The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-12-13


! At the afternoon session yesterday
which began at $3.50 o'clock, some warm
testimony was brought out in behalf
| of the state. Among those who told
| things against Barnaman were M. A.
! Gordon. Il woman detective, who filed
| an affidavit in the case of Bordeaux VS..
| Bordeaux under the name of Nj. A.
| Gardner. w. S. Lilienkohl and Charles
| =. Pierce, the latter of whom occupied
! sleeping apartments with Barnaman at
! the time of the trial. Mrs. Gordon tes-
| titled that she had sent for Barnaman
! for the purpose of consulting him with
reference to securing for her evidence
upon which she could base an action for
divorce, real or imaginary, it being her
part to play the role of woman seeking
a severance of the ties that bind. She
said she told him she would pay him well
for his services and Barnaman replied
that he was a detective and was we'll
up on the business of securing witnesses
in divorce cases. She said Barnaman
told her he had secured two women
witnesses in the Bordeaux divorce case
and had paid them several hundred dol
lars for their testimony; that he HIM
self had received $25O0 from Mr.. Bor-
deaux for his services: that the women
liable for perjury.
Employed by Meiklejohn.
On cross-eNamination Mrs. Gordon said
she had been employed by David Meikle-
john to work Barnaman. AS an ex-
cuse for making the affidavit under the
name of Gordon she said she felt some
delicacy about doing the work under her
own name. AS to her compensation she
Sh "a
for her expenses.
An evening session Of court was held
and at it Charles 0. Pierce testified.
He said he had known Barnaman about
eight years and at one time had been
his room mate; that he had talked to
Barnaman several times about the di-
vorce suit, once while the suit was on
trial. ION that OCCASION said Pierce.
"Barnaman had told me the attorneys
engaged in the trial had him in pref
ty tight box while he was on the wit
ness stand: that they had asked him
with whom he had walked west in Gran
lite street at the time he alleged he
had seen l.. A. Sisley and Mrs. Bor-
deaux together and he had replied
Charles Q. Pierce.
Asked to Corroborate.
"Barnaman then asked me to corrobo-
rate his statement in case I was called
upon. l will say now that his statement
to the effect that he and l walked west
together was false. One day after the
trial he asked me to walk out to S25
West Broadway with him and I did so
and he then admitted to me in a general
conversation that he had sworn falsely
at the trial. During the trial he came
to me and said they had the dates all
mixed up; that instead of September %
it should have been December %, as the
house bearing the number was not built
on the former date. After the date in
the testimony had been changed he told
me they had the matter Strengthened out
l asked him how he had made the date
in his memorandum book look so ole
and he replied that it was, dead easy
and rubbed the leaves together. He said
none of them We're foxy enough for him
that it was not on old book but he knew
enough not to have any late dates in
it, LIZ a.
In Regard to Compensation. &c
Did he ever say anything about COM
pensation?" was asked.
Bordeaux came up to the room sew
era times, but I always left when he
entered. Barnaman showed ME $40 at
one time and later on some more money
and said he was to get $3.50: that he
ought to have more, but it was just
like finding it. After Barnaman came
back from Seattle he asked me to not
go on the witness stand against him.
W. E. Lilienkohl also testified to the
alleged conversation between Barnaman
and the woman detective. He said Bar
naman had told her of several cases in
which he had figured, the Bordeaux in
particular The woman detective had
asked the man detective if all OF Mes
witnesses in the Bordeaux case had been
bought and the man detective had re-
piled that the majority of them hadsbeen.
bought. - i