The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1920-11-27
MURPHY AND TEN C0-DEFEllDANIS ARE ACQUITTED

Longfield pawn her diamond ring fol
$25 to buy coat for her boy.
"Did you buy the coat for your
boys" asked Mr.. Power.
eyes" replied the broken mother
meekly and with restrained tears in hel
eyes. ..*
At that moment, had there been an
audience of mothers, instead of SC
many panderers, gamblers, white slav'
ers, moonshiners and illegal traffickers
in booze, there would have been an un'
restrained flow Of tears.
"Oh, flowing tears of understanding
sympathy!
You sweeten and ennoble the human
soul. .-
The disposition you make of a gentle
and forgiving tone.
The flowers of clean and wholesome
fellowship are
Watered by you" ..-.
But that sad scene of fallen WON
an, baited in court of justice, brought
only grin and leer on the face of
the unutterable Longfield.
Even the district attorney was quite
impervious to the sad and touching
scene. He harshly bulldozed and cross.
questioned the broken creature in a
way that some of the defendants, not
at all above reproach, quite fully es.
capped. Sympathy was aroused for the
woman that did not help the govern.
ment's case.
Charles Harlan, a Minneapolis taxi.
cab driver, was called to the stand. He
swore that Longfield had lived with
Mrs. Meyers at 1900 Hawthorne Ave-,
a notorious house Of i'll fame.
Mr.. Powers questioning was so Wig.
orous that the witness became much
excited. Judge Morris asked Mr.. Pow.
er not to be so strenuous. He told the
attorney that he understood that the
witness was affected with a weak
heart, following an attack of influenza
"Help the witness out. We do not
want him here. He is too ill to ties.
tify," said the Court.
The poor Harlan quickly collapsed
and was taken to a hospital, where he
soon sank into inconsistencies and died
some days after the conclusion Of the
case that had such a fatal effect on
him.
Reub. Woodward, a star witness in
the Murphy Bradley-Scheaffer case
took the stand and declared that Long
field, when in the office of the Duluth
collector of customs, had proposed that
the witness smuggle whisky in from
Canada and then he, Longfield, would
transport it.
Fred B. Meyers, foreman Of the
grand jury that indicted the eleven
defendants, testified to the diserepan-
cies in Longfield's testimony when be-
fore that body and when in court. He
'lso said that Longfield was before the
grand jury about three hours instead of
20 minutes, as he insisted, when on the
stand. ~7-' '.-~-rrr '''''7'' --rr" - ,.---'-s7
When court opened Monday morning,
Judge Morris was very angry over an
incorrect eport of what he had said
the Saturday before when witness Har-
Ian was stricken on the witness stand.
The Court wanted the attorneys to dis
tinctly understand that he made no
such remarks as the News Tribune re.
ported and he warned the jury again
not to let anything in the daily papers
influence their jud gment in the trial.
Gunard Anderson, another Minneap.
oils taxicab driver, gave Longfield an.
other black eye and, when questioned
n,Sf {hot hn +.
| ness at the behest of "Buck" Mckay
Mrs. Gertrude Longfield, meek
faced little woman, with righteous
firmness written plainly on her face, a
| face tinged with sadness and suspi-
cion of suffering, testified that she
was Longfield's divorced wife. She
stated that she left Longfield when IN
Fargo, after learning Of his intimacy
with Mrs. Meyers. They never had
had religious differences. She denied
his testimony as to financial support he
had given his family.
The prosecution refrained from cross
examination of the witness.
jeremiah Sullivan appeared on the
scene again and he SHE'D a brick at the
| government s star witness.
Chow long was Longfieh at your
places" asked Mr.. Jaques.
"Two or three years." was the an.
| swer.
"Didn't he pay you anything9"
"No, he couldn't pay nothing, !" We
hemently exclaimed the witness. CHE
don't want to pay anything"
Mr.. Jaques dropped the witness as
he would a hot potato.
Joseph Trudell, of Virginia, one Of
the defendants, took the stand in his
own behalf. He denied Longfield' s
testimony as to booze and the trains
and the place where booze was cached
He declared that he never talked with
Longfield in all his life and that he
| never saw the fellow until he came into
court. He vehemently swore that he
never handled, transported or dealt in