The Archive · 1927

An Evident Lie

Yet Crawley has the audacity to come here on the witness stand and say that Widler had guaranteed to him and he knew that Widler would perform this contract with this man, the face of it, it is a lie, it evident, it convicts this man of nefarious scheme "ud Widler, as the District Attorney very properly said, is on trial before this Court, although Court hag -no jurisdiction over him. Widler la-just as guilty—even more so than Crawley, Crawley was his cats-paw: he was made to stop here to curry out his scheme; et his half of the "swag" and then leave for the "United States of America. Then, the Judge, impressively and poi finger at Cravley said: "Crawley, it can't be done in America;, it. can't be done in China, anyway by Amer cans. 1 will increase the defendant's bail to $20,000 and the' Marshal of the Court will take stops to take the defendant into custody until such bail is satisfactorily arranged."

District Attorney's Telling Speech Before the learned Judge had Aclivered the above judgment, at

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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