The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-05-13

JDQer croSS-examInaflOn 1aSt Week QI Gonzaullas the list oftle Lone Woaf and Kearns was compared and with the three bills. which GonxauElas de nies Kearns paid him. the lists were identical except that Kearns cOuininea the more complete description Sf the mOney)
 Denies Statsmenf
 I never represented liqnor men In obtaining protection. l told GonEanllzs- Bob Holcombe was boss of the political ring but I never said anything ab0lt rum ring. I was Lever present at any meeting of Frenck- Bob Helcoube and former Chief of TsOlice O,Sha1%h- messy as claimed by French. Thsse meetings were fig1dents of FrenrhIs imagination.
 The $25 payment GOnzauIlas said he received from me also came from BOyles.
 T never pair Harry French any money or offered him any money, Ax he claims was never in any c1n- spiracy with Jimmie Glass"
 Under examination by AffOre1y HI. I. Smith and other defense att0Eneys Kearns declared he never had anything whatever to do with OiShauEhnesxy, William HOleOmbe, the deputy sheE7ffs. or any of the other defendants on trSai pertaining to the liquor business. "a rum ring conspiracy" or in Obtzin7ax protection" for booze enterprises
 Examined By Blark
 Under crOss-examinafiOn by Prese- cHtOr Black, Kearns said he field Cen zsullas the payment of $25 was from Dennis and Rhett McBriae -1becaase they were the first names that ceas to my mind" and he was grIIled al length on this point The MeBEiaes are defendants in this trial Kearns said, there was no particular reason fer naming these two men and that Royses did not tell him to say the money cane from tkem.
 Kearns and Black argued erer whar constituted conspiracy, and denied that he knew it was against the law fer a partner of the district attorney to EFae- tice in federal court as he saSa he IH1d while BOyles' partner Kearns also said it seemed -.Boyles was planning to have him arrested instead of Gen zaullas."
 During the crOss-examination At- torney Gordon tried to bring out thai A. K. Butler, federal intelligence liree- tor,s and Eugene Smith, federal official tried to get kearns to turn states evidence but Judges Robert T. ErvIn sustained Prosecutor Blacks Objccfion to this.
 Kearns said he got nothing for de- ivering the money to GonEauHlas.
 COrrOb0rztes Story
 Ennis, examined by Attorney TnEe. corrobOrated a part of Kearns' story pertaining to forming the Partnerxkip with Boyles, and told of going ia the office of Kearns one day and seeiaE BOyleS and KearnS at a desk Eith money before them, which BOyles said they were going to use ito catch a crooked officer" Ennis also said Kearns paid the rent on both the of- fees of himself and Boyles with the exception of perhaps one payment by BOyles. He said he had known Kearns for ten years and that he had a good reputation.
 Ennis said BOyles and Kearns had their offices together from March l to October S1, 1923 Attorney Inge tried to bring out a conTersatioa al this point between Ennis and Bayles after Kearns' arrest in which Boyles was purported to have said kearns was related to Bob HOlo0mbe and that '.HoleOmbe has it in for me- O. jectiOn was made by the prosecution and sustained by the court
 Under crOss-examination by At torney J. H. Webb, Ennis said he and Deputy Sheriff Donaghue were in the fourth ward polling place on the night after the Cazalas election (This Eas the night Charlie Howell, prOsecutioa witness, said DOnaghue was at ibe re- sort of Bell Metealfe along the kay-D
 Prosecutor Black crOss-examined En- his, obtaining from him vigorous denial that a NIT. Ahern ever carried any liquor from O'ShaUghnessy to him.
 Otis McAlahOn went on the stand and was asked by Attorney Inge If Ez- his did not tell him about seeing the money in kearns' office where keaEns and Boyles were. Objection to this question was made by the prOsecufioa and sustained by the court
 Jimmie Glass, one of the defendants and admitted dealer 'at times m booze" went on the stand immediately after noon. Glass testimony in sub stance follows:
 Political Enemies
 "(Examination by Attorney Cor don. I never entered into any con spiracy or agreement with any of these defendants 10 sell liquor. In fact O'Shaughnessy and are political enemies.
 Il had one conference with Charlie Howell shortly after he shot that mar in Monroe Park and before he WnS suspended. Howell called me and