Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-12-11

ton?
O'Shaughnessy: You may add they we're
to let me know which | was to do.
Boucher: In otherwords there was some
thing else they had to do before you ap-
pied the money on the note.
After some arguments the question was
withdrawn.
Boucher: What time in the day was
That Mr.. SWenson first came to your place
on that day, as near as you can recollect?
O'Shaughnessy: About the middle of
the afternoon.
Boucher: About how long after that was
1t that Mr.. Mason came in and had the con-
versatlon with you and got the statement
OF the amount due on the note?
OShaughnessy: 1t might have been an
hour.
Boucher: Was anything said to you by
either Mr.. Mason or Mr.. Swenson, either
that day or at any other time, that made
you think or believe that the agreement
between them had any reference to Mr..
son?.,
Register: Objected to.
Court: Overruled.
O'Shaughnessy: At that time [ never
thought OF 1t being not appearing in court
Boucher: That is all.
REDIRECT.
Register: Do you know, MI. U'Shaugh-
Messy. whether the defendant SwensOn
and witness Mason had some conversation
IN your store before you engaged in con-
versation with them?
OTohaughnessy: am not positive.
Register: That is all.
Court adjourned to 2 o'clock.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
Court opened at 2 O'Clock, at which time
the state rested.
Boucher: Well, may it please the court,
l desire to move at this time that the de-
PENDANT Healy be dismissed, and that said
defendant be discharged, on the ground
that it does not appear from the testimony
presented by the prosecution that said de-
against him on the information in this
case, or any other crime. l believe the
states attorney has the first right to be
heard
Reister: You may consume all the time
you want. don't wish to BIZ heard.
The counsel for the defendant Healy
then made his plea.
Court overruled the motion.
Boucher: Counsel for the defendant
Healy waived further examination in his
behalf.
Court: The court holds defendant Healy
in the sum of 81 900 to answer to the dis.
trict court.
Attorney StoyelI, counsel for defendant
Swenson, waived further examination, and
the court fixed the bail in the same amount
($l,UOO) for SWenson to appear at the dis
trict court.
E. II. BLY, and Louis Larson continue as
Swenson's bondsmen, and l. p. Baker and
John T. HOagland are Healy's bOndSmen.
Farmer Wallace Aroused.
EDITOR TRIBUNE: AS rumor credits
the undersigned with being the author of
the communications appearing in the
TRIBUNE over the nom de plume "Seven-
~ty-tiver," "New.timer' and 1T. P" wish
to make the following statements:
First. That I am not the author or
inspirer of said communications.
Second. I do not know who is the
writer Of said communications.
Third. I have never conversed with
S. j. Swenson or Aaron Mason or the
editor of the TRIBUNE or any of the at
torneys or witnesses in regard to the
bribery or contempt of court case now
undergoing investigation.
Fourth. I have not been in attend
ance at either court while this investiga-
ton has been going on. I have not been
away from my place of employment or
home but twice in sixty days, and then
for only an hour each time, on a business
trip to the city, and on those visits I did
not exchange with anyone a word in re-
gard to the blind pig cases, the bribery
case or the contempt of court case.
This statement is not made through
fear of anyone or all of those who have
coupled my name with these communi-
cations, and most certainly it is not to
conceal my real views or what
I believe or know in regard to one of the
parties to this suit. I have expressed to
him without qualification my opinion,
and instead of changing that opinion, [
am now more convinced (f such a thing
Is possible) that what l said to him is
justly deserved. None of the parties to
this suit or their bankers or bailers or
hackers or hired spies have, while be-
lieving ] was the author or instigator
of all this uproar, had the courage to
face me and make the charge, or even
ask me if l was the man. They knew
where ! was. They saw me going to and
fro daily from my work. They can look
out of their back doors and daily see the
"arch conspirator," and one and all were
too cowardly to confront him. They
whisper to n another, "He is ;employed
at the capitol" Thanks to m, employ
ers, my employment at the capitol did
not carry with 1t Observation-Disclosures in the
county and city where.I haye'so long re-
sided, or did not close nv lips from
spealingof what know, what zee and