The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-04-07

q Break IN Bis writing. The Ire where r
Is broken goes right GA smoothly. ard II
papa bad made such an intsrrurtson in the
Hires Of his writing be wculd hare made =
smnage whea Ne pat his pen down again"
Miss Blair Then gave Il as her opinion
thar the signature TO fhe contract was also
not nsr fathers
Miss Blair was asked about the relations
between her father ard Wright. In the
faI % i&5 her father informed her thai
he was very much annoyed by Wrigas's
interfering in his business affairs. and AT
his dfcfAtson she wrote = letter TO Ree<rt
Gcurlay. the superintendent OF the Cedar
river coal mines. telling Gour-ay that
Wright Was not authorized 20 collect rents
or Otherwise interfere with Gouy.Ays man
aSement In September. 1856. witness came
90 Seattle with her father and stopped 1t
the Ra.nier-Grand hotel During their
stay OF week In Seattle she was with her
saffSer at the hotel every evening except
two. On those evenings she requested
Capt. +. ]. Burns. a friend Of Capt Blair.
TO stay with her father uEti. her return.
and Capt Burns did So Her reasons FOR
not wishing 20 leave her father alone were
thai h.s heath was very poor at the time
This testimony OF Miss EIasr's ls contra
dictory to the testimony Of John b. Hart.
for the Plaintiff. 10 the effect that he ac-
companied Wright to the Batter hotel one
evening in the fan of 1856. IN September.
he thought, and there had a conversation
with the old man. In which the latter add
United that be had given his nephew
s. DO note.
The balance Of Miss Blair's testimony
was devoted 10 her fashers papers. She
had never seen the copy OF WrighTs al
legged contract among them. She was not
cross-exau:ned 70 any extent by ar. Pies.
my Life an Open Book
Capt. David Gilmore, who was once a
saipmafe OF Capt. BlaIr's and for many
years commanded different ones Of the AT.
ter's vessels, was next called. His teSti-
mony Was Of particular interest IN but one
or two points. though he was on the stand
for nearly an hour. One OF these points
was where Capt. Gilmore testified that he
had once In 1885 twitted his old friend
Capt Blair. jokIng.y on the probability of
some contract wife or big note farming up
after his Capt. Biairs) DEATH Witness
was moved TO make the remark by seeing
some reference to the Fair viii case In a
newspaper and hearing The Kenyon note
case discussed. Capt. Blair had said 10
witness:
No. captain, my life is an open book.
There viii be no contract wife or big note
IN my case when l am dead"
Another little point in the testimony
which struck the audience as amusing was
when. as the witness testified he and
Capt. Blair were sitting IN the lobby OF the
Rainier-Grand. Young Wright was with
them. Capt, blair told Wright to go away
for moment: that he wished to talk prf-
vately with Capt. Gilmore. Wright went
away and the witness remarked to Capt
Blair: Captain. that boy must be very
fond of you, l see him with you al the
time"
To this Capt Blair replied:
Yes. d-n the boy. / can't get clear Of
him: he follows me around like my shad-
ow.''
Capt. Blair. the witness said was a very
careful business man. He was very conser-
vative and hard man 10 make trade
with
why" remarked the witness. turning
toward the jury. when he had few
drinks in him you couldn't make a trade
with him at all"
Capt. Gilmore was cross-examned at
considerable length by Attorney Dore. One
interesting fact brought out was that dur
Ing the stay OF Capt Blair at the Rainier
Grand with the Masticks in August. 1895.
witness had seen Wright and his uncle
together in the hotel lobby one morning.
Neither Mr.. nor Mrs. Mastlck we're pres
en-. Wright and Capt. Blair were appa-
rertiy on the hes. OF terms When the
captain made the statement that he could
not clear himself Of Wright. witness did
not consider that he felt any III will tow
ards the nephew. Capt. Blair was a man
who used pretty rough language In ordi-
nary conversation sometimes. being an Old
sailor.
The last witness called was ". A. Mitch
ell now resident of Seattle. but who
formerly lived in San Francisco and had
done work IN Capt. Blair's office He was
shown n large bunch OF Cancelled checks.
purperttng 10 have been signed by Capt.
Blair. He said he was familiar with the
captains handwriting. and that the checks
were genuine. He bad filled out the body
OF each or the eaeeksz He was then shown
the alleged forged note and promptly gave
his opinion that the signature was forged.
Mitchell had said thar he hsa never seen
tao note before coming 10 the witness
stand but Mr.. Dore got him 10 admit that
he had previously seen copies of both the
note and contract. Then Mitchell, wen, on
TO anaiyxe the alleged spurious sig
nature and give his reasons for
believing II forgery. In a faith
eTiY way Ar. .D5Fe Fssacsfs
upon the shoulder OF the witness and asked
him IL he didn't notice differences between
the genuine signatures Just as marked -
between the genuine and the alleged forg-
cries. The witness candidly admitted that
this was fact. Mr.. Dore asked II 1t was
not "a fact that Capt. Blair never wrote his
name twice alike. Mitchell was not GER
tain but what this was q fact.
Then Mr. Dore asked Mitchell whether
one OF the admittedly genuine signatures
i'm evidence was Blair's or not. Mitchell
replied that he didn't know From this
time on Mr. Dore had his own way. and
finally compelled Mitchell TO admit that tbs
only signatures of Capt. Blair he would
positively declare were genuine were those
ha had seen the captain write.
Del. h. Hsrhaugh. the landlord OF the
Rainier-Grand hotel. was called and cor
FEDERATED the testimony % Mr.. Massick az
tn the date OF Capt. Blair's visit TO Seattle
in August 1895, by reference to his account
books He was the last witness for the
day.