The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1914-05-08
JOE kept
In A CELL
1902 DAYS
Now, After Three Months OF
So, Kaufman, the Witness,
Gets a Hearing.
HE WAS PENNILESS
Couldn't Put Up Bond. So
Our Inexorable Law Made
Him Suffer for 1t.
Joe Kaufman Is still in jail.

Joe Kaufman Is still in jail.
Joe is the one. you remember.
who wrote to The Star on March
Z. stating that he had been in jail
as witness against 8. Nicholson
since January 16.
Kaufman has no money or
frisnds 20 aid him In his fight <
for justice. Being poor. the only
thing he could do was TO yield
gracefully when the strong arm
Of the law THREW HIM INTO
A CELL TO WAIT.
He's been doing lot Of Idle
waiting. because the law wauted
him and feared he might not be
on hand when the time rolled
around.
II he had been the possessor
Of $3.50, the law would have let
him co his way. for the receipt
Of the sum, until the case was
called. THE MARKED MAN.
NEH tN "HiSn t'G law
DIsTiNGuisHEs BETWEEN
RICH AND POOR is viviDLY
SHOWN IN THE CASE OF
KAUFMAN.
"Michelson's case has been con-
tinued and recontinued so many
times II begins to look like am
to serve life sentence Just as Z
Witness" said Kaufman at that
time. Il am supposed TO know
something of this case Michelson's
mixed up In. but don't l only
saw him once in my life"
Joe's Still in jail
Michelson's case finally came to
trial this week.
lie was convicted by a jury Tues
day evening of grand larceny In the
case which charged him with the
purchase of stolen wire from the
Lake Burien line last June.
But Joe is still In jail.
He proved a poor witness. He
chung to his story that he didnt
shave anything onsMichelson," and
failed to Identity the man In court.
And so the state did not even call
him as a regular witness In the
case, although II had held him In
Jail since January 16 for that very
purpose.
KAUFMAN WAS HELD m
THE COUNTY JAIL BY THE
PROSECUTING ATTORNEYS Of
FICE AS A WITNESS FOR f02
DAYS! AND NOW HE is STILL
THERE, BUT WITH A CHARGE
OF GRAND LARCENY AGAINST
HIMi
Newly discovered evidence by
two Witnesses warranted the filing
of Information against him connect
ing him with the theft of the Lake
Burien trolley wire-the same case
in which Nicholson was convicted.
Says He Bought Wire
Any way you look at things, II
hasn't been very rosy 1914 for
Joe.
Here's little more of his story.
Il was arrested last November,
about the 14th, and tried before
Judge Gordon on vagrancy or dis
orderly charge. was not quite sure
what 1t was" said Joe. "At that
time some copper wire I had was
introduced as an exhibit. l bought
that wire in Brewster, and have a
bin of sale for It from man named
Martin.
Saw Nicholson Once
Il was sentenced to serve 80 days
and pay a fine of $50. ! served 63
days in the city stockade, aud was
then remanded to the county Jail In
the Nicholson case. | saw Michel
son once. | went to sell him some
wire, and he refused to buy II.
Il did see him again, come to
think of It. One day an officer
pointed him out in hallway at the
court house and said, You know
him, don't your
II told him did not and he said.
Why. yes. you do; that's Michel
son.
Kauffmans preliminary hearing
ON the grand larceny charge came
up this morning before Judge Cor