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

81 don't know
HIGH PERSONAL EXPENSES.
What were your personal expenses
in the spring of 1S94?'
From $500 to $500 a month
WAS your salary paid monthly"
Just as L needed it,
I'm December, 1894, how did your
wife get her money!"
II don't know; she had it,
Has she money in her own right?"
! Yes"
How much did you give her in
! 1S94?'
TT might have been $4,000 or $4,000,
/ or $500 or $500; can't tell without look
/ ing at the checks
You can't tell any nearer how much
money you gave your wife,"
No
"on December 5 do you remember
drawing a check for $500?'
Il guess So
What was it for?"
II can't recollect.'
Did you send your wife $1,000 in
| December 1S94?''
4 can't tell, without the checks?'
about how much is your wife
worth2''
81 don't know"
she is worth q good deal more than
you?"
Il guess SCI
Did you send her a check for $3.50
on November 20, 1S94?''
IF the check book shows so 1 did"
did you remain solid with McCor-
nick all through the year 1892"
Il never had any controversy with
him.
Did you write your firm that if
! Christ came to eareh Mccormick would
sell his body for twenty-nine pieces of
silver if he had a chance?'
THAT is what l was told
Did Morris tell you that?"
| 81 think he did.
How did you happen to make it
| Twenty-Five pieces?"
THAT was little less than Judas
got''
I'm making that reduction did you
! take into consideration that silver had
been demonetized and was deprecated
| in value?' asked Judge Powers amid
laughter
FORCE OF CIRCUMSTANCE.
Force of circumstances has COM
PEELED you to go on the witness stand?"
Yes"
You have had one trial. you are in
poor health, you were subjected to
pretty rough treatment by the officers
! here You were suffering pain, your
wife was urging you to turn states
evidence, the pressure altogether on
you was great and that is why you
are here testifying?"
Eyes"
"Before you were indicted these con-
ditions did not exist?"
mo"
When the investigation before the
county court was held last spring you
were in good health, you were free and
strong. You were Martin Hayken able
to hold your own in the world; you
then came voluntarily to testify before
the county court?'
Eyes, that is all true
'You then blamed those who made
the charges against you for maligning
your character?''
Yes
do you now swear you did not tes-
tify before the county court at that
Investigations"
Eyes, I did not testify
Were you not sworn?'
'I don't think l was"
did you demand to be sWorn?'
Eyes, but they wouldn't have my
testimony then; 1 was not sworn
AT that investigation on April 10,
1895, did you, in reply to Walter Muir
ply, say you had never paid anything
to anyone to obtain the contracts, and
that you had sold county warrant
for 900 for 14,700?"
81 don't think 1 did"
IF you SO testified was it true or
false?'
eff 1 did it was false, but 1 didn't;
1 didn't testify at ALL
Did you demand that the people
who accused you be brought and be
confronted by you2"
Yes
Did you say that whoever said you
had paid $4,000 to secure the contracts
was a sinking liar?"
Il may have done So"
Last week you were feeling pretty
bad, mentally and physically?"
81 was"
Did you, in Judge Dey's office,
threaten to commit suicide?'
"No, nothing of the kind"
did you not exhibit a bottle con-
tanning some drug and say that this
trouble must be ended and that you
would commit suicide?"
mo, sir; 1 had little bottle of some
thing l was using for an inflamed nos
trl -
Did you not threaten to suicide?'
mo, that stuff wouldn't kill a
mouse
AENIERNOON SESSION.
Before the county commissioners
you denounced the men who made
charges against you?"
Eyes. l did,
THE county attorney told you they
had not made charges against anyone
aid asked you to make your state
ment?"
Yes
And you voluntarily came to tes-
tify?"
Il did"
You appeared before the grand jury
and refused to testify"
Yes, after 1 was arrested I did so
on the advice of my attorney"
Did you not state before the county
commissioners at the investigation
that you had not given the ex-select-
man or anyone else any money or any
thing of value to secure the contract?"
Il don't remember that 1 did"
rs that the best answer you can
give"
Yes; I don't recollect."
Were you sworn there?"
81 think not"
The minutes Of the county court of
April 10, 1895, were then produced,
which showed that Hayken was a wit
ness before that court, but does not
say whether he was sworn or not.
Hayken is put down as saying that
he never paid any of the selectmen
any money or anything of value to
obtain their influence in securing the
contracts for furniture or for any 9TH
er purpose. The warrant he received
for $4,000 he said he sold to the Com
mercial National bank for 14,700, or
SO per cent of its face value. He sent
his firm $4,000 and $4,000, put $500 in
the bank for expenses and charged