The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-01-10
Q.-How long had he been engaged in
making this money here!

that the defendant Tolliver was present on
one occasion and was entrusted with one of
the coins to pass, but he did not do so.
battery, several flies, ladies', some
wires and other articles belonging to a
counterfeiter's outfit were here submitted
and identified by Mrs. Gagnon as part of
the paraphernalia belonging to her
husband, and used by him in his ''w ork."
A cigar box containing a number of TN
finished coins was also put in evidence.
Odd you see anybody else there
while this manufacturing Of coins was
going on?
A.-Yes, King and Conk.
Q.-At what time of the day or night
was this money manufactured!
An the daytime.
Q.-Where were you when the money
was being made!
Al was down stairs.
/ Q.-How many coins did they make?
Al heard my husband tell King and
Sprague that about S15,00G worth was
already made
Q.-Was there any talk as to what they
were to do with it!
Ayes; they were to plate it and
pass 1t.
Q.-At any particular placesG
A.-At different places.
ON reference to different cities9
Any husband and Sprague were to 90
on Christmas eve to Denver
Q.-Where did your husband get this
metal that these coins are made of
Al do not know whether he got il at
the Tribune office or where Laughter.
Q.-What became of the moulds!
A.-They were all broken up.
Q.-Who broke them up!
Any husband, before he left; and he
threw the pieces away. He made the
moulds himself.
To Judge Powerfully husband did no
show me the receipt for making the coins,
and [ never had any of them in my posses
sion to pass. Sprague at first urged my
husband not to go into 1.-The business" sc
| did l. but he took no notice of my advice
1t is not true that ever tried to pass any
t of the coins. My husband told me tc
speak the truth now. l am not aware that
he ever made bad money while we lived al
J Wallace, Idaho, and l never tried to pass
} any there.
, Q.-You never went to store at Wal
lace and tried to pass some of it!
A.-(Emphatically No, never.
Q.-You husband is a ieWeler?
Ayes.
Q.-You mean to tell me that your hus
2 band never allowed you to handle any Of
= his money?
A.-No, sir, never.
: MRS. GAGNoN BREAKS DOWN.
0FduG H. oulGu dIleTWaru LOOK Llt
woman in hand. To him she stated tina
although Tolliver had been in the room, SHE
never saw him there when the spuriou!
D coin was being manufactured. On ont
g occasion Tollver came in and handing Gay.
2 non $40 piece said that he had paid it tt
his landlady and she refused to accept it
q He returned the piece and asked for goot
: money, and Gaynon promised to give il t,
him.
r Mr.. Smith pressed the witness so CLOSELY
t on these points that she finally burst int
f tears and exclaiming, ''You will drive MT
t crazy" left the court room.
METAL WORKERS.
Charles Knutson, metal dealer, etc.
s testified to having sold to the defendan
S Gagnon-who gave him the name of Ola
n Nielson-some six weeks ago, various small
t articles produced These when made u
r formed part of the counterfeiter's nutfit
s Hans p. Knutson, brother OF the las
il witness, said the defendant Gagnou cam
e to his brothers. shop alone for instruction
how to work in metal. He stated that tina
Worlds fair at Chicago, and that he ais
q wanted to know how to make iewelry
e which he intended TO peddle, look more at
q tracnve. He remained receiving instruc
Q lions about three-quarters of a day
IS Detective Hugh L. Glenn, recalled
IS stated that he brought back with Spragu
from Denver a package of 'raW'' coin
u (produced), found in the defendants pos
~ session The defendant Tate admitted t
witness that he sent telegram to 81
: Thompson" at Denver.
n TATE's CORRESPONDENCE.
<. Clarence M. Heisor, a messenger boy g
II the Western Union telegraph office. said h
q received the telegram introduced from Tat
= ] n nj oh n bo 81
r dressed to H. Thompson, Denver.
y The message contained the words: "Te
y Day not to do anything until goods arrive
III day being a supposedly fictitious name).
'e The following telegram from p. [
10 Sprague's partner was shown to have bee
e. received by Tate:
DENVER, Dec. %, 1891
George Tate, Salt Lake White House,
P. Wants to know how Mrs. p. is and Jes
;e Give me the latest news. Answer
# III THOMPSON.
m ToLlvER's CASE CONTINUED.
Is After some further evidence, the exam
~ ination OF Toliver was continued unit
Monday, when Gagnon Will be brougt
down to testify against him.
p THE OTHERS HELD.
st Attorney Whittemore made motion fl
SAAC NlSOhdA 80 VI due, U6CduSe Llel0 VIZ
b. not sufficient evidence to hold him then.
Mr.. Variant think there is an obie
to it,
Commissioner Greenman-I think fro
g. all the evidence in the case there is reasc
lie to believe tbat the defendant was CO.
E. Dected with this matter, that he knew a
RS about 1t and took part in It, [ will no
p him to await the action of the grand iuI
and fix his bond at $1,000.
Id Cronk and King were also helS tho
n bonds being fixed at the same amount. an
I'd later in the afternoon Sprague, Tolive
1T Tate, King and Cronlz were taken back
s. the penitentiary.
AS TO GIBSON.
When the prisoners were brought in We
terday, they did not look particular
id own-hearted, with the exception of Cron
who appeared TO feel his position vel
scutely. The examination yesterday T
suited in removing stigma from the nan
of an innocent man-Mr Gibson
IS, whose arrest has won for him
he great deal Of unpleasant and undeservt
Id notorlety. Gibson was born in Missouri
lg 1885, and removed to Indiana, where he st
lg owns a farm. He came to Salt Lake
1852 and settled at Stockton. where
be lived for a time and then went to Eurek
Frisco and Bingham. When the De-
creek excitement was at its height he Join,