The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-07-03

and volunteered her belief that she
didn e think Chief Sheets had any
thing to do with their disappearance.
Witness and Lawyer Clash.
At this point. for the mild hammered
man that he is, Mr.. Loofbourow be
came. exceedingly aggressive, and. ris
is possible for such gentle person to
browbeating the witness, He demand.
ed TO know why she thought Chief
Sheets hadn { taken the leaves with
him, and the witness gave woman q
reason" just because | don t. She
added that the leaves were torn out
before Chief Sheets got there.
She was asked If she remembered
the visit of Farley P, Christensen, then
Braffet, representing the McWhirters
and Deputy Sheriff Joe Sharp to her
place, She said she remembered it,
and then Mr.. Loofbourow demanded to
know if she had not then identified
Donaldson s picture as the picture of
the man who had rented the room.
! She denied this with emphasis
g Braffet tried hard to make me say
it was that mans picture,' she de-
clared.
Mr., Loofbourow persisted, and then
Mrs. Young broke out in a TRADE lev
! elled at the district attorney.
Roast For Parity P.
| ~ suppose you are like Farley
! Christensen, she vociferated. "He
said he had heard that | had told sew
eral stories about the case. and 7 told
| him what I thought of him-that he
was great big stiff. -
Have YOU anything more to sayi''
demanded Mr.. Loofbourow
4" Yes, SIR replied the witness, who
was evidently loaded for bear "Par-
ley Christensen didn T act like a gen
rlemau. He told me L was running my
house under police protection, and
| didn I think the county attorney or
! the sheriff amounted to anything, but
! that he would show ME. I told him I
! didn't know anything about the sher-
iff, but that ! didn t think the county
attorney was any good. He even in
sinuated that I had got money ont of
this thing, and asked me how much,
and ] told him it was none of his busi-
| ness.
''ls that still your answer7" oueried
the overwhelmed district attorney With
due meekness.
No, sir. - retorted the witness 81
got just So meaning thereby her
room rent.
Asked on redirect examination if she
had ordered Mr., Christensen out of her
house, she replied
"Yes, ] told him 10 get out and not
to come back again. Deputy Sheriff
Sharp, she declared, had acted like a
gentleman.
Worked OH the Temple.
Donaldson then resumed the stand
and told how in his younger days in
Utah he had worked upon the con
struction of the Salt Lake temple. (He
was born of Mormon parentage) Hs
told of his working in The various min
ing camps OF Utah, and how he drift
ed, into gambling. He told of his man
aging gambling house in Cripple
Creek. and how, in 1897, he went tc
the klondike. In 1900 he sold a hall
interest in placer claim for $4,000
Then with dog teams he made tn,
trip to Nome City, 1900 miles away
going over the ice of the frozen Yukon
and coming out to civilization the fol
lowing spring.
Returning he brought his fortune t.
Salt Lake, and engaged more or les
In gambling here "until gambling wa
closed when the American party cam,
into Office Donaldson declared will
much emphasis that he had always
engaged in what is known as Hlegiti
mate gambling that he had never
been connected with any skin gam,
or brace game, or any device to rol
people. He told Of his effort to oper
q gentleman S club room in Salt LAX,
and of permission being denied him BY
Chief Sheets.
Donaldson s narration of how h,
came to go to the Antlers on Sept /!
did not differ materially from Mr.
Kings opening statement. He ex
Dlained that prior to that day ba b.;
been in the company Of Scott, WHOM
he met in the room in the Antlers
every afternoon for three months, ant
that they had been playing the races
together: At this point court adjourned
for the day, Donaldson will resume hi
narrative al 10 O clock this morning,