The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-09-26
PAGE WITNESS
CAUGHT IN TRAP
AT Least Badly Mixed on
Dates in Accusing Cole
of Shady Deal
PAGE GOES ON STAND
Admits Warning Miss Beau.
champ of Cole, but Says
Warning Was Needed

There was n visible Htir in tho
court room Of District Judge Red
fuond s. cole Monday afternoon dur.
Ing the trial Of Charles Pag" Tor
Islander when 9. G. Cheney, sand
Springs plumber and one of Page y
,yitnopses, testified that Charles J..
Cole, the plaintiff, trird 20 Involve
him IN questionable tnnfhcilou
when In fact Colo was confined In
the Sand Springs hospital at the
time,
cheney testified that on Novem-
bor 4, 1920. no gave cole, thon IN
charge ot Pages sang Springs SUD
ply company. n check for }eo.14'
This check was delivered on the
Samo date, ne explained, ana ~ that
time cole requested him 20 pny his
bills in cash no they could "Hpllt'
n part OF the money without Page =
knowledge,
lie added that he refused Coles
request and admonished Cole that
ho couldn't get by with that Nuft
Despite this proposal, Cheney said,
ne continued 20 trade with the sup
ply house.
But cole Was I'm Hospital
Thon h. a. Robinson, one OF
Coles attorneys. on cross exnminh-
tion, asked Cheney ie he was posi-
tive Coles alleged crooked proposal
was made on November 4. cheney
replied affirmatively.
robinson Immediately obtained
one Of the defendants exhibits
bin from the sand Springs hospital
covering Coles operation for appen-
dicitIs. II showed he had been con-
fined in that Institution from octo--
Der 26 20 November "a, 1920, ana
that he was n patient there when the
alleged conversation between chency
and Cole took place.
Efforts of Pages attorneys TO re-
examine Cheney for the purpose OF
nscertaining whether he might not
have meant n check bearing another
date were without result.
Robinson refused 10 further cross
examine the witness after tho testl-
rnony was obtained concerning the
check transaction.
page ana Frank Long. his confi-
Dental secretary. both took the stand
Monday IA Pages defense.
Page on the Stand.
PAGES testimony was 10 tho erect
that he told Mics Cora Beauchrmp,
Coles fiance, and her mother, Mrs.
ella Beauchamp, that Cole was not
n fit associate for the young woman,
and that In substance, ''he ought To
be taken out and killed" He In
sisted HIS only interest In the matter
was to protect the young woman
from Cole, who he said was re-
leased through his efforts from the
Lenvenworth penitontlary.
lie stated that other employees hsd
frequently informed him OF irreEu-
iarities in Coles conduct, although
on the witness stand he failed to
mention specific instances. He CON
tended he was not tho instigator Of
q plot 10 prosecute Cole for vagrancy,
and that he knew nothing OF the
persecution Cole has been subjected
90 sinco he filed the Blander suit
against Page.
Tells Of Hts Goodness.
Page proved loquaclous witness.
TO nearly every question propoundod
by attorneys he Insisted on going
further than the Interrogation ne
cessitatod, and explained many of his
philanthropic missions, none OF
which had any connection with the
slander suit.
one OF these activities was an In
Vestigation In the county jail TO de-
termine whether he should take to
the orphans homo In Sand Springs
Josephine McQuirk, 16-year-old girl
charged with receiving stolen prop
erty,
Coles attorneys were actively
busy interposing objections TO Pages
deviations from pertinent testimony
and on several occasions Robinson
asked tho court 60 instruct Page
20 confine his replies to the case
on trial.
Tho jury was excused during the
morning for about 80 minutes while
attorneys for both sides argued the
demurrer entered by Pages counsel
and which was overruled by Judge
Cole.
No Malice shown, Contention.
The defense insisted that before