Show JUDGES INTERCHANGE Judge Norrell Relieves Judge Rolapp in the Morris Case FOR TWO OR THREE DAYS DURING THE BEADING O TESTIMONY TES-TIMONY PREVIOUSLY GIVEN I Judge Rhodes Objects to Judge Powers Pow-ers as a Dramatic ReaderHay kens Testimony as Given at the Previous Trial Introduced Denver Paper Sheds Light on the Bribery Cases Yesterdays proceedings in the Morris bribery case were dry and uninteresting Court convened at 10 oclock with Judge Holapp on the bench and Judge Rhodes of counsel for the prosecution resumed his reading to the Jury of the transcript of the testimony given by Martin Hayken at the previous trial a month ago This occupied the forenoon arid told taut Hay ken nail agreed to pay Morris a bribe of 2u per cent of the gross price of the turniture and had actually paid him 5000 also that the alleged mining deal between be-tween Hu ken and Morris was a fake gotten tip by Morris to cover up the cor ut transaction transacton hen Judge Powers counsel for Morris took the stand and read the crossexami nation of Huyken The judge read with a great deal of emphasis and effect and tho jury appeared to be enjoying the performance immensely when Judge Rhodes interposed an objection to the manner in which Judge Powers was readii declaring that it was just like the way an actor would emphasize his lines and which Mr Rhodes thought was an improper Way of presenting the case to the jury Judge iowers declared very good htimoredly that he had a right to read as he pleased and that he would do so also that he was not responsible for his intonation articulation or accentuation and the court ordered the reading to be proceeded with The direct cross redirect and recross examination of Hayken occupied the entire en-tire day up to 430 oclock Judge Rolapp then announced that i was impossible for him to be here on Monday and Tuesday and It was suggested sug-gested that Judge Norrell take his place on the bench and listen to the reading of old testimony for a couple of days This was finally agreed upon and Jude Powers stated that almost the entire testimony given at the trial of Morris in May when he was acquitted on the charge of accepting the bribe would have to be submitted to the jury with a view of showing that the case tried then was Identical with the one on trial now and that Morris having then been acquitted d uu h + h was enuueu lU uii uviiuuuii uun un uiv round that no man can be twice tried ior the same offense I was agreed that this proceeding will take place before Judge Norrell and Court Stenographer Pike will commence reading from his notes at 10 oclock tomorrow mornIng and will read for two or three days A NEW VERSION OF IT The Denver Evening Post a few days ago had the following account of an interview with Martin Hayken in which I an entirely new version of the bribery business is given At the Albany are registered MartinA Martin-A Hayken and F V Stratton of Chicago Chi-cago Martin Hayken who is well known in Denver from a previous residence resi-dence here was the defendant In the recent re-cent trial at Salt Lake of the case brought against the county commissioners commission-ers and himself for accepting bribes in the purchase of furniture for the new public buildings 1 was at Chicago where I represent a large furniture company when re certlr summoned as a witness in another an-other trial against the commissioners said Mr Hayken this morning My trial 1 occurred some weeks ago for bribing brib-ing the authorities of Salt Lake City and I was acquitted of the charge On my arrival last week in Utah I found the case had been postponed so we are returning re-turning to Chicago to spend tho holidays Everybody In the Mormon city seems to feel good times are coming The mining outlook is good much work in prospecting prospect-ing is being done and Tintic camp which is among the latest has recently been enriched by much foreign capital The case of bribery against the county commissIoner in Salt Lake City attracted at-tracted much attention over the west I was charged Mr Hayken representing tho Chicago furniture house secured the placing of their furniture in the new city and county building by the use of individual indi-vidual bribes This was proven conclusively con-clusively to be unfounded as to Hayken but the commissioners are yet to be ad judred innocent or guilty |