The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-07-03
DONALDSON GOES
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einpjoye OF othefs, IN salt Lake, cripple
Creek, on the Pacific coast and in the
Klondike. From The Klondike, Mr..
King said, Donaldson brought back to
Salt Lake over $4,000 in money
Upon his return 10 Salt Lake. Mr..
KING sad. Donaldson had engaged in
gambling here more or less until the
early part Of 1905 when tho authori-
ties closed gambling; that he then tried
TO secure permission from the police to
open mp a gentleman : club room, and
that IL has been refused. Prior to the
Whirter incident, Mr.. King declared,
Donaldson knew the q Brlens slightly.
but hnd never had any connection with
them of any sort whatever.
The day preceding the McWhirter in
cident. Mr.. King declared. Donaldson
met John o Bricn at the Wilson hotel
bar. O'Brien told Donaldson there that
he had opened mp poker game in the
AntleT rooming house and invited him
TO visit it, Prior 10 that time, Mr..
King asserted, Donaldson had never
been in the Antler house in his life.
How He Went Here.
On the day following this converse.
ton, according to the attorney. Donald.
son started TO visit the house of his
sister in the New England addition.
To do so he had to take the dummy
car Mt First West and Second South
anu to tdke JHdl ne had 10 pass Ine
Antler. Going by there, he was i'm
PEELED by curiosity TO go up and sec
what O 'Brien was doing.
The attorney proceeded to relate that
when Donaldson entered the room there
were present John O O'Brien, man
named Peck and man named Scott
the last named being friend Of Don
aldson. After chatting few minutes,
Donaldson remarked that he was go
,oc 10, 4 "a
Scott 10 accompany him. Scott said he
would 90 after he had gone out for
a cup of coffee. Peck went with him,
and Donaldson remained in the room
TO await their return.
When Scott and Peck had gone, Mr..
King declared, John O 'Brien suggested
that those present engage in a game
Of cards to pass the time until their
return. This game was interrupted by the
arrival Of Larry o 'Brieu with the hap
less McWhirters in his wake. Mr.. King
then denied that Donaldson had been
introduced 10 the McWhirters as ''Dr.
Somebody and declared that he had
been introduced by his right name, The
only time the word "doctor' was used
during the whole transaction. the at
torney insisted. was once during the
game. when John O 'Brien remarked to
Donaldson: "It S your ante doctor.
| Donaldson, he said, did not regard this
appellation as important or significant
enough to deny 1T.
o'Brien Running Game.
Mr.. King asserted that Donaldson
had not invited anybody present to en-.
was running the game, and that the Nc
Whirters were asked into it by Larry
o 'Brien. He declared that it was a
straight studpoker game, dealt and
| played fairly and squarcly; that Don
aldson won McWhirter' s money with
three sevens-instead of four trays. as
testified TO by Parrent-and that when
Donaldson won the money, McWhIrteI
charged that the game was unfair
Then, without prearrangement by OF
suggestion Of Donaldson, and without
any previous knowledge on his part
Larry Brlen, according to Mr., King
went out and brought in two alleged
policemen who were absolute strangers
TO Donaldson. Donaldson, like the
McWhlrters, gave up his money 70
them. When the party left the room
ne declared, Donaldson 3 money was
handed back to him at the head of the
stairs.
Mr.. King denied that Donaldson ac-
companled Parent and the 0 'Briens
! over to Il saloon. Instead, he declared
| Donaldson went into the lavatory, came
| downstairs alone, and at the foot of The
| stairs met Scott, the man with whom
| he had the appointment to visit his
sister. He told Scott he had won the
$4,000 in poker game and showed him
the money.
Instead Of going to Donaldson s sis
IS, however, the attorney declared
that Scott and Donaldson came up
town. that they met John 0 'Brien, who
remarked the fact that McWhirter was
kicking over losing his money. Donald
son suggested that if he was wanted
during the night he could be found at
| his sisters. It was finally arranged
that O'Brien should 90 with him to his
sister s, and they were followed there
| by Larry OBrien and PARENT when
Donaldson, for the first time. was in.
troduced to Parent. Later Bell cam5
out, and it was arranged in view of the
kicking Of McWhirter, that Donaldson
should give the loser back any sum UP
to $1,000 for which Bell could settle.
Donaldson Distrusted Bell.
Mr.. King then described the incident
OF Donaldson s coming up town, and
changing the $1,000 bill. Not knowing
Bell and being suspicious of him, Don
aldson had followed Bell until he saw
him go into the police station where
the McWhirters were had watched him
|
to the Cullen hotel, and, when they took
a hack to the depot, he took a hack
and followed them. He came back IN
the same hack with Bell, and had &C
cused Bell of not paying over to the
McWhirters all of the $1,000, to which
Bell entered a denial.
Mr.. King went on to assert that Don
aldson had no connection with the room
In the Antler; that he had not rented
it, was not a party to any conspiracy
that might have been formed to pluck
the McWhirters, and that all the money
he got was won in a fair gambling
game He then called Mr.. Donaldson
to the witness stand in his own behalf
but withdrew him a moment later tc
place Mrs. Sallie f. Young, landlady
of the Antler, on the stand
Mrs. Young Vehement.
Mrs. Young furnished the first real
diversion of the day. She told Of rent.
ing Room 4 in The Antlers house on
Sept II to two men whom she did not
know. Donaldson, she declared posi-
lively, was not one of them. She had
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