The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-06-19
THE WINES AND BOOTH
CASE NEARLY COMPLETED
The Evidence Shows That There Was Such . Person as Ed Laney
The Attorneys Deny That They Put Bacher Up
to Impsrsonats Him.

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it?"
mo, that would not"
Mr.. Wines said he knew Ed Rose. the
pa~wnbroker, was going to leave town.
because Rose had told him he wa going
to Russia to visit relatives. and asked
him about getting passports. Mr.. Wines
wrote to senator Mantle on the sub
ject, I'M received from him some books.
which he urn yer to Rose. Mr..
Wines has recently understood that
Rose would be back In q few months.
You new at the time Rose told you
he was going ava that the county
attorney vas still insisting that per-
jury had been committed at the SHAFT
er trial?"
There was nothing. after the FIRST
conversation we had, when the matter
hrst came up. that led me to believe
that h county attorney was stin in
sisting on 1t till after the arrest Of Bach
er."
You took no steps TO take the de-
position Of Ed Rose before he went
away"
There was nothing pending In which
q deposition could be taken, unless i
had taken him into q secret ONCE. as
was done in the other instances, and
take his afiidavit, which ! would have
considered Of very little value In any
vent"
The witness said he did not get hi
deposition of the man Parker. who as
sisted In looking for Laney, because he
thought Laney would be here at the
trial. He did not take the deposition
Of Senator Matlock because the latter Is
in Skaguay. and he was uncertain how
to go about IL to get a deposition from
that place. also because of the delay In
getting a reply from there.
David w Broadly. manager for Harry
Blumpkin's pawnshop. was the next
witness, and testified that he had loaned
Booth a new. pearl-handled. 3s-caliber
revolver. Of the Harrington & Rich
ardson make. He said he did not in
tend to shoot II OF, and would return II
in q day or 30. He did not return II,
and in about . week Broadly asked
Wines about II, and in q few days he
brought It back. The gun had not been
used.
Gould you tell whether 1t had been
loaded and discharged!" asked Mr..
Scallon.
YES, SIR"
Had it been loaded and discharged7"
TT had not"
IF 1t had been loaded and sho of.
and afterwards put in a hot ven and
heated, would there have been anything
about II to show it?"
1T would not have been practical to
have put II in an oven, because the han
dies were pearl, and they would not
stand II. The heat would crack the
pearl. II the gun had at all been dam
aged i would have noticed II and would
have charged Mr.. Booth up with H."
On cross-examination, the witness
said he didn't know whether Booth got
the gun before or during the Shafer
trial. He had also loaned Booth a gun
some time before that. during the hold
up scare The p~earl-handed gun Is
the one, presumably. concerning which
Bacher testified to the effect that Booth
gave it to him to fire off and make 1t
look old, but that ii smelled too fresh.
and was then put in a stove to axe the
smell away. 1t had been Intended to
use the gun at the trial, but 1t was dis
carded. and another one secured from
Ed Rose. Bacher said that C~avanaugh,
Booth and Wines were present when the
gun proposition was discussed.
Attorney Miles C~avanaugh. who had
testified that when wi Smith told him
that her testimony would be contrary
to the facts. and thereupon he pulled
out OF the case, was recalled as a wit
ness, and said that he did not, during
the trial, communicate TO Wine or
Booth what he had discovered. and he
drew out Of the case without explana-
ton to the other two attorneys. APP
parently no explanation was sought by
them.
Ibid you 70 up to court and make a
formal withdrawal from the case. or
did you Just stay away?" asked Mr..
Scallon.
Il just stayed away"
Cavanaugh said he knew nothing
about any suggestions being made to
Eva Smith as TO what h should testi-
fly to. and he had never heard 1t sug-
sested that Bacher should go to Seattle
to represent Laney, or that Wines told
Bacher II was safe for him to do so. as
such a thing as perjury was unknown
You stated the other day that the
information which you received and
which enabled you to make your state
ment to the jury In the Shafer case was
furnished you by Wines and Booth?"
said Mr.. Nolan on cross-examination.
Yes. sir"
when was that in reference to the
time you made the statement?"
The day or night before"
VIVA became of the papers in your
ONCE upon the dissolution OF partner
ship between yourself and Mr.. Booth, on
the first day Of january"
THE papers Of Mr.. Booth and myself
were separated"
ence to the letter that was alleged to
have been received from Ed Laney
about the middle Of October last! .
mo, sir; all I know about II Ia that
I heard Wines and Booth In the court
room, when An application was made
to have the deposition Of Ed LAney
taken. say hat such . letter had been
received"
Cavanaugh said Booth told him about
making experiments with q gun to de-
termine at what distance . shot could
be fred and leave powder marks On a
piece of cloth. After the Shafer trial
Booth told him that he had borrowed
three different guns from Ed Rose
Cavanaugh said he never a much to
do with the Shafer case. and he did not
know what had become OF the various
letters relating to the case and the
stenoerapher's note books belonging TO
the demure Miss Elmer.
J.. L. Wines. father of n. L. Wines.
was brought from his sick bed to tes-
tify In the case and told about receiv-
Ing the letter. presumably from Ed
Laney, addressed to wines q Booth.
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