The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-28
DELANEY TRIAL IS POLITICAL CONTEST
Lull Before Storm Hangs Over
 Yazoo City
BILBo IS STAR WITNESS
tensfvely in Election Primaries, Goes on stand Todny-Says
 Fun Hns Just Begun

dZOO OltJt 4fiiSS.s 4SofShiDti Gls-AOpc-
 cjal. .)-The lull before the real storm
 hangs low over Yazoo City today, the great crowds here during the past week
 having thinned out Saturday night ani
 Sunday appearing, unusually dull and quiet. However, the scores of witnesses, lawyers, reporters and others from dis
 tance will return on the early morning trains, and 1t is expected that the at
 tendance will be largely augm snted, the
 Dulaney trial ,ust beginning to grow in- teresting.
 The average citizen of Yazoo City Is taking no particular interest in the trial, and pursues the even tenor of his way regardless of the excitement about the
 court room. Very little discussion of the case Is heard around the business
 houses or on the streets between the na- tives, but in and around the hotels all is hustle and every person, men and wom- en, especially those who are counted
 among the visitors, talk of little else. | Of course, there are some few of the
 more prominent men in the community
 who are taking an active inter es. in the
 trial, championing either the cause of
 Dulaney or Bilbo, Percy or vasdaman-- which is all the same in this case A Vardaman man who does nos swear by Bilbo and believe every word he says, is real curiosity; on the other hand
 the Percyite who is not with Dulaney l ill this fight Is a rara avis--and thus
 the trial of Dulaney becomes a political
 
 | Progress of the trial has been slow. At | the end of the first week only one wit | ness has been examined and he may be recalled. That was State Senator Bilbo. Another witness for the state, Mrs. Neal, was placed on the stand before noon yes | terday, but while court did not adjourn | till nearly o'clock, was not on the stand 30 minutes all told. She was asked to tell of her meetings with MT. Duaney, who l introduced her, to which the defense ob- | jected, for the reason that MT. Dulaney was not present when Mrs. Neal was holding her conversations with other par
 ties. and that whatever they may have | said and done was irrelevant to the case at hand and not admissible as testimony | DelOfe lue Jury. lne JuryUWdS out dt | the time, and the arguments of the at- torneys, all of them taking part and
 reading and quoting from many authori-
 ties to show that conspirators' acts and conversations could, or could not, be ad- | mitted as testimony. As heretofore stat ed, Judge Henry took the matter under | advisement at the close of court Sat
 urday night, promising to decide 1t Mon
 day morning. The court had given very patient hearing to the long and tiresome
 discussion-he had seen white painted black and black white, so that he no
 doubt did need time to find out where | he was lat"
 BibIo Good Witness
 | There is no denial of the fact that Bill | bo has made good as the ''star witness" !" | He has been hauled about over the coals | from Jackson to New Orleans, Hatties- 1 burg, Poplarville and around to Clos ter but the testimony that he gave be- fore the grand jury and the senatorial | investigation has been changed in but few particulars. As to the money he had turned over to the grand jury he
 stated last spring 1t was the same money, the same bills, that Dulaney had paid him, $500 of which he had placed in the keeping of his wife, and that these same bills had been handed to the grand jury That statement is now modified to some eXteUl, lne WllHeSS LeStlIy1IlR Indt he supposed them the same bills, though his wife might have used some of those he gave her to keep and just handed him back $500.
 Naturally, the effort of the defense is to prove Bilbo unworthy of belief to show that he has been mixed up in some shady transactions, and witnesses are un- derstood to be present to establish these claims, especially as to the charge that t fn ch Stana hill through both houses if the citizens of Gloster would come across with the sum of s30o0 The witness denied positively that he made any such statement to w. H. Ratliff of Gloster, or others, de- ncuncing the charge as a lie. If proven to be true Bilbos story of Dulaney s attempt to bribe him will never be taken seriously by the majority of the jury. Mrs. c. J. Lawrence, formerly Mrs Neal, the woman who figured so very ex- tensively in the preliminaries to the sen atorial election last winter in and around | the Lemon hotel, and several times on the witness stand before the grand jury and the investigation committees, will resume the witness box Monday morn ing In the event Judge Henry decides that she may tell such stories as would be necessary for the state in the estab- fishing of it's theory of conspiracy to bribe, and making the testimony of Mrs. Neal and other co-conspira admis- sible, this witness will prove another star. She Is a sharp, shrewd woman of per haps 45 years of age, and her expert ences in life have been many and va- ried. so that the attorneys will find in
 her another foeman worthy their steel. Mrs. Lawrence stated that she was go-
 ing to tell the same story she had told
 to the grand jury and on the senatorial
 investigation. She did not think she had
 ever been shaken from her first story
 of the bribery matter and was confident
 that she could not be. T am just going to tell the plain, unvarnished truth, :"
 said Mrs. Lawrence, and that Is all the
 court Is after. ivf a. Asked as to the whereabouts of Mrs.
 Hall, the wife of the proprietor of the Lemon, at the time the plots to bribe are
 alleged to have been in process of incu- bati6n; Mrs. Lawrence said she had lost track of her. Two months ago the Halls were in Fulton, ky, went from there to Chicago, and later she understood they went to Denver. The subpoenas sought to be served on the Hall woman were
 returned to the court marked not found. The understanding is that Mrs. Hall has changed her story of the alleged bribery of Mississippi solons since she was be- fore the grand jury and other inous- torial bodies last winter and spring, and that for that reason is keeping away from the state
 'The fun has just begun declared Mrs. Lawrence, and it looks that way.
 
 Scovel Seriously III
 Wooster, O., November 27.-The Rev. Sylvester F. Scovel D. D., former pres