The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-06-24

the af1devit or that he had induced
Others to tell what was not true.
Not by hint. intimation or sugges.
ton did i ever attempt to get a witness
TO tell anything that was not the truth,
either In this case or any other. There
was always some one else present when
l talked TO any one of the Witnesses
Mr.. Connolly said he was very anx-
Gus to prosecute Bacher, and he wanted
to see some punishment melted out to
perjury which he had understood had
been committed. He wrote TO the pros
ecuting attorney at Seattle and wanted
to see IL Bacher could not be prosecuted
there. He replied that he did not be-
lieve IL could be lone there and would
not attempt II unless the county OF Sill
yer Bow would pay all expenses and
send the witnesses from here. The wit
ness sent a telegram urging that some
action be taken n a requisition was
issued but was never used. Mr.. Con-
molly said that when he first talked 10
Bacher and his wife about Bacher's
perjury they wanted to know what ef-
feet any statement they might make
would have on Skaters case. Mr.. Con-
molly told them he did not think II
would ave any effect one way or an
other. He said he was going to sift the
matter TO the bottom anyway, as he
then possessed evidence tha perjury had
been committed. He did say to Bacher
that II he would tell all he knew about
the perjury he would not be sent back
to Seattle. Mr.. Connolly did not know
whether Bacher could be sent back any
way. but IL was under that promise that
Bacher mad a confession. The wit
ness. In answer to a question, said he
never offered inducements to any one
to testify to anything but the truth. He
did not believe he would be guilty Of
such a crime. II wal no pleasure to
him to prosecute the parties and when
he first learned Of the perjury he
thought II was a matter in which he
did not care to figure.
On cross-examination by Mr.. Scallon
the witness said that he thought Bach
er made a statement in response to
the assurance that he would not be
sent TO Seattle. After he had decided
to make he statement there was some
clubbing by himself and wife that Mr..
Connolly would not be able to keep
his promise. and he told them tha
they would have to place confidence i'm
his word. He said he could not give
them a bond; IL he could he would. and
they would have to place some faith In
him. Mr.. Connolly testified that he
had intended to prosecute Eva Smith,
Ford and Gabrielle. He did not think
that any assurance or intimation had
ever been given Eva Smith that she
would not be prosecuted II she made a
statement. Both she and Bacher said
that even II they were prosecuted they
would tell all they knew. Bacher said
he had suffered enough on account of
his false testimony. n Eva said she
did not care what would become Of her.
Afterwards they told him that their at
torney. Mr.. McClernan. had assured
them that Connolly was powerless in
the case; that he would be pulled off
and put out OF Office, and that another
man would get his place. Connolly
said he did not know at the lime wheth-
err to laugh at 1t or take 1t seriously.
Mr.. Connolly repeated that the only
Daney letter Booth referred to in court
was one alleging that the man could not
come to Butte. as he was going to San
Francisco. The letter was not offered
to Mr.. Connolly.
The witness said that Mrs. Bacher
was under arrest at one time as a wit
ness, and his Instructions were that
h should be kept separate from Eva
Smith and other witnesses in the case,
but she and her husband occupied the
same room in the jail. but she was re-
leased the same day on which she
was arrested. Connolly said he had
received information tina parties had
seen the witness at the Jail during the
night. n II was to guard against any
thing more of the kind that orders were
issued that the witnesses should be
allowed to see no one, nor to see each
other. Rose. when he was called into
the county attorneys office, was badly
frightened, and at FIRST denied that he
had given a gun to Booth. but after
Mr.. Stapleton had talked to him in a
friendly way he admitted that he had
loaned" Booth a gun. Mr.. Connolly
said that the Shafer gun was wrapped
VI In a handkerchief. m both Gabri-
ellie and Eva Smith testified that II had
not been unwrapped since the morning
of the murder until II vas produced in
court. A transcript OF the testimony
of the two witnesses. given In the Shat
er case. and which Stenographer Will
son had testified to as being absolutely
correct, was submitted to Mr.. Connolly.
The witness said hat he Knew that
the transcript of Gabrielle's testimony
was not complete. and in regard to Eva
Smiths testimony he said:
Il ont care what Mr.. Wilson's rec
ords may show. and ] dom rare to dis
cuss the correctness of his report. but
at the time that Eva Smith gave her
testimony Mr.. Wilson collapsed. and
there is no st~enographer on earth who
could have taken her testimony. All
the attorneys and the court took a
hand in trying to stop her, and the
tpuiA Ntib Nv hoN W Nath "a tNtdii
engine. I know that the testimony was
that the gun had not been u%nwrapped
until II was opened In court In the
presence OF the Jury. 1t struck me as
a very curious thing. and l called the
attention of the jury to II In my argu-
ment."
The Shafer gun was produced, and
Mr.. Connolly identified II as the one
Rose had once said he nae loaned to
Booth. The gun vas a Forehand Arms
company weapon, black handle and
nickle- plated. The weapon introduced
at the disbarment proceedings by
Booth as the real gun he got from
Booth was also exhibited TO Mr.. Con-
molly. 1t looked like the gun, but bore
the brand of Forehand & Wordsworth
as the manufacturers. The gun taken
from Hawkins after he was shot by
Shafer, a Harrington & Richardson
Arms company make. was also intro
duced IN evidence.