Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-12-02
TESTIMONY IN THE
LAND FRAUD CASES

Portland ore. Dec. 2-J, w. Heidi
ecke OF Detroit was the FIRST witness
called I'm the land fraud trial today
In bis opening statement Boz told OF
having been through tOWn5hlp ll-l
many times with % surveying party
which ram the Hines of the township in
1895 or 1896 hu could not remember
which According io bis story there
were no aigus of habluUou ou ans of
the claims.
while living Zoo ibis township did
YOU ever SEQ or hear of AMY OF tle pro-
ole pmpoted 10 have nled ON claims
there. and who figure in This case ds
the principals asked Prosecutor
lleuey
NO. Gueycr dIl answered. thc Wit
ness.
Il know Frank II. Walgumot bu, /
did not know him until / met Dim at
Portland when waa summoned 90 ape
pear before the grand july
40 you know Dan y. Tarpley 5. A.
ID. Puter and Horace c. Mckinley
Yes met TTpley at Detroit in the
spring Of 1901
'Wel. 40 ON and tell the court aud
jury all you know about BIN and the
others commanded Mr. Honey.
The witness hesitntIug at tlmes told
the story of how ho was induced to
countenance crime hy the acceptance
of a brIbe which he said was paid him
by S. A. y. puter
Dan Tarpley introduced me to S.
A. u. Puter In the Spring of 1901 at AL
bnny
"Puter told me 10 come 10 hls room
and ] dId 80. Then Doe sail that he
and hIs associates had bought land in
III and wanted 20 know " ! knew
anything about them. lie said some
complaints had been made ana wanted
10 know II / had heard anything about
them. / replied that / had not Then
he stated that u ho and his ASSOCIATED
lost the lands they would not be able
20 ma any more timber and % was
necessary that they should not lose
them.
During the time when he was telling
me about the lands Nh. Mckinley came
IN the room aud asked Puter IL he was
not going 10 Eugene puter said he
wasn't and asked what was going on.
Mckinley said there was a live corpse
Np there. That was about all they said
that ] heard.
MI Puter then talked some time
with me- saying he would like 90 get
things Strengthened out and at thu
point Mckinley walked out OF the room
Later ] went to the hotel and went TO
bed.
The next morning Tarpley paid my
hotel bin end Puter gave me 81 To- ina
ont who had made the complaints about
his land when ] got home j couldn't
find out anything In regard TO the lands
After ! had been On the town q few
days ! wrote 10 Puter and got letter
IN return saying he wanted to see me at
Albany"
Where is that letter." demanded
Heney
II burned II up when everything
turned out as bad as II dit same as
burned an the other was the reply
Il started 10 Albany as soon as
received the letter from Puter Puter
told me q special agent was going up
into III and he wanted me to 90 with
hlm and point out the cabins OF the set
Tiers and tell him who lived there ana
give the names of those whom he would
give me He said Dr. would pay me 500
cash and give me his personal check
for $3.50 more II / would do IT,"
"You can have this money. be- said
N you viii 30 with L0omls. the special
agent, and get this thing Strengthened
out some way or other
Mr. Puter can't do that, there are
no improvements on your land,
He told me that / couldn't get into