The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-03-13
Did you know where it came from?"

IBID you know where it came from"
You asked no questions concerning lt?"
mo, SIR"
Witness declared he had not testified before
the grand jury that he knew the morley had
been left there by Mr.. Haney. He limited
that they had talked about the deal on the
trip to the coast, when Haney had slid that
Of the trip. He had paid all his expenses
on that trip and had never received any
Of the money back; had never found any
0tASf n8s yy 1 Sg: a ssSa fs} Mr. Hall. said
Mr.. Peterson, and the witness became will
ing one at once. He stated that there was
data which would show the exact day on
which he secured the money. Tie witness
was quite sure that the gas committee only
met once during the month OF July. The
discrimination was uninteresting for the
most part. Mr.. Hall tried to show that Mr..
Haney had leave of absence at the time the
money was found, but the court ruled 1t out
as improper cross examination. fine noon re-
cess stopped the tediousness.
AFTERNOON PROCEEDINGS.
In the afternoon the witness was made
to say that as far as he knew no paving COM
pany whatever had paid any money toward
defraying the expenses of the Western trip.
Mr. Hall was trying to show that there were
matters up before the council relative to mu-
nicipal conduits, in order that the jury might
be led to think the $500 came from that
source.
The witness asserted that he had never
been able to ascertain from what source the
money came.
Did you not keep the money for some
time before using it-and endeavor to ascer-
tain?'
'I-that isl think I kept 1t short time"
Mr. Peterson asked If the witness never
had any idea where the money came from,
and the witness insisted that he had not.
Speaking Of the committee book, in which
the money was found the witness said others
used it besides himself. The witness de-
MED that there was any representative of
paving companies on the trip.
tilt between the lawyers occurred over
the exhibit of a plat of Haney's office; then
j. B. Bassett was called.
Mr.. Bassett stated that he went to Normal,
ILL.,, to see Haney, arriving there Dec. %. He
made no proposition purporting to come from
any official of Hennepin county, or make any
promises of immunity on condition that he
would disclose any facts regarding the al
legged deals The witness then went on:
| had this interview with Mr.. Haney's
brother and brother-in-law; / had some evil
dence that was collected by detectives that
were here employed; 1 submitted that evil
dence to them; some of 1t criticized Mr..
Haney and some didn't; they asked me if l
was willing they should take 1t up and show
It to Mr. Haney, and l said l was If they would
De responsible for it, and would return it;
they took 1t up to Mr.. Haney; l said that
had come down there to see If l could induce
Chariey to come up here and tell all he knew
ABOUT the corrupt practices in this city; said
10 them that the people felt a great wrong
mad been committed. and that he knew all
ABOUT It, the people believed he knew all
about It. and that l had come down to ask
MIN II he would be willing to come up and
tell all that he knew about 1t. That is what
l came for; and then the conversation drifted
upon the evidence that we had there and l
think likely l might have said this to them
but l was not certain about that that this
City wasn't after Victims they wanted to
purify the city government. if we could do
II without smirching anybody it was all we
wanted; and | think l said to them and l
SAID the same afterwards to Mr.. Haney, that
came there with no authority from the
county attorney to make promises; but l said,
think can say for myself that if you go
PACK there. and tell all that you know now,
that when you get through with divulging
BOND that you can go away to Mexico if you
desire. That was all think that l said to
Mr.. Peterson by dint Of long questioning
brought out the fact that Mr. Bas-
sett had said to Haney that if he
would come back and tell these things he
then could go to Mexico and his bond would
be 'nulled" by the county attorney
On cross-examination the witness said:
Il don't recollect that we discussed this
particular charge much. I think as we talked
IT over Mr.. Haney denied that Mr. Drew had
told the TRUTH but the discussion upon this
particular charge of Mr.: Drew not extern
sive; ! don't now recollect exactly what was
said; know Mr.. Haney objected to It,"
Wen, do l understand you Mr.. Bassett
that you do not remember that anything was
in this indictment?'
Yes; l remember that in talking about it
Mr.. Haney denied that Mr.. Drew had told
the truth
The crowd gasped with disappointment Mr.
Hall was 1ubilant Mr.. Haney smiled broadly
but, strange to say, Mr.. Peterson did not ap-
pear greatly disappointed. The hour of hard
work had been for naught, and the court
looked Disguised. Ff .,----
Well, Mr.. Bassett, was there anything
said by Mr.. Haney to what he would
say, about this bribery, provided he came
back here?" ~
'He said that he would come up here and
go before this grand jury and he would tell
all that he knew; that he would ask no i'm
munity for what he said; that he would tell
the grand jury everything that he knew about
the-as we call it-boodling. He would bare
his neck to the ak and take his punishment
with the rest; and he said to me subsequently
i think he meant just what he said-that
he was not entirely Gear, but that he was
not near as guilty as most people charged
him, but that he would come back and tell
all he knew about it; but he did not say he
would come back and tell anything about
this particularly"
That was all. There was absolutely no
confession as to the particular charge al
though there was made general confession
alleging that there was wholesale corruption
in the city council, and that he was wee
lamb among the black sheep in comparison.
1t looked bad for the state.
John E. Hoimberg and James H. Eye were
sworn in turn, to tell of their doings In Nor
NAL, but the testimony was so foreign to the
direct matter that the court asked the states
attorney what he had called them for. Mr.
Peterson smiled like a cherub at the court
and did not appear displeased.
This ended the testimony for the day and
this morning at o'clock, 1t is understood,
Mr.. Peterson will place members Of the
grand jury on the stand to show that Mr.
Drew has not quite toted fair, and Frank NJ.
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