Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1895-04-20 | Page 8 | Adams Paid the Costs

Adams Paid the Cots Philip Adams the colored man who failed to appear as a witness in the r Kessler murder case until a bench warrant war-rant was issued for his apprehension appeared In court yesterday morning to explain to Judge Bartch why he should not be punished for contempt Attorney Edler of counsel for Kessler Kes-sler now offered an explanation in Adams behalf He said that Adams was engaged a engineer at the Galena block He had been present here every day since the trial began until yesterday yester-day when he was anxious to be at his post of duty Therefore counsel promised mised to telephone to him at the Wasatch drug store as soon as he was wanted It so happened that there are two Wasatch drug stores in the city and the bailiff telephoned to the wrong place Hence the cause of Adams not being in court when required Judge Bartch ordered that Adams pay let him the go costs of the attachment and J