Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-07-23

apparently look to see il they were
observed and then enter. The court
asked her why she did not enter com
plant against the place and II she
was willing to suffer such a place as
she told it to be in her own neigh
borhood.
Husband Testifies.
j. O.. Clayton followed his wife or
the stand and told much the same
story, but added that he had seell
booze being brought there In cans. He
considered that the place had bac
character because Of the class of peo
pie frequenting it. On cross examina
ton he said he did not know what
was in the can used by those going to
the place, that it might be water OF
mOlasseS.
Would Get Mitchell.
"I told the prosecuting attorney last
night about this incident because
wanted to rub it in on you for the way
you did me on the stand the other
day." said Lem Darner this morning
when Judge Mitchell cross examined
him. Darner told of being called to
the Calhoun house one night about 1c
o'clock by a travelling man friend OF
his who thought he was going to be
held up and robbed of his money
there He said that three men were
in the office and also woman was
there, but that he went into the bed
room of the man who sent for him,
and took the mans money for safe
keeping. When asked by Mitchell why
he did not tell the police about the
matter he said he was fellow who
minded his own business and did not
want to start any trouble. Wnen
asked If he told anyone about the III
cident and why the matter was never
brought out before, he told the de-
PENDANTS attorney that he wanted to
get even with him and rub 1t IN on
him for handling him rough on the
witness stand day before yesterday.
Change the Variety.
The testimony was given change
at this point by the calling of Harry
Arrison who works in the Norfolk news
stand. at which place he states that
it is a custom to throw dice for cigars
and that the customers among them
selves and with a house man play
every day. He said that Officer
Lightner is often in while the game IS
on, but never plays it to his knoWl-
edge. and was not sure but he Thought
that officer Llewellyn had also been
in there during the throwing of dice.
Neither officer ever stopped the prac-
tice. said the witness in answer to a
question. He said that no money was
played for and that the loser would
pay for two cigars and If he won ne
got his cigar free He said on cross
examination. that he had talked to
John Gray about the matter and that
Gray was a good friend of his and OF
his father. He talked in a general
way about the matter in the news
stand and cigar store. He likewise
stated that he asked Attorney Siberell
to be released from testifying and did
it reluctantly and not from choice.
Clark Tells of Pea Pool.
Monroe Clark, II year old son OF =.
v Clark. ia East Second street,
stated that he had played pea pool Tor
money for the past two years. he
stated that he had frequented the
Davis. Kaiser's. Hutchison's and the
Olympic pool halls and played pea
nool. In Kaiser's he saw Mayor
phillips but could not say whether
the official knew the boys were play
ing. He explained the game of pea
pool and said that his father said ne
could play. He saw policemensin the
front part of Hutchison's and DAVIS
but not back where the pool taoles
were. He gave the name OF Ernest
Heller as another boy who played pea
pool.
Punched Girl.
Owing to sickness in the family OF
witness K. M. Smith of Hedrick, the
cross.examination of H. D. Judd was
interrupted yesterday afternoon and
he was set aside until Mr.. Smith gave
his testimony. The witness said that
he thought the mayor drunk when ne
saw him in the Bee Hive hotel some
time during January of this year. the
exact date he did not remember.
.There we're three or four men and
some ladies in the front room of the
hotel,' said he, "and the mayor was
among those present. He sat down
alongside one of the girls, plnched her
and ioked with her." On cross-examln'
alton the witness said that the girls
were apparently from % to II years
old and that he did not know anyone
there except the mayor and he only
knew him by sight. Smith said nc
asked who the man was and was told
that it was Mr.. Phillips and heard
them call him mayor" Smith stayed
the night there. He said the girls left
there and he did not see them after
1870 o'clock. The occurrence of the
pinching, he said, took place about $
o'clock in the evening. He said that
Lem Darner was the only one he had
talked to about 1t and that he was
subpoenaed last night.
Judd Resumes Stand.
The grilling of witness Judd was
begun again by Judge Mitchell when
he asked if the witness had not been
in Burlington or Mt. Pleasant since
the first of the year. Also if he did not
see Ben Holly or write to him after
the latter left town upon the returning
of the gambling indictments early III
the year. The witness said he had no!
and that he did not tell Holly that he
(Judd) would try to get him out of the
trouble if Holly would pay him SIS
The attorney took up the pool and bill
lard testimony Of Judd and quizzed