The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-03-02

and Monson admit they had telephoned
him to come up to headquarters and
talk about framing this telegram
again that was to be sent to Barber
/ Re had promised to come Wednesday,
( ana had come. and Sloan wasn't there.
Friday. Sloan telephoned. and ne said
| he would be up about o'clock. and
[ Sloan said. Come up and we viii go
I 20 dinner together and he said. 'AlI
/ right" All that was admitted. Theirs
was nothing said in the headquarters
/ between them-it is not claimed there
was anything improper said in the
headquaI ters on Friday. They went
I out to dinner, and you have Laws tes-
/ timony on the one hand and Sloan on
the other. Some comment was made
/ upon 1t. 1t is for you to determine, in
/ the light OF all the other evidence in
/ this case. whether Mr.. Law. who is
contradicted on so many other coca
sions by witnesses on either side-their
side as well as Ours-whether he is TO
/ be believed in preference to Mr.. Sloan.
when we have him and Sloan alone to-
gether.
| 1 won't undertake to repeat that.
/ Sloan says up in the room when they
/ We're talking about it that Law said
my motives might be impugned,' be-
/ ing a sort of a. halfway Republican, Il
/ believe my motives might be impugned
I if were to vote for McCune." and at
/ first Sloan said that that may be so,
and ne wouldn't ask him to do anything
/ that would put him in any false posi-
l ton or false light, but down in the
restaurant ne said Sloan brought up
/ the question and he SAYS, L don't think
] that is So when l come to reflect upon
I it,; here is the substance OF the con-
( Versation. There are reputable and re-
! spectacle gentlemen in the Legislature
supporting McCune, men about whose
| character for honesty and integrity and
: upriShtness there would be no ques-
? ton: if YOU were standing in company
/ of that kind. many of those wh0 have
I changed their votes since theSballoting
| first began. if you stand in company
\ with gentlemen such as these, / don't
see that your motives could be i'm
pugned. and that was all there was
about it.
Mr.. Law says that he said to him, Il
I know the proposition that has been
made to you and you had better take
it, that is the substs~ce of Mr.. Laws
| testimony
That is the meaning of it. Sloan says.
/ I know the chanlS5 that have been
/ offered You and you had better take
them You are poor man and you will
have a hard time in rubbing up against
I the world unless you have some money
in your pocket" that is of course what
that all meant if it were said
Z
Then we come to the fatal Saturday
morning. We find. however on the
I Friday evening. when it had been pub
licly reported about the streets of this
| city that Mr. McCune was gOing TO be
/ elected the next morning. we find Mr..
Law in the Knutsford hotel, in confer
| enee with Representative Johnson and
! Representative Smith and there Law
/ for the first time tells according to
] "a no Tr-lG hes
/ was told by McCune on Tuesday even
/ ing in his headquarters that if he would
vote for him the next day he could fix
/ his own price, and l was told by him
substantially the same thing again last
night in his headquarters. Johnson,
! of course, may be mistaken. He may
| have misunderstood what Law said to
| him. But if Law did say to Johnson
what Johnson says Law said to him,
I then Law must have lied there and
| here. because he does not pretend that
! he had but one conversation with Nc
Cune and that was on Tuesday even
/ ing; that he didn't have any talk with
| him again on Friday afternoon or Fri
/ day evening at headquarters. And
/ these gentlemen honored by the people,
/ elevated to honorable office, begin to
cOncOct a scheme by which they may,
what? Detect McCune in the commits
sion of a crime? No. BY which they
can entrap him into the commission Of
a crime that would not be committed
| if they Just minded their own business.
And they send for the chief Of police
and the detective brigade was formed
that evening.
a SLEUTH'S SHAME
They take carriages and go up to
police headquarters and they send for
( Detective Sheets and Sergeant Hilton
| and Sergeant Burbidge. and some other
hi rbc,
did not take part in it, suppose he got
1 ashamed of it and wouldn't have any
thing to do with it, and they said,
( "well. now how are we going to get at
this? They finally concluded to get a
room in the jenkins block and that De-
/ tective Sheets would take our friend %
Law down and engage two rooms; Law
would sleep there the balance of that
night, and the police would be on hand
! the next morning in the adjoining room
and things were arranged so that they
| could peep over the tranSom or in some
other way look in and see what was
going on and that Law the next morn
ing should go to a public telephone and
| should send this message, that
{ is what was agreed upon, this mes
sage over the public telephone TO Nc
Cune. that he wanted to see him; that
[ he wanted to see him privately, that he
| thought he was prepared 10 make a
! deal with him for his vote. Do you
/ believe that? Does any man believe
| that? Is it reasonable that any man
/ cOntemplating even what Law says he
himself was contemplating, would send
| a message like that over a public tele-
! phone? Do you think that if a mes
sage like that had come to McCune
| over the telephone, Il want to see you
| privately; 1 think 1 can make a deal
| with you for my VOTE that McCune
would have dared to have met him?
/ How would he know who heard that?
Assuming that he had the disposition
/ as my friends say to commit bribery,
! having received a message like that
| over the telephone. would he have
/ dared to have gomez Men don't go
! about the commission of crime in the
/ full light Of day and in the presence
of witnesses McCune says his mes
sage was that he wanted to see him
and McCune says come up to head
quarters" and he says, mo; 1 am be-
] ing watched or tracked, and I don't
want to go up there" McCune says,
| Where will see you" Come to the
/ Wasatch drug store Where is that?"
/ He tells him and he says, All right.
will be there in fifteen minutes. He
went out and talked with his friend,
| Moses Thatcher. and Mr.. Abel John
] Evans, as to the desirability of having
! a vote from Mr.. Law, not being recog-
/ niZed as q Democrat, and it was said
| as Mr.. Law himself had said before,
/ according to Mr.. Monson, that he
wasn't any damned Republican any,
| way" and about as much of a. Demo-
| crat as a Republican. and Moses
| Thatcher said. We'll, 1 don't see any
objection to it; he is as much a Demo-
crat as he is a Republican; he voted for
| a Democrat yesterday and there is no