The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-06-15

yesterday morning and continued all
day. When an adjournment was taken
in the evening al the evidence Of the
prosecution had been presented. The
hearing win be resumed Friday morn
ing, when the testimony for the defense
will be given.
Eva Smith, the colored woman
known as Big Eva, was on the witness
stand yesterday morning. Her exam
ination was conducted by County At
torney Stapleton.
Are you the same Eva Smith who
testified in the shafer trial?"
Eyes, sir"
did you ever have q conversation
with Mr.. Wines and Booth as to what
you should testify In that case?"
YES, SIR"
"Did they tell you anything what you
should testify tot"
Yes, SIR"
Tell the conversation you had with
them and give the dates"
II can give the dates: my mind IL
too short"
estate what occurred at the first in
terview you had with them"
II don't know. Mr.. Booth and Mr..
Wines told me what to say and I told
them I could not say that. and Mr..
Booth sal l had to say that"
What did he want you to say?"
"They wanted me to tell about the
gun, and said I should testify a /
picked h CUR up from the moor. I
had used q razor or Hawkins. and they
wanted me to say hat 1 used the gun
which l picked up on the floor. l said
1 could not testify that way and Mr..
Booth said. Yes. you an"
Die they say where they got the
gum"
Didn't tell me. but I heard Mr..
Booth say he got it from a pawn
broker"
Eva said she kept saying she could
not testify as they wanted her to n
they said they would teach her. but
she kept on forgetting what they told
her. They took her down to Bacher's
house and went over the testimony
with her, but she kept forgetting about
1t, and when she went home she
thought and thought about 1t n
dreamed about ii at night, because she
was afraid she would make a mistake
when she came to testify about IL. She
said she was to testify that Shafer
dropped the gun on the floor, that she
picked 1t up and pecked at Hawkins.
then wrapped the gun up in a handker-
chief and gave it to the French woman,
Gabrielle, who kept 1t till Eva got out
of jail, and was then to return II to her,
and she was to produce 1T at the trial.
Did you so testify at the trials"
asked Mr.. Stapleton.
did you so testify under the in
structions Of Mr.. Wines n MIR.
Booth?" =
Yes, sir; they told me / a to, and
i did so. / thought they knew their
business, and when they told me 1 had
to testify that way ] thought 1t was all
right"
Was what you testified at the trial
Some was and some was false"
Was your testimony abou the gun
true or false?"
THAT was false"
How often was the testimony re-
hearsed with you by Mr.. Wines and
Mr.. Booth?"
"Mr. Wines didn't have much to say.
1t was Mr.. Booth and Bacher. i kept
saying that 1 couldn't testify that way,
n Mr.. Booth said, oh. yes. you can;
you got to- so what could l DOR
Eva said she had not been told about
Mr.. Wine and Booth planning to. sem
Bacher to Seattle to make the deposit
ton. and she did not know that he had
one until she missed him from Butte.
The attorneys had been looking for
another man as witness, but could not
find him. SO that when Bacher came to
town 1t was decided to send him to
Seattle to make the deposition. The
first she knew that he had zone she
was told 50 by Shafer In jail. On the
day she was to give her testimony she
was In Booths office, and he told her
he would club her good II she did not
give her testimony right.
d you remember of n other con-
versation you had with Mr.. Wines and
Booth as to what you ehould testify?"
Mr.. Vim never had SO much to say
about it; 1t was Mr.. Booth who was
after me all the time"
The witness tongue few like . streak
OF creased lightning, and her testimony
was considerably jumbled up. Every
few words h rang in "Oh, l forget"
n II don't know"
How long did 1t take you to learn
your story?" asked Mr.. Scallon. on
cross examination.
Two or three days. two or three
times a day."
you thought about 1t at night, you
sayg"
Yes. ! dreamed about It. 80 I
wouldn't forget 1t. They put IL on my
mind SO that 1 dreamed about It."
You say o used q razor IN Haw-
kin and not . gum"
Yes, sir"
where did you get the raxor7"
where does anybody get q raxorf
In the barber shop. of course. But I
didn't get mine In the barber shop. i
had it,"
did Hawkins have q razor?"
How do I know whether Hawkins
q q razor? ! didn't look In his pock-
ct to see IL he had q razor or not"
The witness was asked who besides
Wines and Booth were present in
Booths Office when she rehearsed her
testimony.
"Oh. i don know. There was q man
there with gray whiskers somewhere
on his ace. A sort of an oldish man."
When the proposition was FIRST
made to you did they have the gun
then? I don't know They had some
kind of a u at Bacher's, but there
was something wrong with IL, I don't
know. Bacher went out with IT. II
vas raining. n when ne got back
they put the gun or the ~cartridges-I
don't know-in the stove|I don't know
n then they took 1t out. I don't