The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-05-20
Borel, on the Stand. Tells the
Story OF His Wrongs.
BUNC0ED BY OGDEN MEN
How His Earnings Melted Away in a
Sure Thing Game.
His Trip to California, Return to Ogden
and Unfortunate Experience With
the Machinery of the Law
Other ogden News.

OGDEN, May Especial. Five days
have been consumed in the district court
with the hearing in the Borel murder case
and still the case is unfinished, and may
occupy several more days. The case took
on new interest this morning, through
the fact becoming public that the defense
would put the defendant on the stand and
allow him to tell his story. Whan court
convened the Judicial chambers were
filled with eager spectators and the story
told by the Frenchman in his broken
English was closely followed.
Before Borel took the stand two wit
nesses examined on Thursday were re-
called, but nothing new or interesting
was ellicited.
THE FRENcHMAN's TALE.
Then came the sensation. At his attor-
news call, Borel stepped to the stand,
took the oath and told the following story
OF his life and the main features IN 1t, the
loss OF his life7s savings and the killing
OF Lewis:
''My name is Eugene Borel: am
Frenchman and was born in province
In the southeastern part of France; am -
years of age; my father was farmer and
stock grower; / never learned any trade,
but herded sheep in the summer and went
to school in the winter; ] also served one
year in the French army, entering it at
the age of 81; 1 came to America in 1887,
bringing with me but $500, given to me
by my father; went at once to Bakers
field, Cal, where l had brother.
"Upor my arrival at Bakersfield l at
once began herdi1g sheep, following that
business for sixteen months; l then went
to Rawlius, Wyo., and again engaged IN
sheep herding; upon my arrival at Rawllns
] had 500; this was in April, 1888; l
herded sheep in Wyoming until last fall,
having from 1000 to 4 200 head under my
charge. did my own cooking and sell
dom had a companion, often going for
three weeks without seeing human be-
ing. One day was like another to me and
! have gone year and half without vis-
iting a town. received $40 per month !;
] was employed by the sheep owners in
Wyoming, Mr.. Dixon being the last;
when 1 came to Ogden, in October, l had
just left the employ of Mr.. Dixon. l ar
rived in Ogden with 81, $50, the savings OF
my labors in Wyoming. The money was
represented by a certificate of deposit for
LOO and the balance by money.
After leaving Mr.. Dixon's employ
went TO RaWllns where l stayed week,
then went back to to the ranch,
where I stayed a week, and then
came to Ogden. l was on
my way to California; I LETT
Rawlins on Oct. 81; my first stop was at
Ogden, where | arrived on the night train
and had TO lay over there ten hours,
as the Southern Pacific train did not
carry second-class passengers.
MET RESIDENT OF TEXAS.
81 stayed at the European hotel that
night and got up the next morning at
O'Clock; ! walked around the town and
bought hat at Harlombes. AT noon /
man CTR IIa
commenced the conversation, but gave no
name. He asked me my name and said:
cat must have rained here. - Unanswered
that it did look like it and asked him
where he was last night, and he said
''Salt Lake, He asked me if | lived
here and said no, come from the east.
He said he was a resident of Texas and
was only here for a few days. He
asked me where / was going and told
him | was going to California: also told
him was from France, and he said he
knew lot of Frenchmen; he then asked
me to go into cigar store and take a
cigar; he bought the cigars; after he had
bought the cigars he asked me to go into
q back room, where we could hear the
rattle of chips; some men were there
playing stud poker; the man asked me if
/ knew how tr play, and | said not much I;
he said he was going to play. and bought
some chips, anc soun Won several dollars; ;
then asked me to take hand and showed
half of his chips over to me and said ego
ahead;'' / told him / did not want TO
play; had no time; he said Ego on and
as soon as we Lose the chips we will
quit. "
We played fifteen minutes; another
rnanihad come in and stood behind me and
watched the game; still another party
came in; had good hand and the two
men who were behind me looked at it and
said / couldn' be beat; did not want to
bet and the other men bet nothing but
chips: one OF them had a check for $500 or
5000, however; saw no money; [ finally
bet a $40 gold piece: called the hand and
the man who came in, who was George
Lewis, bet some money; Lewis looked at
sny hand and talked to Harry Furry; they
insisted that bet all l had on the hand (;
l said l did not want to go broke; they
said go ahead, could not lose it; Furry
said Lewis was his father; / had my de-
post check ont and some one brought me
a pen and ink and l endorsed
the check; [ had about $40 in
the game, and the man behind me wanted
me to bet; told him to get some money
and call the game II he wanted to; the
man who went in with me looked at my
hand and said ] had a sure thing; was
playing with two men,
THE DRAFT DISAPPEARS.
tsWhile we were talking of betting, one
of the men took the draft. and l have
never seen it until now; / did not give it
TO anyone to cash; one of the men said
where is the check, and | said / did not
know: he said sThat s. O. b has taken
1t. and l viii go out and find him and
kin him. he went out and came back
soon with the man who had taken my
check; the man handed me a piece of
nd NV oh
thought il called for 81 900, as l
had already lost $500; they then
wanted me to bet some more but
/ did not want to bet any; Furry said he
would put up $500 and for me to bet $500
mere: Furry then turned to Lewis. when
he called his father, and borrowed $500;
we then bet and they said the other men
won; had but $50 left; Furry asked his
father for $500, which he owed me on
side bet, but his father said he had nEn
more; the other men never put up any
money, their bets being represented by
chips; while we were playing man
named Flynn changed the deck of cards
and on the hand dealt with them they
won my money; Lewis gave Furry a note
10 a man at the Hot Springs TO pay me
$500; / do not remember the name of the
man.
1--WE then went to livery stable and
got buggy to go to the Hot Springs;
while waiting for the buggy Lewis came
over to the stable and asked me where
was going and what was my business;
told him and he said he had a farm in
Tulare, California, with lots of sheep. and
for me to 90 with his son to the Springs
and then go to California together and he
would give me work at $50 a month; we
then went out 70 the Hot Springs and
held the horses while Furry went into
the hotel; man soon came out and took
the team; we went into the house and had