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Four Cases Fell Flat

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Day
3
Month
June
Year
1898
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Public Domain
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The six "Frozen Truth" saloon cases up in Duffy's court Wedensday and will occupy the entire day. There were six or eight prominent Anti-Saloon workera present to lend encouragement to the cause. The first cases taken up were those of Fred Reimold, Emil Golz and Chris. Spaeth, in which Arthur Brown representad the defendants. Mr. Sawyer represented Mr. Ier, Mr. Lawrence was attorney for Mr. Gwlnner and Mr. Merrlthew acted in th i ipaclty for Mr. Polhemus. Henry Cuthbert, the Toledo ■ lid the j reting for the Anti-Saloon League, was put on the and recited his story as to how ii' persuaded the saloon keepers to give him and his partner, Henry Shenlield, drinks on Sunday, March 27. He was quite positive in his (estimony for (ie People and on his cross-exami the following was brought out. 'I am a detective engaged in all work, mostly criminal, v small part of my work is investigating cases. I have done it in Detroit, Aan Arbor, and in two cities in Ohio. O. A. W'right, the district superinti ndent of the Anti-Saloon League, employed me to do the werk. J worked under his instructions and reported to him and to Judge Wm. N. Brown. Mr. Wood-Allen paid me for the work I aid here at the rate of $10 a ö id me about $45. T paid the other myself. I was for live years on the Toledo pólice forcé doing detective work and since then about one and one-half years in same line." The following tilt between the witAttorney Brown took place during the cross-examinatlon. It must be remembered that Mr. Reimold standing out in front of his place of business when by the tw l es. Brown- "Reimold at flest did not want to sell you anything?" Wjtnèss - "No, sir." "You afterwards persuaded him to sel] !■■ you?" "Ves, sir." "Were you hired to do this?" ' ■ I v. "Get your pay for doing it?" 'I did. and I saw ei man coming out loon when i went in." "And you knew you were lying to Reimold on the sidewalk when you told hiin that you wen bicycle workers Toledo and wanled to get In get a drink?" "I did." "Yoú knew it was against the laws 'irhigan for a saloon keeper to sell liquor on Sunday, didn't you?" flid." "And you lied to Reimold in order irsuade him to commit a cri "I 111 .1 i" hini to catch him whlle commUtlng a crime." "And you lied to him to entrap him into c mmltting a crime1.'" "We were lying to him to entrap him whlle committing a crime." Compared with saloons in other s are not Ann Arfoor's closed up y well?" "They compare favorably." The case of Christ. Spaeth was I :id the evidente showed thal ctive went up stairs and was S( drinks by somebody whom he did not uting Atti Babbitt did not as-k to have the int held unl( s that the man was in the employ of Mr. íi. and so the defendant was charged by Judse Du In the afternoon the cases aga Mr. Reimold and Mr. Golz was argued. Brown, attorney, showed ' authorities where the supreme court did nol give much credence to the tnsupported evidence of detectives whö ure emI in entivip people i;ito commitirimes and stamped them as ers and ab 1 are equally i i Mr. Babbitt admitted that it would be very difflcult to secure a conviotion be;i jury in the light of these supreme court decisions and said he did nol ask to have thè county put to the 'i trying them unless there was a probability of securlng a eonvictlon. As as he did not ask to have the defendants held there was oothing left for Judge Duffy to do but to discharge the two defendants and he did so. Mr. Polhemus liarged on the srae grrounds and thus four of the Anti-Saloon cases feil very flat. Mr. Gwinner's case was adjourned. until June !:; as Attorney Tawrence is out of the city and Mr. Staebler's i'as put off arft'l June !).

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