The San Francisco call., 1901-10-22
ured, was allowed. Hume had quit the
case when the demurrer was sustained.
Eume's Part Exploited.


Hu1ne's Part Exploited.
Then McLaughlin tried another tack.
'Mr. Hume, I'll now ask you your age,
he said.
Hume answered that he was AZ years
old, and in response to other questions,
ifornia, Oregon, Washington and Alaska.
He Assemblyman, a deputy dis
trict attorney, a full-fedged district at
torney and holder of other important
Offices Mclaughlin seemed satisfied.
'At the time you commenced the action
of Chips VS.. .LindebeTg, had you re
/ lin.
Prior to that time I had a retainer
from the Pioneer Mining Company. in
which i9 LndePerg vas largely interesteda Inter edr -
$3O0?''
Pillsbury called for the receipt, but Nc
Laughlin demanded the answer without
the production of the paper. Then the
amicus curiae advised the witness not to
answer it.
Heney interjected:
"Mr. Pillsbury is acting, no doubt, as a
"As nothing else" said Pillsbury.
Then the witness explained
81 was relieved from my obligation in
1S99 in the fall of the year, when the re-
tainer came to an end;
In what way did they relieve your
was the next question.
"They said consider yourself discharged.
They thought my relations to some of my
clients might interfere with their business.
so they withdrew their business There
was no i'll feeling between us"
End of the Chief Witness.
At the close of the morning session the
attorney for the respondents passed the
witness to Mr.. Pillsbury the third time.
Then followed the oft-repeated examina-
ton of the cases in which the witness was
concerned and from which he had with
drawn and concerning which Judge Noyes
changed his rulings as soon as different
attorneys appeared. Again the witness
went back to Judge Mclaughlin.
case that Mr.. Stevens, Court Commits
sioner, appointed by Judge Noyes, should
pay $4,000 for an interest in the CLAMP
said Mclaughlin.
''I think it was answered the witness.
Joseph X. Wood, the District Attorney
and also among those cited for contempt,
had few questions to ask. His first
In fact, Mr.. Hume, we are bitter enc
mics, are we not?" Hume didn't know
about the adjective, but admitted the
noun.
isn't it a fact that but for the time I
was at st. Michael I attended largely to
the criminal matters?"
I'VE both attended to them
Are we on speaking terms?''
II don't speak to you and l don't know
whether or not you care to speak to me-"
The respondents attorneys desired the
day. AS his testimony is to be signed to-
day he will be present this morning before
discharge.
Vawter in Star Role.
Hume gave way to former Marshal c.
L. Vawter, who was the relief of a dull
session. In answer to the first shot di-
rected at him by Pillsbury he said:
/ first saw Judge Noyes in Alaska at ST
Michael on my way to Nome in July 1900
Next before that saw him in Seattle in June
n n
1 took the writs on September 14-the Chips
writ to Judge Noyes. He was Just getting up
1 walked in and handed him the writ While
he reading it 1 left him. Later in the day
1 him about o'clock and told him was
there to support the court. He said he wasn't
going to do anything and Mckenzie could do as
he pleased. Later in the month he told me
had business to serve the writ. On Sep
tember Is I received a letter from him. have
the letter.
The letter was then produced and read.
It reads as follows: