The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-06-18

did, n an offer was made that the
defense would "a half the expenses II
the state would pay the remainder.
Connolly said he would see the county
commissioners and that was the last
that was said about the matter. The
witness said he did not know that Ed
Rose had left town until about a week
ago., n did not know his present
whereabouts. but had heard that he
had gone to Russia.
rs II not a fact that you were with
him at the lime he bought his ticket?"
II was not. SIR"
On redirect examination by Mr.. Seal
lon. the witness said the only part of
Eva Smiths testimony at the Shafer
trial which ne had reason to suspect
was not true was that she had slashed
Hawkins with a revolver.
M. l.. Wines, the other respondent,
followed Booth on the witness stand
and said he had resided in Butte and
practiced law here since August. 1889.
Mr.. Wines related the circumstances
leading up to his connection with the
Shafer case and his acquaintance with
the Bacher outfit. There was never
any definite agreement as to what the
attorneys should receive for defending
Shafer. h various proceedings had
in court up to the time the commission
was issued for the Laney deposition,
were recounted by Mr.. Wines. The
first time the name of Ed Laney was
mentioned in court was on Oct. is.
when the time for the Shafer trial was
being considered. The witness and
Mr.. Booth pleaded for time on account
of the absent witness. and Mr.. Booth
pulled out of his pocket the letter from
Ed Laney, which ne had received the
day before. The letter was offered to
the court n Mr.. Connolly, but they
did not read IL. MIR. Wines a read
the letter. 1t was mailed at Spokane,
and the writer of 1t said he was broke
and wanted to go to San Francisco.
and he thought he ought to have some
money. He understood that his testi-
>mony was wanted and said that he
had. the evening before the murder.
given Hawkins a gun. Mr.. Wines said
he first learned from Senator Matlock
of Pendleton, Ore, that there was a
mar at the race track who had given
Hawkins a gun. Mr.. Wines accom-
panied Matlock to the race track to find
a man who could give some information
on the subject. and Matlock introduced
| him to a big mulatto. The latter
seemed to be very reticent. but finally
| said that all he knew was that he had
1 heard some stable boys say that n
/ Ed Laney had given Hawkins a Gdn.
and that Hawkins had himself been
killed. The man said he understood
that Laney had skipped out because he
did not van to be locked up in jail
as a witness. Charlie Beard came up
and Joined in the conversation n as
sisted in a search for Laney, but with
out success. Senator Matlock is noY
in Skaguay, and when Mr.. Wine VS.
first charged with the perjury matter.
he wrote to Matlock and a long time
afterwards received a reply. in which
he recalled the race track incident
| about Ed Laney. Mr.. Wines said that
himself knew about Ed Laney. The
witness denied that he had had an in
terview with Bacher on Oct. 25 or rs. as
testified to by him.
81 never in my life made the state
ments imputed to me- said Mr.. Wines.
referring to Bacher's testimony that he
had suggested that Bacher go to Seat
tie and make the Laney deposition.
MI. Wines denied that he had given
Bacher $50 to pay expenses to Spokane
or that he instructed Eva Smith to pay
him SIS more. The witness had never
been satisfied in his own mind that it
was the proper thing to have the depo-
sition AIKEN. He thought 1t was a dam
gerous thing to put a witness on the
stand without first having examined
him. because the slightest discrepancy
etwee his testimony n that OF
other witnesses might be fatal to the
case.
Mr.. Wines said ne never said any
thing to Bacher about going to Seattle
to impersonate Ed Laney. Bacher
bounded the attorneys as to whether
they would get Laney's deposition, and
Mr.. Wines discussed with him the pro-
priety of sending a nan to Seattle to
hun up Laney and get his deposition,
but no arrangements were ever made
for IL, as none of the parties had money
enough to pay the expenses of IL. Mr..
Wines declared that the question Of
perjury had never been discussed and
he never told Bacher hat there was no
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letter from Laney at Spokane was in re-
Spouse to one Mr.. Wines had written
to Thomas j. Parker, a horseman at
Spokane. and asking him to look up
IAney. No copy of the letter was kept
by the witness because the letter was
written before the perjury trouble
arose. Mr.. Wine denied all knowledge
of the gun experiments and said that
IL a pistol had been given Bacher to fire
on he knew nothing about ii.
"Did anything like that ever take
placer"
Never in the world"
1T was testified to that after the gun
had been fired OF IL .smelled too strongly
of powder and IL was placed In an over
to get rid of the smell. Did anything
like that ever ccur?
Never in the world"
".was any proposition made by you
or Mr.. Booth to introduce in the trial Of
Joseph Shafer a gun and pass IT on az
Shafer's pistol?"
"Never in the world. The fact is l did
not know anything sbou any Of the
pistols referred to. 1 had nothing to dc
with them"
"State. IL you know, whether a pistol
was obtained and whether you and Mr.
Booth said il would do?"
"Never in the world"
Mr.. Wines said he was in the Rose
pawnshop on business of his own at the
time Booth was in there to get a gun
and he did not know that Booth did get
q gun. as nothing was said by him about
IL at the time
"when did you find out that Bachel
did 60 to Scatter"
"when he swore to IL here the othel
day"
You had information Of it befor,
that time. did you not?
Il had information Of IT when he wal