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Show Hews from the live wires ATTORNEYS ARE FINED. CIH n Darrow Trial la Followed by Contempt Charge. Los Angeles, Juno 6. District Attorney At-torney John D. Fredericks was fined LIJ5.00 and Attorney H. H. Appel I 5.00 .-0r contempt of court by Judge Hut-4toa Hut-4toa today following an exciting clash between opposing counsel In the trlat of Clarence S. Darrow. The defendant defend-ant participated in the wrangle. The controversy occurrrcd while the defense was objecting to the Introduction In-troduction Into the evidence of the checks drawn by Frank Morrison, secretary sec-retary of the American Federation of Labor, In favor of Clarence S. Darrow, and nearly ended In a flat fight between be-tween Appol and Fredericks. Mr. Fredericks, addressing the court for tho first tlmo since the trial tri-al began, announced that ho would admit tho authenticity of tho signatures signat-ures of himself and Mr. Morrison on the checks drawn In tho McN'amara defense fund. "You wouldn't admit It If we could not prove It," said Cnptaln Fredericks in nn asldo to Darrow. Darrow denounced tho remark of the district attorney as gross misconduct miscon-duct and declared that It was made to Influence tho Jury, which was closer clos-er to tho district attorney thnu him- self. "I thought tho defendant In thla case," said the district attorney, "had more manhood and stamina than to bal such a thing out In tho court Attorney Appel characterize? tho remarks of Fredericks as "cowardly nd unprofessional." Tho district attorney Intimated that the defense was ','playlng tho baby act" Appel started toward Fredericks Freder-icks In a threatening manner, declaring declar-ing that he was not afraid of Fred-rlcks. Fred-rlcks. Judge Hutton reprimanded Fredericks Freder-icks and Appol. Fredericks then do-clarcd do-clarcd that he had meant his remark to Darrow as a "mere pleasantry." Judge Hutton announced that upon reflection ho considered a reprimand luiufficlcnt penalty for such, misconduct miscon-duct and Imposed the fines. Checks totaling $170,000 nil made .out In favor of Mr. Darrow and signed t3lr Morrison, had been read Into tho "' record when tho noon adjournment was taken. H H. Flather, tho Washington, D. C bank cashier, wns on the stand throughout tho morning session, but nas asked only one question, which as ruled out unanswered. The cr.se of Clarence S. Darrow for alleged Jury bribery made further declaration de-claration today of Its purpose to nt-tempt nt-tempt to prove that a certain check sent Mr. Darrow from tho McNamarn defenso fund was converted Into the money used In the alleged bribery of McNamara Jurors. Vigorous objection by the defense to tho Introduction Into evidence of a book cancelled checks brought a statement from District Attorney At-torney Fredericks that the prosecution prosecu-tion would seek to trace only one check. Fredericks said that contrary to tho usual methods of the dofendant In depositing de-positing checks received from Frank Morrison, secretary of the American Federation of Labor, check mentioned as taken to another city and converted con-verted Into currency. The defenso expressed wllllngnoss to admit that tho signatures of Darrow Dar-row and Morrison on tho chocks :werq authentic, but denied tho admlssabll-Uy admlssabll-Uy of tho checks Into ovidonco. H. H. Flather, cashle'd of a Washington, Wash-ington, D. C bank, took tho stand 'hen tho trial or Darrow was resumed this morning. Tho book of checks bearing Mor rison's signature and said to aggregate aggre-gate a total of more than 1200,000, Includes In-cludes one. for $10,000, drawn by Morrison Mor-rison on December 1. 1911, and cancelled can-celled on the same day. This was the day upon which the McNamara brothers broth-ers pleaded guilty. |