The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1917-11-17
ALBERT ORTIZ GUILTY.
CONVICTED IN TWO CDUNTC-
OTHERS CONTINUED.
Acitun2's Editor i'm His
own Dcfcnsc--Jury Did Not Take
Long TO Decide.

LOT the government created son,o
thing of sensation yesterday wbon
in the second case against or,b Cos.
aldlng hhobloch to escape, the assis
ant district attorney, Waites Waring
stated to the judge that the govern
ment would submit as part of its evil
dence the testimony given by Orth
himself, in the Fay case, which hal
just been finished.
MISS Frost, the court stenographer.
proceeded to read the statement that
Orth offered in his behalf in tba Eav
case in which the Indictment was the
same as in the Knobloch case. Fortv-
six minutes were required for tho
reading of the testimony Orth stood
nearby and listened to every word
The defense offered no testimony in
the Knobloch case. The incident
seemed to throw a damper on the
whole case.
Two verdicts of guilty were return
ed by the jury. The Charleston edi-
tor and publisher Of the ,Deutsche
Zeitung was convicted in the federal
court on the charge of aiding and
abetting in the escape Of Robert Fay
and harbOring and concealing him to
prevent his arrest. A second verdict
of guilty was rendered in the case
against him for giving the same SER
vice to William Knobloch. Fay was
a prisoner at the federal prison at
Atlanta and he and Knobloch, an
other prisoner. made their escape on
August 29. Fay was serving a SEN
tence for conspiracy to disable ves-
sells, and Knobloch was confined for
fraudulent use of the mails.
The jury in the Fay case retired al
l:35 p. m. yesterday and a verdict
was reached in 20 minutes, but the
jury did not enter the court room un-
til o'clock, when the afternoon ses-
lsion began.
AT o'clock jury was drawn in
the KnObloch case and in ten minutes
the trial was under way. Argument
was concluded and the jury retired at
$40 o'clock and returned it's verdict
at 5.55 o'clock. The district attorney
then announced that the three re-
naming cases against Orth would be
continued.
Albert Orth received the verdict Of
. the juries with apparent composure.
He did not show any signs of ner-
vousness nor did his face exhibit any
signs of distress.
; Attorney Macmillan cross examin-
ed KnObloch when court opened yes
terday but the pardoned convict was
unshaken in his testimony. He held
to his former statements and con-
tended that Orth aided him in effect
ing his escape. He insisted that Orth
directed him to the Scheutzenplatz
where he met Fl. A. w. Gorse and d
Stehmeyer of Charleston. who listen
ed to his plea for financial assistanc
to help him on to his family He sal /
, Gorse and Stehmeyer gave him s.
each and that when he went back to
see Orth he refused TO give him mon
ey. The witness stated that Orth
never gave him any money He said
Orth told him he had christened Fay
Robert Peterson and that Fay had
gone to Baltimore.
A. A. Arndt, a travelling salesman
with headquarters at Louisville, testi-
fled that he met Orth at a hotel in
Charleston and that the defendant
had asked him what he would think
if he told him that Fay and the other
man who had escaped from the fed
eral prison had been in his office
about ten days before. The witness
said Orth led him to believe that he
had assisted Fay while in Charleston
and he crossed him on the subject.
Orth said if it came to a show down
he would say it was lie. Arndt said
he had read about the escape from
the Atlanta prison and that he let
Orth know that he did not approve
of his assisting an escaped convict.
Albert Orth took the stand in his
own behalf at noon. He said he was
40 years old and had been in Ameri-
CO 25 years. He was a printer ard
publisher, and purchased The Zeitun9
at Charleston in 1904. The paper
was esta blished in 1853. Numbers of |
people called at his home and office |
for information and assistance and he |
invariably rendered some aid. He re-
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