Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1896-03-08
AFTER RECESS.

was resumed. Witness again went
over the figures. WitHfss being sub
mitted 10 q rigid cross examination CT
ii- Knowledge Of the workings OF the
dep 4rtment. Attorney re .d frequent
~ frOW former testi Ony Of witness
and attrmptrd to show discrepancies.
A great deal Of old ground was gone
over and no'hing new elected.
A wrangle between the lawyers en-
sued and Gen. Clarke charged Wood
burn with an endeavor to deceive the
jury by his line of cross examination
and objected t the question. Wood
barn was allowed to proceed.
Witness deoied that Ernest Harris
ever advised him against he nitric
process and that the process had been
n failure in the mint. Jones had told
him that the base metal could only be
worked by the nitric process. He did
a0T advise wi ness to get The best acid
in thA market, When I first discov-
red the shortage I surmised that my
assistants, Conners and L'kens, had
stolen it, [ paid no part Of the ex-
penaes Of detectives to watch them. |
agreed to pay for my share Of the eX-
pense if the Government did not. but
the Government settled fOrt'nrx,ense.
Clarke was on his feet several times
ohipcting to the manner Of cross ex-
animation charging that the attorney
was endcavoring to mislead the jury
ny irving to make he jnrv believe
that the witness vas ~contradicting his
former t. stimOnv.
Woodhurn d"ajed this with some
heat and a lot Of wrancling Followed,
The Court said that tie jury had
eyes ami ears and could discern what
was going on if such was the case.
The Court would protect the jury and
witnesses.
Had sent some experimental bullion
, 10. the refinery to test the honesty Of
his employees. It was as-aved pre-
= viOus'v on the Comstock and no one
but Jones ard myself knew OF It. |
told Jones vh%t I wasdojng.
2 III ti4F tF'itIFtl '\C1ffIltr l iOh "itLC7S
} eaj1 hr did not zu~pect the honesty of
Gamers. Had tested his honesty
AID found him straight. Witness
, said his testimony as read by Wood
j., buzz on cross eXaminatiou vas cor
=, t int his explanations Of it give
In CT on was not read by Woodburn.
! 1t wa" her read by Clarke to the
jury.
1t was regarding the kew. Harris
first testified that he thought he put
the kew on Jones desk Int on invest.
eating ha learned that Tci Dollar
q had placed it on the desk,
The witness was here excused and
General Clarke read the reports of
n various mints showing how small the
q wastes Of other mint5 compared will
!, the Carson Mint.
P. b. ELLIS TEXTILES.
n Paris Ellis. the next witness, reaC
e the records of the BOdie melt shown!
t TIE jury the first receipt given Chas
1t Peters. The receipt had been givel
lie by C. A. Witherel the weigh clerk
2. also read ho"k entries to the jnr,
d giving full history Of the bar. Tn
it testimony was merely a c~OrrOhOratiOI
L Of NOteware's and Harris testimony
it Witness also told how he had assave'
the spurious tar under directions 4
SIS Inspector Mason. On June 21st 9
As the work in the refinery was prolor
he ged until 6 O'Clock, a remelt was bein
E. made.
This is the night the prosecute
Id claim the bogus melt was made.l
They claimed to be remelting col
deposit No. IA. 1t assayed 5442 i
n gold, silver 407. Cart say whette
MT they were really melting the Bod
It bar or the other. The points wei
he very nearly the same. Rnmelting IT
fines the metal. The melt lacked "a
the 900 and the Bodie bar was yer
er close to this. There was no necesssit
Of remelting If.
ct 1.-THE prosecution claim hat the r.
melt of this bar was fraudulently r
as ported to cover the melting of the b.
be gus bar.l
re- Adjourned until 10 o'clock Monda
morning.
ed -
ne MI. Harris of Genoa is reported d.
ed ing. Yesterday he made his will al
it was thought he could not liz
re- through the night.
ID