The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-11-10

tana for 35 years, and that he was an
attorney at law by profession.
Were you member Of the Sixth leg
islative assembly,
II was t
Senator or representative?
Senator from Madison county"
do you know Mr.. Whiteside?'
II do"
do you know Mr.. Wellcome?"
II do"
"Do you know Mr.. Metlen Of Beaver
head county?"
II do"
do you know Mr.. Paul of Beaver
head county?"
IT do"
"State whether or not the last named
persons were members of the Sixth leg
islative assembly,
MIR. Met1en and Mr.. Paul were mem
bers of the house of representatives.
Did you at any time during your
stay in Helena in the performance of
your duty as member of the legisla-
ture, have any conversation with Mr..
Wellcome?'
Il did,
Through whose invitation did you
see Mr.. Wellcome?'
''Mr Whiteside's." 5..
Can Eou tell us about the time that
you saw Mr.. Wellcome?'
II think it was on the 4th day of jan
uary, this year."
Where did you see Mr.. Welcome ?"
II saw him in room POI at the Helena
hotel''7
WHO accompanied you to the
room?"
Mr.. Whiteside accompanied me as
far as the door,
And had you been introduced to Mr..
Welcome before that timer"
Il had known Mr.. Welcome for two
or three years; I met him profession
ally
Upon getting to the door, did you
go into the room?"
Yes sir, went into the ROOM"
"And who was in the room that you
went into?'
When stepped into the room Mr.
Welcome was there and A. ]. Steele"
And how long did you remain in
there?"
utes. When l first stepped into the
room Mr. Steele and Mr.. Welcome
passed out of another door and
waited some little time before Well
come returned. l do not know how long
/ was there" -
And upon the return of Mr. Well
come, did you have any conversation
with him?"
81 did"
Detail to the court, as explicitly as
you can and nearly the circumstances as
you can, the whole of the conversatio
there
$4,000 in 1t.
when Mr.. welcome returned I said
to him l wanted to talk about the sem
atorial situation. We sat down and
commenced to talk about the matter,
and he said: We want you in this fight
with us and we are going to win, and
we are going to get the votes to do it;
II we can't do it in one way. we are
going to do it in another. We want
you to votesfor Mr.. Clark, and we want
you bad. said: What is there in it?'
There is $4,000 in it for you l said all
right. Mr.. Welcome then made the re-
mark that he would turn the money
over to Mr.. Whiteside, if that was sat
isfactory, and the conditions were, as
he stated there, that 1 was to vote for
Mr.. Clark for senator as long as they
requested it or until they saw that
there was no chance for his election
Welcome said they had not the money
now. that they had used all the big
bills in the Helena banks and that they
would turn the money over to White
side for me. 1 told him that l was
not going to do business in that kind
of way. He said that the old man.,
referring to Mr.. Clark, would be in on
the evening train and bring lot Of
large bills
What did you say to that?'
IT said that would be satisfactory;
and that was the whole of the CONVEX
sation that had with him then"
when did you again see him?"
Somewhere between 9 and 10 o'clock
in the evening
And where did you see him?''
''In room 201, Helena hotel"
How was it that you came to go to
the room at that time?"
"Mr. Whiteside told me that Mr. Well
this room.''
about what hour of the day, what
time was it. the first interview"
Some time in the afternoon about 5
or o'clock"
"And the second?"
THAT was the same evening" be-
tween 8 and 10 o'clock"
And you went to room POI on ac-
count of an invitation extended to you
by Whiteside?"
"Whiteside came after me and said
Welcome wanted to see me and took
me to that room"
After you got there, whom did you
find?"
Il found Mr.. Welcome there"
II wish you would detail now the |
that you had then and |
who were in the room during the time |
the conversation was carried on"
Il went into the room where Mr.
Whiteside was and we sat around
while, until Mr.. Welcome got up and
went over into the corner of the room |
and called to me that he wanted to
show me picture. 1 went over to him
and he pulled out an envelope and said
there is the money. ! counted it and |
there We're 10 1000 bills
Attorney General Nolan then asked
some questions in relation to the wit
ness idea as to the location of The
room, asking him to draw a diagram.
Mr.. Clark did so. Mr.. Nolan continued
in his examination.
We'll, we'll go ahead now and de-
tail about the giving of the money
Counted the Money.
He laid the envelope down on the
and said there was the mon
". I picked 1t up and counted 10 one
thousand dollar bills. l took the mon
", put it back in the envelope, sealed
t and then wrote on it: The property
If w. A. Clark, to be delivered to him
lnder understood conditions; and IN
addition to that l took fountain pen