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OF FELONY AT CITY HALLGambling Trial Ask MayorWhySuppress It.NO OFFICiAL KNOWLEDGE’Walden Tells Guy He CanShake Hands WithaBawds Across Alley.91Three times yesterday during the trialWalter Miller, charged with operating a gambling house In the Connor hotel. Mayor Humes was told, In the presence of those who thronged police court, that a felony was being committed within 20 feet of the city hall, and was asked whyhe did not suppress it.At first Humes answered, he knew nothing about it. The he added he knew nothing about it. Then he added he knew noth-finswer to make. At the close of the trial the Jury deliberated DO minutes, and were then discharged without arriving at a verdict.The trial was replete with sensational features. Before it began, Charles Walden, one of Miller's attorneys, and Mayor Humes became Involved In an argument, in which Walden charged Humes with only pretending to enforce the law.“Why, you can shake hands with bawds !*eross the alley/’ Walden declared. “A felony is being committed every day in the year within 30 feet of this building,and you know it.”*‘T don’t know any such thing,” replied Humes. The argument had attracted considerable attention and ‘everybody within hearing distance was listening.Shrugs Shoulder to Query.‘•Do you mean to tell me you don’t know there is a house of ill fame in oper-U*'on now, right across the alleyV*Humes muttered something to the effect that he didn’t know anything about It officially. Walden shrugged his shoulders and walked away.In his argument in behalf of the defendant, W. N. Andrews, former prosecuting attorney, charged the administration with littemptlng to fool the public by partialenforcement of the law.“They say they don't know of any traces where the law is being violated/' he said. take Mayor Humes or anyr»f his officers by the hand right now and ‘ show them a felony being committed within 20 feet of this city hall. He knows It and the rest know it.”Making the same statement in the presence ot the Jury, and sarcastically arraigning the methods and purposes of the prosecution, George R. Clay, an attorney, was reprimanded by Police Judge Kelseyfor going beyond the record. His replyo the reprimand, addressed to opposing attorneys, was construed by Kelsey as a.n affront to^the court, and Clay was fined ?2T» for contempt. Later the fine was remitted, after Clay had explained his remarks were not directed to the court.The only new development was the dec-aratlon of J. L. Haines, the private de-ective whom Lee Shepherd employed to obtain evidence against the Connor hotel, hat he was told of a poker game in prog-ess at the hotel at the same time the rou-ette wheel was discovered. A question on jross-examination, designed to bring out ii« reason for not interferring with the ^oker game, was stopped by objection:’rom the.city.Says He Played Roulette.Haines testified he played $1 w'orth of ‘.hecks on the roulette wheel while Miller iterated it, on the night before the raid.3e again want over the ground covered n his testimony at the trial of F. W. Foung, manager of the Connor hotel,vhtch resulted in acquittal.Considerable Importance was attached o the failure of the city to place Mayor fumes, who led the raid upon the Con-jor, on the stand. Miller’s attorneys, in heir argument, declared the city feared o place Humes on the stand because of ,uestlons that might be put to him rela-ive to his knowledge of law violation in oplln which has not felt, the administrate wrath.The trial of Manager Young of the Con-ior upon a state charge of permitting gambling In rooms raided December o, by • party which Mayor Humes led, will be j his morning before Justice A. J. Earl!. Fred Firey, who was arrested with Mil-er when the rooms were raided, was too 11 to appear in court yesterday. His ]ase will be continued.The personnel of the jury, which dis-greed In Miller's trial yesterday after-toon, was as follows: C. H. Glover, reived farmer, No. 2302 Jackson avenue: lay Foster, of Foster Lancaster, No. r,o3 Jackson avenue: Charles Fisher, res-]lt;11iint proprietor, Blast Joplin; Frank j *
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Joplin Daily Globe
Joplin, Missouri, US
Tue, Dec 21, 1909
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