The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1908-06-02
Let's Free Newbsrry,
Hibbler and Favor
And Be Consistent
They Are All Held fer Trial on
ANNIE SMITHS WORD. While
Police Commissioner Smith
IS SET FREE.

shoulder the commissioner placed
his hand and This my friend would do more for him
than anyone else"
She said he would protect her
long he n Office.
Further testimony of the that in discussing
the police commissioner remarked
"I let go just enough tell all he knows
Police Commissioner Smiths defense that he out OF
the city when Annie Smith said he was at her place
He denied that he there with Frank Hbbler
He denied all the womans charges
PROSECUTING ATTORNEY YERKES DECLARED IN
COURT THAT HE BELIEVED THE WOMANS TESTI-
MoNY
HE HAD TO BELIEVE HER TESTIMONY, ELSE WHY
COULD ASK THAT HIBBLER AND POLICE CAPTAIN
NEWBERRY BE HELD FOR TRIAL?
But prosecutor recommended that Police Commissioner
Smith be free
inconsistency prosecutor parallel only the
action of Police Justice Stein the recommendation OF
the prosecutor.
days upon all the while
subjected searching grueng the
hands of skilled attorneys minds the bar
The wits of these shapened the needles point in
their break and she stepped
from the witness stand with that unchanged oa insofar
her direct allegations circumstances concerned
She did, it true. try shield her family and her
daughter but only easily caught in the
In this particular she demonstrated that she could lie
ressfully.
While she confused for the when trapped
this point the lawyers quickly the main story
but wall before and wstood the attack
that ordeal probably that she impressed most in
consistent prosecutor who replied to question:
II do believe her."
Annie Smiths story will be told In the higher
where Hbber Newery for trial. discredd by the
cutting attorney of Wayne county who believes it.
Mr. Yerkes prosecutor put powerful in the
hands attorneys of the accused and who
avagey of the lower
Those will the jury that the prosecuting Off
county asking for the conviction of these
the testimony which introduced against Police Commits
sioner Smith WHO WAS NOT HELD FOR TRIAL.
appearing in the higher in defense of Hb
police court, which
THE PROSECUTION ASKS YOU TO BELIEVE
X THAT ANNIE SMITH TELLS THE TRUTH IN ONE
BREATH WHEN SHE SAYS SHE PAID H1BBLER $500
NOVEMBER 49, AND THEY THEN SAY THEY DON'T
BELIEVE THE STATEMENT SHE MAKES IN THE
NEXT BREATH THAT COMMISSIONERS SMITH AS
sURED HER THAT SHE WOULD BE PROTECTED AS
RI LONG AS HE is IN OFFICE.
Which summarizes follows:
Detective accused
ing and in return for police protection HELD FOR TRIAL
Police Captain Nsbery accused ON THE WORD OF ANNIE SMITH
Hbber Police Smith, HELD FOR TRIAL
ON THE WORD OF ANNIE SMITH, with
Police Captain Nebery and Police Commissioner Smith, HELD FOR TRIAL
ON THE WORD OF ANNIE SMITH,
and Captain Ne~berry
Is Police Justice Stein satisfied with the recapuaton
n Is Prosecuting Attorney Yerkes satisfied?
is THE PUBLIC SATISFIED?
Commissioner Smith and his friends claimed that his indictment
politics. because Justice Jefs Democrat and Smith
Is Republican.
Prosecuting Attorney Yerkes is a Republican.
Justice Stein is a Republican
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