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

he was going to take him to some wine
room back Of some saloon, didn't he?
He told you, gentlemen 1t is Just such
q little circumstance as that that fast
ems the story of this man as absolutely
| false. His conversation with McCune
was over, so far as he understood 1t,
when he left the drug store, just as
McCune says it was. McCune got I'D,
vexed and annoyed. He did not hit
the man in the face, as Mr.. Evans says.
He did not shake his fist under his
nose; he die not rush off to a police
officer TO swear out a complaint chaIg-
ing the man with a crime, but he was
vexed and annoyed: so he says, so says
Horn, and we have in the subsequent
conduct of this man Law the absolute
proof that he knew the conversation
was over.
If he thought. as he swore he did
think, when McCune came out OF that
drug store, that he and Law were to
go to some saloon. some wine room
back of some saloon, why did he break
the signal that he had with his fonfed-
crates? Why didn't he walk west to-
wards Hogle Brothers, if that was the
saloon they We're to go to? No sug-
gestion from him and no explanation
of why he thought that they were to
so to a saloon, he, believing that they
were not to go to his room, no exDla-
nation from the man as to why it was
he did not keep his signal with his con-
federates and go elsewhere than south
across that street
The fact is, Law did not keep that
signal, notwithstanding he did not
think McCune was going TO the room
with him, Notwithstanding he believed,
as he says, that they were going to
some wineroom back of some saloon,
he walked south across the street in
violation Of the agreed signal, for what
purpose? To throw his confederateS
off the scent2 oh, no. Is there any eX-
PLANTATION of it at all? One, and one
only, and that is that he knew the
conversation was at an end. And
up, annoyed and vexed, and stepped TO
the counter and bought that package,
and Law walked out on the sidewalk
and met his friend, Fryer. he knew he
was not going to get McCune into that
room; he knew McCune was going to
have nothing to do with him; and he
said to Fryer, if either one of them is
to be believed. and 1 don't know, nor
can you. whether either of them can
be believed, in the light of some of
these circumstances-to watch and see
what is going to happen. How did he
know anything was going to happen,
such as did happen? No agreement as
to how the money was to be paid then
follow and see what happens" And
they walked across the street; McCune
came out, shook hands with his friend,
Shields, and passed on; and, according
to McCune Law overlook him, and,
according to Sergeant Hilton, Law,
when McCune stepped onto the street
crossing, according to Hilton also
Hilton or Burbidge, one or the other
Law was behind him several feet, and
came on as McCune started across the
street. Law overlook him and they
walked across the street together.
EXCITEMENT OF OFFICERS.
Pratt says: "They are coming up
here; that means they are coming up
here" he says to Sheets. Get in the
places, boys; get in your places. Here
they come; now We are going TO trap
them" 1t did not happen that way.
Law threw his friends off the track,
didn't he, without any reason in the
world. He made it absolutely impOS-
sible for his confederates to corrobor-
ate him, if anything did happen, didn't
he? You can account for that conduct
in one way only, namely, that Law
knew that the thing was at an end; he
could not accomplish his purpose; Nc
Cune would not give him money, and
wouldn't deal with him; got up from
bystanders observed that he was an
noyed; and as he walked out he says,
Il will fix him; L Will fix that fellow
still Horn is here; l will have Fryer
watch me when we get on the crossing;
when he comes to separate from me, l
Will put out my hand to shake hands,
and, of course, he won't refuse to shake
hands with me, and l will turn around
and say, Here is the money" That,
on1 O11Iv will account
you turn it any way you viii. 1t is the
only explanation that will account for
the fact that Law only crossed that
street to the south, when he knew that
he was not going that way unless it
had been agreed that McCune was to
come up to that room. But there is
one circumstance in the evidence right
here. 1t has always weighed upon me;
the only thing in all the raEing and
scraping of trash that has been brought
in before this committee. 1t suggests
in my mind a suspicion of the honesty
and integrity of Mr. McCune. [ wish
he were here, so 1 could denounce him,
as he ought to be denounced, for that
McCune, the villain, aspiring to the
senate Of the United States, and in the
broad daylight, in the sight of the
multitudes passing, put his hand in his
OVercoat, as he walked over that cross
ing. Pratt says, There; he has got
his hand in his overcoat-" Sheets says,
Look; he has got his hand in his
oVercoat," and Burbidge and Hilton
say, Look at thatl Loog at that"
and THE other fellow; see, the other
fellow has got cigar in his mouth
or lin his hand" as they walked
across the-- were noticing how each
mans hands were: wasn't it q most
suspicious circumstance that McCune
should have had his hand in his over
coat pocket? Ought that not to con-
denim him? And it is the only thing in
all this story of Laws that is corrobo-
rated by any witness; that is the only
thing that Law ever spoke about that
has found any confederation. Does
Pratt say he saw NlcCune give him
money? No. Does Sheets say so? No.
Does Burbidge or Hilton? No. Does
Fryer? No. No man says that he
heard McCune agree to give him any
money. The only man outside OF Law
who speaks on that is Horn, who says
that he got up as though he were an
Doyed and veNed with the conversation
that this man had held with him. No
man corroborates Law to the effect
that there was any agreement on the
part of McCunC, or consent, to give him
one dime for his vote.
LAW UNCORROBERATED.
And nobody corroborates him in his
statement that when he shook hands
with McCune, McCune left $50 or any
other money in his hands and, so 1 say,
am justified in the statement that l
made in the opening of my remark on
this man Law, that he stands here un-
corroborated by one solitary witness
on any matter that is disputed. Is it
not absolutely true, gentlemen, that he
does stand uncorroborated? Is it not
true, the other remark that l made,
that on material matters he stands be-
fore you gentlemen, impeached and
by Stanton, by Quillan, by
McCune. by Sloan, by MOnson, on our
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