The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-10-12
OWN PASTOR CHIEF
 WITNESS AGAINST
 C. 0. P. WARHORSE
George A. Barnes, on Trial in Sherman Political Perjury
 Case
Republican Member of Con- necticut Legislature a Victim of the Civic Purity Crusade of Minister at His Own Church

sherman, Oct. 12-The trial of Geo.
 A. Barnes, Republican member Of the Connecticut Legislature from Fairfield
 County and one of the party leaders, charged with being accessory to an
 act of perjury, committed by a minor when casting vote, got under way yesterday in Sherman village
 Barnes drove down to the little town hall early in the morning behind pair of spirited bays, accompanied
 by his brother. Senator Barnes of New Milford Leonard Nickerson. his attorney and favorite bull pup.
 There he found the most of his us ual voting majority already gath cred. and the Justice, who is the Rev E. H. Byrons. getting ready to open court with prayer.
 The Justice inaugurated another change which did not please the ma jority, when he decreed thaN for once there would be smoking allowed The State was represented by Norman C. Beers, while many other officials and politicians from over the State were present. watching the case with keen interest.
 PASTOR ON THE STAND.
 The principal witness for the prose cution was the Rev. Ben Wyland, for mer pastor of the CongregatlonaI worships, who inaugurated the fight to purify sherman township politics nearly a year ago.
 Wyland testified that William Het- erfck the minor named in the com pIaint. told him he had been approach cd by Barnes or the subject Of east ing a vote. Heterick. the witness swore. told Barnes that he was not old enough whereupon Barnes replied that he could register anyway, and paid him sum of money for so do ing Wyland further testified that to his certain knowledge a sum of mon ey. sent from outside the county, was expended among the 126 voters of the township for the purpose of the Assembly last election; which was not men, tioned in Barnes'S statements of cam paign expenses.
 The Rev MT. Wylands first intima- tion to AsSemblyTnan Barnes that his brand of politics did not suit came last summer, in a sermon preached at the in his pew. in which Wyland read complaint to the audience which he said he could not get any local justice to serve and which named Barnes in the same connection as that which finally caused his arrest a month ago.
 QUOTED THE PASSION PLAY
 At this point Attorney Nfckerson in a sustained oratorical effort des- cribed a scene from the Oberammer- gau Passion play in which the Jews, after temporary check from Pllate' the crucffixion. The chief Jew he li6ened unto Rev. MT. Wyland, de claring that by this sermon he had aroused the populace against his
 The attorney then asked Wyland whether he had conversation with Heterick in which he planned the tes- timony to be given by the boy in court Wyland declined to answer 1 inc question on the ground that it | contained the inference that he had | with a States witness. He | a admitted that he had seen Heterick, 1 but denied that he had coerced his | testimony The Court upheld the wit | ness and Attorney Nickerson, turn | ing to Wyland said: If you are a | man you will answer that l question as it was putt It was at | this point that the Court interfered | with this form of cross-examination. |
 Merrill S. Louks. the former mem | Der of the State police force. who ar rested Barnes. was the next witness. | He related conversation he had witr. | Barnes at the time he served the 1 In effect this was that l Barnes told of an agreement he had | with Rev Wyland after the sermon, | m which Wylard agreed to press mat | -ers no further if Barnes was willing 1 to stop his course of procedure in the | township politics. The State attempt | d to get no more explicit understand | ng of the nature of this agreement, | out Attorney Nickerson in cross-ex- 1 amin atiOn asked:
 What was that agreement between he two men?"
 THE ALLEGED AGREEMENT
 According to Barnes" said the witness, "the agreement was that the | minister would let up on him if he would agree to stop the buying of