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


telephone for Chief Pratt, which we
did. and laid the matter before him.
TelephOned at the police station:
Yes, sir.
And he came to the Knutsford? Yes
/ sir.
Now, what, if any, disclosures did you
! make to him? Made, in substance, tho
same that l had to Representative John
/ son, the same as L have stated here this
morning.
/ l wish you would state to the COM
! mittee whether you devised any plan OF
4 scheme by which that matter might be
! exposed. Yes, sir; we did.
] State what it was. with as much de-
tail as you wish. We sent for Detective
Sheets, and he came down to police
headquarters, and all three of us went
over 10 police headquarters and held q
conference, in which we decided to OBJ
tain two rooms. and it was decided that
! Should occupy one ofsthose rooms that
night, and that the next morning I
should induce Mr.. McCune TO come to
that room and make the deal that he
] had already-or make the deal that he
/ had led me to believe could be made
which we did. We obtained the rooms
in the Jenkins block; Detective Sheets
and l went over and looked at the
rooms, and l slept there THAI night.
On what street is the Jenkins block
II is On Second South street.
Between Main and States? Yes, sir.
Il is on the corner of State.
70 Where did you stay that night? I oc-
cupied enc of the rooms engaged by
Detective Sheets.
What did you do the next morning?
got up early. about sunrise. and went
up in the Twenty-first ward and saw
my folks and had breakfast and came
down town.
Where then did you go? l went to
the rooms that l had occupien-the
room that I had occupied the night be-
fore. TO see if Mr.. Pratt and his aides
We're there. according to agreement.
Did you find them? Yes. sir.
PROPOSITION BY TELEPHONE.
What next did you do; or what. if
anything. did you say there; or what,
if anything, did you arrange at that
time while you were in the rooms? 1t
was arranged that ! should go to the
Wasatch drug store and telephone 10
Mr.. McCune 10 meet me there, and that
l should induce him to come to that
room.
Did you go to the drug store? Yes,
sir.
Just state what you did there, if any
thing. l teIephoned TO Mr.. McCune and
told him that 1 had taken into consid-
Grafton what he had said to me on
Tuesday night. and what had been told
me by his representative the night be-
fore. and l had made up my mind that
if he would meet me that l thought we
could make a deal, or words 10 that eff
feet, to which ne replied: For Gods
sake, don't say any more over the
phone" he says. Cant you come to
headquarters? And L said I couldn't
come to headquarters, and wouldn't. He
said: ''Why?" And | said: Because
it would draw suspicion on us, and
wouldn't COME and he says: We'll, I
viii meet you at the Wasatch drug
store in fifteen minutes"
Was that the substance of the con-
velSaeion? That was the substance of
the conversation.
Did he go to the drug store after
wards? Yes, sir; he met me at the drug
store in about half the time that he
agreed-five or ten minutes.
Where did you meet him? l met him
right in the drug store, south door.
What was first done? Shook hands
with me- and asked me how l was, and
did the same with him.
What next did you? He asked me to |
occupy the bench with him. He says: |
I'VE will sit down here and talk and |
pointed 10 the bench.
Can you describe how that bench is !
located in the store? Yes, sir
Just describe it to the committee, |
please. The bench is located in the |
corner of the room, cross
ways of the corner, facing northwest.
Is there little recess back in there?
Yes, sir.
SO it is excluded from the main room
somewhat, although it is a part of the
main room?
Mr.. Dickson-I suppose the gentlemen
# the committee are already familiar
With it.
Mr.. Evans-Yes, 1 suppose so. 1t is
,nly to get it in the record.
No, it is not excluded from the main
Dom.
It is part of the main room, but sits
little back between the two windows?
t sits a little back. very little.
Was there anybody in the drug store,
It that time? Yes, sir.
Who were they? MIR. Horn.
Anybody else? There was one man
anne in and went out.
Do you know his name? Yes. sir.
Give it. please. Thomas Halliday.
He simply came in while You were