The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-10-22

ilIG isM TlS- Dl0EA
tive about him. He Is an omnIverous
consumer of newspapers. that's evil
dent. II IL quite likely that he, has
an excellent knowledge OF current az
| fairs. But he Is proud OF his reading
| room crudition. and his manner in4i-
| Gated that he WAS going to have II
clearly understood that. just because
he was Il ''tloatcr' and n child of fate,
he WAS no Ounce.
FARRELL TELLS STORY
| WITHOUT MUCH DELAY
| IL did not take him long to tell the
jury his story--now he reached Free
!, port. why no did not know the time of
(! The shooting because he had no watch,
and what he did afterwards lie
/. brought out the fact that IL would be
/ hardly likely that either Archie Post or
/ George Colder could have seen him
when they ran out of the house and
| looked toward aferrick Road. lie said
| that he He'd toward the corner of the
adjoining property and hid himself
He declared that he did 1T rapidly
because he was stranger and might
be involved I'm the trouble which he
knew existed inside the house.
| Mr.. Graham opened upon him with
( u hcrcenes3 which left no doubt OF his
+. Intentions. He sought to Iliscrcdit the
/, man. not the story. Graham made
Farrell admit he was n s,rikebrcaker.
| a buster so-calIed. He forced the
witness to confess he had served ten
months in prison in Chicago for lar
ccny He drew from Farrell the fact
that he took tho place Of striking
tworkngmen ut twelve or fourteen DIFF
fercnt times and then. roaring furious
| ~ at the pugnociouS little gray man on
\ the stand. accused him of going TO
] Sheriff Petit and District Attorney
j, smith with the demand that nc be
held as material witness aud de-
inanding money for doing so.
| Farrell denied this with a fury,
which caused Justice kelby to call u
truce. He admitted that. he Travelled
under aliases--Clark and Williams
and other names.
Several times lie made Farrell con-
tradict himself about incidents. and
leach time Farrell would shout back
that 'he didn't mean what he had
| said" and that Graham "misunder.
stood"
Through all this District Attorney
Smith sat impressive and smiling. lie
let Farrell fight his own battle. and
once only raised an objection to Grn-
/ hams methods of procedure.
HALTs AND sTUMBLEs
| WHEN QUESTIONED
Farreii's bravado was rapidly fail
ing when Justice Kelby declared an
adjournment. Graham's reputation rs
Il wonderful 5cross-examiner was being
! fully verified. He made Farrell halt
and stumble when questioning him
about the various Jobs he had work.
led during the past five years, and then
called upon two men--John AIosely
and II John Crerty-for Farrell to
4 identify.
Did Farrell know them? You bet
he did They came to him In the Nine
ola Jail the day he told the district
hot Hlnnl r',
+, him $500 to change his story.
How was 1t that he had Just said
/, that he had not seen either since May
rs? Mr.. Graham sneered the question.
! Well Farrell explained he thought
(, that Graham meant before his in
! carceration."
I Farrell takes the stand again to-
! morrow morning To be further bat
tered by Mr. Graham. Graham says
that there is an order now for 500
/ awaiting Farrell in the Nassau Coun-
! ~ trcasurer's Office. Graham says that
! the authorities are paying Farrell 81
n day for every day he spends In Jail
as witness.
/, While the forceful Graham failed to
| rock Celia as he did Farrell, he offer
!, ed in evidence and will have admitted
tomorrow a statement which Celia
| Is said to have made in the home of
q Mrs. Keith at No. 1873 East One Hun
drcd and ThirtyThird Street. Man
haitian, where Celia was taken from
/ Mineola on July 9.
! Celia told OH cross-exomipation that
she had been taken 10 tho city in a
/ motor by man named Hicks
| whom she understood TO be n Burns
( detective. She was told. she said. that
! she need not bother about money-that
her board would be paid and every
thing bought for her.
MADE IN PRESENCE
OF NEGRO LAWYER
! On the night of July l3. according
| to Mr.. Graham, the statement was made
lin the presence of Ferdinand Q. Nor
ton. negro lawyer. and stcno-
| grapher. In this statement, Celia de-
clarcd that she had not seen Mrs. Car
man, and that she had no knowledge
of the shooting.
/ The statement was lengthy. and COW
cred at least ten pages of typewriter
questions and answers, Celia admitted
! some of the answers. but others she
/ repudiated, saying that such questions
/ had never been asked her.
/ Graham explained outside of the
+, court that he had received the state
ment from Morton. Morton, according
to Graham, had been hired by Hicks
to get statement out of Celia. and the
result was, Graham says, very unsatis-
factory Morton. learning that the
! statement was not what Hicks wanted.
| Graham declares, turned q COPY over
| to the defense.
There was n furious fight over the
question of admitting the document,
| but Justice Kelby ruled that If Morton
| takes the stand and swears that the
transcript is authentic. 1t will be ad-
mitted. +.
| The States big day" drew a great
/ throng to the courthouse. In a villa
i fight to get inside the tiny room to
hear Celia after the noon recess, a mob
f! which stormed the doors and fought
| the policemen, lent n sort of circus day
! atmosphere to the Dlace