| Show OWNER FAILS TO CLAIM confiscated WHISKY difficulty Difficult 3 of securing evidence Is shown at edwards edards hearing mani difficulties confront the cil officers beers in their prosecution of alleged cases of 0 illicit liquor selling among these the most difficult lithe ig the souring of evidence that will viii convict men tie who will give without it hout h hsi tincy evidence on rany fany othel crime will be come perfectly murn mum when called upon to in ill a whiskey elle in III the district court on monday it fair maniple cample of the evidence usually given bv the friends of the illicit whiskey sp saliers liers the reputed owner of the Ahi skei sewed seized on november ath had been summoned lumi to appear and show cause why the liquor should not be destroyed in an effort to trace the liquor from the depot at elsinore Eli inore to the place where it was found in richfield on election day the prosecution placed frank anderson anderaon on the stand it being alleged that he be had edwards to elsinore EI on the trip when the liquor was received from the rall railroad company after being sworn aborn stating his hie place of residence and other preliminary questions mr anderson anderaon WIB was asked if he had bad been in elsinore one november ath of this year with mr edwards Ud warda his answer haq was 1 I dont remember when asked if he had his team hitched to a I 1 white top buggy brg and standing anding bt on center street during the afternoon of the ath of nove november aber when mr leavitt the city marshal passed he answered 1 I dont remember when questioned as to whether he remembered beling being 1 I elsinore on that day ho ha replied no I 1 dont the next question do you remember whether you a pre re in the vicinity of richfield t brought the same anae no I 1 dont when questioner questioned by the court as to his ever having baen in rip yjih VV 1 la ue I 1 answered 1 I dont remember when asked hy by the court Is bour memory defective he replied Some times iea aes chiq man had been sworn to give evidence in a court of justice haq had pledged himself to tell the whole truth and but the truth and let et he remember where IB ho was on election day we think the prosecution missed it when mr air anderson andersen was not questioned as to his recollection of noting doting on that day had he been unable tn ill remember that circum stance he be would to a certainty have proved his right to be considered tie de festive in memory in rebuttal of ahn evidence the prosecution cution placed mr air tarney karney the agent of the R G W railway dt at elsinore Ela inore on the witness stand mr carnei teti testified fied that mr edwards larro ana an a to elsinore on the dav in question and ailed fir freight consigned to oluff hll rby when told that the freight was 33 there he said iiii he ha had bad come to get it air farney told him that he could not get it unless oluff thursby signed for it in person per ion an other man came in from the wagon ind w ia i preserved 3 the person for whom the freight was intended and signed deigned for it signing oluff chur b in examination mr farney said that he believed he was delivering deli venne the goods to the proper person since that time however he harl had learned that he was mistaken when asked if he could identify the men to whom the goods were deliverer del iverel he stated that it was to frank anderson and james edwarda edward and that andersun anderson signed the receipt for tho tha same game the evidence given ba li H J hansen as tu to seeing the unloading of tile the chite hite top rig rif at tile the edwards edwardg residence was also favorable to the care of the probe prosecution cution it looks as though mr air andersons Ande rons faulty memory evidence will not be of much value hut but it la is typical l of the evidence that in favor of illicit liquor selling are always reldy reidy to rive give for verification of the evidence hire riven given as the evidence of mr air anderson And ereon our readers have only to look up the record of the court upon tile the case we hive have not depended up on street rumor |
