Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-12-11
THE EXAMINATION.
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haps I followed right along after.
Boucher: Was the door at once
closed?
Mason: 1t was.
Boucher: Who closed it?
Mason: I couldn't say.
Boucher: Was it locked?
Mason: It was.
Boucher: Who locked it?
Mason: I couldn't say.
Boucher: Did l understand you to
say yesterday there was something the
matter with the fastening of the door?.
Mason: I said the fastening was de-
~fective.
Boucher: What was defective about
it?
Mason: The spring was broken I sup
pose. 1t failed to hold the door closed.
Boucher: How do you know this?
Mason: From repeated attempts to
fasten it prior to this.
Boucher: Mr.. Swenson did not stop
in the store but went straight to the Of
flee you say?
Mason: I think he did.
Court adjourned to 2 O'Clock.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
At 2 p. m. the court resumed the cross
examination of Witness Mason.
Boucher: You had some talk with
MI. Healy before Mr.. Swenson came in?
Mason: I did.
Boucher: And that talk was out in
the store?
Mason: I think it was, at least part
of it.
Boucher: What part of the store?
Mason: By the counter near the front
of the store.
Boucher: You say a part of it, was
part of the conversation had somewhere
else?
Mason: Yes sir.
Boucher: Where?
Mason: Part in the store and part in
the office.
Boucher: So you were in the office on
that occasion before Mr.. Swenson came
in?
Mason: / was.
Boucher: Part of the 20 minutes that
you we're in the place before Mr.. Sven
son came in, was then spent in the office,
was it?
Mason: I think not to exceed 3 min
utes. Yes sir.
Boucher: When was that? When you
first came in?
Mason: At the closing of the inter
view, when I first came in.
Boucher: Now, during the time you
we're in the store before Mr.. Swenson
came there, who, if any one, we're present
besides yourself and Mr.. Healy?
Mason: The clerk, his son, was in the
store, T think.
Boucher: What was the first thing
said after you came in the store, and
who said it?
Mason: I think l spoke first and
asked him in relation to the money fol
the ~janitor work.
Boucher: Who spoke next and what
was said?
Mason: 7 think Mr.. Healy spoke mex
and 1 think he said I could get the
money.
Boucher: What was said next and who
said it?
Mason: He spoke about needing Mr.
Swenson's vote.
Boucher: What was the next thing
said and who said it?
Mason: 1 think he wanted to know
if I could aid him in securing it.
Boucher: What was said next anC
who said it?
Mason: I told him I was willing to dc
anything I could do to help him or tt
that effect.
Boucher: What was said next and who
said it?
Mason: He asked me in substance i
I wouldn't appear against Mr.. Swensol
in his liquor case.
Boucher: What next said and VIII
said it.
Mason: I told him I would do any
thing I could to help him out.
Boucher: What next said and VIII
said it?
= Mason: Mr.. Healy requested me t.
wait a few minutes.
Boucher: Did you have any furthe
conversation before Mr.. Swenson CAM
in?
Mason: I think not.
Boucher: Was all the conversation
which you have just now given had il
the same place?
Mason: Part in the store and part il
the office of the store.
Boucher: Now state at what point il
the interview you changed and went int
, the office?
Mason: At the point the interview
ended my business with Mr.. Healy.
Boucher: That is just as soon as h,
finished talking about the churcl
money?
Register: Objected to as re-examipa
ton.
Court: Overruled.
Mason: He introduced the othe
e business, her called me into the office
Boucher: Now state what he said al
tc the other business before you went in
. to the office.
Mason: He spoke of wanting the VOTE
and then called me into the Office.
Boucher: Then was all the rest of thu
conversation had before Mr.. Swenso1
came in had in the office?
Mason: Yes, sir, it was.
Boucher: After Mr.. Healy asked you tt
wait a lite, what did he do? In answer
ing state all hat he did before Mr.. Sven
son came in.
Mason: He went about his business a.
usual. He was about the store a few min
utes, then 1 lost sight of him. | paid no at
tention to, what he did or where he went.
Boucher: Was any one sent after MI
SwensOn?
Mason: Not to my knowledge.
Boucher: How long after Mr.. Healy
said to you, wait a little, was it before MI
SwensOn came in?