The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-02-07

ministrstor was coming on in the probate
| court
| All through Mr.. kelleher's story Mr.. White
| occasionally interrupted with objections to the
| admission OF parts of the testimony or the
ground that it was irrelevant. but they Were uni
| formiy oyerruled. When the witness related the
| incident OF Van Buren's hiding seh nd te!e-
| graph poe, ripple OF laughter ran through
| the audience, the attorneys and the accused
Joining in it, the picture OF the little assistant
/ crouching 20 hide himself from his employer
presented itself to their minds. A. this point
| an adjournment was taken, but when the
hearing resumed 81 ! 80 Mr.. Keileher went
| on with his story, saying:
! On the previous evening, January 10, /
| Van Buren, at the Arlington restaurant by ap-
| polntmeat, having met him on the corner OF
Second ana Cherry streets about o'clock l
| hal met him ut ii o'clock mat day a Dr.. Jor-
| dan once saw Kellogg IN the reception
| room and he evidently followed me down. fer
| met him in tie corridor / came out OF tbe
! building. saw him a. ciock taat afternoon
/ al my Office, wheu be naie an appointment for
/ DR.. Van Buren, 10 meet me at the restaurant at
| 6oclock. Van Buren, took dinner with me in
| one OF the stalls
| He opened the conversation as to the Yeser
matter. He said that he might as well say
| frankly now, although he hal denied 20
| prior occasions that he knew anything about
| the viii, he knew what was after and he knew
! o. the appointment Tor that night at his room
/ at or $50, and ne said ne might well admit
| that ne knew q great deal about ii, bur he was
not ready TO talk. He told me that he knew
| there was will. asked him how he knew it.
aud he said, Wei. knowit know what /
! there is will Now, DO not press me,
| ! cannot talk any more tonight about it;''
and he said, 81 know it is there, and 1 can
show it at the proper time, but l am not ready
| to talk tonight. Things have not been
| running smooth, and | cannot talk to-
night on that appointment. although Kellogg
| OF his information, because wanted to get ut
! something definite. he said: ''Well, 1 know
| there is will. and can show it. / snow
| that there Is. lie said we might well act
| openly about Il. He said that he knew the pur-
| pose that had wanted to find out about the
! viii for. and he said i was perfectly aware OF
the reasons he was trying to open negotiations
with me anu why h was sending messengers TO
| me 10 make appointments, and he said surely
knew what he after
z. " hat messengers did he re fer to? A. He re-
| ierred to Mr.. Kellogg and to man named Rey-
noids. who, learned on inquiry. old
! friend of Mr.. Yesier. After We got through at
| the restaurant ne asked me if / had any obec.
ton to going 10 his room and setting il right
with Kellogg about the appon tment for tho
evening. as Kellogg might get irritated. went
and told Kellogg the appointment was of. The
appointments l spoke OF having been post
poned mad been made by Van Buren,. | lett
mad seen Van Buren, on January IS when |
met him at his room at the Russell house. DIFF
ierent people dropped in at diff rent times;
altogether there Van Buren,, .llo-g, De
Lion and l.. Z. Thompson, the attorney and
another young man whose name | have for
gotten. was there about three hours, from 9
O'Clock. Nothing was said about Mr.. Yesler and
| his Will. All LETT together except kellogg, who,
| Understood. roomed with Van Buren,. De
Lion, Thompson and the other man left
| with me.
The witness then described Van Buren's
! rooms, aud made diagram OF them. lie con-
| trued:
The appointment for that meeting was made
| on the morning Of January II. l dropped into
| Jordan's office to see Van Buren, ana he took me
| hat ..
| Knew about the Ye,ler matter. He said he had
nothing 70 say, smiled and looked friendly, the
! same as to say he had in Attenuation but did not
/ care to give IL. The first time / spoke TO
! him was about O'clock on the evening OF jan
| uary 10 or H. when he was with Kellogg ana De
Lion. introduced myself TO him; he excused
| himself to the men he with and ASKED me
| to go 10 his room. said "Mr Reynolds told
! me you wanted to see me- He said he did not
| KNOW anything about IL told him knew he
had information; whether he wanted to give il
| was another question. He acted very friendly
and asked me TO come again. Whatever APP
| polutments there were between Van Buren,
IL. and were made by John Rsyn naLs
| Van Buren, and only talked about considera-
ton Tor the information in a general way know
| ing that IL had been talked about. On the even.
| ing OF January b. at the meeting i'll my room,
he spoke OF his going away, He said he wa
interested IN music ana wanted 20 pursue his
| musical studies and that he wanted 10 get away
! As soon as possible. He said that he was willing
to give his tes timony. but nc was afraid to stav
| here and give it III open court, because those
| things were Al new 10 him aud he in a queer
! position III the community; ;h4t DE-. Jordau
| reilly had control OF him in WaT: that he was
| living with D.. Jordan as his assistant ana oc-
| cupyIng his Office, something 10 that effect,
anu he has no other way OF living here exec: t
| with Dr. Jordan. He said If d.. jordan
| was aware that he giving me
| this information that II would be all up
! between him ana Jordan and he would
| have TO go out of here. Then I asked him il Jor-
| dan knew that was connected in any way with
| TINS Gaze or was negotiating with aim, and re
| said "Ies.' asked him how ne learned it aui
| he said thatlw hen he had first seen Reynolds h.,
| Van Buren, had mentioned to Dr.. Jorian that
| was CONNECTED with II. but that, after things
| hal proceeded along a little with Reynolds aud
| Reynolds Wa maxi ing those appnln tments with
| IL, he had concealed from DR. Jordan ANYTHING
| further IN the line OF negotiations between him
| and me. L asked him II Mr.. Rochester knew
| and rs said Yes" He said he did NOT know
| what was doing or how lar l going with
| Van Buren,. Neither he nor Jordan at that time
| Knew tnat was aware Of certain things going
on N The city ana wanted to know what posi-
| tion he was in. ana | wanted 10 find out what
| Jori Ian knew of my part in this Transaction. He
said DR.. Jordan didn't know anything about the
neg tIatIoDs taking place betweeu him aud me.
further than that he understood that was rep
| r-seniIng Mr.. Lowman in some way in the early
| preceding, awaysbacA ii couple OF weeks before.
He said at the time that he would be ready TO
give hi deposition in any proceedings OF any
Kind that would arise. | told him that did
| not know at the time what proceeding might
! arise. but any proceeding that IN GIT arse ne
II
mohy lie did not say whom he intended to
| have accompany him 10 Oregon. He said Kel-
lOgg was acting Tor M and any arrangement
| made with Kellogg would De all light
About the time the conversation between Mrs
! Fay aud the three doctors took place, Kellogg
| was AT my office, about o'clock on tuesday
! afternoon, January u Mr.. De Lion came in in
| an excited state and said he wanted TO see kel-
| logg. kellogg said Pm busy; I'll be out in
a few mlnute>.' He said:
NO. ITS important; you must come right
| away. aud Kellogg went. where | don't know
Kellogg claimed t. represent Van Buren, in
| formation, but something of that kind WAS
| talked OF on tae previous occasion with Rev
| noids. About January or Mr.. Reynolds came
TO me anu said that he had seen Van Burcu and
Van Buren, knew good deal about this Will
| business that ne had tod him he knew there
| was Will and could prove it-Nan Buren, had
! told him that-that is Reynolds story to me
Aud Reynolds said:
| "Nhy don't you give the community this in.
| formstlon?' and Van Buren said
well. an; not interested in this do not
care for one party more than another, and lam
| not interested III them"
But Rcynoits said that he intimated that II he
ii Nj bowman or any one else-was willing 10
pay him ioT 1t, he WAS willing 10 disclose his IN
formation, aid be asked Mr.. REYNOLDS II he
c"uid see NJ. bowman, or II he thought Mr.
L1wmaa would pay HIM Tor IL Mr.. REYNOLDS
TOD me that he told him that he didn't know
anu Reynolds hal told him previous to that
that was acting for LOwman, anti II was slg-
gesled that he might come 10 see me Rryuo.a.
came up to see ne. and told me that Van Buren
SAID lie hai Information, bat would not give IL
| unless he was paid for II. asked HIM what he
q. Z. hat