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Show XELS.UX UP AGAIN'. This. Tims Ho li lliirgfd Mi 1'crfori.ilng nu Linbtzzlenicnt Irlik. M. Marcellua "elion, tho crrntlo attorney, went before Commissioner l'ratt yesterday afierroon ou the charge of embezzlement. The defend, nnt entcrod n plea of not guilty. Judge Cherry and Attorney ICroeger con-ducted con-ducted Iho defense and Aeilitnut County Attorney JUIchnor appeared for thn proieoutlon. Joiopli Nelson, the proiecullng witness, wit-ness, was first examined. IIo stated that he waa an einpluyu at tbe (Hr-mania (Hr-mania Lead Works. He started a JJO,. UUO suit agalnat the company for datnagci, aud Nelson A. Condon were his attorneyr. The tult was begun In (September, 159:. He met Nelson from time to time, and as late res February of the present year, nnd otkud him how the ault was gelling ou, IS'tltm each lime re( lied mat It was not jit flulthed. Iu February he met Condon, Con-don, who waa surprised when he asked hi in about tlio suit, at It Iml been loltlod lu bovember of fait year. Jlo Iheu went after Nelion, who put him off levtral lliuea, and rtt lust tie got J.C. Coadas attorney and placed tlio bill lu his hands fur collection. -Set-eon bdmlttitl owing JSJ Io the witness-. The defense lougiu to show ou iroto examination that witness had allowed Nelson to keep this money lis fen lor bis icivlcesluu suit to bo brought by Ihu witness fjr n divorce, hut the wltneis tald lie diJ not employ the Uefeudaul. tt J. t . t o id ai a witness for tho roic-euilonialdhe roic-euilonialdhe had repeatedly niked Melsuuiurtue mouej, but was each time ut oil by Iho defendant. J. -M. llldwell, bjokkeepor nt tbe Uirmaula imelier, was next callej, He roducod a receipt, end al a can-celeu can-celeu lliuk, which showed tliut Nelson hud received J16D ai neettleiuent of the hboeiiueutloutd tult ou the ISth of lab! fsuveaiber, William Condon, ex-law partner of iNelsuu, stated that there was 151 etue tu the inieiutlug ultuTOS, und he thought It had ml been paid over. Thu aultwaitittledforjlBu, ol which tho lawyers were to get M, and JJl) was deducted from tho sharo of tho iroae-cutlng iroae-cutlng wltueMforuoctors' bills. Ihe prosecution then closed, with the understanding that tho defense woull o eu at 3 p. in. today. |