The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 25, 1917, Page 6

W Abit: CHESTNUT CHARLIE BY BIOSSER , ATE MY WIFE GAVE NE FoR CHRISTMAS ¢ = 3 ge 2 PER-RR. N a rcs 5 vais SC HALL VINDICATED AFTER TEN MINUTE DELIBERATION (Continued From Page One.) part of the jury, and ils reception was equally unanimous upon' the part of the spectators. | CLOSING SCENES. Last Proceedings in the Trial of Sec- retary of State. Christmas carols in ‘glad child voices rang out from gaily lighted churches; the streets filled with gift- laden, late Christmas shoppers happily homeward bound; from hundreds of windows the service flag of the Red Cross gleamed its message of good cheer to a world re-born, while, in the dingy Burleighgcounty court house, in the most dramatic moments that theater has ever known, three pow- erful attorneys brought every energy, every ounce of intellect, every wile und every bit of wisdom at their com- mand to bear on ‘a bitter struggle which waged over the fate of Thomas Hall, secretary of state a— criminal which was determined early this morning when a jury of twelve Bur-' leigh county mem said that. Thomas Hal, secretary of state, should go from that court room to ihe arms of his waiting family, a free man, his rec- ord cleared of a foul blemish. | Midnight Ends Argument. The bells of St. Mary's had boomed out the hour for midnight mass be- fore the last word: was spoken and the hard-worked jury received its charge from the court. Into those long hours had» been crowded beautiful word pictures; bitterest in- vestive; such excoriation of opposing factions as had not been witnessed in this district court for many and many a year. Through it all, the one man who sat unmoved, most uncon- cerned, to all outward appearances, was Thomas Hall, the . defendant—a man grown.aged and worn under the trial of the dast six weeks and the tension of the tast six days. | BURKE SPRINGS SENSATION. Walla’s Lawyer Tells of Planting Dictagraph. ( Judge E. T. Burke, recéntjy of the North Dakota supreme court, and now counsel for Eugene M. Walla, Yotntly 4 charged with Thomas Hall, secretary ‘sor state, with the embezzlement of automobile registration funds of the» state, proved prolific of sensations when he took the stand as the state’s last witness in rebuttal following the conclusion of Hell's testimony in his own behalf late Monday afternoon. On direct examination Judge Burke testified that Oct. 31, the morning fol- lowing the double-arrest, Hall came to his office in The Tribune building and in the presence of Walla stated that he intended to plead guilty. Hall had not then consulted-an attorney, testi- fied Judge Burke, who stated that he persuaded Hall to consult counsel be- fore taking any radical step. On cross examination Judge Burke admitted complicity in placing in the Walla residence a dictograph, through which agency Burns detectives, sta- tioned in the basement of the Walla home, were to listen to a supposedly private conference between Walla and Hall. Judge Burke stated that the detectives came ‘to him with the pro- position, and that inasmuch as he wished to obtain the truth, not only about Mr. Hall but about his own client, Walla, he consented to assist in placing the dictagraph: Hall de- clined to keep the appointment at Walla’s home, and the dictragraph had no conversation to record. Burke Last Witness. Judge Burke was the last witness. Both sides rested following the con- clusion of his examination, and after a consultation the court announced that each side would be aliowed three hours fer the closing arguments. Assistant Attorney General Bren- nan led off with a masterly, clear-cut statement of the state's case. He de- clared the standard of North Dakota citizenship was on trial in this case. He reviewed the evidence, contrasting, that of Hall and Walla, and declared it evident that someone is lying. The jury, he said, must judge to some ex- tent between.Hall and Walla. “The fact that a man may be secre- without boiling, (Signed) According to the bacteriological report covering the past ten days the city water conforms to the United States Public Health standards, and may now be used for domestic purposes Dr. F. B. Strauss, City Health Officer. Dated December 24th 1917. | FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS LIKE ALL DREAMS THIS WAS A GOOD ENDING THAT'S Your House, 1S IT? MEMO WELL, YOU BETTER JUMP cae im OUT OR You'LL SEE WHAT I'M GOING To mate LEAVE FOR You! MERRY CHRISTMAS, FRECKLES! 5 tary of state doesn’t prove that he is telling the truth—it may prove only that ‘ke has a more tremendous reason to tell an untruth. You can’t say, ‘one of these is a big man and the other a tittle man” Men act very much alike When they are cornered.” He charged that Hall's own evi- dence was proof of carelessness in conducting the business of his office; that the secretary of state had not ex- ercised a proper supervision of the automobile registration department, and that he knew it was not right to carry from month to month the large balances reported. He declared that Walla’s going hunting was the act of} their date of a man who had nothing on his con- science, and that Hali’s frantic ef- forts to raise money at this period were decidedly the reverse. STUTSMAN FOR DEFENSE ‘Says Governor Cashed Checks From Auto Fund. The address of W. H. Stutsman of Mandan, who opened for the defense, was what might have been expected from that veteran of thirty years’ ser- vice at the bar. He did not try for oratorical effects. His approach was temperate. He marshalled well the facts which rebounded to the credit of his client, and poured volley after vol- ley into the offensive of the opposi- tion. Funds of Department. He showed that Thomas Hall, sec- retary of state, had cashed checks pfrom the funds of the automobile reg- istration deparjment, and that these checks were gaod, and he produced a check of Governor Lynn J. Frazier, cashed by Nelson A. Mason, the gov- erno:’s private secretary, to show that the practice was more or less com- mon to all departments, not excepting | the cnief executive himself; that the automcbile department of the secre-| tary oL state’s office was a convenient Bismarck, N. D. UNURUNNOUOUSUCOUOUDOUNGUEADSUUCUERSURLDEDOAROUDONOD SD el Notice to the Public PUTT bank for employes of the capital; that they cashed checks from this fund, and that these checks had gone through and had been credited to the automobile registration fund in the state treasurer's office. Cancelled Checks. Mr. Stutsman produced a stack of cancelled checks drawn by Thomas Hall which had gone through the de- partment in this manner. None of these checks, he informed the jury, had been for more than $20, and every one of them had been made good; nci held for a year, as Walla stated on the stand,’ but cashed, as cancellation showed, within three to six days after they wers issued. The gact that slips had appeared in the automombile registration funds from time to time and that they had been charged to Mr. Hall’s account was due to the latter‘s accommodation of friends who ’phored in from out of town in a great hurry for tags, and who forwarded the fee Jater, when these siips were redeemed, said Stuts- man. Admits 1916 Shortage. Stutsman admitted a shortage ex- isted January 1, 1916, but he declared Hall was ignorant of the fact, and that Walla was responsible for it: He then read a confession signed by Eugene M. Walla and purporting to have been delivered to the attorney general, in which Walla admitted that he was short $2,075 at the time the examination of the automobile de- partment began about October 15. “The attorney general knew ‘that Walla was perjuring himself when he allowed Walla to go on the stand and testify that he had taken none of this money,” said Stutsman. Thorpe Touches Tremelo. for the defense. He opened with an appeal to the jury to consider the children in the defendant’s home this Christmas eve who are awaiting your verdict. 3 “We are tired, gentlemen,” said Thorpe. “The-court is tired; these have been trying days. They are ter- ribly tired over there in Europe. The world is tired, tonight, gentlemen; tired, worn and sick at heart. But we to this defendant and to this state. Langer’s Consideration. “If Mr. Langer had shown half as much consideration for Hall as he did for himself when he invaded military lines here in your city of Bismarck to " escape the due process of the law of our state, we would not have been here tonight, gentlemen,” declared Thorpe in making the charge that the attorney general’s office had not duely investigated before it began its prosecution. and in asserting that the state’s entire case is based upon the testimony of a ‘self-confessed thief and a perjurer and a forger.” Thorpe registered with the jury strenuous objections to the state's conduct of the case from the begin- fing; to its method of obtaining evi- dence, and its treatment of projec- tive witneses and to the trial itself, and he’referred to his opponents as zealous, but immature. 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We have them. let.us tell you about them. ~ First National Bank _. BISMARCK, ND. AA The Come in and ; curing the defendant's release. have a duty here to perform—a duty |“ i BOODLE IN LARGE AMOUNTS USED TO "REY EX-BANKER ut of Portland Attorney Hints at Scandal in Securing Presidential Pardon. MORSE DISCHARGED BY TAFT —- Wife of Banker Free With Offers of Money and Also Pulls Social Wires. New Yark Dec. 24.—Walter E. Reid of Portland, Maine, who is suing Charles W. Morse for $150,000 for al- leged breach of contract, today filed in the federal district, court supple- mentary particulars demanded by the defendant in elaboration of the plain- tiff's claim that he had prevented Morse and his wife from engaging in “improper and unwise enterprises,” in their efforts to obtain the banker's release from the federal penitentiary at Atlanta. Morse’s sentence of imprisonment for fifteen years for misapplication of the funds of the National Bank of ; America was commuted Jan. 18, 1912, | by President Taft after the prisoner had served a little more than two years of his sentence. The presi- dent’s action was based on the rec- ommendation of Attorney General Wickersham and the report of Sur- conclusion was: Torney’s Conclusion. “In my opinion the prisoner’s dura- tiow of life wil be in all probability | less than one month if kept in con- finement and in the event of his re- lease under commutation of sentence it is not probable that he will live as jong as six months.” Mr. Reid, in his additional: particu- lars filed today, said: ! “In the spring of 1910 at ‘the New York office of the defendant, Mrs. 'Morse stated to the plaintiff that Er- win Morse, the defendant's ‘son, was a collegemate of Robert Taft, Presi- dent Taft’s son, and that she was go- ing to invite Robert’ Taft to New York to spend a week end and offer him $10,000 to use his influence in pro- Mrs. Morse also stated she would get Rob- ert Taft to.see Justice White. Plain- geon General Torney. Mr. Torney’s- tiff prevented Mrs. Morse from carry- ing out this plan. Schemes With Garland. _ “Mrs. Morse also had interviews and correspondence with one Garland of Philadelphia, who was to procure defendant’s pardon in consideration of $50,000, of which sum the said Gar- land was to retain $10,000 for himself. The method by which the pardon was to be obtained was undisclosed. The plaintjff prevented this arrangement from being carried out.” After relating several other in- stances in which Mr. Reld alleged that he prevented Mrs. Morse from using “undisclosed means” to obtain her husband’s release, the supplementary bill for particulars, enemurates a list of influential men who it alleges were interview by the plaintiff in Mcrse’s behalf. Verbal Contract. “Plaintiff also wrote to President Taft and corresponded with and in-/ terviewed officials of the department of justice acting under direction of At- torney General Geo. W. Wickesham,” says the supplementary bill of particu- lars. Although Morse in his answer to Reid’s suit denied that the plaintitt had eyer rencered ‘any services for | him, the plaintiff asseris that the con- tract sued upon—a verbal oue—cover- &l the period from August. 1), 1909, to May 1, 1913, and that hig ; Jisburse- ments in Morse’s behalf approximated $44,400. % UIZ OF PAGKERS AGAIN THURSDAY Washington, Dec. 24. — Arrange ments for resumption of the federal trade commission’s investigation of the packers at Boston Thursday after- noon were completed tonight after a request by long distance telephone had obtained the use of the federal building there. Francis J. Heney, counsel for the commission, will conduct the hearing and at least one memder of the com- mission will be present. 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