The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-08-13
BAIRD SET A TRAP.
The Inspector Tells His Story
on the Stand.
~ SAW HoLDEn's HIGH HAT.
III Of the Testimony Heard By Com
uissionsr Kiefer-superior Court
xews-The BIotter.

~.,..< ~ftness In the Baird trial was exam
- .ss,.,day afternoon, and the case will be
80 ,his morning commencing at 10 O'Clock,
.ssa.n.xs John r. Miller and L. c. Gilman
" - .-,.ecutioa and william White for the
49,. n 4 tbought that the arguments will
sss.,sh.d nv noon, aud that Commissioner
r.sss, vii ne his decision almost immediatly.
TIER 1, no M 70 tell yet how the case will
and The eonnissioner has been impartial in
NE !. 80 He has gotten near TO the bot
~" - - whole affair as he could Court Re
VI = + Bowman has taken down about
Rss.a sords OF testimony, and the evidence If
s.ss~s.6 vould make volume nearly a. large as
- s5y directory.
~ ~ ritnesses examined yesterday were Col
,..sor bradshaw, j. G. Baird, W. NJ. Davis, L.
y Jones and w. T. Jones, the last three being
fof the prosecution
there was not near as large crowd IN the
eourt-room as on former occasions during the
frfel dozen or more OF the men in the
sudience have heard every word OF the testi-
mony. sitting haf-dozing for hours as the ques-
fionue went on Only few new facts were
elected BY Yesterdays estimony. Baird's story
a practically the same a. the first one he told
After the shooting, although he elaborated some
what yesterday. He grew fippant at times dur
ing the rross-examination, and several times
made the spectators laugh by his answers. He
was much surer Of Holden's being in the crowd
that was shooting at him than he was on the
preliminary examination, and this time he
swors be saw Holden 10 plainly that he recog-
nised his high straw bat
The hat that Baird wore was identified in
court BY Baird yesterday. II IL black siouch
hat and has two bullet holes in IL, correspond
ine with the scar on Baird's head. In the hole
that the bullet went out Is a bunch of Baird's
hair The hat was found under the dead body
Of Poor after the shooting.
C. NJ Bradshaw, collector of customs, was the
6rst witness called to the stand. He said that
he had given Holden permission to go to sumas
some time in July. After Holden had returned
from sumas Mr.. Bradshaw had had q CONVEX
sstion with him aud had told him that he
could 20 again when ne heard further from the
eumM opium. Holden told him that he thought
he could surely get 1t the next time. Bradshaw
had tnd him that he should tell Alexander
when b was going. On cross examination he
said shxtit would not be q breach of custom
for a Inspector to go away without seeing the
deputy colisctor. but that they should leave
some kind Of word for him.
In answer to q question Mr.. Bradshaw said
that he thought 1t advisable to give Baird some
instructions shout the use Of firearms and did
%; be had never given Holden any such in
structiona
J. G. Baird, the defendant, called to the stand
testified on direct examination as follows:
Am inspector of customs, with headquarters
g Wooley Junction. Ny duty was to inspect
baggage that supposed contained eontraband
goods, TO stop Cinnamon and To seize smugglers.
About July IA was In Alexanders Office with
from Terry 'q or Red sn0u Tses sd
they suspected Holden OF smuggling. went
back To Wooley and Cobientz came down for me.
knew that Cohlentz was going to sumas in
and Lsa11 ,..e. a 11x-
ander was to try to hold Holden here so that Cob
lentz could have all tho time he wanted TO inyes-
tigate. When got TO Sumas, Coblenz and the city
box. The marAhal and / went out and found
the marks OF the box In the FERNS could see
marks on the saplings that had been made by
going south and east The box was evidently
heavy, for where IL was set down in the shed 1t
left mark all around. We lost the trail of the
box ct the forks of the river. There we found a
place where wagon had turned around and we
concluded that the box had been taken TO the
Eooksack by wagon. don't know that saw
Holden or Terry at sumas. l think not.
that fourteen Cinnamon and one white
nan had camped near there. ] went
down towards Seattle. and got back at o'clock.
Acme is twelve miles north. 1t was the 2sd or
~ that got that word from Acme. There
~ no way could get to Acme except by hand
ssthat night, so waited until the next morn
to when / learned that the Cinnamon had
7cut ou 0tWu huu uHQ pfOUHDAy CtOsstu OFcI
bHe Great Northern l sent for Buchanan.
0lhturday night Reece and / laid on the track
Mhight between wooley and Sedro. A brake
nm coming down the next morning told me he
ecnld point out Terry, who was supposed to be
the man with the Cinnamon. I recognized
Terry as the man from whom I had taken q
Chinaman at Fremont a couple OF weeks before.
Terry passed the house we were in Dormers.
Buchanan changed his clothes and took
satehel and started north, following Terry.
Tot blanket and followed 200 yards behind.
Terry turned In 10 the left and we hunted for
an hour or two for him, but could not find him.
Engineer Charley Davis came to me and told me
that he had seen Terry send message to Holden,
tsilng nun 10 come on the first train. ! went
oown and got the answer that Holden sent 1t
msae me more suspicious than ever that
hoidens dispatch was directed to the sheriff's
once. Buchanan aud laid this plot to catch
no. no,usn or the smugglers, whoever they were. 1
soiu holden We had two good men TO guard the
sumas road, which was q fiction, and that
tne only road lett unguarded was this corduroy
CLOWN or .o,mn.hiR road. Holden wa, to watch the
lexplained IL TO him so he could not miss the
Place. changed my clothes after leaving Hol-
gen that night saw man walking with
lsrsy toward Wooiey after the train had gone
on up Holden got of at the back end OF the
naln. told Holden my story-that was to 60
70 the Great Northern crossing Holden told
me ne had come up on the strength of the mes
nfe sent 70 Alexander. ! saw Holden was not
going to tell me his business and il confirmed
ny suspicious. thought they were TO take
mai corduroy road anyway so l laid
~ a sse i sse 'f isse road Of tn. m da
yAo was going north with Terry. had lett LETT
slcnsnan IN Dormer's store. / told Dormer
al wanted that horse. That was fiction, be-
one knew he had no horse. Holden insisted
8eoing down To Recess with me TO see me get
- horse. Reece and Dormer Doth knew about
scheme. Reeee went down and got horse
nom neighbor. started down the road and
.eeee and Holden started for the sedro hotel.
~ soon as | was out OF sight ran back and
snanged my clothes Then | ran up and met
Asece and he told me that Holden had gone
Nsafus Wooley. went up and got Buchanan
and We went out toward Hamilton, taking the
eVfauroy road north to where the Sumas road
sswsed- vast thirsty, aud we went down the
S sasn got drink and came back fast to the
taesuon- Our intention was 20 get forty or City
tssu nom there. We heard some one CON-
ns ana we got behind a stump They
s4a along the track, and we heard
~. snispering as they passed. There were
saiaasnien followed, strung out. We were twelve
assea feet away from them when they
Ssss. They had passed the place where the
Enssy crossed the track. They went on and
thA ,Asa ssked what we would do. We saw
ssr s es white men start down the trail aud we
- va Ano called out for them 10 halt: that
s.siss ~ eassom house officers. don't think
man 49, ~ ssnree times; only twice. The three
49, .u saafst Terry and I were so close to-
nan saas our guns struck. He was the first
on, 49,, .o sact His gun had not gone of when
a., - 1Trs-nis ana mine-struck together. /
~ =. - -srrf three times and he shot five times
n. IS. mere was man back OF Terry that ran
- s !uss the size of Holden. was between
49,! ana Poor when Terry ran was standing
srS saoie; can't say how deep the hole was,
~ isa into Is, shot three times before |
~, sao. ana Tell was lying down shooting at
= me- ana &c was twelve feet from me shooting
81 X 4 snot twice lying down. When Poor
sn, ne threw mp his hands and cried, .sI'm a
49, sy see.if; you've shot me-" He rolled
Nh .s sae NIL toward me- and erawled up the
-. ~. "a little &-esliber gun OF Bucnanan's.
49, 70 ~ Eooss body ana rubbed my hand down
- s Us asee and false goatee came OF I did