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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-09-05

There will be a great baseball game
at the Hamilton ball park Sunday.
The Hamilton team will play the fast
team of Nendon, and it will be good
game. Howard Mekemson will pitch
for the Hamiltons.
.Ionday we have double header
game. First the Nauvoo and Hamil'
ton teams will play their game, and
then the fats and leans will play and
this will be some game. Judge Craw
ford will be in the game. and the judge
is some ball player. This will be a
close game, and where you will laugh,
and that will do you good.
R. r. Wallace took an auto ride to
Peoria Friday evening.
Saturday was dollar day in Keoku {
and If all the towns turned out as
hamilton did they would have 20
build additions to their stores In Keo-
kuk. The cars were all we'll filled,
and autos were plenty and some OF
the ladies were anxious to get there
hrst before the bargains were all
gone. Now we have been keeping an
eve on these dollar day sales all over
the country and they are a success
every place. Now what's the matte"
with Hamilton having q dollar day?
Let's do something that will attract
the people to Hamilton.
Geo. w. Groves and wife and grand
son, Milton, of Mendon, are VISITING
with their daughter, Mrs. Claud sic
Adams, this week
| Ed Russell had dray load of honey
from the Dadant plant, delivering tc
our grocers Saturday morning The
Dadant bee industry Is one of Hamil
| tons enterprises that runs the yeal
around There will be meeting Of
the bee inspectors held in Hamilton
lnext Tuesday at the Dadant factory.
J John Hastings and family have
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-09-05
WEEKLY CITY PAY ROLL
ALLOWED SATURDAY
Monday Legal Holiday So Checks
Sent Out Last Day In
Last Week.

Because Of the fact that Monday is
a legal holiday. the weekly city pay
roll was allowed by the city council
Saturday morning The money is di-
vided as follows: General. s12915:
grading, $500; grading, 1910: street,
sl5725: improvements. SITS: side
walks. s210; sewer, sSc.75: park. $2s;
to P. d. Kennedy for grading at Carey
place and at Eighteenth and Ex-
change streets, s98.75; p. D. Ken
nedy for intersections. s146.s0; Stroh-
maier brothers for intersections, $751;
20; James Fruin for sidewalk and
gutter intersection, s14.10.
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-04-11

loaded with a task which promised
little in the way Of success.
From the beginning this trampin-
sisted that he was innocent. But
there was no use. His trial was
4 brief. and though the evidence was
wholly circumstantial lit was OF
such a nature that the jury did not
hesitate to find the man guilty. He
was sentenced TO be hanged, and his
was the only hanging in the history
of this county.
When the tramp told his story to
this lawyer he gave a Canadian town
as his address and said his parents
and sisters were living there. The
attorney wired to the prisoners ia
Their just before the trial onened
and received at once a reply. saying
that the father was on the way.
The trial was put over for a day.
but the next morning there came a
message from Buffalo reading:
Taken suddenly i'll. Must stay
here. Do the best you can for my
boy.
One morning w hen the tramp was
waiting for the celebration Of hang
mans day, the sheriff came to- the
attorneys office, saying Come
4 over to the jail. There's Il woman
there who says she's Charley's
mother. but he efuses to see her
The attorney went and saw the
woman.
s II knew as soon as i saw her.
he says. that she was the boys
mother. Never saw a closer family
resemblance. So / went back and
saw Charley and asked him why he
wouldn't sec the old lady.
.5 ''1'S She's not my mother. he said.
My mothers not alive. I lied to-
YOU, when told YOU j came from
that Canadian town. Ny parents
are dead.
s But told him was going To
take the woman in to see him, and
III did it. Before we got there lie
4 had turned out the gas light In his
cell and thrown himself on his cot
with hrs face to the wall. His fea-i
lures couldn't be made out from the
corridor.
The woman walked up to the cell
door. and spoke to him. s
Charley, she said. Charley,
I'M your mother. 4
Tho boy raised his head and rest
ed it on his hand.
Madam, you are mistaken. he
said. IN not your son. .s4.
N yes you are, Charley You
needn't think your old mother,
\ doesn't know you. Come and kiss
meas you used TO Ia,
No. ma dam: gu are mistaken
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! r y Il
lied when i said was from that
Canadian town. knew your son in
Cleveland when was working
there. Toomed with him and as he
talked to me about his home was
able TO tell the story / did. And ]
took his name to protect my own.
Tina woman went away entirely
4unconvinced. She believed the boy
was her son. And hewas. He ad -
1nitted it afterWard and said he lied
to her SO that she would take the
word home to-his sisters. He hoped
they at least would believe he was
not their brother.
In connection with the prosecu-
tions following the Homestead riots
this attorney came into national
prominence as one Of counsel for
defense. Before the trials we're over
his name was known the country
over. and since their conclusion he
has been called more and mnrefinto
western PENNSYLVANIA cases. On one
a of these occasions he assisted in the
defense Of man charged with the
commission OF murder twenty-five
years previously This was the case
of Jake Stopt, a mountaineer, who
twice had been convicted OF killing
a neighhor in a quarrel oyer dog.
After the appeal was taken front the
second of these trials Stopt escaped
and went down into West Virginia.
Every five years he made a Pill grim
age to his home in the Pennsylvania
hills. Finally tile authorities learn
ed OF this and On one OF his trips
captured him. III
Stont was brought to trial I'M
u Eniontown for the third time nearly
a quarter ola century after the kill
ing Of his neighbor. In the mean
time death had removed most Of The
trial judge. the prosecutor. counsel
for the defense, nearly all the iur-
ors and most OF the witnesses at
the first trial were gone. Stopt.s
!, daughter, who as a child had been
S a witness on the first occasion, came
into court on the last with her own
babe in arms. There were about the
trial some elements Of romance.
many OF mystery. and before twas
ended the attorney found himself
many times involved in the tangled
ends OF broken threads of evidence.
But in the end the mountaineerwas
cleared. VI
One more case in Pennsylvania.
"A well-to-do, mid dle-aged German
was killed Just after he had blown
the evening whistle that called his
night relief In the engine house OF
a steel mill. With the routine OF
his days work done the man had
sat down with his back to a window
IA moment later al bullet went
through his head. tt had been fired
ut such close range that his hair
was burned and wadding from the
cartridge was blown into the
wound. iss 81 e
ectives could not learn that,any-
one had been seen In the vicinity OF
n the engine house, but presently they
found that the mans wife had been
taking out insurance. on his life She
had policies amounting to ST. 900.
They arrested her and she called
\ the Ohio attorney to defend her. J.
The general public has " mistak
en- idea concerning the work OF the
criminal Law er: ' says this lawyer.
Most people seem to believe that
4 the prisoner tells his laHyer the
truth. that 9if he g.lilt he says ~
at the beg nnin 6, and the laWy err
l goes to work TO ia hrIcate sa defensas
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-04-11

When an Ohio jury declared
Charles Brown not guilty it closed
the one hundred and third murder
trial IN which one attorney has
engaged either as prosecutor or
counsel for the defense. The Brown
case was another victory for the
man who in the past forty years has
been appearing daily in the courts
OF eastern Ohio and western Penn
sylvania.
So often has this attorney faced
judge and jury in criminal cases, 50
successfully has he approached
them with argument or plea. that in
the big steel making country 1t has y
become instinct with the man ar
rested for any crime TO send for
him. So we'll is his work on muir
der trial lone that prosecutors send
for him to assist them in biz cases.
BY answering those calls has he
found himself. at times. on the at
1acking. side Of the courtroom.
but I don't like to prosecute,
he says. TRY as will. it gets on
my nerves to sit. every day through
a trial looking at the man I'm work
ing to help hang or electrocute. A
number Of years ago 1 was over in
Green county. Pennsylvania. help
ing prosecute four men charged
with killing a fellow by beating him
up. Well. we got two OF them
hanged. SO we might be said to have
done our work well. But Ill never
forget how Zach Tay Tor. ono OF the
convicted pair, used to rise from his
chair every morning as I passed him
on my way across the courtroom pm
and say. Good morning. He always
smiled and bowed and was entirely
courteous and. believe, sincere.
That trial lasted more than r two
Il weeks. and i want to say that seeing
that man so through his perform
ancc every day made it hard for ne ms
to continue prosecuting.
s>.' But the prosecutor always has ~
a little easier than the man who Is
defending. for when you go into int
court to defend a man against y
murder charge you feel that ny
man life is dependent on you. No
\ matter how hard Vol; ma try TO dc
tacl yourself from the case that idea
stays with you, and YOU find your
self wearing down under the burden \
Of Responsibilities
And here is a man whose 4 ppear-
ancc confirms his words. His bold.
outstanding. rugged frame has be-.
gun to show in a slight degree the
wear and tear OF the past forty
years. Yet this lawyer is not old.
Y He who would think him so because.
he has practiced since I $40 !. would
change his mind at the first sight OF:
+ him as he stands il the door of his.
Office looking over the waiting,
clients in the outer room. There
s. are visor and power ia the breadth
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of shoulders and the depth Of chest
which have remained with this man
despite his years over the books.
On his face. too. are left some
traces Of the days in court Deep
lines around the eyes, heavy burrows
around the mouth. are there, but
they do not look like the signs Of
age. They are rather the marks Of
habit in q face accustomed to the
uses Of a man who pleads before
juries, man who, they who have
watched him say. could have been
tragedian Of note had lie turned
his attention to the stag rather than
the courtroom. 1t is the face Of an
actor or what we. have learned 10
call the old school, school Which
came to end with the practice or
facial massage in every barber shop
4 to iron out the wrinkles of the hard
working man
II is facesWithout artiticialitv, i
face emincntly kind. vet lacking
nothing. in keeness. Ii would be
unfair to call it shrewd. for it has
none of the undesirable qualities of
shreWdness. n is above all things
intelligent and simple, and in its
frame OF iron gray hair--with it's
dropping mustache and heavy eye
brows. it has an ali, of great kindli-
ness.
Simplicity appears to be the dom
inant note in this mans habit Of life
Ills manner is simple. his clothes
are simple and Worn without evil
dencc OF having taken much of his
thought. His Office is simple.
The Office he has. occupied for
years is good enough for him, he
delights in its simplicity and the
people who so TO sec him find in
the place 4 charming lack Of formal
ity, a pcryading air of democracy
that is rcassurinG. Its an old res
idence whose yellow paint is streak
cd with smoke from locomotives
that pass under its caves. Its high
stone steps are Worns by the feet OIL
many callers and broken by the
settling Of foundations.
It's waiting room, opening Off tic
hall at tic front Of the house, is in
nocent OF rug. but is made altpgcth-
CT CHEEKY By q coal fiTe in the CRATE.
" There arc chairs. i number Of hem.
but not enough to accommodate al Il
those who would see the man in.
the rear room. Late corners perch.
OH the edge Ola hut-toppcd d cslS or
lean patiently aEainst the 8WalE
There is in this Office no frill in.
the person Of an Office boy. From
Z time to time the door OF the rear
room opens. a caller comes ont from
his audience. and in the doorway
stands the attorney himself. NJ He
slances around the outer room
crosses it to greet any newcomers
and; inquiries into their business.
hen takes with him the one
he vii sec next The door closes
behind hem after revealing that in
ts-ea
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-04-11

Now that wrong. Nineteen times
out OF twenty the man says he's in-
nocent whether he Is or not. and the
story he tells on the witness stand,
if he gets there, is the story he tells
his lawyer in their flrst Interview
The woman who had insured her
husbands life was now the TWEEN
1ieth client. ShessWore that she was
innocent, and he went into the court
room prepared with that statement
as his basis. The trial had gone
Two days when the woman sent for
him. He didn't care to see her. but
she insisted until he went. In her
quarters In the Jail she confessed
that she had shot her husband: @
That was AL he would allow her
to- say. He went into court again
scarcely knowing what to do. but
waiting for something to turn up.
Presently the prosecution called as
IA witness a woman the attorney had
seen in the jail. thin the walls
she had posed as a prisoner. but
when he saw her approaching the
witness stand his suspicions that
she was q detective we're conf fmed,$ n
She was asked. where she. was at
the time he bered as the hour
at: which he had heard his client's
confession. The question was the
signal for an objection by counsel
for the defense. 4
While the trial halted he took the
prosecutor aside and learned from
him that the detective was to tell
of the prisoners confession.
What about the professionalet eth
E les OF that ~ the attorney asked.
Don't you rememb Der that the conf y
denccs Of a lawyer and his client
are sacred 81 4
Eyes. I know it looks rather bad
to put on this woman, but the people
areIa1l worked UP. over this case,
and If they ever found out I had the
4 goods on this woman and didn't con-
vict her it would kill me.
Yes" said the attorney..'itW would.
4 You go ahead and put in your evil
dence. III withdraw my objec-
4 tions. ss7
So the detective went on the
stand and told her story OF the Won
ans confessional bare enough mar
rative IL she had stuck to- the truth
but embe Ilished, as she told it, with
a wealth OF circumstantial detail as
TO how the shooting was done. Then
court ad journed for the night.
George said the attorney, TO the
prosecutor, you've got me. That
woman lied duently. but she's strong
on the only point Of fact she made,
SO strong that I couldn't break her.
\ down. IN not going to make any
attempt. I'll rest our case In the
morning But. George, one other
thing. don't like to have to do it,
but think II have to- go to the
\ Jury pretty strong about YOU and the
i methods you used to get that eyi-3
zdence. say don't Ike to do IT,
and I hope you will forget IT as soon
as the case#is ended. NY only fear
Is that other people won't forget
What I may have to say \:
know It's going To sound rath er.
rough. 8 said the prosecutor.
wonder if we coul dn't make q deal"
That was just what IsWanted,''h he
says. Z We got tngeth er and without
sending the case to the jury n1anaE-
led to set the woE.,s = out " t1l eight
years. fssa ii s.s
She wasNa cop1 one She had
$honEht the pistol altar the inAur
ance sRass taken out, and Tor months
\ awaited her Oppp rtnnity that.
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-04-11
4 Count file stars,

x
Did you ever try to count all the
stars yeuH could ssee? Or thinking
this RI hopeless Ia sk, did ever ocz
cur to you that 5. 900 would be AZ
generous estimate Of their numbar3A
This Ia true. The stars OF the sky,
visible from any one place. may be
counted lin e. few hours und ers or
binary circumstances, lie the night Is
clear. They do not exceed 1900 orr
4 5000. the exact number depending
upon atmospheric conditions and
the5keennesss OF the ind dual eye. 4
Yet, however, many are seem
there is always the va que imprqs
sion Of more just beyond the limit
Of viaibi lity. In fact. much more
than half OF What we call starlight
comes from stars that are separate
" too small to be seen, but whose
number Is SO great as to more than
make up for their individual faint-
ness. The Milky Way Isl Just such
"a cloud Of faint stars, and through
the telescope breaks up into shin
ing points. each an INDEPENDENT
star III
These faint stars, which are found
in every part Of he sky. asaWe1I as
the Milky Way are usually called
e
NY ZAP Is seen onty IL ms
lht' 9
on ~. q =. = .ss zee staI
oheI
1n nl@noA
~ ~. y TIE can ps lolnasst
which the stars present Even
ssIIeek astronomers :. had sdiyid ed tl1e
4 slars o.. respect or pr shlness INTO
4 ~. e. tne moo ern ~
s1rononlers st II use ga ilinEs each
! er E.1 q ma sn1tnde IA
nus & e. rev the. brish Stars
are SEC los PC QIs thes nrst ma gnatud
~ a!naah oI5 ones
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-04-11
Her Girlish Fears.

md are you ute sure thai Eou
Will salNays love me 81 q, q asass
o rsys n sn sns sasI 81 &, sass
what may happen ?' 's a%
Indeed yes
do hope $50. 4 u
But Why'd Sypp Ask ri
Waa Just Il az hnN SIriblel
Eould be to HI
Ani ght simply sl,F,iEs Lis should STS
/ and net Ind fterent one s6naiiIi
:seIops ith sone tbotday lie 1ater On,
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Il 80 ii
time she kept the pistol under the
mattress on which her husband
slept. She studied his bits until she
learned that he frequently sat down
with his back To the engine house
window. On the afternoon OF the
murder she dressed In q suit OF his
clothes, put on q false mustache.
and waited among the freight cars
behind the ensine house until twas
dusk and she had her chance.
Then she went home. put on her
own clothes and got supper. When
the potatoes began to get cold she
ran over to her dauE hter's house and
said I'm worried about your fail
It's away past his time for getting
home and 4 haven't heard anything
of him. That started the story
that ended with her going to- the
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: 4 ~ ia 4 o
lie inner room there is a green rug
and limiting that there may be other
bits OF decoration.
But the inner office is no more
ornate than the outer, whose chief
objects of art are a lithogra pied
calendar and a photograph OF q foot
ball team of the days w hen tho play
ers wore skin-tight garments and
heavy mustaches. In his inner room
the criminal lawyer tits back lis
wide black hat. turns his back 10
his modest roll top desk and puts
his feet on a table. That's the COM
Portable position he assumes TO
tervieW. When client is in the
room he is a bit less Informal but
no less easy.
Barely beyond reach of man
who sits in the attorneys chair 10
@comotives play tag. trotting back
and forth along the rails as they
throw cars into that switch and pull
them out of this. As they puff and
strain at their loads outside the
lawyers window 1T would seem that
they might drown his voice. But
not his. Years of practice have
taught him to what pitch his voice
must be raised to compete with one
engine. 10 what pitch to compete
with two. and to the proper pitch
4 he sends it. apparently without con
seriousness that he is being disturb
ed. That the railroad runs through
his Office is a fact he long ago ac-s
ceptcd. and his clients must he pre-
pared to accept it. for he will have
none Of the newer frills put on by
some in his profession.
However. the office In which this
Sawyer docs business is ofilittlc CON
Germ to the man being tried for MUIR
der. Most Of the prisoners on that
4 charge haven't influence enough to
be allowed bail. so they meet their
laWyersain their cells. Consequent
ly. this lawyer knows his way
around half the jails in the district
III which he practices.
His first murder case was tried in
1874. He was called to defend a
man Of bout. so. who, on morning.
had como downstairs apparently in
good spirits. but took offense at he
fact that his father-in-lawwas using
his hatchct. Thercupon lie seized
tile hatchet and in minute had
4 killed his two small daughters. The
defense, OF course was insanity. The
accused was discharged from the
charge Of murder and eventually
sent toIa hospital for the insane
II was the beginning Of this attor-s
ney's rise. .6 .a 4.s
Soon after he had fall into his
Il hands case that became famous
4 and that brought to the young Law
yer many honors Of the courtroom
s39A girl was murdered on the edge Of
I the town. Her body was found In
Y a thicket, and the same day there
was arrested a tramp who had been
seen that morning on the road near
the spDt3~he re the crime was com
init ted. Bhis lawyer NV assigned
to defend him and found himself
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1915-03-29

committee. but who reitsrates a. Tit
orally and exactly correct bis pre-
vious statements that the action Of
President Wilson and Secretary Nc
Adoo In pushing the ship purchase
bill 20 the utmost OF their ability was
In the interest Of the foreign oorpor.
afions owning or Interested IN interned
tGerInanJ ships. Col Roosevelt fur.
iher declares that the statements he
has made were based on knowledge
available 20 everyone. and TO ask him
10 testify on the subject he nkens ask.
Ing him 10 show that the amateur
war with Mexico last summer (which
resulted In a greater loss OF lie IN
the American navy than occurred In
the American navy during the entire
war with SPAIN was ended. and Vera
Cruz abandoned. without obtaining
a salute for the American nag. We
have no idea that Chairman Walsh
viii Insist on hearing Col Roosevelt
sny further on this subject. because.
as he says. II the COMMITTEES wants 20
make an argument against what ne
has said. his presence Is NOT necessa-
~. And that ls true.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1915-03-29
WILL SOON AWAKEN

Editor Harry Smith. Of the Tyler
County Star. I'm the lart issue OF his
paper, gives a very intelligent account
OF the work done by the legislature.
% which he was an industrious and
capable part He testifies that the
conscientious members OF that body
we're under obligations to the Govern.
OF and administration officials for
their helpful Kindness. and that they
have returned TO their homes more
than ever convinced OF the absolute
integrity OF Governor Hatfield and his
earnest. unselish desire to serve the
best interests OF all the people Of the
State.
Mr.. Smith contends that had his
suggestions as TO taxation been car
ried out. the State treasury would not
have been as empty as It is to-day.
and that the burden OF taxation would
have been placed where Il properly
belongs. This view Is becoming more
impressive every day since the ad-
JouThmeht OF the legislature, the con
uction even extending to those Re
publican Senators, who. for personal
reasons alone. combining with the
Democrats. turned down the revenue
measures which were to make the
special privileges, now untaxed. pay
their just proportion OF the expenses
OF government-those interests pro
tected and served by the State. and
for which they have given no commen-
surate return. IL is a safe prediction,
az Editor Smith observes. that the
people OF West Virginia will awaken
some time to the true condition OF az
fairs. and that. as he says. we can
only trust it will be before their great
wealth has been absorbed and taken
TO other States"