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Show WALKER IS' FOUND NOT GUILTY r. H. Walker. foUci.r ir 'he order or-der of Moose. ho wis chari J with or.it.Hizlir $1" f 'he mnn.v 'h"h L- rolleced IrilflaUon fee for the locl lodce. 05 fclven a tn-ria2 la the municipal court thi-. rnornlnc TV? tjj-e had n-.t be-on onip!','n-l at tlo iicwd a Lour and was continued ontil th'.A af'rrDooi. Walter was arretted about t"" n.-inths Tiro and has remained In jail ever sIbca. -beln unable -ooire the r..-ro.ary bonds for his rJoa-?. Ttie I -c.ti3 plaint akrJnf-t liim a sworn to by th lixal c.rKxiil7r of the order, U J. Fr-ote. who claimed that Walker hl collected monoy from five different dif-ferent applicants ftjid had nvr uf-counte-1 for the colleclloiiH. Walker, In his defence, empl'yed no attorney, lut acfd n. hk- own counsel. Ho asked that he bo t rl.-d L-ofore a Jury. In tho peWtion of the Jiroc. In which WaJker exercised hn rirtht ..f challerie. William Allison. Carl ('. ru.srnu-'-n, J S'-anh-y I K e and H. I. Moor., won' chosen. Tho w IUies5en called by the pro.-o-e 1 1 m w.r. Jed'Tt.Ui M. F.-lker, H. W. I lard v. Jarne A. Sirtcklaml. C. W. Rapp. KniH-h t'.iiiinlson and J. M. Hindi, each of whom stated that he ha.1 paid the def.-ndant $" for inflation infla-tion lnt" tho nd-i- whli-li was Instituted Insti-tuted In this city a few -fi5,s flt-n S. follinlrf-rg, natlonkl nrkranUcr of the Ii.yal Ordt-r 'f Moose, trstifiod lhat he had employe, Walker as a Follcltor In ?U Iike City and sent him to Ocden Walker was to hsve $ 2 for each new member which he secured, but this money was mt to paid until the money w a.o collected from the applicant. Tho remain ins . of lh $a fee was to h Bent to V1-llnberc V1-llnberc 'a!ker came to this cltv and ti'-ran work C(ilJtn'lerK utatrd thRt Walker's work was m.f altoeclh-er altoeclh-er pulls-factory and that he pent L. .J. FtHito here lo take ( harte of lhr o-ral o-ral work and sent with him a loiter of lnstnictl-.n to Walker, tolling the pollcltor to work under FooU-V hu-P?rvlslon. hu-P?rvlslon. Walker cotidjrted tho cross examination exam-ination of the national oreanlr.er and tiroucht from the witness the statement state-ment that lie waR to receive a :orn-nilfHlon :orn-nilfHlon on all applicants which he fecurcd f ir the order or which he was Instrumental In secnrlnc. C'olllnsbers qualified his statement by paying th.it the solicitor wa to receive on all ar plication on which the $.', payment vas received, provided that he. Walker, Walk-er, was e till In tho employ of tho order. Walker, showed that when he was C.Ui-harpil by CoIUniherR that Mr. Foote, the local reprwentative. had in his possesion about twenty-five ap-jllcailona ap-jllcailona for memlorshlp which ho had fi'-cured These had all promised to pity their Initiation fee at a lat?r date. In the settlement Walker requested re-quested that he be fclven home remuneration re-muneration for these. When this wad refused Walke-r refused to turn over the money which he held aud which belonged to the company. Tho national oranUor admitted on the stand that he Lad told Walker that If the money was DOt turned over he would "make an example" of him. The Jury was closeted but fifteen minutes when It returned to tho court room and announced that it rendered a verdict of not guilty. Walker left the court room a free man. having won IiIh ow n cae without the aid of an attorney. |