The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-15

Horse.
The two days cross-examination Of
Martin Rayken by Judge Powers IN
the Morris bribery case closed at
O'Clock last evening It was long
siege. a battle royal between counsel
and the witness, and both were thor
oughiy worn out when it ended. The
witness, as was to be expected, was
shown to have made many conflicting
statements, but he stuck unf1inchlnSly
to the main points il his story that ne
had paid Norris $1,000 under an agree
r,7ent TO give him 20 per cent. OF the
gross price of the furniture. he ap-
peared very anxious to eXonerate balli-
berger and Cahoon and throw all the
blame on Morris. Hayken is smart ana
showed it in many ways during ms
examination His explanations Oh why
he turned state evidence was DENY
cred with great earnestness, in a thor
oughly dramatic way, and had great
influence on everybody who heard II.
Judge Powers cross-examination was
most able and ingenious, and was
masterpiece throughout The trlal I'M
less something happens Will likely eA-
HAYKEN RESUMES HIS SEAT.
Martin Hayken took the stand for
further. cross-examination, as follows:
Mr.. Hayken, be kind enough to re
peat once more the contract that you
made with Norris and gave TO MN on
the 9Th of April, 1894, and of which you
stated you kept a copy that was
II can't give exactly the wording
thereof Judge Powers, but the sub
stance of it was that in consideration OF
assistance and acceptance OF the con-
tact and payment of the different
amounts the house would allow 20 per
cent. of the gross receipts on the con-
.sThe contracts of March and May Z
with the county were the ones that
were referred to, were they not?''
mo: generally the contracts all
through which ] was working at that
time. and which mad not been con-
cluded yet-which lad not been &C
@That included then the board of ed
dcation contracts?
YES. sir"
What was the total amount of all
those contracts?
1.-THE total amount that time, you
know. ! could not state-I could not
was 5000
lightweight thousand dollars?"
1T f02 was to be 20 per cent. of that
SSS. OOO
yves. sir"
tional percentage?
mo. sir"
Nothing was said about s per cent
for the architect"
There may have been, but 1 would
not be certain; 1 would not swear to
it; but / think there was another . per
cent to the architect"
Now, if you think there was, why
didn't you mention that fact when you
stated the substance Of that contract
to Mr. Varian and why didn't you men
tioE that fact when you repeated the
substance of that contract to me this
morning.
Il was not asked about it, Judge
Powers, and I held myself strictly to
what I was asked
SIGNED AT THE KNUTsFORD.
THAT contract was signed by you on
the sth day of April?''
Yes sfr-signed by me-A. H. An
drews &. Co, per NJ. Hayken, special
agent
Where was it signed?"
''At the Knutsford hotel, sir"
I'm your room2"
'In my room, sir
"Who was present."
mir. Morris"
''Was that alp"
THAT vas all
did he sign it?'
mo. sir
did he give you g receipt"
mo, sir; it was merely an agreement
you know, made between him and me"
Ibid he give you any receipt?''
NO. sir; I didn't require any re-
ceiptr
Did he sign the copy that you
kept?"
Now at the time you had made no
contract with the board of education ~
mo, SIR
IBID you at that time know the mem
hers of the board?''
Certainly, sir"
did you know the president of the
board?"
'I did, sir"
HAD you been introduced to him?"
II don't remember about that time,
the 9Th of April"
did they afterwards come to your
room and examine the furniture? ?"
They did, sir
did you talk to them about the
valre. of it?"
Eyes, sir"
A CRANK ON THE BOARD.
did ou afterwards state to your
firm that there was one old crank on
the bosrd?"
Il die. sir
Ard that you were working to bring
him over?"
Il did. SIR
That old crank was Colonel Nelson.
was it not?"
Yes sir"
Managing editor Of the Tribune?"