Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1880-03-25
LIVINGSTON on TRIAL.
Continuation of the evidence and Pro.
ceedings before the United States Court.
TUESDAY AFTERNOON,

Continuation of the Evidence and Pro
ceedin9s before the United States Court.
TUESDAY AFTERNOON.
Examination of Mr.. Seaman, resumed
There was an old and new issue house q,
the agency; be went into all parts of the
old issue house when be took the invento-
~; found the tobacco 10 the cellar, and
some old boxes were there also. Mr.
Richards was with him at that time; ht
went down and looked the tobacco over
then be came up and Richards called off 10
him rs be was sitting on q sack of bran q,
the head Of the stairs. and he took it down
on q book; he could not say, only az
Richards called them off to him. how many
boxes there were; It was piled in the cente,
of the cellar; they found an old az 10 tb.
cellar; the trap door bad a ring in 1t; thi.
cellar had stairs leading into it; he took
an inventory of The property 10 the car
penter shop. The first time he saw this
tobacco Dnughe1ty and Hammond apc
some others were oyer with him; b.
thought he was the only one that went up
into the loft; there we're twenty-five small
boxes and he thought fourteen large ones;
he saw DR. LIS. name on some of these
boxes at that time; about one week after
this he took an invoice of 1t; john Rich.
ards was with him at that time; be opened
some of the boxes and found hatchets ip
them ; these boxes be had counted before as
hatchets; there were four or six of these
boxes of hatche's; Dr.. LIS name was on
the Ratchet boxes, but not on the tobacco;
be did not weigh the tobacco but counted |
the boxes; some were large enough boxes
and SOM were caddies; be took down the +
numbers at that time; he took the invoice /
of everything in the building. both above
and below except some tool chests ; he knew
there was quite a lot of sugar in the issue
house, and had found some sugar in q slab
building; one barrel Of sugar and seven
teen or eighteen bushels of coal In sugar
barrels. Mr.. Durfee took an invoice of
this. Witness went to get the sugar and
found one barrel of sugar and seventeen or
eighteen barrels of coal; he moved the ono
barrel of sugar to the issue house. MI.
Durf:e gave him q partial inventory of this
slab building. which he had made, and
asked him 10 complete this inventory. and
be did so. This inventory was on q piece
of paper made In book form, and was Q
sort of memorandum; he supposed The
regular invoice was with the clerk /; be did
not see Durfee writing on the paper; the
writing was in pencil; he knew Durfee's
writing and thought that was his; when he
got tie paper he took 1t and went on with
the invoice, and when he finished it he gave
It to Mr.. Lspgtree. One or two DAYS
afterwards he vent over to get
the sugar; did not look at the inventory
made BY Durfee to see what was on it. Mr..
Durfee WAS at that time acting a. o~verseer
at the agency. When he went to remove
the sugar from the slab building, he saw
some Of the barrels we're pretty heavy and
he knocked in the head Of one barrel aud
found it vas coal. Then be opened others
and found them coal, and he then shook The
rest; found only o among the nineteen