Sheboygan Press Telegraph September 21 1917 (continued from page 1) said was, "Don't mention my name on the church steps. I am not spying." There was no showing of any anger by either. She heard Miss FERGUSON, she said, say she could tell something on Mrs. BURKE that would make her hang her head. The witness testified that the plaintiff was working for her uncle at his general store in Mitchell. "Are we to understand that you are not attacking this young woman's character in any way?" Mr. ROONEY asked Mr. PRESCOTT, referring to his client. "For heaven's sake, no!" was the reply. "On the contrary I would go out of my way to protect it or any other woman's." "Then I rest my case." Mrs. BURKE was then called as the first witness in her defense. She said she had long been a member of St. Michael's congregation. "Can you tell us about this schism in the church which led to the feeling among the membership," Mr. PRESCOTT asked. "I object," said Mr. ROONEY. "There is nothing in the pleading in extenuation or mitigation of the remarks. They've only entered a general denial." "We wish to get this matter out to explain the circumstances leading up to the conversation now being testified to," said Mr. PRESCOTT. Mrs. Burke, answering Mr. PRESCOTT's questions, said she had known Miss FERGUSON perhaps 20 years and that relations up to June 24 had always been friendly, that outside the church matter they had never had any differences and that there had been no quarrel. She had never heard anything reflecting on the young woman's character and never knew her sympathies as to the United States and Germany. "I never discussed it with her nor heard her discuss it," she said. "I had no conversation with her that day nor knew she was there until another woman said, "There's Regina FERGUSON spying around." She and I were on different sides in the church matter. "She was on the wrong side," interjected Judge KIRWAN. "Yes," answered the witness, causing much amusement. "I then told Bessie to "come away from the one that is spying around there." She was sent there to spy. Miss FERGUSON came down the steps and said she was not there to spy. I never said she was a German spy. What would be my object in calling her that?" Then I asked her: "What did you tell Joe GAGHAN about me?" She said, "It's none of your business. I was in Milwaukee and couldn't have told her anything. Then she added that "all the people who are coming here to support the priest are nothing but dirty scrubs. I could tell you something that would take your head down." Then I went home without replying to her. I did not say she was not decent. "My sister and I called on Martha MICHAELS and she said she didn't hear anything bad and today on the stand here she swore differently. I wouldn't think of reflecting on Miss FERGUSON or her family for I have a family of my own. There's a difference between a spy and spying. She was there spying around to see what was going on in the church. After I asked her about going to Milwaukee there was no more conversation. I merely asked her why she went there. I could ask you why you went to Chicago, couldn't I?" she said to Mr. ROONEY . "I had nothing more in mind than a friendly question. I never thought of any illicit or harmful purpose in the question." "Do you know ADDISON?" asked the lawyer, ADDISON being the young man evidence regarding whose name the court had earlier in the day instructed the jury to disregard. "I don't know him." "Who is he?" "I don't know him," the witness repeated. ":Did you make a reference to him at any time in talking to Regina FERGUSON?" "Never. I never mentioned any operation. I never said "Florence HUMPHREY can tell what you are," to Miss FERGUSON, and I never said she was not decent. I don't know anything about her reputation at all. I was not angry or worked up and had no intention of slandering her or reflecting on her. I was not excited over the church situation. "Didn't you once pick up stones and throw them at people there?" Mr. ROONEY asked. "No," shot the witness before Mr. PRESCOTT could voice his objection. "A lawyer told me to go around among the people who had been at the church that day and get a statement of what they heard." "Didn't you say to William MICHAELS at the noon recess today: "Now William, you must not testify against me?" "No." After a 15 minute intermission in which Mr. ROONEY consulted some of his witnesses he stated that he had been in error in his question and asked the defendant had she not said to Margaret SLATTERY, "You can't testify against me because you signed that paper." Mrs. BURKE denied having done so. Mrs. Catherine DWYER, her sister, testified that she was friendly with Miss FERGUSON and knew nothing against her reputation for chastity. "I was at the church that day and heard Miss MICHAELS say to my sister, There's Regina spying around," she testified. "Sister said, Bessie, come away from the one spying around." and Regina said she was not spying and could tell something about her that would make her head come down. "I never said to my sister, "Come away, you've said too much." I was not in the church schism. Either way pleases me. I admit I want to see my sister win this case because I know she ought to."