Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1880-03-25

barrels that contained sugar. He inventor.
led all the sugar he could find AZ the agency;
could not state the number Of pounds he
found there.
Choss Observation-Disclosures went to the
agency from the 9th 10 the 3O,h Of March,
1873 was under the employ Of Capt. Dough.
erty and Gen. Hammond /; was not dis
charged, but resigned. He was not dis
charged for any Of a number of reasons
named BY the prosecution, not If Captain
Dougherty told the truth. He did the in
ventoryinz under the direction Of Captain
Dougherty and Gen. Hammond. He could
not remember the number of the building
he found the first tobacco in. He took the
lists Of goods on sheets Of ,aper; gave it to
the clerk after he had flushed it. He only
made one inventory.
Witness here handed paper marked by
the court number three; said the handwrit.
ing was hiR.part Of il aud part not. He then
pointed out What was his hand writing.
What he said was his. was marked as such.
That in his handwriting go far as it went,
vas part Of the inventory he took. He frat
found tobacco in the old mess house, and
pointed out ON the plat where that was
could not say how much he found there. 1t
was in boxes could not saw how many. He
then pointed out the building where he
next found tobacco, which was the old issue
houee. He found tobacco in the room above
aud In the cellar.
The court then adjourned till 9 O'Clock
to morrow. The greater part Of the after
coon was employed by the defense in asking
questions and making offers which we're Oh.
jected to and ruled out by the court. Con
siderable feeling was manifest between the
opposing counsel on n or two occasions.
WEDNESDAY FORENOON.
Cross examination of NJ. Seaman resumed
BY the prosecution.
He inventoried the tobacco in the carpen
ter shop. He could not remember wha'
ndnber he gave that building when he tool
the inventory. WITNESS pointed out tn,
carpenter shop or a plat, saying il was
uumber three there.] He found somewhere
between thirty and thirty.six boxes there
fourteen large ones and between eighteen
and twenty-five small boxes. He also in
ventoried in the upper part Of the shop
lumber, window frames, &C., and then arti
cles in the lower room. Capt. Dougherty
/ goo mt thoro - Tho t;oa oe III ;n......
He was there with him before that time anc
did not know whether or not the Captain
vas there at any other time. 1t was mo-
true that he did not inventory the carpenter
shop. He did inventory the goods in tn.
carpenter shop. He also inventoried par
IF the building that had the coal in. HI
thought the building the coal was in wa
marked four, on the plat. He found OF
vokes, timber, and various other articles in
that building. A memorandum of SOM
MENTIONING done by witness was handed
him BY the U. 8. attorney, and he said thai
the inventory of the carpenter shop was moi
on that paper. He did not weigh any Of the
tobacco in the carpenter shop. There was
from eight to twelve large boxes and from
eighteen to twenty-five small boxes. He
thought they we're carried in as fifty and one
hundred pound boxes. He did not testify
about any loose tobacco. He found, he
should Judge, eight boxes in the mess house.
He thought they were marked down as fifty
md one hundred pound boxes. He found
tobacco 10 two places in the issue house,
some up stairs and some in the cellar. Some
of that in the cellar was 10 fifty and come
in one hundred pound boxes. There was
from ten to fifteen boxes in the cellar to the
best of his recollection. He found tobacco
in the mess house, old issue house, and car.
penter shop. He also thought he found
.ome tobacco 10 an old store house near the
issue house, numbered on the plat as nun.
Der seventeen. He found two boxes of plug
tobacco there. That was all the tobacco he
found at the agency. These we're put down
70 n hundred pound boxes.
Witness then took the inventory memor.
+ndum, referred to and pointed out to the
o. S. attorney, all the tobacco he found as it
put down there.
So much of this inventory as related to
tobacco was then offered in evidence by the
prosecution and admitted, and showed three
Of tobacco, two lots found in building
number fifteen, one lot of one hundred end
'wenty pounds, another of three hundred /
and another in building number
of 2,160 pounds.
Building number fifteen was the old issue
louse.
Building number thirteen was the mess
house near the gate.
When he took the invoice of tobacco in
he carpenter shop, he did not inventory the
as tobacco, but they were counted
IS tobacco BY him when he found them with
Capt. Dougherty. When he went down in
he cellar he did not count the tobacco, nor
lid he 60 clear back through the cellar. /
Redirect communicative list he VA
hown was not ali the memorandum he