The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-02-26

Law SAID Iurtners You must not Jaime
me because the air is full OF suggestions
| OF bribery" No, sir.
The press is full Of suggestion? NO.
sir; don't think so.
| Is full OF it, the press is full of II. and
| don't blame you much for having made
| the proposition TO me? l don't think /
| made that remark.
Did you make any remark TO Mr.. Dun
! bar in substance like that? No. sir
Then did Mr.. Dunbar tell the truth?
OF this kind of talk going on, think that
Mr. Dunbar in stating that as l heard
his evidence. said that he was not positive
about II, that he had heard so much OF
+! whether he got that from me or some
body else. couldn't say
| Didn't you hear Mr.. Dunbar repeat that
two or three times? Yes, sir.
He repeated it when examined by your
own counsel? He said as near as he could
| remember.
Didn't you hear him repeat it when
cross-exa mined to me? Yes:
Didn't he say that you said that'to him
Yes, sir. According TO his best recoHec-
| tor.
Yes. according to his best recollection;
| that was his idea.
Did he testify from anything else ex-
cept recollection? That is all
That is all you can testify from, ism t
| it? That is all.
| And you went up tc headquarters after
all that did you? Yes, sir.
body about what Mr.. Law had done? No,
| sir.
Did you go to any police officer or mag
| iStrate? No, sir.
Or county attorney? No, sir.
/ You knew he had committed crime,
didn't you? Yes. sir
WOULDN'T HAVE EXPOSED HIM.
And you did not propose to expose him?
No. sir.
You didn't intend to say anything about
/ I n
If ne himself hadn't mentioned it?
Never.
While sitting in the drug store Mr.. Law
SAID something to you inumatlng That one
of your men mad offered some kind OF a
sum TO him. didn't he2 No, sir
Or didn't you gather from his language?
Yes; he said your men, not one OF your
men.
Your man? No. your men.
You gathered from what he said that
some OF your men had made him dis
honorable proposition? That is the way
ii looked TO me without explanation;
Now. didn't you ask which one OF them?
No, sir.
Or which it was? No, sir
Didn't have enough curiosity TO find
out whether any of your men had made q
dishonorahle proposition to him? No. sir
Took 10 pains to find that out at all?
None Whatever because this thing was all
done so quick and was over. as i'm
agined. three or four minutes, the time
| that 1 talked with him.
while ago? / thought it was about five
in the drug store; l said I didn't think
sat in the seat with him more than about
three minutes.
Not more than about three minutes? No.
Did you say to Mr.. Dunbar or Mr.. Sloan
that when you shook hands with him you
didn't know bit what he had lost two
You did not say that? No. sir
They are mistaken about that. are they?
Yes sir.
had on that day? Yes. sir;
1 would like to see it: just put it on. will
you please. for the purpose of illustra-
ton.
CWitness does as recuested)
You haven't got any lapels over your
overcoat pocket? Yes. sir; they are most
of the time inside.
| see. Those gloves have never been out
of that pocket. and these haven't been
out of this, and handkerchief in the
Yes. they don't fill your pockets up.
Plenty Of room in there for $50? Yes.
When you made this official statement.
did your attorneys read it over before it
was issued? I think they did.
You think they did? Yes.
1t was carefully prepared then by you?
Al And IS scrutinized by your attorneys? Yes.
Mr.. Dickson-Did you say saw it. Mr..
McCune?
did; you were not there; l don't know
whether Mr. Van Colt was there. Mr..
Thurman was. ! thought If one OF YOU
was there it included the whole bundle OF
you anyway.
charges being made on the floor of the as
sembly? Fisher Harris
ANTICIPATED AN ELECTION.
Before that conversation came up or
that notification rather. you We're in eX-
pectation of being elected every moment,
And the word had gone about the head
quarters there that Mr.. Law would vote
for you. hadn't it? No, sir; not that Mr..
Law would.
II had not? No. sir.
Wasn't it rumored about there? 1t was
rumored about the night before by the
talk these men had made that they didn'
know but that Law would vote for me.
and the impression had got out by the
members that were voting for me that
thew wanted to get into the band wagon.
Did you hear the rumor time ana again
Yes there was a rumor of the matter.
That Mr.. Law would be one of the par
ties who would vOle for you on that day?
I don't know whether / had. but the boys
say the rumor was around. but / dldn
get il myself no. sir; Dunbar asked me
when 1 returned whether Law was going
TO vote for me.
He ala ask you. les, SlA.
What did you say to him? L told him
no and he says then. he may.
You SAYS no. and then you says he may?
Yes: that was the time Of
Then YOU did have
Mr. Van Cott-That was the time. what?
The Witness-I stated to him when he
asked me first said he is a dirty cur. or
something of that kind; forget Just the
language that ] used and he asked me
at the same time. l said: he won't
vote for me-" and then 1 said ne may >"
You first said he was dirty cur? Yes.
That is the language? No; I don't
know that that is the language l used; II
was something like that.
The first thing you said to him was.
when Dunbar asked if he was going 10
vote for you. you said he was a dirty
CIR? Yes. sir: a dirty cur scoundrel; ii
was = remark Of that kind.
And then. Mr.. McCune, after that you
told him that he would not vote TOR you?
I said that he wouldn't vote Tor me- L
don't know whether 1t preceded OF Whe Z.
or II was after that whether Il came AFTER
making the other remark. but at the
same time made the remark and then ]
said he might:
That this dirty cur might vote for you?
No: 1 didn't put it in that way
The man whom you had just denounced
as dirty cur Yes. OF Il clrly Scouhd-
II You YOU had given him that money in
that connection YOU would have been apt
TO have made just such remark as that.
wouldn't YOU: that he was = dirty cur
for having accepted it2 No; I would not
If he had accented it. YOU say2
Yes. I possibly might.
Yes? I would not nave been so apt
10 have said It then.
But you might have said it? No: it
would have been simply. 7 would have
considered myself in the same boat then.
You would have considered yourself in
the same boat? Yes, sir
You knew he was poor man. didn't
you? I did not.
DIDN'T KNOW HE WAS POOR.