The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-07-02

ness. He declared that early on the
morning of September 20-the next
morning after the alleged McWhirter
obbery-Donaldson with whom he was
and is we'll acquainted, came into the
Vienna to eat, and showed the witness
$1,000 bill, which. he said, he had
won in poker game. The fellows
who lost it, Donaldson told the wit
ness, had $4,000 on them, and Donald
son asked the witness what he thought
about men who would carry that much
money around with them. Afterward,
about ten days later, Rodigkeit saw
Donaldson in Denver, and talked with
him. Judge Armstrong, however, eX-
emded the conversation, and the jury
did not get the benefit of 1t.
Rodigkeit 8 testimony was admitted
ly disappointing to the State He had
been expected TO swear that Donaldson
had admitted to him that the two
Scotchmen had been separated from
$4,000 in a poker game, but he sworc
to nothing Of the sort. but in general
his testimony was not so strong as the
State had expected 1t to be. The cross
examination Of the witness was I'm.
important.
William +. Cardwcll, who sells cigars
at the stand next the Chesapeake res
taurant, was then called and testified
that McWhirter and Bell came into his
place Of business September 10, and
fed both Nc Whittier and Bell, and sald
that McWhrter asked him there if
Bell was connected with the police
force. He did not know and so in
formed McWhirter. He admitted on
cross examination that. in fixing the
date of tho incident, he was relying
largely upon what McWhirtcr had
since told him.
Druggist Gets Ratified.
Fred Anstee, one of the proprietors
of the Sun drug store at Market and
West Temple streets, was the next wit
ness, and he was badly ratified before
he left the stand. He told of Bell
and McWhirter coming into his store on
September 10 in n considerable hurry.
Bell. he said. asked permission 10 use
the phone, and did so, calling up g Main
75.' and asking first for Chief Sheets
and then for Detective Raleigh, When
Bell had finished. McWhirter asked the
witness if Bell was a police officer. and
when tho witness was unable to inform
him. McWbirter said that Bell had
robbed him of $4,000.
"You have never testified IN any
thing different than this?' demanded
Mr., King.
"No, SIR
''Why did YOU testify in the Sheets
case then that McWhirter said: Re
has $4,000 of my money in his pocket,
and ] laughed at him9'
Il must have been ratified, L guess -
acknowledged the witness, who was ap-
parently much confused at that mo-
mept.
''Tsn t ii because you have heard of
$4,000 so much since YOU testified TO
$4,000 that YOU have added the other
$4,000 TO itr''
''It might have been, because I read
it in the papers, said Anstee.
lyon We now changed your testi-
mony?"
Eyes. sir
Witness denied that he had changed
his testimony al the suggestion of any
body connected with The prosecution,
and gave it as his practically positive
belief that the sum mentioned by Nc
Whirter was $4,000 instead Of $4,000,
''Your positiveness is due to the fact
that YOU have talked to somebody since
this case started?' asked Mr.. King.
''It may be, admitted Anstee.
Mrs, Matte Nentrice, proprietress of
the Salt Lake lodging house on West
Second South street, testified that Bell
and Donaldson came TO her place one
evening last September and asked to
use the telephone. She identified both
Of them
Major Breeden Gets Busy.
Then the first time since the case
started Attorney General NJ. A, Breeder
took charge of examining the State s
witnesses. lie called ''Sandyn Nc
Whirter to the stand. and started to
interrogate him about how he was
steered into the Antler rooming house
by Larry O 'Brieu Mr.. King fred in
objections so thick and fast that the
learned attorney general was soon gasp
ing for breath and ready TO take tho
count Mr.. Loofbourcw, seeing that his
associate was in deep water, came TO
his rescue and made the argument for
him as to why the testimony was adj
missible according TO the views Of the
State.
After much arguing on both sides,
Judge Armstrong excluded the testi-
mony as TO the steering of the Nc
Whirters into the room by Larry
O 'Bren. but permitted ''Sandy' and
his brother 'iWillie,' who followed,
to relate their perambulations around
town with Bell and Parent after the
game was over. This tale included
their visit to the police station, the
restoration of $1,000 of their money
by Bell, and their departure for Los
Angeles that night after Bell had put
thcm on the train.
Excepting TO all this evidence, Mr..
King, on oss-eXaminatiou, merely
asked the two Seotchmen If Donald
son had been present at any of these
times and they said he had not
Donaldson Born in Scotland.
Mrs. Mary King, the widowed sister
of Donaldson, who lives in the New
England addition, was the next wit
ness, and her examination developed
the fact that Donaldson, like the men
whom he is accused Of victimizing,
was born in Scotland, and came to
Utah in 1871. Mrs. King was inter
rogated as to the alleged dinner party
given by Donaldson at her house on
the night Of the McWbirter incident,
She admitted that Donaldson took din
ner at her house, but was unable TO
say who the three men were who ac-
companied him. She was not intro
duced TO them. 1t was nothing un-
common, she said, for Donaldson to
bring his friends out TO her place for
a home-cooked dinner, and he usually