The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-02-25

And they remained in there. you think
as l understood you. about minute
was that right? Well 1 couldn't fi1
the time; it didn't seem TO me as though
they could have gotten seated before
Mr.. McCune asked me to come in; Of
course 1 am not able to fix the time
I couldn't say--a minute, half a min
ute.
They went in first and staid some ap-
probable space of time. didn't they?
Well, appreciable. yes; that is, it was
long enough to appreciate there had
been some time.
1t was long enough to appreciate they
had gone in there alone and McCune
had returned and asked you to come in
there? That is what / said, sir, yes.
Now, do you think II was a. minute
before he returned; of course, / am
only asking about your judgment. that
is all anv one could give about the
space of time? Well, 1 really couldn't
| say; | know IL didn't seem to me that
they had gone before Mr.. McCune was
back; l wouldn't say it was a half a
minute, or two minutes. or. five min
utes, or second. because I wasn't
watching them very closely.
AT all events, you think it would be
| between a second and five minutes, at
any rate, don't you? oh, yes.
You think that would cover the time :?
Yes. sir
They We're in there. however. alone
for some time. weren't they? I don't
know that thew were alone.
You didn't say that after they passed
in there first. l mean when they first
passed in after they had passed out of
your sight, 1 mean - The only
You say they went into the room to-
gether. Yes
They disappeared from your vision
for moment? Yes. sir.
For some time? Yes, sir
| And that was second, from a sec
ond to five minutes, you don't know
how long? I didn't say it was a sec
ond. from second to five minutes: l
said 1 would not want to swear it was
a second or five minutes.
You said you wouldn't want to swear
1t was a second or five minutes? Yes;
don't think it was over a few seconds;
that is my impression, as 1 said be-
fore, possibly minute.
And the length of time they were
in there together, alone you don't
know? 1 wouldn't testify to it. except
as have already stated: L think it was
about a minute possibly.
You think 1t was about a minute?
They We're all in this room here;
here is the long green room here; they
were all sitting in this room here; that
is north and that is west; McCune and
Mr.. Law passed through this door here
and then through this double door into
that little east room, where he says
they disappeared for about a minute
That would be the little room to the
extreme north and east of the McCune
headquarters? Yes. sir.
ONLY THREE THERE.
Did Mr. McCune invite anybody but
yourself to go in there at that time?
No, sir
Where did you find Mr.. Law when you
got inside? He was sitting on-there
was d little table about this size, or it
may be larger-on the east side of the
table, that is. with his back to the
window.
IN the little northeast room? Yes, in
that little room there.
That is the most secluded roomsin the
headquarters, is it not? Veil
There is no outward entrance to that
room. is there? Yes, there is.
Well, you haven't made one here.
There is a door right out there into
the hall again
Is that door ever used? Oh. frequent
ly; it is always unlocked; 1 never knew
it to be locked; l wouldn't say it is al
ways unlocked.
Where did McCune go when he called
you QUITO this room, here? l was sit
ting here; 1 was sitting near the east
wall, so 1 could see into the door, here
You was sitting at a point that would
enable him 20 look directly through the
north door into the north room? II
could see this door
And you could sse McCune and Law
going right along through there until
they got TO the folding doors? And
went in.
And then disappeared in there alone?
Yes. I saw them go in their together;
don't know they were alone; that is,
there may have been somebody in the
room before they went in there: l don't
know whether they were alone at all.
Mr.. Evans; L have told you so half a
dozen times.
You say they were together and no
one else with them? Yes.
Then he walked out after being there
awhile. TO this door. and called to you,
did he? After being there about a min
ute. as l recollect il. He came out there
and asked me to step in and / went in. |
And you found Law sitting on the
chair in that room; was there anybody /
there but Law? No, sir, only Law and |
McCune.
I asked you when you and McCune
went in theTe. there was no one there /
but yourself and McCune? No one
there but myself and McCune.
And then the three of you had a lit /
tie conversation together? Mr.. McCune /
says, Mr.. Law wants you to explain |
that Logan business to him you spoke /
about
Yes. Well. started to. and then 1 ]
said I had better get Joe Monson in |
here: l said Joe knows as much about 1
it as did: went out and got Joe Mon |
son and then we sat in there together
Then there was no converse ton he /
tween you and McCune and Law until |
Joe Monson came in there? Except /
just what Mr.. McCune had said, Mr. /
Law wants you to explain this thing |
to him.
Yes. sir; that is what 1 mean. I an
swered that, that is all the cOnvers lien !
yes.
So when Joseph came in you then all /
talked together. you and Mr.. Monson /
did you. Mr. Sloan, and Mr. Law and /
McCune, about this telegram? Mr.. Nc I
Cune, l think didn't seem to take any
interest in the matter at ALL He went |
out
He went out? He went in and out.
Then there were three of you to-
gether? Yes
McCune absent? Yes
Did you talk that over? Yes
That was quite an unimportant con-
He did not so esteem it.
SUBSTANCE OF THE TALK.
Tell US what he said? The conversa-
ton was this, MIR. Law had stated in the
restaurant that if we could prove that
church influence had been used, or &c
influence in behalf of Mr..
Frank j. Cannon, or to bring about the
election in Cache county. he would leave
Mr.. Cannon and vote for McCune, and