The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-02-22
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they shook handS-they stopped there,
as | understood you, and shook hands?
Yes, sir; stopped as person would,
when they got through with then con-
versation and shook hands and sepa-
rated.
You supposed that was the end of it,
so far as you knew? Yes, sir.
And you didn't stop to look to see
whether anybody came up to Law or
not? No, did not.
But you know that Law didn't come
in the store when he left Mr.. McCune?
know that.
As soon as they released hands you
turned around2 Yes, SIR.
And you Yes, sir.
Didn't notice any more? Yes, sir.
Questions by Mr.. Dickson:
When Mr. McCune stepped out of the
drug store, did he stop on the sidewalk
to converse with Mr.. Law, or was 1t any
more than momentary pause! Just
a momentary pause.
AS he walked across the sidewalk
were they walking slowly? Slowly, just
sauntering along. apparently no haste.
Well. an ordinary gait? Yes.
An ordinary walking gait? Yes.
By Mr.. Mansfield:
Did Mr.. Law say anything relative to
the conversation he had with Mr.. NC
Cune when he returned to the STORE?
He did.
What did he say? Well, he told me
good many things about the business
that they had had there, about the
conversation he had had with him.
LAWS FIRST STORY.
What was the substance of it? That
they talked about his vote, the price of
it. and they couldn't agree on terms,
and at first he demanded five thousand
and McCune wouldn't give it, and he
came down to fifteen hundred, and Mr..
McCune wouldn't have anything TO do
with it, apparently.
By Mr.. Dickson:
What is that? Mr.. McCune wouldn't
listen to it, but finally that he said they
agreed on fifteen hundred dollars.
BY Mr. Mansfield:
Mr.. Law told you he had sold his vote
for fifteen hundred dollars to Mr.. Nc
Cune? No, sir.
What did he say in regard to that?
He said that the figure he would make
would be fifteen hundred dollars, but ne
didn't say that he had sold it.
Well, did you get the understanding
that he was to vote for Mr.. McCune for
that consideration? No, l did not.
Well, did you set the understanding
that he had sold his vote TO Mr. Nc
Cune? No l did not think that there
was anything done at all.
You thought they had disagreed? That
that they had disagreed.
By Mr.. Whitney:
What did he say he had demanded
the five thousand dollars for? For his
vote, and Mr.. McCune wouldn't give it
TO him.
What had they agreed upon fifteen
hundred dollars for? / don't know
that they had agreed on that at all;
fifteen hundred was the sum that Mr..
Law had agreed to take or was willing
to take; l don't know which.
By Mr. Sorenson:
That is. the least he would take? Yes.
BY Mr.. Stewart:
Did he state whether Mr.. McCune ac-
ceQted that? No. sir.
By Mr.. Cummings:
Did he tell you that he had received a
payment on that fifteen hundred dol
lars? No, sir; he did not.
By Mr.. Dickson:
Didn't he tell you that when McCune
shook hands with him he left eighty
dollars in his hand, and this was about
fifteen minutes after the occurrence?
Yes, after the occurrence.
By Mr.. Stewart:
Mr.. Horn, did he come directly from
Mr.. McCune to your place? Well,
couldn't say whether he came directly
back to the store or not; it wasn't
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back in the store. 81.
Mr. Jacksonville Impression. as 1
understand you, that you got from
that conversation with Mr.. Law when
he returned there was that he was will
ing to take finally fifteen hundred?
Yes.
MCUNE WOULDN'T BUY HIM
That Mr.. McCune would not accept
that2 Yes.
Mr.. Evans-State what was said
Mr.. Dickson-That they had not
agreed? That they had not agreed.
BY Mr.. Evans:
Mr.. Horn, when Mr.. Law came back,
didn't he ask you if you remembered
or overheard any conversation which
occurred while he was at the tele-
phone? I think he did. yes ask me if
l had heard it. and l told him 1 did.
And didn't he say to you. Now, 1
want you to remember that? Yes.
And didn't he likewise say to you
or ask YOU if you had heard anything
while they were sitting on the bench?
No. sir.
He did not? No, sir.
Didn't he ask you if you watched |
them as they crossed the street? No, |
sir
Didn't he ask you that? No, sir.
Didn't he ask you if he heard any
thing that he said over the telephone?
Yes
And you said yes, and he asked you
to remember it? Yes.
Wasn't that ever thing that was said
at that time? Over the telephone?
No, sir, everything that was said the /
fifteen or twenty minutes after he came
back Yes, that was all, until he got
through.
Until what? Until he got through |
with his business; that was all that
passed then.
What was his business? 1 didn't |
speak to him again until he got every |
thing finished.
What do you mean by everything |
finished? Well when he got through; |
the next time l saw him was alone and |
we had talk; we chatted for quite !
awhile.
When was that? That was some
time afterwards.
Well, let us find out when it was. |
1t was after he left-Mr. N1cCune.
/ understand you said about fifteen !
or twenty minutes: when was it that |
he had this conversation with you in |
which he stated to you that he had |
been asking money from Mr.. McCune |
for his vote? [ guess it was Drobabl. |
fifteen or twenty minutes after.
That is the same conversation-the /,
same time then you had reference to? |
Yes.
WAS ALONE IN THE STORE.
At that conversation. was there any
body there but you? No. sir.
You were the only clerk in the drug |
store? Yes.
Mr.. Halliday hadn't returned? No,
customers coming in, were they?