The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-02-03

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know at that time whether or not yol
could get any money for your vote?
A. No. sir.
9. For what purpose did you make
this remark?
A. wanted to draw Whiteside out.
Q. Did you succeed?
A. Well, not very successfully.
Q. How long was it from the time
you had this conversation with Mr.
Whiteside until you saw MIN in this
room at the Helena hotel and saw this
$1,000?
A. do not know that could say.
Q. When Mr.. Whiteside exhibited
this $500 to you, did he say where II
came from?
A. He did not.
| Q. Nor did he say for what purpose
it was intended?
| A. No, sir.
Q. Why did you sign your initials or
the flap of the envelope?
A. He asked me to put my initials
there as q means of Identifying 4.
@. Did he say why he wished tc
identify it?
| A. No. SIR
@. Then you did put your initials on
the back of the envelope containing the
$1,000?
A. I did.
@. OF what denominations were the
| s3 q t#s"
A. They were five $1,000 bills. Mr..
Whiteside counted them over, but as
l before stated he folded them up and
| put them in the envelope and said to
put my initials on the envelope.
@. When he came to the Helena and
asked you to go to the room,. did he
state why he wished you to go?
A. He did not.
@. Had he ever said to you before
that you could get $4,000 for your
| vote?
A. Not that I remember. Nor did
he then.
| @. When was it that you told Mr..
| Whiteside you could get $1,000 for your
| vote?
A. / do not remember exactly. I was
| trying to think. 1t might have been
| some time in the middle of December.
I won't say positively.
@. Was the time you told Mr.. White
| side you could get $1,000 for your vote
| before or after last Monday, when you
went to this room in the Helena?
| A. I think 1t was two or three weeks
| before.
| @. Where were you when you told
Mr. Whiteside you could get $4,000 for
your vote?
| A. do not remember.
@. Was it in Helena?
! A. was not in Helena at the time.
~. nave you Hda any CONVERSATION
since coming to Helena other than in
the room at the hotel, with reference to
| money matters?
A. The only conversation was when
Mr. Whiteside came to me and said he
was hard up and asked me if I had any
money. told him I had a little and
want to say to the committee that dur
ing the campaign 7 borrowed S25 from
Mr. Whiteside and he went near the
wash room in the Grand Central and
gave him SIS, half the money had.
@. You say you had a general idea
in this room at the Helena last Mon
day, where the money came from and
for what purpose it was intended.
A. did not say that.
@. You never made any inquiries
about the money?
A. did not.h5fh as
@. Mr. Carr, it&E somewhat unusual
to see those large bills, is it not?
A. Well, it is rather unusual.
Had No Curiosity.
@. Your curiosity did not prompt
you to ask how Mr.. Whiteside hap
pened to have so many large bills?
A. No. sir.
@. Didn't you consider it a strange
transaction when Mr.. Whiteside came
there and exhibited $4,000?
A. did.
@. Then you did not attempt to as
certain why he should come there and
show you $4,000 and get you to put your
name on it? F
f. A. No, sir. g
@. You had every confidence in Mr.
Whiteside.
A. All that man could have in the
world.
@. Did you tell any one about this
transaction from the time that you
were in the room with Mr.. White
side and saw this money exhibited and
put in the envelope and sealed and you
put y2ur initials on it?
A. did not.
@. Did you tell any one about the
transaction until it was made public ?
A. did not.
@. Had no conversation with any
one about it?
A. No, sir. 7 never mentioned II
even to Mr.. Whiteside afterward.
@. Mr.. Carr, you said you came to
Helena about the 2Sth of December
or the goth. Had you any correspond
ence with any one in Helena that led
you to come at that particular time?
| A. No one in Helena, but Mr.. Conrad
wrote me a letter from Great Falls.
Q. Requesting you to come at that
time?
A. Yes. sir.
@. Before you came to Helena, did
you have any letter from A. j. Steele
| of Helena?
A. I did not.
@. Did you have any letter from
John s. M. Neil of Helena?
A. No, sir.
@. Any letter from A. J. Davidson
Of Helena?
A. No, sir.
@. Did you have any conversation
after arriving in Helena with A. J
| Steele, John s. NJ. Neil or A. J. David
son in reference to the senatorial con
| test?
| In General Way.
A. In a general way, yes. I will ex
cept Mr.. Neil, please.
| @. With which did you have con
versation?
A. I have talked the situation owe
with Mr.. Davidson and Mr.. Steele.
@. Were they together at the time?
A. They We're not
| Q. What was the conversation Will
Mr.. Davidson with reference to tn,
| senatorial contest?
A. Can answer that by referrin,
back to my remarks that I wa
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