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

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A. No. sir
Q. Mr.. Black was a member of Abe
legislature from our county and does
1t not seem strange to YOU that he
would not even mention the sena torial
contest?
Had No Preference. S
A. Well, 1t might have been men
toned casually, but i don't recollect it.
Mr. Black said to me: II am warm
friend OF Mr., Day and would like to
| see MIN elected speaker Of the house."
And told him as was totally unac-
| quainted with either Of the parties
did not feel like pledging myself to any
one. .I' Y
| Q. Did Mr.. Black express his prefer
ence for United States senator?
A. Not that remember. I am quite
positive he did not.
Q. You have been stopping at the
same hotel with Mr.. Black since arriv-
ing at Helena?
\ A. Yes, sir
4 @. You have been in his company
great deal of the time. have you not?
A. I do NOS know that I have. /
meet him occasionally in the lobby and
at meals.
/ @. Has Mr.. Black at any time said
anything to you about the use OF money
in the senatorial fight?
1 A. No, sir; no more than / believe
has been expressed by everybody in
town.
/ @. You stated that you were in the
room of John B. Welcome at the Helena
hotel on two or three different times,
A. did.
did you not?
Q. Who was present at the first visit
to his room?
A. I don't remember.
| @. For what purpose did you go to
| that r0arO nm that OrCa sim 2
A. Mr.. Welcome was inqufring
about the timber of F1athead county
and the grain that was raised there.
@. What was the conversation had
between you on that first visit? m
A. That was the general topic on
that occasion. Mr.. Welcome said they
| We're thinking of putting in a saw mill
/ in that part of the country.
@. To whom did he refer when he
said "they?' 5.5,-z.
| A. don't know that he referred to
anybody; don't know whether he had
reference to himself or other parties.
| He did not name anybody specifically.
| @. Did he mention w. A. Clark's
name on that occasion?
A. He did not.
G. Did he mention anything with ref
erence to the senatorial fight?
A. No, sir: not one word.
@. What was the occasion of your
second visit to the room OF john B.
Welcome?
Talked About Timber.
| A. Some general conversation &C.
CURED. told him from my recollection
the amount of timber that was COM
puted to be in the valley, and about
coal, etc.; also the amount of grain
raised in that part Of the country.
O. You were aware that John B.
Welcome was an attorney, were you
not?
A. I did not know; 1 had never met
him before.
@. Did you know when you made
your second visit to him that he was a
lawyer and was here in the interest of
w. A. Clarke. sA5ef S4s
| A. did not; / had heard so.
@. Was there anything further dis
cussed on the occasion of your second
visit besides the sawmill proposition in
the Flathead country?
A. Yes, sir. He asked me what I
thought about the senatorial contest.
1 told him was pledged to Mr.. Conrad.
Q. Did he ask you to support w. A.
Clark as your second choice?
A. Not to my recollection.
@. What was the occasion of your
third visit to the room of Mr.. Welcome?
A do not remember that there was
anything special. He had told me to
come up any time felt disposed to
have talk.
@. At the time the 1000 was sealed
up and your initials placed on the en-
velope. did you see Mr.. Welcome on
that visit?
@. Did you see any one aside from
Mr. Whiteside?
A. No, sir, except the people in the
lobby.
@. Did you have any idea as to where
this $4,000 came from?
A. No. sir
Q. Did you have any idea as to the
| purpose for which it was intended?
A. No. SIR.
@. What was your opinion as to the
intention of that transaction?
A. don't think can say. Tt looked
like queer piece Of work
@. Did you form some opinion as to
| the transaction?
| A. No, sir; not at that time.
@. Did you since? ,-
Was Not Hypnotized.
A. I formed the opinion that Mr..
| Whtteside wanted me to get into trou-
BILE, and think he has been very sue
cessful
@. What was your object in placing
your initials on the envelope?
A. AS means OF Identification.
@. For what purpose?
| A. ...
@. You were not under the hypnotic
influence Of Mr.. Whiteside?
| A. Scarcely. 49,
@. This room that Mr.. Whiteside and
you met in, when he showed you this
5000, was that adjacent to Mr.. Well
comes room?
A. No sir, not adjacent to 209.
Q. How far from it? .
A. Probably three, four or five doors
from that I did not pay particular at
tention to the location.
@. Was it the same room in which
you met Mr.. Welcome?
A. No. sir.
c. Mr.. Carr, you were at Mr.. Well
comes room on Sunday, the 9Th, that
is last Sunday?
A. don't remember. don't think
I was, but I may have been, I won't
say positively.
O. You said that when this money in
this envelope was presented to you,
and you put your initials on the back