The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-13


do you know Joseph R. Morris?"
Yes"
Where did you first meet him?"
AT the Worlds fair in Chicago
who was with him the first time
you met him?"
Harry Haynes, John P. Cahoon and
Herman Bamberger.
Did you subsequently meet him
again in Chicago?"
'Where?"
''At the Office of Andrews & Co., I
introduced him to the firm as select
man from Salt Lake and he talked over
the furnishing of the county building
with them
When after that did you come to
! Salt Lake,
NAMED from Dec. is, 1898 to May II,
1884,
What was your business here?"
CAME TO GET THE CONTRACT.
q came to get the contract for fur
nishing the city and county building"
When did you meet Morris after
you came?'
Right close after 1 came. I went to
see him and told him the object of my
coming
state the effect of the converse
ton
He told me to make I'D schedules
and plans for submission to the COM
mittee''
Nothing more took place at that
meeting?"
No.
You saw him from time to time
while you were here?"
Yes"
"Was any proposition made to Won bv
Morris?"
Yes, after had been here some time
he asked me if I had figured I'D the
cost of getting the contract, that was
in January or February l told him
hadn't figured up any costs and he
told me to figure it out, and asked if
L had any instructions from the house
about a commission and 1 told him
that l had figured on the straight ba-
sis usually charged by the house He
said there was a commission to be in
cluded and I said [ had heard some
thing of figuring on a per cent COM
mission
FIVE PER CENT WOULDN'T DO.
Well, go on; tell what he said"
He said . per cent wouldn't do, and
l asked him how much he wanted: he
said that was for me to decide. 1 then
Morris l had done so, and he told me
to figure on a commission of 20 per
cent. 1 did so, but told him it was too
much
The 20 per cent to be added to the
regular price," asked Mr. Varian.
Yes"
WAS anthing said as to how or
when 1T was to be paid?'
No; not then"
WAS that the end of the matter for
the time being?"
Yes, that ended it for the time
Did you assent to the proposition
fnally?"
Yes, told him he could have it."
did you pay any of the money to
Morris in that year, 1892"
Yes"
FIRST PAYMENT OF $1,000.
When did you make the first pay
men. %
"on May TO-"
"Where?'
TN my room at the Knutsford ho-
tel
How much?"
$50 000"
where did you get the money
from?"
I received it from the house"
How much did you receiver
II received then $500.
How did the money Gomez"
81 received $1,000 by draft on the |
Bank of Chicago, $1,000 in cash and a
draft for $500 by express
LAS to the other $1,000, not in cash, |
which made up the $4,000 paid on May |
10, in what form did you pay it?"
II drew my check for s., 000 cashed !
it, and paid him the money!
The check was put in evidence; it was
dated May 8, 1894, drawn on the Ma
tional Bank of the Republic of Salt
Lake. payable to bearer, signed NJ
and endorsed NJ. Hayken. It
bore the banks stamp, paid May 9,
1894"
ANOTHER $1,000
when next did You pay anything?"
"On August II
How much?'
''$1 ,OOO'
How did you pay ftp
Wrote a check on the bank and
paid over the proceeds"
The check was introduced It read:
Salt Lake City, Aug. Z. 1894.
National Bank of the Republic pay
oedfer one thousand dollars
A. H. ANDREWS & CO.,
NJ. Hayken,
Special Agent
This check, like the other bore the
,aid stamp of the bank The stub was
tlso introduced in evidence 1t has the
words business $1,000 written in ink
N it, and a portion Of the stub was
orn off.
What was on the piece of the stub
orn out?' asked counsel.
1.-The figures 20 per cent"
THIS TIME IT WAS $1,000.
Did you make any other payments
0 Morris that year?"
Yes
when"
''On December g."
How much?"
$4,000"
Where was the money paid?'
AT the Knutsford hotel
t'How?n
Il drew check on the bank, cashed y
!, and took the money to the hotel.''
This check also was put in evidence.
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