Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-02
WOOLWlNE HITS
HARD AT KERN
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animus, asking questions regarding
Woolwine's activity in the recall elec-
tion, but failed to cause the witness
the slightest embarrassment.
Finally, with one of his gnome-like
grins, Appel asked:
did you not consult with Wesley
Clark, one of the grand jurynen, and
help him prepare the minority report
of the grand jury denouncing Harper
and Kern?"
"He employed me as his attorney"
Woolwine admitted, because he said
he had no faith in the district attor-
ney. He wanted to know if there
wasn't some way to put the district
attorney out of office and told me
a lot OF other people were thinking
the same way
On motion of the district attorney
himself, made with a forced laugh,
the latter part of the answer was or
dered stricken out Of the record.
Did you not assist Wesley Clark In
drafting the minority report?" per-
sisted Appel.
mo, 1 can't say that 1 assisted him
in drafting it. Something 1 may have
said in talking to him may have had
some effect, but he was very careful
to conform to the rules and do the
work himself"
THAT is ALL announced Attorney
Appel obviously.
THAT is ALL echoed Joseph Ford,
gloomily.
1.-THE people rest on rebuttal," said
the district attorney.
Both Sides illustrated
There was silence for a moment in
the courtroom, as Woolwine left the
stand. Appel seemed flustered and
worried; Mckinley looked serious and
displeased; , Fredericks, glum and
scowling, played with a pocket knife,
opening and closing the blades; Ford
was absent mindedly trying to eat a
bunch of keys and at the same time
making a ludicrous effort to appear
personally aggrieved at the reflections
cast upon his chief, the district at
torney
At the opening of the morning ses-
sion Broadhead was questioned by his
counsel regarding his Wifes health, ap-
parently for the purpose of showing
why she was not called as a witness
to corroborate his testimony and
stated that she was i'll.
AS Broadhead left the stand, coun-
sci announced that the defense rested.
Harper's Story contradicted
In rebuttal the prosecution called,
besides Thomas Lee Woolwine, John
A. Gray, a newspaper man, who con-
tradicted Harpers testimony; DIR.
Sumner J. Quint and employees of the
Commercial National bank, where
Quint has an account and a safety
deposit vault. The stated purpose of
the prosecution in calling the latter
witnesses was to show that Quint
could not have loaned the $1,000 to
Broadhead.
Testimony showed that there is no
record of Quint having visited his
safety deposit box in August, 1908, and
that, on August 20, the day he is said
to have made a voluntary loan of
$500 to Broadhead on a non-interest
bearing note, he himself owed the
bank $4,000 on which he was paying
per cent interest,
Quint, on the stand, could not re-
member anything and could not say
when or under what circumstances he
had obtained the money he says he
loaned the defendant
On sur-rebuttal, Isdor b. Dock
weller was called to the stand by the
defense to contradict Gray, who had
contradicted Harper He had not been
cross examined whom court adjourned.
The famous trial is drawing to it's
close Argument may begin today,
and some time next week the case will
be given to the jury