Kansas City daily journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1892-1897, 1895-01-07

INK your eyes NlpStl rs NlNlflNUtlnE
Judge, that he some time afterwards
TO do you a favor? a. That is what he
said.
@. mean what occurred between you
and Findlcy? a. That is the subs an &c of
the agreement.
Q. Then. what did you mean this morn
Ing by saying that ne agreed to pay you
$50 and that you had hOV got 1t, and was
sorry that you had not got It? a. Well
l need the $50. and was sorry that aid
not have $50; but did not say | wanted $50
to steal for him. If had wanted the $50 |
could have gone down TO Chrsties, rs the
rest did-as Mr. Findley said, like the rest
of them.
@. Well, what is the difference between
receiving $50 ana the promise Of receiving
"A future favor Of MIR. Fmdley2 A. | did
not get one | did not get either one lie
said, "lf this thing goes through all right
you get $50" He said furthermore, John
ny O'Neil has got a place for you In his
Office, and II he has not got Il place for YOU
in his Office he VIII see that You get n place
paying hundred and a quarter a month
q. Now MIR! CannY, is IL not n fact that,
not a great while before that. that MIR.
O'Neill had to arrest you in your own
house for receiving stolen goods? a. That
IS a d lie--it IL lie.
Q. Is 1t true or is It false? A. 1t is a
lie.
Q. Is It true or is It false? Is 1t true or
Is IL false that they had trouble with YOU
In your own house in regard to levyuE on
some goods? A. Mr.. O'Neill done dirty
piece of work. He went over to Marcy *
Brown and had capias issued against
me, and had me arrested charged with re-
sisting a process, and you know what tie
you know what IL Is as well as any body,
for 1t is not "A charge OF receiving stolen
goods, because It was for resisting pro-
cess. Mr.. Colgan, deputy sheriff, went over
there end burst my door in. As long as
you accused me of being thief | have
go; right to protect my character
@. Well. go on A. Well Colgan with
n writ of attachment in favor Of William
Berger and Hempei * Co. with Oramcl
Pratt. of 1.nthrop, Morrow & Fox CwhO Is
n gentleman), went 10 my house: they
burstei In my front door and assaulted
my wife and showed her against the ban
;siers and bruised her back. and ! never
had a dollars worth of goods III my pos
session belonging to William Berger or
Gempel & CO., and they had no process
to serve on mo whatever. They assaulted
my wife there and my children crying
out in the back yard and Mr.. Colgan done
that: and he is deputy sheriff. after ha
had taken possession Of my house and
assaulted my wife. / told Bob stone. ]
said: send that man away from this
house. You can retain any deputy sheriff
You want to here but Mr.. Cogan. Mr..
Colgan has got to go; II he don't will kill
him" And Mr.. Stone sent him away,
and he acted a gentleman, and when Mr..
O'Ncill found that out he came and begged
my wjfc's pardon and Mr.. Ellis, of Ellis
{: Cook, attorneys for Marshall Field a.
Co., at Chicago, the men who defended
this attachment business had us for wit
nesses for O'Neill, who was sued on his
attachment bond. | am no thief and my
character is irnpregnable. You can have
me arrested for perjury right now and
can give you a tip that ii won't do you it
id bit of good. for | am no id fool or
anything Ike that. They We're seeking to
attach property belonging to c. A. STAY
Ne, lia f,f A. rpr,ra
senting the firm Of Marshall Field /; co.
of Chicago, came to my houre and solc-
tied my wife and myself to become wit
nesses on behalf of the sheriff to defend
and sustain that attachment that was run
that day. under authority of MIR. o. w.
Pratt, under the authority of the cir
cult court of Jackson county. We went
down to Harrisonville and became wit
nesses for MIR O'Nnill. Mr.. ONeill. Mr..
Preston. Mr.. Colean, Klaubcr and others
were down there. Mr. Barnes, the credit
man of Marshall Field X CO.. of Chicago,
was also there. We were all down there
and the first trial resulted in mis-trial,
and the last time the verdict was in favor
of the sheriff. which will show you or
any other lawyer in this county that we
were not partcips crimnis in this mat
ter
@. Were they seeking to attach the
goods of Mr.. Stavanow? \. | rent a
house from Mr. Stavanow, and he re
serves "A part of the house for himself.
and he had goods in there, but l did not
have possession of the goods at all; the
goods were not in my possession.
Q. / am talking about the reason why
they We're trying to serve the writ? \.
Because they had writ of attachment
against Charles y. Stavanow. He had a
room in my house in which he stored
goods.
@. Well, they were not your goods? a.
No, sir; ! had nothing to do with them,
any more than You would, or Mr.. Bales
would have TO do with what people had
in their rooms who rented rooms from
him in the American Bank building, or
anybody else having charge of the bus
mess.
@. Now. Mr. Canny, when and to whom
did you first tell, after you left that vot-
ing place on the 9Th day of November,
about this Illegal voting? a. l told Mr.
Dave Whitley, Mr.. Jamison's brother-n-
law
@. When? a, Two or three days after
the election.
@. Well, was that the first information
you ever gave to anyone? \. Yes, sir
q. Who did you next notify? 4. / next
notified Governor stone and MIR, Lesueur,
secretary Of state, and the telegram read
like this: Major Thomas ". Park, see
rotary Of ;ate's Office jefferson City, Mo.
Warn Lesueur and Stone against signing
the commissions Of Bremermann and
EcRhlear. If those commissions are signed
by them The state administration is ruined.
j will be there at ! O'Clock and explain
all" ana / signed my name TO it, l was
not there at O'Clock for / made "A misca-
culation. got there at . ! went down on
the same day ana on the same train that
Ed Murphy did with the returns.
@ Did you 70 down on the same day
the telegram? A. Yes, Sir.
q. Did you send the telegram to Gov
ernor Stone on your own motion? A. Yes,
sir.
@. Did you pay for it yourself with your
own money? y. Yes, sir,
q. At whose instigaton did you go to
Jefferson City? y, ! went at the instga-
ton of Thomas j. Canny.
Q. You went of Your own motion? a.
Yes. sir,
Q. We're you solicited to 30 by anybody?
A. No, sir,
@. Did anybody know YOU were going
A. Yes, sir. Mr.. Barnett our foreman
knew ii. MIR. r. Il, Barnett, my foreman
in the printing house, also the bookkeeper
in Hudson-kmberly because l went to
him and drew the money to so on.
q. Those were the only two people In
Kansas city who knew YOU were going?
A. Yes, sir they knew it.
Q. Wen, did anybody else know It? A.
Al the time when l went / did not tell
anybody else no, sir.
.. Well, nobody else knew you were
going except those two gentlemen? A.
Those two gentlemen only. My wife did not
know il until / came home.