The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-05-03

3 Ny Wife said she was satisfied il
} took place just as related"
Anyone else2"
Il cannot think Of any others"
/ Senator Dubois-Were YOU with
/ Abraham H. Cannon before his death
/ Through his entire illness"
where did he die"
AT my sisters house"
Was Lillian Hamlin there?"
Part OF the time.
Has she q child?'
Yes; a daughter"
What is her nance"
''MaTVa."
Her last nance"
Cannon"
The witness said that the child was
re-christened as the daughter of Abra-
nam II, Cannon and treated as a sister
by others of CanuOns children.
Had Been Drinking.
The witness. in reply to questions by
Senator McCOmas, said ne had been
drinking when he told the story about
the marriage on the boat. and he did
1t as joke on CritChlOW and Wilson.
who wanted to see the lIOTmOns get The
worst Of III. He said that he had never
thought that the story would go far
enough TO result I'm his being subp0e-
naed 10 Washington. When the sub
poena was served. he said. he told his
orother-in-laW that what he had been
telling was an hot air" aud asked
MN TO 90 90 Wilson and Cri5Chlow and
nave the subpoena withdrawn
as 10 all hot air about LangfOrd
and others mentioned being ON the
poaJE' asked Senator McCOmas.
The witness answered that he thought
he had given the facts right about the
marriage, but he had not been present.
he was asked If he thought the joke
was a good one on his dead cousin and
others he had drawn into that tale.
and with some bitterness he answered;
Thinks Smith Lied.
7 was thinking about Joseph F.
smith more than anything else He
said he did not know anything about
polygamOus marriages since the mani
testo, and L knew that he did"
Chairman Burrows took The witness
severely to task for his failure to 90 to
Wilson and CritchIow and tell them he
had told an uutTUth. Cannon had but
one excuse, and that was that he had
been drinking and was IN up TO the
time he went to the station to go to
Washington. Tt was developed that the
station is not more than six blocks
from the office of Aessrs. CritchloW
and Wilson. and that ne could have
informed them of his story without any
trouble,
A recess was taken.
Met Senator Smoot.
AT the afternoon session Mr. Can
non said ne arrived here about 8 a. m.
today and he met Senator Smoot soon
afterWard He said ne spent about
thirty minutes I'm an at Senator
Shoots office He had been directed
10 the senate annex by d policeman /
who told him that that was where /
committees met after the adjournment
OF congress MT Cannon said he met
Mr. Smoot coming out of the building /
The senator invited him to his office, I
where they talked over what Cannon /
was % testify at the hearing. Frank I
Dim S. Richards, counsel for the Nor T.
mon church, was present and the VIII +
ness said he explained fully that he /
was drunk iu Salt Lake and had made 4
statements regarding the alleged Cam
non-Hamlin wedding which were uH- .
true
ON cross-eXamiHatiou by Mr. Worth I
ngtou. attorney Tor Sm00t. the wit
ness said Abraham II. Cannon had
been ion California about six weeks i'm
$50. The witness said he had been i'm .
Salt Lake all the time during Abra-
hams absence. He declared that nei-
her Smoot. his clerk. Dir. Badger nor
Mr. Richards, attorney for the church
had discussed with him what his teS-
imony was To be- He admitted to Mr.
.Forthington that he went ON period
cal sprees and often told cock and
pun stories when drunk.
Too Much Smith.
HAS there been any feeling between
-ou and President Smith2" asked Mr..
ForthingtOu
Nothing except OF personal ma
ure- or course. % is none of my bust
less who he makes apostles of. but ]
ave felt that there has been too much
'mth DO his appointments
and you have expressed yourself
retty freely about the too much
smith have you uot?'
III think ] have.
Mr.. Cannon said he went to Wilson's
ank to get money. and borrowed SO
D SO az lIF. Wilson.
He is not the kind Of man who
you'd lend money TO a drunkard. is
e?' he was asked
II don't think he Isl no. sin"
AL the afternoon hearing il was
Tought out that the wife who accom-
anied Mr.. Cannon u Los Angeles was
IS tnlrd wife, and not the sister of
be- witness (
The hearing was adjourned subject I
the can Of Chairman Burrows. Z
REPEATED SEVERAL TIMES
tory of Cannon Was Told r NJ xrys7