The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1893-03-11
croas esamlped: Have never heard I

| since lo06 Known Oell ltOr W years.
| Don't know that l ever heard his
reputation for truth and veracity
questioned. Don't know him person
ally. Only by sight.
Father L. Dieleman: have lived in
Astoria for 1s years. Known Dell IL
| or 10 years. Dell's reputation for
truth and veracity is good.
w. B. Adair: Lived in Astoria since
1870. Known Dell about II years. His
reputation for truth and veracity is
good.
Cross examined Have heard his rep
utation in other respects questioned.
w. Hampton Smith: Lived in AS
| torja about 4 years. Known Sidney
Dell since he came to Astoria. Con-
slider his reputation for truth and We
racity good.
Cross examined; Never heard it dis
cussed. 1t is some other phase of his
character that is usually discussed in
public
o. w. Dunbar recalled: Defendant
had been in Astoria only short time
before he wrote the editorial. 1 would
not say how long, my impression was
only few days. Don't know where he
came from.
Sidney Dell recalled: QIis book
handed to him and he read the title.)
That was the book offered the council
and the other one is as revised after
wards. Counsel objected to the reading
of the books to the jury. The court
| allowed them to be read by title. 1t is
a settled principle of my practice to
hunt up no title unless l am employed
| About making it habit of hunting up
titles to stir up strife. don't recall an
| instance in my career where have
! looked up a title without / was en-
ployed. There is one case did look up
titles. that is where / acquired judg-
ment of my own. 1 consider 1t my
sworn duty never to reject the cause
of the oppressed and those not able to
pay for their own cases. Never heard
of the Raymond-Flavel case until
about month before commenced the
proceedings. Gle then went on to ex-
plain to the jury his legal points in the
case and was stopped several times
when attempting to make speech).
| advanced the costs because [ thought
1t by duty when he had been deserted
by somebody else. There Is another
case involving the Shively water front.
Shivelygave me $1,000 to investigate the
case. In the Neff case it was similar
to the Raymond case. found it nee
essary to put up the costs for the old
people to help them out. The judges
Prim and Kelly, who I classed as an
organized ring, I had criticised them
on the bench. They had one of their
friends bring up an indictment to dis
bar me. The proceedings were dis
missed in my favor. have had a good
many cases that have won and some
that 1 have lost. also some that have
been paid good fees for. / still con-
slider that was right in all the cases
1 brought.
Cross examined: The Neff case, the
Flavel case and the Shively case were
| all decided against me by the supreme
| court of Oregon. found it necessary to
put up money to help in the cases of
Neff and in Raymond's case. Don't re-
member whether the place of FlavePs
was bonded before / brought the suit.
think it was after. Oh yes, / remem-
ber I served Burke and Dwyer with
notice that Raymond claimed that land
I also served notice on Strong when he
arrived, Don't think 1 served any
! any other notices. When they came
to pay for the land. I recorded a deed
after that. had the deed from w.
W. Raymond to George N. Raymond
| in my possession, but not on file when
1 served the notice. I also had suit
pending at that time. 1 told Cap
| tain Flavel that l was employed to ex-
anime the title of Mrs. Sophie Daggett
to her property. / told him had dis
covered defect and as friend Of
| his 1 suggested course by which he
could settle the matter urged him to
make loan to Mrs. Daggett, as she
was a poor struggling woman. 1 did
not threaten him. Don't recall being
employed by Judge Page to look up
titles. DON'T remember any specific
case. did not hunt up the records
and tell the Adairs that their title was
defective. 1 told them they had better
see If they had not sold some of their
property they did not intend to.
1 think the principal issue in the cleo
ton for the supreme court in 1880
wherein Judges lPrim and Kelly were
defeated was Sidney Dells letters to
the paper 1 stated there was a ring
and intimated that Governor Thayer
received particular favors before the
supreme court. l did not state any
charge of corruption. think the
charges 1 made were very improper
conduct" To say that judges grant
fovors to their private friends in court
is not in my mind an accusation Of
corruption.
John r. Rathom recalled: Heard
Dunbar's statement that 1 had only
been here few days before / wrote
the article in question. 1 had been in
Astoria six weeks. Had been just pre-
viously connected with the Oregonian
for several months before coming down
here Had heard Delps reputation
spoken of in Portland by Judge Deady
Judge Bellinger. Governor Thayer and
several others