The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-02-21


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Mr.. Moran went with you to the door
of the cafe and bade you good evening
there? Mr.. Moran came out of the sa-
loon with US and walked part of the
way along the street with US.
Iidn't he so clear to the door of the
Vienna with you? No, sir; 1 don't
think he did.
Don't you know whether he did OF
not? 1 wouldn't be positive.
! wouldn't be positive about that. AT
! the saloon you had been talking Of the
silver question? Yes. sir.
You were a bimetallist? Yes, sir.
And Mr.. McCune was? Claimed to
be-
Claimed to be. And when you got in
! the restaurant, where did you take
your seats first. on the south or north
side of the restaurant? On the south
side.
What first occurred when you got in
| there? We ordered dinner.
I How long had you been there before
other gentlemen came in and Joined
you? Oh, it was considerable time;
cannot remember the length of time;
I don't know the length of time.
Had anything been talked between
you and McCune which was improper
up to the time that these other gen
tlemen joined you? No, sir.
He had made no improper ap-
proaches? No, sir.
At all? No, sir.
Discussing the silver question still?
Discussing one topic and another, po-
litically.
And trying to persuade you that you
should vote for him? Well, I consid
cred that was his object.
Well, he said so. didn't he? He men
toned it once or twice.
Wanted you TO vote for him? Ger
tainly he did
MCUNE WANTED HIS VOTE.
He said he wanted you to vote for
him? Yes, sir.
Didn't he? Yes, sir.
Said that over at the saloon, didn't
he? No; 1 don't think ne did.
Didn't he say at the saloon that the
Democratic party was the only free
silver party; that you should vote for
him? Maybe ne did.
Didn't he? I wouldn't say positively
whether he did or not.
Didn't he repeat that when he got
in the restaurant, after you had or
dered your dinners? He said that in
the restaurant
How long were you and he talking
on the silver question and about your
voting for him before you were Joined
by any other gentlemen? l said that
I didn't know.
About how long? I didn't know the
time then.
About how long? 1t is only a little
while agO-last Tuesday-you were So
Der? Well, it may have been twenty
minutes.
twenty minutes? Twenty-Five, prob
ably.
And during all that period, while he
had been trying to persuade you to vote
for him. he had made no improper
suggestion whatever? Not that 1 re-
member of.
DO you mean to say that, that an i'm
proper suggestion could be made to you
and you would not remember? No; 1
don't think there would be one.
Then you know ne hadn't made any
improper suggestion to you during the
twenty minutes that he was there? 1
said that ne didn't.
You said you thought he didn't;
don't you know? Yes, sir.
Wen. which is it, then? To the best |
Of my knowledge L know that he did /
not.
Are you in doubt about it? To the
best of my recollection"
Are you in doubt about it? No; I |
am not in any particular doubt about /
it.
Are you in any doubt about it? Yes.
4 slight doubt.
You are in slight doubt about that. |
You were sober? Yes, sir
And yet you are in doubt whether or |
not an improper suggestion was made
10 you, and You had forgotten it? Yes.
sir: / say that I couldn't say positively
hat he didn't make any reference
TO anything Of that kind.
Any improper suggestion?-- And
ne didn't make any definite PROPOSE
ion as TO that matter up to that time.
LAWS MEMORY FAILS.
Did he make any proposition what
,ver, definite OF otherwise, TO you up
o the time you were joined by these
,ther gentlemen that was not entirely
proper? l have said that I cannot say.
You mean TO say, then, that an i'm
proper suggestion might have been
made to you by him and You have for
rotten it? Well, 1 may not have put
he construction on ii, or stop to con-
true everything he said.
Can you recall-did it occur to you
hen, up to the time these other gen
lemen came in. that any improper
uggestion had been made TO you? No,
II.
can you recall now anything or any
gord he said2 No, sir.
That might be construed in any way
s an improper suggestion? No, sir.
Then, do you not know, and can you
OF say without any qualification what :
yer, that up to the time you We're
oined by these other gentlemen, he had ]
made no improper suggestion to you {
,hatever? ] didn't stop to analyZe
verifying he said, and | cannot re- {
MEMBER TO analyZe it now, and 1 say !
hat there may have been something [
aid to me that had a shade of i'm
rOpriety. {
" hat was it? I don't know. l
Can you recall anything now that
-as said, or have you lingering in your s
Memory anything that he said, that |
ould be tortured into an improper
uggestion? No, sir; have not .
Then. why do you say that he may {
ave made an improper suggestion to I
on that you cannot recall? Because !
ont remember everything he said. a
But if he had said anything that was S
it would have impressed you,