Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-29
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there two or three days afterward
| @. You stayed long times A. Several
days.
Q. You were there during the discussion?
4. Yes, sir.
Q. You had been with Whitaker & Bon
ner forwarding and helping the other side
of the business. A. Yes, sir.
| Q. You have consulted with them and in
their confidencel A. Yes. sir.
@. Still when Judge McCord was candi-
date for district judge against Mr.. Whit
aker you supported him. A. Very actively,
and I am very sorry for it.
@. Well, when did yourself and Whit
aker join hands and commence to work to-
getherl A. We have always been friends.
Q. When did you first consult them about
this matter? A. That 1 don't know, but
| always from the beginning he has been
complaining that he could not get orders on
anything from the Judge.
| Q. Prior to the resolution in the legiSla-
ture had you talked with Messrs. Whitaker
and Bonner about the proposed actions A.
| think, perhaps, l did.
Q. You had talked before them! A. I
| don't remember. l was at the postOffice
the day he received Judge Gerald's letter,
| and went with him when he read the letter.
Q. What was saidg A. l went to his Office
4 at the steps. and heard him read portion
| of his letter.
| Q. You were representing interests in
/ u.
| sir.
| Q. You were representing the Missouri,
Kansas and Texasl A. Yes.
| O. Whitaker & Bonner represented the
| opposing interest-that is, Jay Gouldl A.
| Yes, SIR
| O. Is it not fact that at Tyler and else
| where you have continuously since your
hostile feeling against Judge McCord, pub
licly denounced him and spoken of various
matters to his detriment2 A. l don't know
that have denounced him.
| Q. You have engaged in talking ad-
versely about him2 A. l have criticised
| his action several times, and the whole
| state is talking about him now, think.
| Q. Talking about some other things, too,
| amt theya A. Yes, sir; discussing US ALL
@. Mr.. Woldert, would ask you if you
remember certain criticisms of this receiv
| ership appearing in tie paper called the
| Texas Farmer at Dallas, reviewing Judge
| McCord's action and the letter he wrotel A
Yes, sir, heard oft.
Q. Were any of those papers sent to youa
| A. No, sir.
Q. Or to your firm A Yes, to Gone
| Johnson.
Q. Didn't your firm distribute them? A.
l received the papers at the postofficc and
| gave several on my way to friends.
Q. Were you aware that they were COM
| ing. A. Well, l believed they were coming.
Q. Who wrote it, A l didn't see it writ
| ten.
Q. What do YOU know about it, A. 1
! don't know about it of my own knowledge.
Q. Did you see the manuscripts A 1 did
| not
Q. Was it not written in Tylerl A.
| don't know. will say had nothing to do
| with the writing, that l was not present
when it was written and know nothing of
| my own knowledge.
Q. Can you give us such information as
| will give US the name of the party who
| wrote it, A. l can give what have from
| hearsay.
Q. Give it from hearsay. Who did you
| hear it from: A. Gone" Johnson told me
| he wrote that editorial.
Q. That was before the Whitaker letter
| to Mr.. Gerald had been published? A. No,
| sir: afterwards.
| Q. There was criticism since in the
same paper referring to Farmer Shaw's
| telegram about the appointment of Mr..
| Campbell receiver2 A l have seen it.
O. Do you know who wrote it, A do
not.
Q. Do you know anything about this
bundle of papers placed before you contain
| ing this criticism? A. l don't know any
thing about it. did not know they were
here.
Q. Can you give US any information by
which we can arrive at who sent them! A.
cannot. / know nothing about it.
Q. Have you any information about where
it was written A. None whatever.
Q. You applied to Judge McCord for a
continuance on account of Mr. Sterne's sore
throat2 A. No, sir.
Q. What was the purportof your request2
A That he was i'll and suffering from bron-
chitis.
@. That is sore throat2 A. I don't
know am not physician.
Q. Do you know how he got that sore
throat2 A. Mr.. Whitaker said he got it
playing poker, sitting in window.
Q. Mr.. Whitaker was guessing at thatl
A. suppose So
@. He was not in rapport with Sterne2
A. No. sir.
Q. Whitaker was not in the gamel A.
No, sir; he does not play poker
O. Didn't Simon Sterne have his throat
cauterized9 A. Not that 1 know of.
Q. The continuance was not granted2 A.
No, sir; the Farmers loan and trust conf
pany dismissed suit.
O. Didn't you say that was job put up
BY Sterne to get continuance A. l have
always believed he was sick.
Q. There was a theory, wasn't there, that
he was not sickl A. They claimed great
many things. They were clamoring for q
trial. The court thought he was sick,
suppose.
Gen Robertson: You said you didn't
know Judge Duncan was unfriendly. Did
you hear him make any remarks about the
~ Nv, uCNot Hcdfu I'LL Sdy
anything.
Q. You were asked if you had ever had
talk with Judge McCord before the ap-
pointment of receivers Have you any
knowledge that any one talked with him
about it, A. Only from this testimony Of
Col Herndon. He testified that he did.
Q. What relation did Mr.. Stafford hold to
Judge McCord9 A. He was the district at
torney.
Q. What is he now? A a master in
chancery.
Mr. Duncan-Do you know anything about
q certain article that appeared in the Capt.
tolian the 10Th of May. reviewing the re-
ownership and Judge McCord's letter. A.
Yes. sir.
Q. Did you read the manuscript A. No,
sir.
Q. Was it written in Tyler2 A. don't
think it was
Q. think it was. A. / think the gentle
man there, Mr.. Thornton, wrote it. 1t is
only from hearsay. He said so.
Q. Mr.. Thornton is on the News. A.
Yes, sir.
AHEATED QUESTION. esi
Where Shall We 60 For HsaIsasaa f7sas.