in which he could produce
this girl in court for the purpose of
proving that she had perjured herself
Judge Dana listened to the county
attorneys request and adjourned the
hearing of the motion until saturday
of next week.
The affidavit made by Kittie Edie is
brief and reads as follows: Il am ac-
a. i
in my life was in the Canadian club
with her when liquor was purchased
by either of us. | never purchased
from Robert Pigg any Intoxicating
LIQUOR 1 never purchased either beer
or cocktails from him. 1 have been
there with other girls but at no time
did 1 ever Sc him sell or carry to any
one any beer or other liquor OF any
kind The statement of Leona Larson
that she saw me purchase anything to
drink for myself or any other person
from Robert Pigg is wholly false. l
do not use Intoxicating liquors. L do
not know now what a cocktail IS ana
never drank one in my life. The first
knowledge 1 had of Leona Larson
testimony. was from newspapers AFTER
the trial
Nav Svmmes. who declares that she is
a sister of Leona Larson. Mrs. Symmes
deposes that the young girl on the day
after her testimony in the court visit
ed her at her home with an attendant
from the Be1oit school and that in the
presence of Bert Bales and Anna Day,
the Larson girl had. made the state
ment that she did not know ROBERT
Pigg from Nick Lonergan and that at
the trial she did not know Robert Pigg
from Aaron Pigg.
Anna Day who is named in the pre-
ceding affidavit, makes one herself in
which she states that on this occasion
the Larson girl said that she did not
know the name of any man who had
sold her or served her with 1ntoxlcat-
ing liquors while she was in the cana
dian club.