The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-11-19
STATE RESTS
IN HADAR CASE
M. M. FARLEY OF NORFOLK FIN
ALLY REACHES PIERCE.
HIS TESTIMONY is DAMAGING
Farley Testifies That Morrison, Joyce
and Riley Stayed In One Room at
Farley Lodging House Three Nights
Before Bank Was Robbed.

suspended more than half a day to
wait his appearance on the witness
stand M. NJ. Farley of Norfolk, who
had been scheduled to testify in the
Hadar bank robbery case at 1920
| o'clock yesterday morning but who
was not in town at that hour and
whose wife at Norfolk said over the
telephone that he had not been home,
| was brought into court late yesterday
| afternoon by Sheriff Wiley, who had
| gone to Norfolk to arrest Farley on
bench warrant issued by Judge
WEIGH. Farley was limping badly
from an apparent pain in the left hip
and he brought with him a certificate
from DR.. j. H. Mackay of Norfolk
stating that he had been injured by a
fall the night before. Farley said
that he missed the morning train to
Pierce, being unable to get a hack
when he wanted to start. Just why
his wife said over the phone that he
had not been home, was not salts
factorily explained.
Gives Damaging Testimony.
Farley was placed on the stand i'm
mediately and gave important testi-
many against the defendant, Morrison
He testified that Morrison, Joyce and
Riley identifying their photographs
taken by Sioux City police) had occu-
pied room at the Farley rooming
house on Norfolk avenue formerly
the Norfolk house, on Friday night,
Saturday night and Sunday night pre-
ceding the Hadar bank robbery which
was discovered Monday morning.
Farley said that all three men &C.
cupied one room each night; that they
had but one suitcase among them;
and that Morrison paid the bills for
the entire three on each occasion.
Farley saw the trio last late Sunday
evening, about 9 o'clock, and the next
morning they had left Also, next
morning the Hadar bank had been
| robbed.
President Inhelder of the bank tes-
titled that Hadar was about five miles
from Norfolk.
Then the state rested.
The State Rests Its Case.
Following the finishing of the states
evidence, the defense asked suspen-
sion of the testimony until the state
should make known upon which points
| it intended to base it's argument.
Judge Welch ruled that if Morrison
were found guilty of using gunpowder
and dynamite, he could not be found
guilty of using nitro-glycerine. The
state thereupon withdrew charges No.
2 and 3, Of using gunpowder and dyna-
mite, and retained charges 1 and 4,
charging the use of nitro-glycerine.
Sioux City Woman for Defense.
At 500 the defense began its case.
Mrs. Seldman Of Sioux City, who owns
row of houses that she rents at Fifth
and Court streets, testified that she
saw Morrison Sunday evening, Janu-
airy II, among seven or eight men,
rushing the can" in Sioux City. She
tried to stop them. They were rush
ing the can because they couldn't get
booze down town. She testified that
next morning (the morning of the rob-
berry, she saw all three men-Morri-
son, Joyce and Riley-in her yard.
Morrison came to the door, she said.
Judge Van Wagenen, of the prosecu-
ton, attempted several times to get
an answer to the question as to wheth-
er 1t were not true that Mrs. Seldman
rented her houses to bawdy women,
but the court overruled the question
in nSfa Mrc Sn1I Cd
mitted, however, that she rented
houses to women whose real names
she did not know, knowing only the
names they go by.
E&Convict On the Stand.
BILLY" Welsh, an ex-convict from
Sioux City, was on the stand this
morning in behalf of the defense.
Welsh was part owner of the Star sa-
loon in Sioux City last January.
Judge Van Wagenen failed to get
an admission that Welsh was an ex-
member of a gang of bank robbers,
but did get an admission that he serv-
ed eleven months in the penitentiary
ing a saloon that he had sold to
man named East, at 315 West Four
teenth street.
Welsh said he saw Morrison at Mrs.
Weldman's row." Sunday, January
II, drinking beer; that he saw Morri-
son, Joyce and Riley next day in his
saloon at 3 o'lcock and again in the
evening at 8. He also saw Detective
Richards there, he said. The trio were
not there Saturday.
Bartender Gives Testimony.
Hugh Johnson, a bartender at the
White Front saloon, Sioux City, was
part owner of the Star saloon last
January. Testified he saw Morrison
Sunday, January. Mrs. Weldman call
ed him. complaining of disturbance.
Morrison and others were rushing
the can" He said he saw the trio
Monday night at the Star.
Tuesday morning he saw Morrison
drunk. He paid Morrison's fine, about
81.
Isn't 1t true that you got part of
the money taken from the Hadar