The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-08-17

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them about the watch. i said If Their,
was anything else in the room I did moi
know anything about it,"
How long were you in the room be-
fore the officers came in?"
Not over five minutes"
What do YOU know as to how Ma
son came by the watch?"
Before we went up to the room /
met Mason in a gambling room and
we came out about the same time. He
asked me If Ididn't want TO take a
walk and ! said j didn't mind. We
then walked west on Park street some
distance. then south to another street.
and then west until we came 20 the
end Of the street. Mason said he had
something out that way that nc want
ed to get. We cut across some lots till
we came to some mines. Mason went
down over a bank and lit a match and
then rolled over a stone and picked up
the watch. / did not see him pick up
the watch. but he did not have a watch
before. and when he came back to
where l was he had a watch in his
hand"
Was that the first time you had
been i'm Lacey and Mason's room?"
That vas the first time
The witness said he did not know at
the time whose room II was. but
Mason had occupied it the night before.
because Lacey had taken a revolver up
to him that night.
How do you know Lacey took a re-
volver up to him.
Lacey and | were walking along the
street-some street. I don't know the
name-and as we passed "A Chinese res
taurant Lacey said he had something i'm
there which he wanted To get. He ran
I'm and soon came out with a bundle. Ii
was wrapped up in a paper and | asked
him what was i'm ii. and he said a gun,
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Mason got IL from a tramp for six-bits
and that IL was worth SIS. Lacey said
there was a long history connected
with the gun and he did not like TO
carry il. We then went to the lodg-
ing house and while l waited below
he went up and left the gun there. La
cey and Mason both went broke at gam
bling that night
What did you know. II anything.
about Lacey at Ellsworth that would
have caused you TO be suspicious of
him here?"
Il was running a saloon at Ellsworth
when he came to town, and"
Mr.. Cason entered an objection and
Mr.. Connolly withdrew his question.
The witness said that after he and Ma
son returned with the watch they met
Lacey and the three went To the lodg-
ing house to go to bed. having made
arrangements to sleep together. and as
Mason and Lacey were broke. Travis
paid for the three.
Lacey and / had intended to leave
town that day. We were going to Da-
kota. Lacey said he knew a brakeman
on the freight and we could ride i'm one
of the cars. When we got to the depot
we found that the cars were all full and
the brakeman was not there, so we
could not go. We started back to town
and met Mason coming down the track.
He had an nNpTpOaf on hiG arm aud a
paper bundle under it, the same one
which Lacey had given him and which
he said contained a gun. Lacey said:
i thought you were going to teach me
how to ride on the rods of a passenger
car Mason said he had to go down the
track to see a man, but would be back
in a few minutes. We waited for him.,
and when he returned, i'm 10 or Is min
utes, he did not have the paper bundle,
and | concluded that he had hidden il
somewhere. He then showed Lacey
how to ride on the rods of a passenger
coach, after which we returned up
town"
rs it not a fact that you don't really
know what the bundle contained which
Mason had at the railway" asked MIR.
Cason, ON cross-eXamination.
Il probably did not really know. but
II was the same bundle which Lacey
had given him and which he said con-
tanned a revolver"
Did you not state at the preliminary
examination that you did not know
what was in the bundle which Lacey
took from the Chinese restaurant"
u said ] knew only what he told me-"
rs il not a fact that you did not
what Mason picked up under the
stone at the mine?"
II know he had a watch more than ne
had when we went out there"
Travis said that when they were I'm
room at the time the officers rapped
the door he was looking at the watch ,
and then laid IL on the foot of the bed
ana walked away. From what he had ,
heard Lacey and Mason say about the
he concluded there was some
thing wrong and he did not care to
have n one see him with the watch
in his hands.
Did Mason say anything al the time
he got the watch from under the ,
stone?"
No. he did not say anything about /,
II al the tim and l did not ask him. 4,
put when we got 10 the room n were 7
at the watch. he said here is a {
pretty good super as soon as we get +,
from this town" ,
ID you say anything to him about
picking up watches under stones" 9
Il think not, but on the way back he ,
said he didn't like to be seen carving =
The watch and that he wouldn't like TO :
it found on him" f,
Did he say how the watch came into !
his possession" ,
Mason said he bought II from a .
.
The same tramp he bought the re- Z
volVer from?'
Il don't know"
Lacey said he didn't want TO carry !
he gun. as il was wanted. .
While the officers were out OF the :
'oom,' said the witness. speaking Of the I
aid Dawson and Murphy made on their =
odging place, Il asked what It meant. /,
Mason said il was a common thing :
rs the officers examined all such places. a
said IL was the first time my room a,
lad ever been examined by an officer" )