The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-08-13

him. He held ont his hand 10 me kept the
~ on about twenty min1tcs-chAnged
tne hands to the front few minutes after first
put Ihem on. Holden said, sswhats this forg"
or II wasn't there" or something like that He
SAID he was ct the sedro hotel ali night He
made no explanation about fptercepting the
Ing. lost IL there. Dormer said he picked il
up under Poor when he picked him up. There
are Two holes In the hat made by the bullet that
NJ me In the head One OF the holes had little
hair sticking to It.
Baird said that Bateman, the brakeman. had
mad some contrabsnd opium in his charge
awhile before, but 1t belonged to a smuggler
named White, and Bateman made satisfactory
explanation. He said that he had told MCGEE
tnat there were some parties who expected to
take Cinnamon down on his train. He thought
.nat these parties would get in the box car at
"ooiey to go down. The corduroy road they
were taking was good one to get TO the freight
cars. but he thought they would 60 down over
the river and strike some station where there
was no one 10 see
Baird, on cross-examination, stated that he
had been customs inspector since May ls He
had gone from Sedro to sumas with Coblentz
Coblentz had come down for him. He was
working under direction of Coblentz. Cobentz
made him believe that Holden was a smuggier
eobientz had told him some time before that he
thoueht Holden was smuggling. Continuing,
Baird said:
Was In Alexander's Office and Coblenz and
Alexander said that Holden would probably go
up with me, and il possible for me to get Holden
10 go back and get left about the time the train
was going. SO Coblenz could get there TO sumas
first.
The witness detailed the trip on which Terry
had escaped him at Fremont when he was
bringing a Chinaman through. He had seen
Terry afterwards, but did not arrest him, though
he thought he had enough evidence to convict
him. Baird went into the telegraph Office and
waited until the operator had gone out, when
ne slipped in and got copy OF the answer sent
by Holden to Terry. He also got another mes
sage from the telegraph Office the same way.
He said he had asked Holden to go down TO
Recess with him. He wanted TO fool Holden,
but he didn't care just how he did It. He had
made II up with Dorman how they were to fool
Holden. He had disguised himself so that
Holden would not know him, and had told him
that he was the only customs officer around
there. Buchanan was also disguised Mr.. Gill
man, cross-examining the witness, asked:
You were right behind that stump when those
men went byf Why did you not arrest them
then?
Baird answered, after some hesitation:
They took us by surprise. We thought they
would come down by the corduroy road After
they passed we knew they would go down by
the trail. as we ran down.
Baird said he thought he could see plug hat
ran between the second and third shots that
Baird aimed nc Terry. The witness thought he
was pretty good shot and that he had surely
hit Terry in the time he was shooting at him.
William NJ. Davis. brakeman on the Northern
Pacific between Tacoma and Auacortes, told of
conversation with Baird He was laughing
at Baird for letting Holden come in on his ter
ritory. Baird said to the witness that Holden
was smuggler and he was going to get
him, and get him good. Baird was called to the
stand afterward and partially admitted this
conversation with Davis.
Frank H. JONES' reporter, testified for the
prosecution that Holden had told him of the
expected seizure and had shown him Terry's
| kilograms
| Wiley z. Jones, assistant prosecuting attorney
| Of Skagit county, testified that the corduroy
road from the scene of the shooting to Wooley
| was about the same length an the railroad.
There was very little difference, but the cordu-
roy road was perhaps 200 yards longer.