Show EM est OUT in a cae cafe beffie the caoli pleas at lowll lowell last week ciminale ci minal minai teun tenn Jo jostine stige stipe bishop im ending edding 13 F daiter bailer asked alck ff C Q groton a vit witness viL ness on the stand if be 4 belonged to the secret society of know nothings 9 af al first snow deniel denied that chedid but finally ally aily after consulting counsel answered in the ait alt liand and c a L long iong cross examination aled answers he had be been a member of tile the t ty four or five months upon joining it lie booi tooji an oath oathro so cejp nie god GM 11 there are two degrees decrees in the had seen SW at tha meet ngA anDr dr norman sinah Sr aith and dea deli pp ap john pingree piri Piti gree two tivo other wili will witnesses lesses in iti the case mused refused to tell the forin of initiation because it mi maht ht criminate him and expose him to tc 0 punish iain inin t from the tile society soc ety jude judge ja sop said it was vas startling start ling lina revelation that men took secret oaths I 1 alch nich they regarded regan ded as above alieve the oaths administered pred in in the courts 1 aka aia 11 gace gage another witness testified that he be iid had belonged to tile the secret order but left it three t months T since the kind of oath adm i red lie eaid laid was like that published publish bd in the post of oct 25 dr smith above mentioned admitted that he lie belor gad to tha the know society and that it exercises a political and religious reli rell pious lo ip fluence a roman catholic cannot be admitted although alti lough rough lie he A se an american born 8 nor a Prote protestant tant if ills 1119 M wife be a catholic i could not tell te 11 the form 01 initiation because it would expose expose him to punishment kih kin 1 h nt and forthe for the same reason could pot tol fol eil eli ell what v h at office he held in the lod iod lode iode e at Cio opo groton tion this is the first time that the know nothing I 1 have been brought upon chestand th estand and placed th their ir obligation to the society above their duty to the laws the boston statesman W |