The daily morning Alaskan., 1901-04-25
room was packed with listeners and

room was packed with listeners and
many looked through the windows.
Ex-Constable Pinnicuick testified he
saw Ross get a sled at Selkirk. De-
cember 10. and that he had ST. Bernard
dog with him then. Ross and O'Brien
had camp twelve miles above Sell
kirk, opposite Hellgate. He had a
talk with O'Brien December ID, and
searched his effects in quest of stolen
goods. Didn't think prospectors would
be trading. He had no search warrant
but acted under Instructions of his SUI
periors to look for stolen goods. He
found none in O'Brien's possession
then. O'Brien told him they were
bound for Big Salmon to prospect. He
went to their camp the night of De-
cember Ia to arrest them on a charge
of stealing but they were gone. Goals
were smouldering at their camp fire.
Oscar Oglestrom testified that he
and Charles Zionist. his partner, open,
ed a roadhouse at Orange Grove, 20
miles below Selkirk in November OF
last year. The first night they began
business O'Brien and another man
came and went away the next day with
out paying for their lodging. They
cooked and ate food they had with
them. The men were there on later
day. He believed it was in November.
On cross examination he said that
O'Brien behaved himself while at the
roadhouse.
Bayard F. Burgess, mail carrier, who
carried the mail between Mimic an Nc
Kay's. twenty miles, testified that he
met O'Brien December 10, eight miles
below Selkirk, bound up the river with
the St. Bernard dog and black dog
hitched to a sled Another man ap-
parently with him was just then 200
yards off the trail. at an open place in
the river. The day of December rs
he came from McKay's to Mimic. He
remembered seeing no one on the rum
That evening he had seen Olson, one
of the missing men.
The prosecution introduced the re-
gister kept at Fussell's roadhouse to
show Burgess name was entered
therein as being at the place on De-
cember IS.
Andrew p Anderson. who had the
Meat Cache roadhouse, testified in sub.
stance as follows:
The Meat Cache roadhouse was "a
miles below Selkirk. | think it was be.
tween December S and II that O'Brien
and another man came there. They had
the dog here in court and black dog.
O'Brien borrowed hammer and saw
from me to fix a sled. They wanted to
stay all night and | told them had no
place but the floor for them and that
they were welcome to spread their
blankets. They did so.
81 was in charge of Dumbolton &
Gardeners meat, which had been
stranded at that place. OBrien said
he had had no meat for a year. He
offered to trade me some milk for
some meat. l gave him piece OF
meat for six cans of milk. They had
some canned marmalade also. They
left the next morning after staying all
night After three or four days
O'Brien's partner came back down the
river. He said they had cache ID
miles below Selkirk. They wanted to
know If there was anything they could
sell me as they had more goods than
they could handle. Two days after that
the prisoner came and asked me if !
had seen his partner. / was going to
Selkirk then. O'Brien was behind me
with his blankets. On December II
O'Brien came back to my place with
some candles and other small things |
wanted. He gave the name of his part
ner as Ross, and said Rossland B. c.
was named after him and that he was
the discoverer of the place. When first
at the Meat Cache roadhouse | had
been stranded there while coming
down the river in the ice and did not
know the dates for week or two
until man passed and told me"