The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-11-14
q jim" DONALDSON
GIVEN HEARING
Notorious Gambling King Is
Having Preliminary Ex-
animation.
BOND REMAINS AT $4,000
MAGISTRATE REFUSES REQUEST
FOR REDUCTION OF BAIL.
BOND REMAINS AT $4,000

me preliminary hearing of "Dr. Jim
Donaldson, accused of participation in
the $4,000 McWhirter robbery. which
was held yesterday in Justice Bishops
court in Waterloo precinct, was devoid
of sensation. The states case was not
completed at the hearing yesterday and
the case was continued until tomorrow
morning.
At the close of the session of court
yesterday Attorney S. A. King for Dom
aldson moved that the bail be reduced
from $4,000 TO $3.50 County Attorney
Farley p. Christensen objected to the
reduction and said that if any change
at all were to be made he would urge
an increase, whereupon q lively tilt
between the lawyers ensued in which
the court was forced to call the attor-
neys on both sides TO order. The coul-
ty attorney won his point, however,
and the bail was left at 0000.
The hearing of Donaldson will con-
tinue all tomorrow forenoon, when it
is expected the states case will be con-
Guided 1t is not anticipated that the
defense will offer any evidence at the
hearing.
When the hearing was called yester-
peared neatly groomed and apparently
suffering no Inconvenience from his
long confinement He was represented
by Attorneys S. A. King and S. r.
Thurman. They waived the reading OF
the complaint, whereupon the hearing
was commenced at once.
Assistant County Surveyor J. d. II.
McAllister was the first witness called
He testified from a diagram he had
5Y.oy of hA in he N
ing-house in which the robbery was
committed. This was introduced in ev-
idence and the McWhirters who testi-
! fed after McAllister used it to explain
| their evidence
Alexander McWhirter was OH the
stand all morning and told substan-
J TALLY the same story as in the Sheets
case though the card game in the room
| ing-hOuse was gone into more in de-
| tail. In the course of his testimony
! Alexander McWhirter told of Larry
! O'Brien giving him $40 in chips to play
| for him. At this juncture Donaldson
\ broke in and said:
You are perjuring yourself"
/ He was silenced by his attorneys and
made no further outward demOnStra-
| ton. though he looked daggers at the
! McWhirters as they testified. William
| McWhirter testified to practically the
same story as his brother. which oit
not vary from the story told by the two
! at the Sheets hearing.
feature of the afternoons session
was a stud poker game on the judge
| bench. Alexander McWhirter was
| handed the cards and asked 20 dea
/ them the way he did at the game. The
| awkward manner in which he handled
| the pasteooards created much amuSe-
ment and apparently convinced every
1 one that he was not an expert at hand
| ling them.
William ROdigkeit and Max Lambert
! employees of the Vienna cafe, testified
/ that Donaldson had come into that rCs
/ taurant on the morning of September
| 20 and exhibited a $1,000 bill and told
Of winning it from pair of suck
! ers'' who had $4,000.
! Mrs. Young, proprietress of the Ant
Ter rooming- house, has been subpoe
naed for the state and under protes
attended the hearing. She was bitter
against Farley p. Christensen and SaiC
| that he tried to get her to testify thai
| Donaldson had rented the room from
! her when as a matter of fact she lIaC
never seen Donaldson before the rob
| berry.
Other witnesses SubpOenaed who hdF'
| not yet testified are Miss Effie Fay
| Ben Roberts and +. V. Fitzgerald.