Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-06-14
you went into 2106 Cass> street, or
into sos North Twenty-first street,"

you went into 2106 Cass street, or
into sos North Twenty-first street,"
mo, sir"
Eleanor Wolfer, who came to
Omaha four weeks ago from Moline,
Ill, and who is now maid at the
home Of Joseph Barker, testified
that she lived in the Brown apart
ments for one night, during which
she heard strange noise.
did you report the matter to
Mrs. BroWn?" was asked.
II did and she told me that she
couldn't keep track of all Of their
roomers and that girls are apt to do
almost anything these days." she
replied.
R. D. Seeley, former tenant in the
Brown apartments, testified for the
prosecution, stating that he had
complained about the lack of heat.
In reply to Attorney Magney he
said he had not observed anything
wrong, nor had he made complaint
to Mrs. Brown of the moral at
mosphere of the apartments. He
added that when he complained of
the heat, he was invited to leave if
the conditions did not suit him. =
The Judge of Shenandoah.
Another witness brought in by the
prosecution was Frederick Fisher of
Shenandoah, who proudly identified
himself as Judge of the superior
court Of Shenandoah" This court
proved to be of the jurisdiction of a
police court. The Shenandoah judge
was one of the persons visited by
Detective Haze, who went to Iowa
at the instance of Police Commits
sioner Ringer.
At the conclusion of Judge Fish
er's testimony, Attorney Magney
asked the Shenandoah Judge:
Were you ever accused OF being
a pro- German in your county, and
isn't It Q fact, that your sister was
informed as an alien enemy?"
II don't think So" he meekly re-
piled. s@f g.
That's all I want from you,
Fisher" was Attorney Magney's
COHCiuulHS UOll lllOt.
Judge Holmes occasionally indi-
Gated that he did not take kindly to
the prosecution raking over the
dust of ages to make case at 2l06
Cass street.
do you think that a woman is
unchaste if she happens to be in a
room with another woman and
man, at 1880 a. m, and is wearing
a loose housedress?" was one of
the hypothetical, questions Judge
Holmes asked Of the prosecution.
Attorney Mossman admitted that
such a woman would not neces-
sarily be immoral, but insisted that
it might be cumulative evidence.
Judge Holmes did not believe that a
woman who may have been un-
chaste year ago should be con-
sidered unchaste today without
present evidence.
The next instaflment of cunula-
tive evidence imported for the
prosecution by Captain Haze, mes
scnger for the police commissioner
and the chief of police, was the
deputy sheriff of Shenandoah, John
Patten. Patten admitted that Haze
called on him this week and that
Il was at the instsnce of Haze that
he came to Omaha, although he hal
some shopping to do in Council
Bluffs.
You are under fire this Minute
for shaking down bootleggers, aren't
ycu?" was blunt question aimed at
Patten by Attorney Magney.
mot as anybody knows Of" re-
piled the deputy sheriff Of Shenan-
-doah, showing no resentment at the
terminating question.
Patten testified that he knew Mrs.
Applegate and Misses Baldwin aid
Reed, but could not remember any
instance of having arrested the,n
back in Shenandoah. In fact. he
admitted he knew nothing about
them except what they had heard.
The trial. will be resumed this