The Glenwood post., 1909-02-27
|justic White Renders Decision in Middle
Of The Hearing Which Sur.
prises Attorneys
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camp where more than twenty-five
men We're employed wond be taken
up.
Attorney Dolison then objected to
:he complaint being insufficient This
started the fireworks. Mr.. Taylor ask
ed his objections, but in glahcing over
| the complaint saw where a few changes
could be made and asked the permission
of the court to do so. One fault founl
was that the paper did not Aate what
| construction camp the stuff was sold.
| This was inserted, and the de
ready to go to trial, and asked for 4
continuance to Friday afternoon at
o clock
Witness Calvin was still ready and
willing to tcll all he knew of the af-
fair, and Justice White was getting
riled to the point of bursting and af
ter quite a lot of talking between the
two attorneys, the justice announced
that he was tired of that monkey bus
I mess He said: 81 want you attor-
ncys to bring your complaints in in
! the right form and stop this dilly dal.
| lying. The court is here to try the
ease and not to listen to the objections
Of you lawyers. He agreed to con
tinue the case, but in doing so, said;
4
You men be ready to try this ease on
Friday, and there will be no obiectng
| from either of you, either. | am tired
Of this monkey business. You law
yer, are always objecting to every
| thing. This court wants to try the
case on its merits, and not on objec-
tions raised by the attorneys. | don Y
see that the changes in this complaint
have made any difference in tho case
at all You men be ready at clock
sharp
When the case was called yesterday
| afternoon 4 new complaint had been
made and sworn to by Deputy Sheriff
Calvin. The defendant was again ar
raigned and entered n plea of not gull
ty. The first case being dismissed at
plaintiffs cost.
A warrant was issued and Calvin
SERVED it. Attorney Dollison asked
that all witnesses be sworn and excus-
ed. Calvin was called and told the
following story:
''Pcter Owens came to me last Sun
day morning and wanted three dollars.
let him have it and followed him and
saw him get gunny sack of the de
fendent, ! kept following and sought
Owens in toilet where we opened the
quart bottle of whiskcy Owens had
taken from the sack. ] got Deputy
Fry, and after arrcsting Conlcy | turn
ed him over to Fry and sent them to
Glenwood. l then searched Conley's
quarters and found a board that had
been cut out in the floor under his
bunk. In the hole underneath l found
sixteen quarts of whiskcy bearing the
Ed S. Hughes brand. When Owens
and ! opened the bottle / took a drink
to see if it was whiskey.'
Peter Owens told the same story as
Calvin adding few minor details.
He said he gave So for the quart and
that it was good truck. He said fur
ther:--"I had been on spree in
Glenwood that cost me $S5 and want
cw whiskey bad and was willing to
give any price for it. There was no
kick on the whiskey it was fine"
Emma. Mix, waiter, told of get
ting two quart bottles of Conley for
which he paid So each, when asked
what he did with the stuff he replied,
"Weil l certainly did not pour it out
on the hills
This closed the state Is case, and At
torney Dollison asked that the ease be
dismissed as the story of Calvin show
ed that an officer had been the insti-
gator in securing the breaking Of the