Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-12-11
Col. Hughes: I will consult with him

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during the morning.
The Court: The matter will, then, be
postponed for the present.
just before court adjourned, Judge
Winchester said: Mr.. Healy has re-
quested that he might be permitted to
make a statement. Being a prominent
man in. this county, I deem it my duty
to allow him to make his statement. I
| don't know what the statement is with
reference to; and now, Mr.. Healy, you
may make a short statement, and if it is
a proper one, I shall allow you to go on
and make it. If I deem it improper, I
shall stop you. The stenographer may
make a report.
MI. Healy: If your honor please, /
wish to make a request. AS you know,
there was a party here yesterday, Mason,
who made a sworn statement in your
honor's court, in which I was implicated.
I want to ask your honor, believing lean
prove I m entirely innocent Of the
charge, not only of advising the party
to 60 away, but I can prove that I ad.
vised him not to go away. I want to ask
that I can have a speedy hearing, if you
please.
The Court: I have ordered that the
matter be thoroughly investigated and as
speedily as possible.
During the afternoon, Judge Winches-
ter said that Mr.. Boucher, representing
parties who were implicated by Mason's
statement Of the previous day, desired to
procure a copy of the proceedings, in
Guiding Mason's statement. Had the
states attorney any objection?
Mr. Register said he looked upon Mr..
Mason's statement in the light of a pub
lie record, and he had no objection to it's
being given to Mr.. Boucher.
The court then informed Mr.. Boucher
that as the states attorney raised no OBJ
lection, a copy might be procured by him
if he desired it.
The court then referred to the Mason
case, and as Col. Hughes was not pres
ent, and as there we're further develop
ments expected in the contempt case, the
sentencing of Mason was further post
poned.
FRENCH VS.. HIBBS
The trial of this case was resumed.
Clarence Price was put on the stand by
the defense, and testified that a suit had
been begun and attachment served, in
the case of John P. Hoagland VS.. Rufus
G. Crosby. The papers in that case were
read to the jury.
County Auditor Avery was put on the
stand for the purpose of producing as
SCISSORS slips showing that the Crosby
stock had been assessed to Mr.. Rufus G.
Crosby.
William Nelson was put on the stand
and he testified that he assessed in 1881
the property of the Crosby ranch to r,
G. Crosby.
Mr.. French was called by the defense,
and MI. Newton sought to introduce q
chattel mortgage given by MI. French tc
the First National Bank of Bismarck, to
disprove MI. Fre--ch's statement that he
owned the property. The mortgage was
refused admission as testimony.
Mr.. Donnelly was called by the de.
Tense, but he did not know anything to
help the case.
Jos. Dietrich was called for the plain
tiff to testify as to the value of the cattle
He figured them as being worth a total
of $58l. Two of the heifers he could
not tell about.
Arthur Van Horn testified for the de.
Tense that Mr.. French had told him that
he would owe Mr.. Crosby 800 if he
stayed on the ranch till July 1892.
MI. French was called for plaintiff in
rebuttal. He said he received the letter
written by MI. King, stating that Mr.
Hibbs agreed to take the cattle, on July
9Th. He got it at the Bismarck post.
office. 1t was not sent to the Western
house as promised by Mr.. Hibbs. The
letter was written on June 10Th.
The case was then closed
and Judge Francis having
waived his opening, Mr.. Newton
addressed the jury. He spoke for ar
hour and a half, and had not concluded
his remarks when court adjt urned.
Mason Sentenced.
From Tuesdays Daily.l
In the district court yesterday morn.
inn Mr. Aaron M Mncnn ..raa nonA E.,