The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-02-21
And closed the. door? Yes. sir.

few feet.
Don't you know-where was MI
Monson, when McCune invited you il
there? He was in that room.
How near you? 1 don't remembe
just what position Mr.. Monsoon was in
Where was Mr.. Sloan when MeCun'
invited you in there? He was out il
that room; he may have been in it o.
out of it.
Was there anybody near you wher
McCune invited you in there? VIVA
doyou call near?
Within such a distance that they
could hear the invitation? I dom
think anybody overheard Mr.. McCune
Why do you not think so? Because
ne talked low.
Whispered to you. did he? Didn't
whisper.
But in a confidential tone? Yes, sir
As though he didn't want anybody
to hear? Yes, sir.
That was the way it impressed you al
the time? 1 don't remember any i'm
preston.
Did it impress you at any time that
he was speaking to you in a low tone
so that the invitation wouldn't be heard
by other people? No, it didn't impress
me that way.
You think now that he did speak to
you in a low tone so that it wouldn't
attract the attention of anybody else
have never thought about that.
Why did you make that suggestion
just now? Well. 1 say a man speaking
low, it would naturally appear as if he
didn't want others to hear.
That is what you think now? Yes,
sir.
And yet he walked with you out of
the other room, where all these people
We're, into that room, didn't he? Yes,
sir.
He didn't put wells over their faces
before he went in there? No, sir.
Nor took any pains to obstruct their
vision? No.
Where We're you and he standing
when he gave you this invitation?
think was sitting down; he was stand
ing.
Where We're you sitting? In the
northwest corner of the room.
In the northwest corner of the room
In the southwest corner.
In a chair or on a settee? A sofa or
settee.
Anybody sitting there by you? There
may have been some one sitting on the
other end.
Anybody sitting within a few feet of
you? May have been.
Do you know? No; don't know.
Well, if anybody was sitting within
a few feet of you he would have had
to have spoken in a very low tone not
to have been heard, wouldn't he?
don't know whether they heard him or
not; 1 didn't see.
You said you thought nobody heard
it? Well. L wouldn't think so, either.
What did he say? He said he want
ed TO speak to me privately a few min
utes, or words TO that effect.
DANGER OF BRIBERY NEVER
STRUCK HIM.
Did it occur TO you then that you were
to be corrupted? 1 didn't take time to
think it over, whether he was going to
make any proposition.
Didn't it occur TO you that he was
perhaps going TO make an assault upon
your honor? No, sir; it did not.
OF course if it had you would have
it with indignation, and never
would have gone into that room to be
subjected to any temptation. would
you? You put that as a question?
Yes. Why, certainly l would.
Would what? Have rejected it.
And wouldn't have gone into the room
at all? No, sir.
You would have rebuked him then
and there, wouldn't you, like an honest
man? 1t was owing to how definitely
he put it; if ne asked me in such a
way, or if his conduct had been such
that would lead me to believe that such
was going to be done, / say 1 would
have rejected it.
You would have flung it back in his
teeth? Yes, sir; 1 would.
So 1 take it that there was nothing
N the invitation that you thought i'm
proper? No, sir.
And you walked in there and shut
the door? Yes, sir.
Did you take seats? Yes, sir.
You and he? Yes, sir.
What was the first thing said? l
lon't remember the first thing said.
Why, Mr.. Law, it was in there that
he first attempt was made to corrupt
you. wasn't it? Yes. sir.
You were justly shocked and indig-
lant2 Yes, sir.
If everything that was said in that
most important interview in which this
attempted crime took place? 1 very
distinctly remember the first words he
aid in that line on that subject
What did you first begin talking
lbout? Politics.
Politics again? Yes, sir.
He said he wanted to see you pri-
rately? Yes. sir.
he silver question? Well, incidentally
eferred to that.
You said in your direct examination
hat when you went in there you COM
nenced talking the silver question,
id--'t you? Yes, SIT.
Nothing private about that, was
here? No.
You remember what he said about
he silver question? No, sir.
l.. l.
me he was a silver man.
Can you now recall anything that he
aid? No, sir; he didn't say anything
n that subject that was worth remem- |
erin
You can recall nothing he said upon |
he subject, whether it was worth re- |
RENDERING or not? No, sir.
Can you remember a thing he said |
here during that twenty-five minutes, |
Their than what you related this morn
lg? No, sir; nothing positive.
DETAILS ALL FORGOTTEN.
What? No. sir; nothing positive; that
would be positive about.
You were in there with McCune for
twenty-five minutes, or about that
me? Yes. sir.
Privately? Yes, sir.
And the only thing that you can re-
ali tnaI ne SAID during the whole IN
,rView was that he wanted your vote;
lat it had cost him too much money
} lose now, and that if you would give
i'm your vote you could name your
Hn price? He made use of that state
ent, although not all in the same
reeth.
Can you remember anything else he
lid there during that twenty-five min
-es? Besides that?
Yes. Yes
Tell it to US. He wanted to know
neither 1 had anything against him
ersonaIly or not.
Yes? yos
You said no? / said no.