The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-03-27

er, the charge against IN said Joseph
Shafer being murder IN the first degree.
in which case the said Joseph Shafer
had heretofore entered a plea of not
guilty. Tha afterwards. to-wit, on
the 5th day Of November. 1897. the trial
Of the aid Joseph Shafer began in the
said district court and was thereafter
concluded. and that during h said
trial there was introduced in evil
dence on the part of the said Joseph
Shafer a certain deposition of one Ed
Laney. taken on the LIST day Of No
vember. 1897. before N. w. Bolster. a
notary public in and for King county.
in the state of Washington. residing at
the city of Seattle. which salt deposit
ton, among other things. recited that
the said Ed Laney did. on a certain
day then past, to-wit, on or about the
18th day of August. 1897. meet in the
city of Butte. Silver Bow county. Mon
tana. one John Hawkins, the said John
Hawkins being the person with n on
of whose murder the a
Joseph Shafer was then and there
charged as aforesaid in the aid dis
trict court OF the Second judicial dis
trict of the state of Montana. and that
the said Johp Hawkins did then and
there ask him. the said Ed Laney, IL
he. the said Ed Laney. had a gun, and
that said Ed Laney answered that he
had: that the said John Hawkins then
asked the a 4 Ed Laney to loan the
aid gun to him. and that he. the said
Ed Laney. did then and there let Inc
said John Hawkins have a certain gun:
that the said Ed Laney then asked the
said John what he was going
to do with the said gun, and he. the
said John Hawkins. then tod him, the
said Ed Laney. that he had "A fight
with a niger out at Columbia Gar
dens and he had been trying to get a
gun all night; that he. the said John
Hawkins. then and there said to the
sal Ed Laney. that IL he saw the said
Niger again he would kill the -
sure: that the said Ed Laney then
asked the said John Hawkins who the
said niger was he was after, and the
a John Hawkins told him the said
Ed Laney. IL was a yellow -
Shafer: that the said gun so gotten
by the said John Hawkins from the
said Ed Laney was a black-handled.
IS Smith & Wesson gum: that the sale
Ed Laney. on the same day, to-wit, on
or about the 18th day of August, 1897.
being the day IN which the said John
Hawkins was alleged to have been
killed by the said Joseph Shafer. met,
in a certain saloon on a certain street
in the city of Butte. the said Joseph
Shafer. and old the said Shafer that he
had better look out for the said Haw-
kins. and that the said Laney had let
the said Hawkins have a gun n that
he, the said Ed Laney. did not want
anybody to get hurt with 1t.
THAT Immediately subsequent to said
interview with the said Joseph Shafer,
the said Ed Laney met the said John
Hawkins on a public street in the city
of Butte. to-wit. the said street on
which the said certain saloon was sit
uate and within about three doors of
the scid saloon. and Immediately after
his interview with the said Shafer, and
said to the said Hawkins that he. the
aid Hawkins, had better give him,
the said Ed Laney, the said gun, and
that then the said JOIN Hawkins then
said no.. he would not: that he was
looking for said Shafer yet and he was
going to get him before morning. That
on or about the said 27th day of Octo-
Der, at the said county of Silver Bow,
and state of Montana, and before the
trial of the said issue as hereinbefore
mentioned and while the same was de-
pending. the said defendants, Melvin l..
Wines and Edwin s. Booth. unlawfully.
corruptly, wickedly. maliciously and
feloniously. did solicit, suborn. insti-
gate and persuade one James W.
Bacher. then and there residing in the
city of Butte, i'm said county of Silver
Bow. and state of Montana, to be and
appear as a witness before the said
~ w. pisAt hoNdi pdDlit aS dlo1t-
said. at the city of Seattle, state of
Washington. for and on behalf of the
said Joseph Shafer. the defendant in
said issue. and then N there before
the said n. w. Bolster. notary public
as aforesaid. falsely to swear and give
in evidence that he. the said James w.
Bacher, was the Ed Laney who's depo-
sition is above referred to as
having been introduced on the trial of
the said Joseph Shafer. and then and
there before the said N. w. Bolster,
notary public as aforesaid, falsely to
swear and give in evidence certain
matters material and relevant to the
said issue n to the matters therein
and thereby put in issue on the trial
of the said Joseph Shafer. and which
said matters are the matters and
things reinbefor referred to and set
out as having been testified to by the
said Ed Laney in the said deposition.
which said matters and things the
said defendants, Melvin l.. Wines and
Edwin s. Booth, then and there and at
time they so solicited. suborned.
and persuaded the said
James w. Becher to so testify, well
were false and untrue.
THAT thereafter, on or about the LIST
day of November. 1897, the said James
Bacher did appear before the said
n. W. Bolster, notary public in and for
county IN the state or washing
aforesaid, residing at Seattle in the
of Washington, and did then and
there, being thereunto solicited, sub
orned. instigated and persuaded by the
said defendants, Melvin w. Wines and
S. Booth, and in
md by the means. encouragement and
Effect of the said wicke and corrupt |
and procurement of the
aid defendants. Melvin l.. Wines and
S. Booth, appear rs a witness
Tor and on behalf of the said Joseph
5hafer. the defendant in the action
mentioned, was duly sworn
and too his oath before the aid N. !
w. Bolster that the evidence which he.
he said James w. Bacher. should the
md there give before the said N. w. |
Bolster, touching the matters then in
between the said state of
and the said Joseph Shafer, |
should be the truth, the whole truth
nothing | At the truth, the said n.
". Bolster at the administering Of said