Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1895-04-28
HARRIS AGAIN TESTIFIES
ri: EXPLAINS ABOUT TIE
DUPLICATE KEY.
The Enterprise Finally Concludes
to Report the Case.
THE SAVAGE M7LTS ACCOUNTED FOR
AND AP!sToL SHOT ExPl AIMED.

The past week has been a very hare
one for the Nevada press in endeavor
|, ing to report the Mint examination
The APPEAL reporter had been 81
lected merely on his shape He wa:
a long slim youngster who coulc
crawl up ventilator fue and d0wr
again without getting stuck in tran.
sit The Tribune selected a man will
large ears Who could fold them over q
transom and gather all the evidenca
The c'osinG Of the transom, however.
knocked the success of the Trihana.
The News not wishing to listen 10
private conversation between the law
yers and witnesses detailed no one
but copied from the Tribune
The Enterprise on the last day of
the week sent a mysterious man down
here with an editorial brass ban d
ahead Of him, but his identity at pres
ent is not disclosed His mission is
to give every scrap of news or be fired
TO make room for another man.
The Journal has been represented
by All Doten, and the Gazette by Mr..
Rosenthall.
| Last evening the APPEAL reporter,
| who had been inside the ventilator
fiues all the week, applied for leave
of absence as he had caught the pneu.
monia by being in the draft. He left
for California last evening.
The first witness yesterday was
Hirsch Harris. on redirect eXamin-
alton. He explained his testimony
regarding the key by saying that on
his first examination he had found
the key on Jones desk, but subse-
quently learned that it had been
found in the Reflners vault between
two books when the vault was being
cleaned out by orders OF Mr.. Mason.
and had been thrown onto Jones'
desk. Witness had not learned of
this when he was first examined.
Witness also testified that when he
took charge OF the department the
keys were turned over to him, but not
the duplicate key nor was any men,
ton made of it
THE SCALES TAAPERED WITH.
On REORGANIZATION Harris testi-
fled that when they began transferring
bullion from the weighing room to
the refining room the scales began to
act queerly and showed evidence of
having been tempered with. They
over weighed about one and one half
ounces in a thousand and had to be
continually corrected. Finally the
scales got so out of killer that George
Mclaughlin had TO be called in to adj
just them, but in a few days they were
as bad as ever. Mclaughlin the |
scale expert fixed them again and a
watch was set TO see if the tampering
could be detected. but they were not
molested again and worked all right. !
Witness said that Jones never told |
him that he got the spurious melts
from Hofer. but Jones had told him
that he got the original melts through
lily iSSS dloi ShdiHCl
THE SAVAGE MELTs
came up again and Ellis and Note
ware showed the accounts of the Mint
to prove that the spurious melt, No.
u, came in as a gold melt in Nov. 80,
and was changed to a silver melt and
afterwards tempered with.
TI,ay- oh Il, -,
oosits could not have been used in
any way to debase the Standard mine
deposit as the Savage melts were all
here in bars and properly accounted
or by the tags and records in the
books of the Mint
Cagwin and O'Connor told OF the
general work of the Refining depart
nent
Ellis testified that he never saw any .
hing in the books to cause him [ O
suspect Jones Of classifying accounts.
THE SHOT IN THE FLOOR. {
The defense having asked ques- '
ions to show that a man had been
hot at in the Refinery. Connors tes- |
flied that Mike Kennedy sent the
hot into the floor one night by the !
occidental discharge of a pistol This I
7as before Kennedy took the Kelley
ure, and it was shown that he was t
n small jag at the time. 1t was T
hown by the prosecution that E. B 8
,abriskie the Meter and Refiner pre- a
eeding Harris was away good deal e
the time on account OF sickness :.
hat he was man of spotless repu- I
ition and died poor. n
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