The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-10-20

the house about the ls5 of September
! They left on the 23rd of September,
and were accompanied by their wives.
There was no oross-eXamlnatlon-
Carl Mauck's Story.
Carl Mauck, bookkeeper at Mccoy S
| stables, was then sworn.
''Davis came in and said he wanted
a rig, and another man came with him,
| but he did not give his name, lie was
( a heavy-set, dark completed man,
| w. Bell. They telephoned they were
coming The Scotchman came ahead
| or them, and they We're not there 10.
| gether. The Scotchman came in and
went out, and as he left Bell and Davis
came in. The Scotchman came back,
and asked if two men had got buggy,
and / told him no Then when these
fellows came in / thought that they
would probably take the horse away
boy after the Scotchmau, and he re-
turned. / suggested we had better
send somebody, as we did not know
the parties. and they had not paid any
thing, and we sent q man to see about
the rig l never saw Davis again, but
I did see Bell. On the 22nd he hired
carriage
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witness said the Scotchmsn said he had
been robbed, but did not say that one
of the men in the buggy had robbed
him. He did not say he had seen any
one driving away in a buggy, When
the carriage was ordered it went to the
Sauitarium. Whoever ordered il from
the stable by phone gave the name OF
W. w. Bell.
On redirect examination by Mr..
A. "A +l.t he q
before the men went to New England
addition the one who said his name
was Davis came in and asked If they
could get carriage the next day.
Attorney Braffett on Stand.
NJ. P. Braffett was the next witness.
He said he knew Donaldson and Sheets.
On the Wednesday night following the
return of the McWhirters he met the
Chief and Mr.. Raleigh on Second
South II said 10 him that | was
representing Mr.. McWhirter, and that
he had made to me detailed state
ment OF the robbery after he had re-
turned to the city. I said to the Chief
that I was satisfied there were some
local men involved in the robbery, and
that | was very firmly convinced that
Jim Donaldson was one of them. The
Chief said he did not think Donaldson
was one of them. | then asked him to
come with me to the Antlers roomlng..
house, and I thought that could
satisfy his mind on that question. He
then called Mr.. Raleigh and the three
of us went to the Antlers, On the way
down the Chief said to Mr.. Raleigh,
.Braffett thinks Donaldson had hand
IN this case Raleigh made no reply.
After walking some distance further
the Chief said he know Donaldson was
in the pimp business, but never heard
of him being mixed up in anything OF
that kind, and didn t think he had
anything TO do with II.
"At the roominp house the Chief
asked Mrs Young if she knew who the
persons were at her house on the after.
noon OF the 18th and she said she did
not. | think we did look at the register
but no registration had been kept. The
Chief then asked Mrs. Young for de-
scription of the men and she gave a
somewhat confused description. She
was asked if she knew jim Donaldson
and she said she did not She then gave
a description of the man she had seen
on the streets of Salt Lake several
times around the corner of Second
South and Main and | suggested that
the description seemed tosbe very per-
feet one OF jim Donaldson. We then
left the rooming house. Coming back
the conversation was limited. The
Chief remarked once that he did not
believe Donaldson could have been in
the affair and Mr.. Raleigh also made
the same suggestion, The Chief sug-
gested to Raleigh that M f.. could
probably tell him where Donaldson was
Mr. Raleigh did not seem to know who
NJ. E. was and the Chief said, 'Mul-
vey.' / told the Chief that I had made
some inquiry for Mr.. Donaldson and the
Last T bp1 baar1 Of Kin, rt-oc bn Got
urday preceding from Mr.. Caffey. 1
said I had learned from a gambler that
Mr. Donaldson had said he had turned
trick and would be on the under
ground for a few davs. / also Informed
the Chief that on the night preceding
McWhirter had pointed out a couple OF
men at the Sanitarium whom he said
asked me why in hell l didn t telephone
to the police station and to which I
replied that I did not think the time
was ripe. | saw the Chief and Mr.
Raleigh the next day and he asked me
II there was anything new aud | told
him no. | visited the Sanitarium with
Mr. McWhirter about 1880 at night
l was examining the register and com.
pairing the Hemenway receipt with the
handwriting on the register when two
women came IN and then two men.
They started up the stairs and Mr. Me-
Whirter nudged me and said, There
goes one of them, and there goes the
other one He said they were The bo-
gus officers.
Braffett Gross Examined.
Cross-examined by Nh Varian, the
witness said the day he met McWhirtar
was the day previous to his converse.
ton with Sheets and Raleigh. II met
McWhirter one day and the night of
the next day went 10 the Sanitarium
and the next day saw Sheets aud Ra-
Donaldson was dope iend. The Chief
said he did not think Donaldson would
do that kind of work, because il was
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