| Show JONES CASE IS NOT YET SETTLED JUDGE MURPHY WITHHOLD HIS DECISION states that the county attorney hai been hampered in his prosecution from fridays standard basing his contention on the statement that instead of being guilty of embezzlement fred W jones had simply called to settle an account attorney henderson asked that his client be discharged after ane prosecuting witness had testified at the preliminary bearing this morning this judge murphy refused to do and took the case under consideration until tomorrow morning the complaint charged that while acting as recording secretary of the bartenders union jones converted to his orji use the sum of the proceeds of a dance given on january ard 3rd this year president A H black of the union was the first witness he testified that a the time of the dance jones was recording secretary of the union and that he had charge of the collecting of the funds of the dance that he black bad based the statements in the complaint to which ha shoie on thu statement of s of the union who had paid money to jones which money was not turned over to the treasurer on direct examination black said that he had talked to jones about the matter and that jones had promised to pay back the money he also stated that jones had been promised a commission for collecting the money but that th amount had not been fixed last week he was called to the office of mr henderson and the matter was settled black receiving 75 and signing a receipt in full for all claims the union had against jones previous to that mr black had promised jones that in the event of a settlement the union would use its good offices in having tha case against him dismissed the other witnesses simply cor ro borated the statements of mr black adding nothing new lo 10 the testimony at the conclusion of the testimony of the witnesses for the prosecution both sides rested their case no witness by the defense in submitting the case mr henderson said that there was no evidence to show that embezzlement had been committed that mr jones had been hired to collect some accounts that the amount of his compensation had never been fixed and that mr jones had been willing and ready at any tima to settle the matter and that the mat ter had been settled as soon as tha amount of his compensation had beba fixed in announcing his decision to tala the case under advisement judge mur phy said that it seemed to him that some kind of an arrangement had beba entered into between the defendant and the prosecuting witnesses that tha press had stated that the case was to be settled out of court and that laero seemed to have been a desire on tha part of the prosecution to push tha case until a settlement had been made and that the county attorney had been hampered by such methods in tha prosecution of the case in view of these conditions judge murphy stated that he doubted that ft conviction could be had in the district court but that he would consider the case until tomorrow morning when net would announce his decision librarians IN SESSION portland july 6 state library commissions and other economic questions and interesting sessions by the american bibliographical society with president W C lane of har arad college library leading occupied the attention of the general sess lond of the american library association today J L richardson of princeton presented the report on gifts anil bequests topeka kas july 6 the standard oil company has filed an answer in the supreme court to the ouster suit brought against the company by tha state of kansas the answer danlea everything alleged by the state against the standard oil company and in addition as its main argument attacks the validity of the kansas antitrust anti trust law if the court again declares tha law to be valid the case will be appealed to the united states supreme court |
