The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-07-23
BRINT0N CASE
RECALLS KATE
0'HARE TRIAL
Scene and Evidence Very Much
Similar to That of For
mer Action
GOVERNMENT HAS RESTED
Mrs. George Duffy of Garrison
First Witness for the
Defense
GOVERNMENT HAS RESTED

Hour by hour the trial of j
w. Brinton in federal court here
becomes more and more remi.
niscent of a similar drama in
which Kate Richards O'Hare was
the principal actor last Decem.
,ber. There is revealed the same
village factionalism; there is
present the same political flavor,
There is the same group of Non.
partisan adherents of both sexes,
who rush up during recess to the
side of the defendant, who holds
spasmodic court for his admir-
ers. The defendant wears the
same confident, complacent at
titude, exchanging from time to
time, smiles with his witnesses
seated outside the bar of the
court. Conditions at Garrison
are revealed to have been very
much similar to those which ex-
listed at Bowman at the time
Kate Richards O'Hare delivered
there the address which earned
her a FIVE years sentence at hard
labor in the jefferson, Mo-, pris-
on. The evidence indicates that
the same sort of an audience
which applauded Kate Richards
O'HareN at Bowman applauded
her at Garrison and accorded Mr..
Brinton the same sort Of recep-
ton when he spoke there on
April 4.
Goyernlnent Rests
The government rested early
Tuesday afternoon, and the de-
Tense offered as it's first witness
Mrs. George Duffy, wife of a
Garrison plumber, who is now in
the service. Mrs. Duffy testi-
fed that she heard none of the
things which witnesses fer the
government testified they had
heard Brinton say, relative to
the government being compelled
to buy Liberty Bonds in order
that it might pay the steel
trusts exorbitant profits; she
did hear something said about
taking the pennies out of the
babies banks to buy War Saw
ings Stamps, but it apparently
did not impress her as it had
the government witnesses.
( She did hear j. e. Sullivan say
to Mr.. Brinton, ''I'lf get you yet,"
and Mr.. Sullivan held up a caba-
listic two fingers as he said it,
testified the witness. Mr.. Sulli-
vans reputation for truth and
veracity, said the witness, was
not good.
Didn't Paint Other Side
On cross examination Mrs.
Duffy testified that while she
had heard Mr.. Brinton refer spe-
cifically to the high price of gas
and binder twine and Campbell's
soup, making it very difficult for
the farmer to grow grain, she
could recall no specific illusions
to the high prices which the
farmer received for his wheat
and his rye and his oats and bar
ley and flax and cattle, nor of
the high prices which the cor
porations were paying their la
Dor. She wouldn't say that~Mr.
Brinton had said anything con-
corning these things"
Asked about Mr.. Sullivan's reputa-
tion for truth and veracity and gen
eral honesty, Mrs. Duffy testified that
Cashier Priest, a Garrison banker,
mad told her frequently and insistent- |
~ that MIR. Sullivan's reputation for
these qualities was not good, She es-
timated that Mr.. Priest at least seven
months out Of the year had told her
this. The first time, she believed, !
was at the home of Mr.. Priest where
she was taking tea, and when the rep
utation of their Garrison neighbors
was under discussion. Pinned down
to specific instances she could recall |
but one other time, in Priests bank.
when they were discussing certain
articles which had appeared in the
Garrison Advance. and whose author
ship she attributed to Mr. Sullivan,
because he was always hanging !
around the Advance Office"
Father Hansen, Catholic priest at |
Garrison, had also criticised Mr.. Sulli.
van as to his truth, veracity and gen.
eral honesty said the witness. and
the same was true. she said.. Of Joe
Tullars. Garrison restaurant man. and II