The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-03-18
PAGES TRIAL
HELD TODAY
Quite an Array of Attor-
neys Before the Mayor
HEARING QUITE TEDIOUS
End May not be Reached
Until Late.
Police Chief Klinefclter has n Very
Busy day-Tempcrance Directors
Appear at the Page Hearing.

Ine 1rst OF series or Rose law |
trials, resulting from the work of pri- |
vate detectives in the city. began in |
Mayor Settlers court at O'Clock thi, |
morning. Fred page. the North Main |
street restaurant Keeper, is defend.
ant in the initial action.
The affidavit against Page was
| filed by Edward Rish, a private de-.
tective, who has gained considerable
fame as n "dry" officer. Rish came
here from Mt. Vernon, Ohio. JacL
Powers, also of Mt Vernon, worked
with him here in procuring the neces.
sary evidence.
| The state only placed two witnesses
on the stand Friday morning. Rsi
and Powers were examined. They
testified of having purchased whiskeS
at Pages place and told q very con-
vincing story. Both admitted under
CT oss examination that they had beer
employed by the city as special de-
tectives to run down the bootlegging
cases Rsh did not deny that he
could have been Induced to drop tho
cases against the local restaurant
men had they produced enough
money. This was practically the only
weak spot in the testimony of the
states witnesses.
A fine array of attorneys lined up
for the prosecution Friday morning,
much to the surprise OF the court WIS.,
itors. Attorney Harry n Quigley
acted as chief counsellor. Attorney
John II. Clark conducted The direct
examinations, assisted by Attorneys
| nd
mer Y. Boyd. Attorneys Mouser and
Moloney represented the defendant
The state rested its case shortly be
fore IL o'clock Friday morning. Tho
defense nas u number of witnesses tc
examine and the trial will consume
the greater part of the day. Three
trials were jocketed for Friday an,
it will be necessary Ia postpone tn
others.
The trial concluded shortly after
noon Friday The attorneys were
not profuse in their arguments, ow-
ing to the fact that the trial of Will
|; liam =. Fetter was set down for the
first thing after dinner. Mayor Seit-
er reserved his decision until . o'clock
Saturday morning
Chief of Police j. w. Elinefelter
vent to- Upper SanGrsky Thursday
afternoon, to serve n warrant upon
J Fred Barth, who was charged with
! jumping u board bill aggregating $27.
, The bill was held by Mrs. Myrtle
Newsome, who conducts "a boarding
. house in West Marion
Barth was working in q good posi-
tion at the Indian village. He seemed
T to have many friends and all were
lCath to see him arrested and re.
: turned to Marion a prisoner The
sheriff of Wyandot county raised the
amount of the board bill and Barth
was allowed to 80 free.
After returning from Upper San
dusky, Chief Klinefelter scurrlet
down to Prospect, where he served
: subpoena upon Mayor r. c. Selanders
= of that village. He was summoned
: to appear before the local mayors
5 court Friday morning to testify II
3 fhe Fred Page case. 1t was busy
day for the police chief. Scarcely
I had he landed back in town when he
} received the "tip" concerning the Ack
a erman hotel affair and he immediate.
~ began to plan for the big raid.
5 William Arndt, residing on East
4 Mark street reported to police Friday
r morning, that Il valuable wheel was
stolen from the alley near the barns
Q q the Central Delivery company. The
p,achine was stolen early Friday
morning. The police have a goo,
). clue to the thief and arrests will fol.
y low.
G DIR. +. NJ. Baldwin, the West Center
n street physician who mas been charg-
ed in mayors court, with violating
r the state automobile license law, de-
4 c,ares that he has been treated very
t unfairly by Mayor j. G. Setter.
$ The physician claims thai there Is
c no foundation for the charges which
: Mayor Setter recently filed against
T him. "My car was not used between
B. the dates of October 18th and Marcel
3 10th. / decided to have some vul
2 canizing done and ran 1t to the gar
9 age on March Sth on March Sth, ]
;, made application for a 1910 state au-
q tomobile license number. The car
J lay in the garage until the repal'
work was done, and II was not out on
D the street with the exception of the
day when l took 1t to the repair