The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-02-02

arrangements to sleep together, and as
Mason and Lacey were broke, Travis
paid for the three.
Lacey and / had intended to leave
town that day. We were going to Da-
kota. Lacey said he knew brakeman
on the freight and we could ride in one
of the cars. When we got to the depot
we found that the cars were all full and
the brakeman was not there. SO we
could not go. We started back to town
and met Mason coming down the track.
He had an overcoat on his arm and a
paper bundle under. it, the same one
which Lacey had given him and which
he said contained a gun. Lacey SAID ::
1 thought You We're going to teach me
how to ride on the rods of passenger
car Mason said he had to go down the
track to see man, but would be back
in few minutes. We waited for him,
and when he returned, in 10 or 10 min
utes, he did not have the paper bundle,
and 1 concluded that he had hidden it
somewhere. He then showed Lacey
how to ride on the rods Of passenger
coach. after which we returned up
town.
rs it not a fact that you don't really
know what the bundle contained which
Mason had at the railway" Travis was
asked on cross-examination.
Il probably did not really know, but
it was the same bundle which Lacey
had given him and which he said con-
tanned a revolver"
Did you not state at the preliminary
examination that you did not know
what was in the bundle which Lacey
took from the Chinese restaurant?'
Il said knew only what he told me. =
rs it not fact that you did not
know what Mason picked up under the
stone at the mine?"
Il know he had a watch more than he
had when he went out there
Travis said that when they We're in
the room at the time the officers raped
at the door he was looking at the watch
and then laid it on the foot of the bed
and walked away. From what he had
heard Lacey and Mason say about the
watch he concluded there was some
thing wrong and he did not care to
have any one see him with the watch
in his hands. a-
Did Mason say anything at the time
he got the watch from under the
stone?''
mo, he did not say anything about
it at the time and I did not ask him,
but when we got to the room and were
looking at the watch, he said here is a
pretty good super as soon as we get
away from this town.
Did you say anything to him about
picking up watches under stones?"
Il think not, but on the way back he
said he didn't like to be seen carrying
the watch and that he wouldn't like to
have it found on him."
Did he say how the watch came into
his possesson?,,
Mason said he bought it from a
tramp"
1.-THE same tramp he bought the re-
volver from?"
Il don't know"
Lacey said he didn't want to carry
the gun, as it was wanted
while the officers We're out of the
ROOM" said the witness, speaking of the
raid Dawson and Murphy made on their
lodging place, II asked what it meant,
and Mason said 1t was common thing,
as the officers examined all such places.
1 said it was the first time my room
had ever been examined by an officer"
Were you ever. convicted of fell
ony?" asked the attorney for the de-
PENDANT. ss
No, SIR
Did you ever hold, any official posi-
tion?" asked Mr.. Connolly. !,
II was marshal at Ellsworth in 1885,
Travis said he cameNto Butte with a
poker player They had heard at Ellis