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

And with hirn?"
Yes, sir"
Thar is what 1 meant?"
Yes"
Now you understand me?"
Yes, sir"
WAS he a friend of yours?"
Il consider anybody friend OF the
house that furnishes them work"
WAS he a friend OF your house,
| II think he was, yes"
did you write to your house that
/ he was our friend?'
Certainly, sir
And put it in quotation marks?"
Yes. sir"
"And in capitalist"
! Yes, sir"
why did you want 10 make 1T i'm
pressive?'
why, to induce the house to treat
them as such; that is all
Didn't you desire to convey the i'm
| preston to the house that it would be
necessary for them to make certain ar
rangements with him in order TO keep
him in line?'
Judge, that was all"
Answer my question, Martin Hay
kenr'
No. sir"
That was not it?"
mo, sir"
Didn't you communicate to the
house and convey to the house the i'm
preston that it was necessary to enter
into certain transactions with him in
order to induce him to stay with us,
meaning the house?"
Nothing of the kind, sir"
OUR FRIENDS.
And didn't you desire by your let
ter to The house to convey to the,house
the impression that this man was open
to Interior influences, and that it would
be necessary to use them in order to
have him remain our friend? p"
Not bit of 1T, sir"
Did you write to your firm on April
10. 1S94?''
81 don't know if I did"
did you write before or after you
had paid the $1,000 to Morris on that
date?'
I don't know If 1 did"
Il show you that letter, Mr.. Hayken,
and ask you whether you didn't write
to your house on that date. April 10,
1892"
1T seems so, yes, SIR
Had you made any payments ito
Morris prior to writing that letter."
mo, sir"
You say you had not?"
mo"
What time did you write that let
ter?''
Il cannot tell you"
81 understood you to say, Mr.. Hay
ken, in the course of your examination
yesterday, that Mr.. Cahoon was not a
party to this corrupt deal at al?"
He is not. I told the truth"
"Why did you write to your firm
that you thought Cahoon would be able
to fetch the others around?"
do you wish me to explain that TO
your
81 ask you the question"
why, met Mr.. Cahoon-I met him
and told him that 1 wanted to get
through with the contract, and that 1
tried, you know, to get the meeting of
the other commissioners-the county
commissioners-so as to settle the
thing, but I had been unsuccessful to
find him, and have him come with them
and complete, you know, the contract,
and Mr.. Cahoon said: Well, I am go
ing to fetch the other fellows, and we
will come over there and see you to-
morrow or the day after"
rs that what you meant by 'fetch?'"
THAT is just exactly it,
w ny - II, MI. nay hCll, IL Ilicil ID oil
straight and true"
Yes, SIR
NEED A MAP TO EXPLAIN.
THAT every one of yor letters needs
a map to explain what you meant %
Not to me; neither to you, judge"
Let me read it to you again. IF
there is hope in Israel, we will get the
rest of it What do you mean by hope
in Israeli
We'll, have had it many years. and
1 hove got it yet, the hope of Israel "
What do you refer to-?
And my hope that everything is
satisfactory"
county board?"
No
do you refer to the hope that
man has in the future life?''
Il was, SIR
"And you were invoking that to aid
you in this corrupt deal that you were
having?"
well. do not wish ITO say corrupt,
you know, Judge"
You do not like that word?'
mo"
ITO aid you in this contract with
Morris?"
1HdL 10
You thought God would help you
in that?"
mo, sir. did not say God. I said
Israel"
+ DO not you refer to the Almighty?''
Il did not, or else 1 would have
said so.'
Did you not mean that when you
said hope in Israel? "
mot exactly
And you meant it, however, as ex-
planned in the answer to the question
that just put to you?
Yes, sir"
And your applying to him just has
reference to the belief that he would
aid you in this contract with Morris?"
Yes, with the committee"
do you think that such contracts
are aided by Israeli"
We'll. that is the usual express
SION
Not that class of contracts?"
I'm general. Yes. One kind
That is al the explanation you can
make of that?'
That is right
my friend Cahoon?"
Yes, sir"
Were you quite friendly with Ca
hoon them
Always been friendly with any
one"
Were you quite friendly with Ca
hoon?"
AS much as anybody else. Yes,
sir
LAS friendly as you were with Nor
ris?'
Not exactly, sir"
You and Morris were little