Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-03-02

vote for another Democrat today: and
l 49, 10 objection. Mr. McCune. to your
going TO see hlmS don't see any OBJ
Jcytl"n TO your accepting his vote
That Il testified TO by Mccunc. by
Moses Thatcher. Abel John Evans
says that McCune also. before he left,
spoke 70 him about Il. and that he.
Mr.. Evans. first demurrcd 20 II. saying
that " would be better 90 be elected
BY Democratic votes II h. could: and
then said II you do see him and II he
" 70 vote for you. tell him just the
word that I sent 10 Mr.. Lester Taylor.
namely not 70 vote for you until
after roll call.
Now. ! care not whether Mr.. Lester
Taylor had promised 10 vote or not.
we know this. the word had come TO
Headquarters that morning that Tay.
Tor was going to vote for him. and
that McCuno knew II and Evans
know Of II and they talked about IL.
ana word was sent back by the mes
Fengcr 10 see Taylor and 10 tell him
not 20 vote on roll call.
Then Mccunc starts over. having
his oyetcoat on. cane In his hand, TO
the Wasatch drug store. according 20
Mr.. Law, they greeted each other and
Law suggested that they go 20 his
room and Mccune said no. and finally
they sat down on that settcc In the
drug store.
HORN SUSPICIOUS.
Now. according 10 Mr. Horn. who was
there. and he knew there wan some.
thinE mysterious. because Law had i'm
proved him with the fact. In the arst
place Law went In there. he wanted 20
throw an air Of mystery about II. from
the outset; he wanted 10 MI the mind
Of Horn with suspicion. didn't hot lie
went 10 Horn ana said to him. II want
"a La AaH toll 4 FaN 80 gUN
with McCunc and ! don't want to be
heard. and then when he called up Me
'une. after that. he turns to Horn
again and says, "McCunc IN coming
here and ! want Go talk with him pfi-
vately, 10 notody can hear what We
are going 10 say" Nevertheless. while
he did not expect Horn to be- a witness.
while he did not expect the Transaction
WIS 10 take place there In that drug
store. we hnd him saying to Horn
things that he had no motive IN saying
On Garth, unlesH u was 10 MI the mind
of Horn with suspicion. attracting his
attention.
According TO Mr.. Horn these two men
al there US though naturally engaged
IN any kind Of conversation ON the set.
tee. side by side. with their arms down
thu way. talking To each other aud he
says when they got through Mt. Me-
cune got IN ap though he were an-
noyed. Isn't that most aisriicnnt
thing II Horn friend of uurai Has
he been working for Mccnuc No. HIS
attention had been attracted To- these
men ny the suspicious remarks OF Law,
That. Of course. invited his attention
60 these people, 40 u would yours or
minv. aud watching them 49, the con
vorFntion went along, no u was ended.
he says McCunc got M ~ though he
were annoyed and put out u there
a. ii. Ia.
cnrrohorntn NcCuncf n tho whole
thing had been agreed upon. Just how
II was 10 be- carried out, what was To
make Mr.. Mcclure arise from that con.
vcrsatinn ~ though he were annoyed
and vcNcdT
THE SIGNAL NOT GIVEN.
The speaker here said that Law was
impcached by Pratt. Burhldge. aud
Hilton. They testified that Law told |
them that on going 10 Mccune'r head
quarters that Tuesday night, they went
~ there In the room, and there were a
number Of people there, and they went
away, enc at u time. until they al
dwindied away and nobody was left In
tho room bat MeOinc and Law. And
Sheets says the same thing. All OF
them fay they agreed upon n signal.
Pratt says Il didn't think that Mccunr
would come over thcrV. ~ we agreed
upon this signal" and each one Of the
four police officers have sworn TO the
What vas IN. sirnai7 II Mccunc
was going 10 consent 10 come over to
the room when they left that drug
store, McCune and Law were 10 walk
across that very crossing there south
20 the south side 81 the Htrcct. that
signal would mean that Mccune had
consented 10 come 10 the room. |
a..N q sss.l.Nag....A that
n Mccune refused 10 come 20 the room. |
he was 10 go anywhere else; then the |
signal vas that he would not come. |
they would not come In that way, hut |
go IN some other way instead OF south |
across that crossing. sand then the po- |
lice were 10 follow on the trial Of law |
aud SEQ " hero they went. There was
the agreed signal Law says that Me. |
Cune refused 10 20 10 tho room. Law |
says that when they came out OF the |
drug store he ala not expect McCunc |
was going 20 the room. that he thought |
he was going Ia take him 20 some wine |
room back of some saloon. didn't hef |
lie told you, gentlemen, n II Just such |
"a little circumstance As that that fast |
false. His conversation with Mccune |
was over. M FAR NJ he understood u. |
when he left the drug store. Just aH |
Mccune says II was. Mccunc got up. |
NoNcd ana annoyed. lie ild not hit |
the man In the face. az Mr.. Evans rayH, |
lie did not shake hia FIST under his |
nose; he dil not rush on 10 police |
officer 10 swear out "a complaint charg- |
ing the man with crime, but h. was |
vcNed ana annoyed. ~ he says. 80 says |
Horn, and We have Ia the subsequent |
conduct % this man Law the absolute |
proof that hc know the conversation |
was over.
II he thought. na he Hworc he an |
think. when Mccune came ont of that |
drug store, that he and Law were 20
80 10 some saloon, some wine room |
back ~ some saloon. why dl1 he break |
tho signal that h. had with his confCd-
UriteNf Why didn't no walk west to- |
wards iiuglu Nrutherr, II that was tho |
saloon thDy were To so tor No aug- |
guatlon from him and no explanation /
uf why he thought that they were TO
80 60 a saloon. he, believing that they |
were not 10 go 10 his room. no cNplana-
ton from tho man as 10 why II was
he Ola not keep his signal with his con.
feicfntra und Ho elsewhere than south /
across that street,
Tho fact H. Law did not keep that |
signal Notwithstanding he did not |
think McCunc was going 90 tho room |
with him Notwithstanding he believed. |
as he says. that they were gping TO |
some wineruum back OF some saloon. |
he walked south across the street IN |
NJ the agreed signal. for what |
purpOsef To throw his Confedcrcatfs |
N the scent7 on. no. Is tnrr,, any eg-
PLANTATION ~ n at all3 one. ana one
nnly ana that Is that no know tho |
was az an end. Ana |
when Accunc. In the drug stpre, got