Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-07-28

| tOrneys whom the court excused tne
witness from naming, in interfering
with the prosecution by taking the
cases to other courts on change, OF
venue, etc. He stated that during
1907 he issued orders to the chief
and the police force to enforce The
statutes and ordinances.
| Did Not Know.
| He stated that he persuaded the
council not to grant any more reso-
lutions of consent to saloons in the
Smoky Row district and that he did
not know as to any illegality according
| to the Moon law in regard to the Sam
Hayes and Silvers transfer and that
knowing of such he would have re-
fused to approve. He said he would
not say that gambling and disorderl"
abuses did not obtain under Mayor
Suits administration as he did not
know to his satisfaction that they did
not nor that they did. AS to knowing
that Griffin ran a gambling house in
1907 he could not say on oath orr was
told he did. Asked If he did not know
the duties of his office and that certain
of these duties are to know what was
going on, he stated that the reports Of
the different officers of the city
kept him informed and that he was
conscious that there were many things
he did which he should not have done
and vice versa and that this term he
had made wish to give better ad-
ministration. When questioned about
fines and the system by which they
we're handled as pertaining to gamb-
l.'g. bawdy houses, ect, he said that
tie police court journal on which the
at rney was basing his questions,
was not definite as to just who and for
what the fines were from not how they
were divided so as to give him any
idea how much this one paid or that
one paid .'You know that prostitutes
and houses of prostitution uere plying
their trade at that time" abiding to
1907 to 1909" asked Senator Cosson.
Eyes, George" replied the witness,
I'll have to admit to some Of those
things. admit to all of this"
John Had Stomach Ache.
Were you in the Kaiser place when
Kaiser said he had the stomach ache
and left you playing at the pool table
while he went to the rear of the hall,
and said by witness that he went to
the rear entrance of the gambling
rooms up stairs?"
II remember his complaining Of the
stomach ache when playing a game of
pool with him but did not suspect him
and after he was go long time
made remark about where he had
gone, but then he came back ap.
parently feeling better removing all
ct - l{ctr -.
admit that he had the bulge on me
that time and I don't think he told
me the tr'-th.'
The witness told Of seeing Judd in
the Kaiser place several times, but
never having seen him shake dice for
cigars while there. He then referred
to the Elmer Miller treat in the Elk.
change saloon and the drink taken at
the Beatty saloon when flushing the
streets after the work was done one
day. He said he did not drink whisky
with c. C. Wertz and that he never
heard John Gray make remark
about getting him. The Bee Hive
hotel matter was slightly touched by
the cross examination. He said the
trouble with Gray began when" Gray,
ricKler, Arrison and few others
bolted the party because he beat
fickler when the latter wanted third
term"
The story of doping was alluded to
and also g story given the Register
and Leader at Des Moines as to his
being doped, but the witness said he
talked to no one about it when in
Des Moines and that ]. w. Lewis and
c. NJ --yers talked to the press. He
said that his wife told him the evening
of April 80 that she knew those men
would get him in trouble.