The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-10-19
McWhirter Was Disguised.

did not think IL was necessary TO ask
the Chief to do anything, When he
went TO the Chief s Office he did not
know he was going to make the COM
plant. After be returned from Los
Angeles be was dressed differently and
down at the sanitarium when he saw
Bell the latter glared at him.
Q.-Were you disguised
A.-Yes.
Q.-What kind OF disguise,
Al had on big hat drawn over
my face. i had shaved of my mus
tache and / had on different clothes -
Q.-Do you say now that upon the
occasion of your leaving the city the
first time that the Chief OF Police or
any one Of mis- officers urged YOU TO
leave the city'
A.-No, can t say that he positive.
ly urged me but they gave me no en-
! couragement TO stay.
Q.-That was your conclusion; but
| You have stated all that was said and
! done at the meetings haven't youl
| A-Ses. sir.
Q-And it is from what was said
and done that you say that he abso-
lutely gave you no encOuragementf
A.-Decidedly.
OF could be nothing else'
A.-Sure, he never once said stay.
Ole asked you if you wanted the
man arrested!
A.-No, sir, not in that way.
Q.-Well, in that way, wasn't that
the substance Of itl
A.-No, sir, he asked me several
things in the same breath. It is q di-
rect lie that | said l refused TO have
these men arrested
Q,-Who' s the liar?
A.-The reports In The Tribune and
other papers
Before the witness had completed his
answer Judge Armstrong and Mr. Var
ian both told him not to discuss what
was said in the papers and Attorney
Varian said: 1.-The record will show
what was said
Q.-Now you did say here on yester.
day, did you not, that he asked you if
you wanted the man arrestedl
ASKED several things IN the same
breath, Judge.
Q.--But he asked that question:
Ale asked another in the same
breath and didn't expect to get an
answer.
Q.-Then you did agree with this
man Bell to try and get one thousand
dollars backl
A,-Yes, 1 wanted something out of
it if could.
Q.-You did accept the money. You
didn It know the full description of
these menu
y.
Q.-Was it like the description you
gave here yesterdays
AT the time ii was fresh In my
but now it is month ago
Q.-Was your memory refreshed by
using the photographs?
A.-To certain extent.
Q.-And when YOU came back to the
Chief S Office the second time you came
back with the conviction in your mind
? ba. Ia. Of tho nan02
A.-Well, I had strong suspicion.
Was Part Of Play.
Q-And you took witness along to
get the confrmatory evidence with re-
gard to him?
A.-Yes, it was part of the play.
Q.-Well, what did you get from the
Chief7
An the first place I learned that
be had done nothing in regard TO ar
resting these men. That was helping
to convince me that he was co-partner
in the whole thing. The next thing
was that he owned w.
Q.-What do you mean by "owned
A.-Wen, the quick return of Bell
with the $3.50 and the fact that the
Chief did not search him. 1t estab-
ished the fact before witness that
he Chief had taken this money from
Bell and given it to me. and that he
vas in touch with Bell that night
At this point Capt Burbidge and
Detective Raleigh were brought into
he court room. The witness recog-
lized Raleigh as the man who was in
he room when the money was paid and
apt. Burbidge as the man whom he
poke to in the corridor. This conclud-
d the eross.examination.
In answer to Attorney Brown Nc
Nhirter said ne registered at the Elks
lotel as John Thompson because he
vas afraid that those men might be
ookiDg at the registers in various parts ;
f the city TO see if he and his brother
lad come back and thus disappear. ,
When he went to Ely the Sheriff used :
he names for him. He had simply en-
'loyed Braffet as private counsel, he ,
aid, not TO act in their prosecution. :
The witness explained some parts OF (
is testimony but they were not mater
al points.
Mrs. Mary King was the next wit. /
ess called. She lived in New England
ddition, and is sister TO Jim t
Donaldson. She recognized a photo {
er brother.
She said that on September 10 she s
aw Donaldson and other gentlemen {
rho came TO her home, She was shown
photograph Of Larry o O'Brien and
ohm 0 'Brien, and she said she believed
hey were two of the gentlemen. "They
rrived at my place at 6 O'Clock and c
,ft about fifteen minutes to s clock
did not see them use the phone {
'wo other gentlemen came in a buggy.
nd there was another gentleman
-hom she could not describe. She y
ever heard any of their names men
loned and she could not describe the
len who came in the buggy Her
aughter had told her that some one 9
ad come on horseback, but she did
ot know it. -
Cross.examined by Mr., Varian, she I
AID her brother was not staying with
er. and it was a private house She :
'as at the matinee when the men
anne. but saw them sitting at the :,
inner table, One of the men took :
be buggy back before he had dinner
ne had never seen the 0 Briens be. -
ore that day, and her brother did not =
ltroduee any OF them. She did not
se the buggy come. and she did no,
ae 10 90 swav, but she supposed they -,