The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-11-29
SWAYNE AS:5 A WIy<ESS -i Takes Stand iD lis Own Behalf. TESTIMONY IS CLOSED Cross Examination of Boone
 Was Continued. Judge Swsyne Admits Riding on Pri- vate Car of Road ia Hands of
 Receiver-Liddon on
 Stand.
TESTIMONY IS CLOSED

TSx3S, where JuuSe SWayne stopped three times when he held court in that city.
 She charged Judge Swayne at the rate of $40 per month for himself and $6s per month when he was accompa- nied by Mrs. Swayne.
 The cross examination of Robert J. Boone of Florida, was then resumed. Attorney Liddon, for the prosecution, endeavoring to connect Boone with the John M. Calhoun in the bankruptcy proceeding against Haskins.
 While Attorney Higgins was conduct ing a redirect examination of Boone concerning the Hoskins bankruptcy, MT. Palmer of the subcommittee, ob- jected to his line of questions and the answers.
 There seems to be a disposition on the part of this witness" he said, ito bIacken the character of this old man Hoskins with every answer he makes"
 little later Boone testified that he filed claim of John NJ. Calhoun against Hoskins. after the case had been going for some time.
 That was when you needed more claims to keep your petition going" observed Mir. Clayton, "on the sub-com- mittee."
 Boone denied that any conspiracy or dII dH cEncut OClWcCn HiHlccll anu Sdi~ houn existed against Hoskins. He also said he could not remember whether he had suggested Calhoun as a receiver for the Hoskins property but thought not He said the reason he refused to settle when checks were offered to pay some of the claims against Hoskins was that no offer was made to pay the costs.
 Boone asserted that it was never brought to the attention of the court that Hoskins was willing to settle in full with his creditors.
 Boone Explains Indictments.
 During the examination of Boone he explained the indictments against him self. alluded to last Saturday. He said he was charged with the embez- element of $50 and said the charge was the result of a disputed claim over in surance with a travelling agent of the company. which he (Boone) represent ed as local agent.
 Mir. Palmer subjected Mir. Boone to a searching inquiry concerning the let = ters signed by a rubber stamp with Boones name, which urged the prose- 1 cution of c. D. Hoskins for contempt in order to break down old man Hos kins.' He was asked who could have written the letter if not himself The witness replied that he did not know. unless 1t might have been a son of Judge Liddon. who was around the of- flee great deal.
 Asked as to the motive of any per- son other than himself could have had in writing the letter. he said that it would have been to connect Judge Swayne with the case, by making tes- timony before this Committees; that if the letter remained uncontradicted, it would show a conspiracy, or he. added not that exactly. but a connection be- tween himself. Tunison and Calhoun | with the Hoskins case. The letter, he said, must have been forged. pro- ceedings were started against Swayne.
 MT. Palmer asked him If he did not make an affidavit that Hosklns was about to dispose of his property and Boone replied in the affirmative.
 And in that affidavit" said MT. Palmer, Judge Swayne issued an order attaching Hoskins property and de- priving him of the use of 1t. and stop ping his business?'
 Yes" replied the witness. "of course his business could not go on after the { attachment was made"
 Attorney Higgins said that he de- sired to ask MT. Liddon, the attorney for the prosecution, some questions op cross examination.
 LIT0On SrOSS- S-EXamtucu
 Have you ever been informed against for receiving an illegal fee in a pension case?'
 Liddon answered in the affirmative. and 1t was brought out that he had re- | ceived one-third of the amount col lected, something over s2.000. He had made a contract with the pensioner for l such a fee, which fee was paid back after the information had been lodged. l MT. Liddon then made statement | concerning the matter. It was, he said, his first and last pension case. | and happened thirty years age. It had not affected his standing in Flor ida. Since then he had been elected | Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of ! Florida and had been unanimously ! elected A delegate to the Democratic National Convention.
 Judge Swayne then submitted long l statement giving q history of his ca reer, particularly of that portion when he was Judge. He said that the pros 1 ecution of the election frauds of 1888 | created bitter feeling against him. ! The Florida district was divided by a political act of a Democratic Congress, | signed by Democratic President. He then went into an extended argument | to show that he was a resident of the Northern District of Florida Judge l swayne also went over the contempt case i'm his court and defended his course, the facts of which were nearly all set forth in the minority report in favor of Judge Swayne and in previous l testimony taken.
 Referring to the case of E. T. Davis and simeon Belden. he said that noth- ing was shown that would indicate
 malice on his part. Judge Swayne de- | s5a bis course in the HOskins casa No render. he said. was ever made by Hoskins in his court for settlement He said he saw no grounds for suspicion that a conspiracy existed to break up Hoskinss business. He believed. and the testimony showed. that the books taken by young Hoskins were taken on the advice and with the aid of the alleged bankrupt. Hoskins. He denied that he had in any way preJudiced the case of young Hoskins. for whom a contempt warrant had been issued