Show BADGERING WITNESSES I Covering a Clients Guilt by Assailing As-sailing Those who Saw His Crime The spectacle of a sleigh dashing up Main Street yesterday afternoon driven by Sheriff Groesbeck with B Y Hampton Hamp-ton sitting composedly at his side drew a good many astonished eyes in that direction A HEEALD reporter who followed fol-lowed the rig vigorously saw it pull up before the City Hall and learned in a short time after that the case of J W Farrell was on trial and that Mr Hampton had been brought up as a witness Mr P L Williams defended the prisoner and examined the three witnesses Messrs Solomon Stewart Stew-art and Hampton with a rigor and an inquisitiveness not to say an insolence in-solence which repeatedly caused wratlful response aid interruptions by Messrs Moyle and Kenner on the II other sidej There Was no shakingor controvertingjthe decidedly plaimfanil detestable fdcts ini Ke case ami Mr Williams very plainly showed that he wished to get even by entrapping the witnesses into admissions which would criminate themselves He got Mr Sjlomon badly muddled by a series of I sharp crossquestions arid when he asked that gentlemen wnether he had resorted himself to Miss Davenports Daven-ports house for purposes of lewdness Mr Solomon replied sharply Ill answer that in my own way Do so said Mr Williams All I can say then said the witness is that if you are as free as I am from making such visits youre all right Mr Stewart told a plain straight and unvarnished tale admitting having visited the house many times as a detective de-tective having seen Farrell there and describing how he looked through the augur hole in the door To this witness Mr Williams poured in a host of such questions as to whether he had enjoyed himself Whether he found himself sufficiently purified after his visit to enable him to do his duty in school Whether the journal he kept illustiaed etc etc The witness said he was willing to tell tlte truth he wanted however to be Ifiated aragentJeman b Mr Williams said he wantedto know what motives actuafed fblafellota t Mr Moyle said this genttoaditt motives couldnot be ascertained by such a line of questioning and tHespat proceeded till the Court went through the process of sitting down upon Mr Williams Mr Hampton came in waS sworn and testified to having been present on the occasion referred to in the complaint and described all details in his clearest I coolest and frankest manner Mr Williams following up the same line of questioning that he had persisted per-sisted in with the former witnesses was met with a frankness not at all flattering flatter-ing to his client Urged to answer with whom he had arranged for making his visits to Miss Davenports house he declined de-clined to answer on the ground that it would criminate himself and when asked from whom he obtained the pattern pat-tern from which his key to the house was made he declined answering for the same reason The case went to the judge without I argument the judge reviewed the evidence evi-dence which was so convincing that no I one except Varian and Zane would ever think of doubting it and their conduct as to these cases we understand is not I based upon any doubt as to guilt and the prisoner was found guilty The usual sentence of three months imprisonment im-prisonment in the county jail and 299 fine was imposed The usual appeal was taken with the usual bondsmen Messrs Mason and Glendenning members I mem-bers of the present and the past Grand Jury they being selected and willingly I serving to demonstrate the rule of right and the eternal fitness of things I During the trial of his case Mr barrel bar-rel sat with a flushed and downcast countenance the first one apparently whom Varian Zane and the others had not succeeded in convincing that there was nothing ignominious in his crime I and its public exposure I |