Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-07-07
CON RYAN.
A Witness m Court Who Answered
 When Ready.

Yesterday in the district court the case of Harmon vs. White was being tried. It IS a mining lawsuit involving the consideration of a great many legal, hair-sphtting questions. It was very necessary that the testimony of the wit uesses should be direct and explicit. The time was well occupied and the trial made commendsble progress until Con Ryan took the witness stand. After questioning him as to his resi- dence the attorney for the defense, said: Now, go on, Mir. Ryan and tell the court what you know about the FIux mine"
 Con halls from Pennsylvania, and from his name is evidently part German and part Celtic. He hitched bis char around so as to face Judge Sheldon, and lerked his linen pantaloons and commenced:
 Well, Jedge, I wur a cuttin' barley fer Gap. Thomas, an Maloney he come to me--thls Mark Maloney-and sez he wants me fur to do some work. I sez to him, 'Maloney,' sez 1. how much will you give meF so we struck bargain an l went to worruk; an me an Maloney We went to the mine. There war hole about two feet deep, upon which We be- ginned work"
 We camped-
 "Did you locate that mine2' inter rupted the attorney" That under tree" continued Con undIsturbed, sometimes Maloney would do the cookin' an sometimes I wud."
 Are you a miner" again interrupted the attorney.
 "Shure l am since '53. and ought to know little something about it."
 "Whst was the name of the Mexi- | cans?' quizZed he lawyer. How kin l reminder the name of a | Mexican with whom only worked few | days, ,ix or siven yeeis ago! Vel, ln ! '79 me and Gleason and John Mansfield. | that's my partner Gs has been dead SIX months, we went and located the EiuX After that Maloney says to me, Con, I can sell your nine. All right, sez l. S we went 10 dlnper, and sCt down to the table. He sez, Con. can get you S35h for your mine m twenty minutes. Ihil he got the deed
 2 5ou: this lime the cross-examination commenced, and with It the tun.
 You're miner, Mir. Ryan ?"
 "Yis, sur, sence l 6s. sn in Pennsyl vanis coal fields in '53, then in South America and along the Gila."
 Did you do the assessment work to the value of SlOO on the Oak Grove loca- tion ID '7S?'
 We did. worked If Cays, the Mex jeans F days and Maioneys 10 days"
 "Ah, your memory has suddenl- be- come very good. 4 moment ago you couldn't recollect the names of the Mex jeans, and now you remember the exact number of days they worked, yet you say you kept DO time book. Now. how many hours did you work ?'
 "I don't know. l suppose about siven or ate"
 "When did you go to work?"
 ''In the morning"
 What time ID the morningY
 After breakfast
 "Well, what time did you have break fast?H
 By candle-ightin'."
 "Now, can't you tell me just what hour you vert to work?'
 "I can't, 1 don't carry no watch"
 Well, what did you do when you workedy'
 T staid on top, and the Me1icans down Ill the shalt uld the WOTk.
 What did Maloney do?"
 He knocked around, prospectin' and done some cOOkIn.
 "Hpw far were you camped from the mine?"
 About three miles down a grade, and it was under a tree near some water
 Then, you didn't get to the mine early?'
 The court here instructed Ryan to tell about how near sunrise and sunset were the terminal points of his working hours, when he answered, "a half hour, sir
 Con was excused from further testi- money, but the fun he created kept the crowd in continual roar of laughter, and was as good as sitting in Levin's park the same length of time, and lis tening to the gags of the actors.