The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1915-05-08
GOVERNMENT ATTEMPTING TO
o's SIaen c eAsr llss o. Al
Judge Takes Point Under consIdera-
uon sno VIII Issue Ruling Today
Defendant Not TO Testify.

MIS-, Baldwin. wife OF W. r. Bald
Win. The Altoona. Pa. man charged
with counterfeiting and now on trial
In federal court before Judge A. G.
Dayton. took the stand Just before the
close OF yesterday afternoons session
A snag in the proceedings was struck
when Assistant District Attorney j.
J. Y. O,Brien began - question her as
TO her husbands psst life.
Attorney Sam q. Bcyce, for the de-
Tense. interp)sed and the discussion
before Judge Dayton IN chambers was
stlll going Oh at o O'Clock, when the
jury was dismissed srr the evening.
Judge Dayton was not sure whether
the government should be permitted
TO try 10 influence The jury by bring
Ing up family skeletons, and desired
time TO hear arguments and look up
Mr.. o'Brien, questioning Mrs. Bald
win, asked her how long she had
known her husband previous TO their
marriage. She said IL had been ten
years. She did not know at what he
had been employed during all that
married life. told how they moved
from town TO town until finally a pc
Rod was reached, from 1911 until
June or last year, when she said she
lived In Pittsburgh.
Skeletons Kept Locked.
objections were interposed when
she was asked where her husband WAS
during all that time. lie IL said to
have been serving time in the Column
bus penitenttary for alleged counter
feittng. but the jury was not allowed
TO hear any mention of that
Later Mrs. Baldwin was asked as to
her acquaintance with a man by the
name OF Wilson. Harry Dean.
Sheeny Harry. alias Berger. Eddy VII
son. Thomas Monahan and Charles
Crockard, well known in criminal
circles as yeggmen and counterfeiters.
She denied that she knew them or
that her husband had ever associated
with them.
In the earlier part OF her testimony
Mrs. Baldwin asserted positively that
her husband was at home November
2. 1914. when witnesses for the gov
eminent averred that he was in
Wheeling. When asked II she knew
where her husband procured the
knives and trinkets he sold in quanti-
/, ties to an Altoona street fakir. she re-
piled that she did. but did not en-.
tighten the court further In regard 10
the matter. Then she burst out, But
he did not steal them"
vivscious Mrs. Borman.
Mrs. Joseph Borman, who. with her
husband. is a witness for the defense
was by far the most interesting OF
them all from the standpoint OF the
mere men who we're present as spec
tators. She Is young and good look
ing. graceful. vivacious-a charming
woman. She told OF Mr. and Mrs
Baldwin visiting her and her husband
the night before All Souls day The
I Baldwins live above the Bormans In
4 an Altoona apartment house. She re-
membered the night particularly
since Mr.. Baldwin requested her hus
band to have the heat on early the
next morning because no and Mrs
Baldwin we're going TO early mass
Mr.. BOrman, who is a chemist en-
] plOyed by the Pennsylvania railroad
! has oversight OF the heating appar
atus in the fats.
| Mr.. Borman was on the stand Just
| before his wife, and corroborated her
He told OF seeing Mr.. Baldwin in Al
toona on both the End and Bird OF last
November.
other witnesses for the defense
heard yesterday afternoon were Mr.
and Mrs. J. r Huller and Mrs. VIII
| liam Morris. Mrs. Huller's mother.
4 The Hullers bought a book from Mr.
Baldwin and made a partial payment
on the second of last November in
Juniata, Pa. near Altoona They we're
all sure OF the date. Mrs. Huller re.
membered IL because Il was Monday,
wash day. and because she looked AZ
the calendar 70 make sure Baldwin