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at the association rooms. Miss Farley would be pleased to meet at that time any who are interested In Uie study of art. MAI'S or PLEAS ARE MADE THE SCRANTON REPUBLICAN, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1904. Charge of Cocrt will be Heard Early This Morning A Mrs. Reap who Was the Wrong Mrs.

Reap Well known Men Called as Witnesses. The trial of Richard Little, editor of the Scrantonian, charged with libeling B. H. Ripple in his issue of June 28, 1903, will be given to the jury this morning after a charge by Judge Edwards. The pleas of counsel Were made yesterday afternoon and, as anticipated, they proved very interesting.

John F. Scragg summed up for Little and was followed by Joseph O'Brien for the prosecutor. CASE RESUMED. When court opened yesterday morning the cross examination of Richard Little was resumed. He first answered some questions relative to the circulation of his paper.

"Will you give me the' reason you mentioned the Board of Charities throughout the article," interrogated Mr. O'Brien. "Because Mrs. Duggan is known as such to the outside world. She is in vested with executive powers and stanJs for the Board of Charities before the people." "Then, why did you not mention Mrs.

Duggan's name?" "Because when I did before every bum and low politician in the city came to me ana warned me not to repeat it." "Bums and low politicians directed the policy of your paper, did they?" "No, sir! No, sir! No, sir!" "How can you say you meant one person when you wrote that it consisted of the tail end of the Connell machine and that one end of the board worked the tenderloin for all it was worth, and its officers used it for graft sod th pvnression. 'the tail end the roa nn as I stated yesterday, because John Gibbons is employed by Mr. Connell, mainly, to work in politics for him. I don't like to bring in the names of dead men" The court: "The question is, how do you interpret the article as referring to one person?" Mr. Little: "It may have been a slip when plurals were used in the article." Mr.

O'Brien: "Oh, you now admit that you blundered, do you?" "I may have, mixed it a little, but I meant Mrs. Duggan and nobody else." "It was a mistake, was it, when you said the officers used the board for blackmail and persecution, and why you write, 'We repeat its officers have worked it for blackmail and why did you use the plural noun and the plural verb?" 'That sentence did refer to the board and was based upon an article of five years ago, when we made charges against the board." DEPUTY SHERIFF CALLED. Deputy Sheriff T. J. Price was called.

This was for the purpose of proving something relative to the case of a young man named Eckenrode of Luzerne county. The witness could not recollect the exact time of the occurrence, so this' testimony was ruled out. Mr. Price was asked whom he thought that the article complained of referred to. He said, "Mrs.

Duggan." He explained, "I thought that she was meant because I don't believe that fraud and corrupts could exist in a board composed oi ch men." Testimony along much the same line was given by C. A. Van Wormer. Warden William Corless, of the county jail; Joseph Reddington, the Penn avenue furniture dealer; Norton Wagner, an Elmhurst printer; F. W.

Howard of this city, organizer for a fraternal insurance organization; Hon. E. L. Merrifleld, Hon. Timothy D.

Hayes and Hon. John R. Farr all testified that they read the objectionable article and thought that it was an attack on Mrs. Duggan. ROBERT WILSON TESTIFIES.

Robert Wilson, agent for the Municipal league, testified that he thought the Scrantonian article was an attack on Mrs. Duggan. Wilson was asked if he had not recently criticised Ripple but was not permitted to answer. He said that he knew Little well and had called to see him after the alleged libelous article was printed. To questions regarding his visits to Mr.

Little, he replied: "I tried several times to get information about what Mrs. Duggan was reported to have done unlawfully." "Because as the agent of the Municipal league it was my duty to make reports to the committee of all kinds of corruption and they decided wheth er it ought to be brought into court." Mary Shannon was called but with drawn before any questions could be asked her. Mrs. Winifred Reap, the next woman sworn, proved to possess the right name, but she was the wrong party. She is from near the Hampton breaker, while the woman wanted lives on New York street.

The defease stated that after dinner they would produce the right witness. AN EXCITING MOMENT. Here an exciting incident occurred. Little walked close to the witness to get a good look at her, having been directed to do so by his counsel. Mr.

Jones ordered him back to his seat. Attorney Balentlne advanced belligerently on Mr. Jones and said, "You have no right to interfere with our client like this." This created a great hubbub, which the court silenced with difficulty. Mr. Fltzsimmons said that Mr.

Little had approached the witness because he was nearsighted. The court said it was all right, but the defendant should first have received the permission of the court. AFTERNOON SESSION. When court convened in the after noon Mrs. Kate Kunz was called to the stand.

The defense proposed to prove by her that shortly prior to the publi 1 cation of the article in question her 12 year old son was arrested as an Incorrigible boy, at the instance of Mrs. Duggan. The boy was cmmltted to the county jail by Alderman Kasson, but was consequently released by the court. The matteVwas called to the attention of Mr. Little, and it was one of the things which impelled him to write the article.

This evidence was objected to by the prosecution and the court ruled it out on the ground that It was immaterial. The defense sought to prove by Constable Steven Summerhill that in May June last he was summoned to Mrs. Duggan's office in the municipal building, and that Mrs. Duggan offered for $100 to settle a case charging William Dearing with fornication, In which the IN THE LITTLE CASE constable was interested. The money was subsequently paid to Mrs.

Duggan. This fact was communicated to Little. Judge Edwards also ruled out this evidence as immaterial. Mrs. Winifred Reap was called for the purpose of proving that Mrs.

Duggan demanded a sum of money from one Katie Donohue, who was pregnant and was given shelter by the witness; that Mrs. Duggan threatened to expose the girl's condition if the money wjis. not forthcoming. The evidence of the witness was objected to by the prose cution and the objection was sus tained. This concluded the evidence in the case and Mr.

Scragg proceeded to ad dress the jury on behalf of the de fendant. The agreement was that there should be one speech on each side. PLEA OF MR. SCRAGG. After preliminary remarks Mr Scragg proceeded to point out that his client should not be convicted because in writing the article that gave offense nothing was further from his mind that an attack on Mr.

Ripple. He then proceeded to explain Who was meant, and the reason why certain language was used. Mr. Scragg declared that the truth of the attack made on Mrs, Duggan had been established by the testimony of the defendant. He said that of his own knowledge, Mrs.

Duggan had again and again exacted tribute from unfortunate people. Un less it was true ''thrice damned be he for saying that about any individual." Scragg asserted that the members of the board of associated charities 1 owe it to themselves to clear the skirts of Mrs. Duggan or else put her out of her position. "We challenge, we he said, "the closest investiga tion of what we have alleged against Mrs. Duggan.

If she proceed against us, we will pile urj the evidence against her until she will lose the brazen front that she presents." "Competent wtnesses," Mr. Scragg went on, "had brought home to Richard Little that extortion was betns practiceoVupon the poor and helpless, That was why he had printed the ar ticle that had given offense to Mr. Ripple. This was, not the first time that an effort had been made to crush the defendant, but he cannot be put down by any political machine that now exists or ever will exist in Lack awanna county." "As long as people are decent they will never have to fear Richard Lit tie," went on Scragg. "The article that he wrote was temperate under the cir cumstances.

The wonder is that he did not write such an article as. would have caused the people to rise up and place this agent out of the pale of de cent soceity." i WHO ARE INTERESTED. Scragg claimed that the best people in the city are interested in the out come of this trial. They have come here to see if a man has done what he has done can be convicted in this court. Counsel then took up the offendin; article and proceeded to read and ex plain certain parts of it.

He asked them to read it in the jury room and to try and make themselves as thin skinned as Ripple was so that they couM determine whether reference was made to the prosecutor. The word "officers" as used by Little did not apply to Ripple or to Israel or to Cohen or any of the others. It meant Mrs. Duggan, who was the executive officer. Passing on, Mr.

Scragg said that none of the members of the as sociated charities knew much about what the board was doing. There was a little honor in it, and they accepted it. "As far as Mrs. Duggan was concerned," went on the counsel, "Little did not attempt to hide behind a barn, but came out in the open and declared that she was guilty and that he could prove more than he had alleged." "The jury, if it did its sworn duty under the evidence, could not convict the defendant," said Mr. Scragg.

"Try the case fairly and do unto Richard Little as you would be done by, were matters reversed." Mr. Scragg here waxed eloquent in his reference to thje pride Amercian people feel in the liberty that they enjoy and in the liberty of the press. He read the extract from the constitution of the Unted States relating to the matter, and assertbd that its provision gave Mr. Little the right to print the article that had brought him into court. Counsel closed by an earnest denunciation of the bribers, bums and low politicians who had made the name of Scranton a byword expressing the hope that Little would be permitted to go on and aid in the work of exterminating them.

ADDRESS OF O'BRIEN. In opening his plea for the prosecutor, Joseph O'Brien said that he wanted to discuss the matter without feeling. However, 4je believed that in a case of the kind it was best to stick to the "Let me say that we are not amid the clash of political weapons, not where political contests are 20 Blue Stamps with dollar purchase. Bring coupon. Fruit Special.

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But counsel for the defense do not agree even as to that. Fltzsimmons in opening the case complimented Rippfe. Scragg, like his client, Little, the libeler, did not abuse Ripple, but indulged in scraggy insinuations regarding him. "How are you going to blow in this law suit?" he asked. "Fltzsimmons blows hot and Scragg blows cold, and between them Little will probably fall." O'Brien read what the constitution contained regarding the right of a man to protect his reputation.

Reputation, he declared, by the organic law of the commonwealth, is placed on a par with life and property. After referring to the public services of the prosecutor O'Brien said that he found enough time in his busy life to raise the fallen and to help the needy. That's the man that this de famer of character, th)isi malicious character wrecker, Dick Little, uses as a target for his articles. O'Brien road the provision of the constitution that refers to the abuse of the privileges of the press, and alleged that it had been most grossly abused by the defendant. TALK OF CORRUPTION.

"This talk of municipal corruption has nothing to do with the prosecutor," went on Mr. O'Brien. "I have been amused to hear Scragg and Little tell how much Little had to do with rooting it out in Scranton. Let me say that I was interested in the last end of these proceedings against boodlers, and I have no recollection that Little was concerned in them in any manner whatever. Mr.

O'Brien then proceeded to ridicule the contention of the defendant that the article of June 28, 1903, re. ferred to Mrs. Duggan alone. He pointed out that "it contained no reference to a woman, only officers and members were mentioned." If Little were arrested at the instance of Mrs. Duggan for the publication of the editorial, his contention would be that he had in no respect referred to her.

and counsel announced that ind such a plea, court would permit the defendant to walk from the court room. 'When you speak about an officer of an association, what do you mean?" queried O'Brien. "You 'mean the president, or the secretary or the treas urer. Could you possibly mean a wo man whom you hired to da your work? No, the dust with which Dick Little has sought to envelop this case is pure rot." Mr. O'Brien sought to make a point out of an admission that he had made a blunder which he claimed to have gotten out of Little at the, morning session.

O'Brien denounced as untrue the statement made to the jury by Scragg that Little had offered to submit to the associated charities his proof of the guilt of Mrs. Duggan. CONVICTION REQUESTED. Mr. O'Brien suggested that under the law and the evidence it was the duty of the jury to convict the defendant, if they would free him it would be to let him go at other decent citizens and again dip his pen in malice.

"You may let him go, gentlemen, but I will have to see you do It before I will believe it." Counsel read an article from the pen of a prominent writer, setting forth how far a newspaper might go in its criticism of public officials. He denounced Little as a coward for seeking to escape responsibility for his own act by making an attack on a wo man. Mr. O'Brien referred to the manner In which Little had brought in one witness after another only to have the testimony ruled out. Why? Because it was not proper testimony in the present case.

The evidence overwhelm ngly established the guilt of the ac cused and the jurors should do their duty and in that way preserve the peace of the community. If they failed to do so, some day, some one, in the exercise of his just passion and his indignation when called a fraud, a plunderer and a corruptionlst, will not have the patience to carry the matter to the office of an alderman, but will 1 take the law into his own hands and will visit swift punishment upon such libeler as Dick Little. MRS. DUGGAN DEFENDED. Regarding this article of June, 1903, said Mr.

O'Brien, Dick Little, libeler, defamer, villifler of character, instead of being ashamed of himself, boasts of it. You saw' Mrs. Duggan here. Did you see her look in the face of the man who had libeled her, and did you 'see her face turn away and look out of the window? Did she look and act like a guilty woman or an innocent one? Do you think that If she was the kind of a woman that the Scrantonian claimed she was that she would have been retained by the honorable men concerned in the position of agent for the Associated Charities? Instead of coming in here as a man, admitting that he made a mistake, and throwing himself upon the mercy of this court, the defendant crawls around the skirts of a woman, the act of a coward. O'Brien pointed out that even if Little had not been actuated by he had been negligent, and that waS just as grave an offense before the law.

In conclusion the speaker asked the jury to do its duty so that court could teach Little the lesson of which he was in need. At the conclusion of the argument, Judge Edwards complained of fatigue and said that he would not charge the jury until morning. There are all sorts of guesses as to the leanings of the Jury, but a verdict Is expected some time today. Take advantage of the elegant skating at Rocky Glen. Won't last WILL DECORATE DUGS In Order to Live in Scranton They Must Hare Fancy Collars and Metal Plates.

ACTION 03S NEW ORDINANCE A measure that is much in favor with the administration passed third reading in common council last night. It is commonly called the "dog ordinance, and provides "for the licensing of dogs, and dog pounds therefor, and providing for the treatment for the prevention of hydrophobia." Director Edgar says it is very necessary that this measure should pass as there are practicaly no laws now in reference' to dogs. At the request of the director the cityoIictor has been looking up the law and finds that the only measure on record provides that dogs shall be muzzled from May 2 to Sept 20. It was the intention of the depart ment to start a slaughter of wandering dogs, if there was any law to justify it, but as the matter stands now it has no authority to take such action. Mr.

Edgar states that there are probably 10,000 dogs in this city, but for some reason or another only 1701 are assessed, and that exonerations probably reduce that number to 1,000. The newly introduced ordinance will have a two fold effect In the first place it will empower the department of public safety to destroy all dogs. without owners, or those whose value is so small that no license will be se cured. In this manner he estimates that over one half the dogs in the city will soon find their way to the crematory. People who have valu able dogs will procure licenses and take proper care of their animals.

In the second place, the city, instead of receiving a revenue, estimated not to exceed $1,500 a year, will derive sev eral thousand dollars. The license fees are $1.50 and $3, and the penalty for failure to secure a license is the death of the dog and a fine of $5 to $50 for the owner, and a penalty of from $5 to $50 is imposed upon any one except the owner, who removes the tag or plate from the neck of any dog. Any dog caught on the street without a tag on its neck will be tak en to the pound and kept for 72 hours and if the owner does not claim it at the end of that time the dog will be put to death. One half of all the fines collected shall be paid into a fund for the treatment for the prevention of hydrophobia, of which the city treasurer shall be the custodian. Such fund shall be immediately available for any emergency case upon the certification of the director of public safety and superintendent of the bureau of health.

This license of $1.50 and $3 takes the place of the present city tax of $1 and practically removes the dog question from the department of city assessors. It is not thought the measure will meet with any opposition in the select branch, and will soon become a law. That branch may have a few amendments that will make it all the harder for a dog to live in this city. The poor despised dog has very friends in the city hall and will have to walk in a very dignified and prescribed manner if he is allowed the "freedom of the city." AMUSEMENTS. Spectacular and Brilliant.

"The Governor's Son." by George M. Cohan, under the direction of Mr. Fred Nibltf, caught the crowded house at the Academy on its opening yesterday, where it will romain for three days. The production is spectacular and brilliant in everyway and can justly be styled a ever yway and can justly be styled a cyclonic outburst of mirth and DKody. It is an extremely clever and entertaining farce and contains suincient plot to give to the performance a consistency that is really admirable.

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The lyrics and the dialogue are by George Ade, who wrote the libretto of "The Sultan of Sulu," and the musical compositions the work of William Loraine. "Peggy from Paris" is an amusing show, bright quick in action, snappy and full of comic hustle. The score is made up of some catchy airs, the scenery and costumes are superb, and in its general aspects the piece is one that, forcibly appeals to those who find en Joyment in the lighter forms of musical diversion. Miss Claude Albright, In the title role, was excei'Mit. She is blessed with a strong, well trained soprano voice, and a pleasing personality.

George Richards assumed the character of Captain Alonzo Plummer in an able manner, and Arthur Deacon created much merriment as Reginald Hickey, the useful boy. The chorus was large, but not strong. BOXERS WILL RiSE AND HELP JAPAN Soo Hoo Doo Says That There Are 600,000 in China Ready to Hurl Themselves on Russians. "Although the Chinese government may not come out in the open against Russia in her contest with Japan, the latter country will receive much material support from the Chinese." So stated Soo Hoo Doo, the well known Americanized Chinese merchant of 214 Spruce street yesterday, while discussing with a Republican representative the present war news of the far east. "Japan would never have started in to chastise so powerful a nation as Russia," he continued, "if she did not have the promise of the material and moral support of the Chinese.

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