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

and the McWhirters to Jail, witness con.
tinued: "Donaldson and Larry and l
went to Ross s saloon and | gave them
$4,000. I kept the $4,000. | took
bundle Of paper M,th ,Dd DlIl oMa wP"PPgo {To
Donaldson. / took a Belgian automatic
gun from McWhirtcr. When we left the
others were in the room with Bell, my
assistant officer.
Q.-After you divided the money,
what did you dol
Al went to my room. L waited Tor
| Bell He didn 4 come. ] went to Jack
| o O'Brien IS house, near First South. They
were making preparations TO go out to
| Donaldson Is sistSr IS place IN New Eng
! land addition, ! went with them.
Witness then told of subsequently
meeting Bell and McWhirter at the
| Sanitarium, He tried TO make arrange
ments to see Bell but could not get
away from the Scotsman. He told OF
| McWhirter telling mail carrier that
he had been robbed, and the mail car
| rier said he was crazy. He left Bell
at the corner of the postotlice. Before
leaving he got phoney roll from Bell
and gave him n twenty-dollar bill, lie
| then joined the o Briens and Donald
son and went with them to New Eng
land addition.
"After dark Bell drove out in A
buggy continued the witness, "and
said we would have to give back $1,000
TO get the fellow out OF town. / gave
him a 81 900 bill Bell said he could
get him out of town for 81 900,
Q-Was anything said about settling
for $3.50.
A,-Bell said he would try and get it
as low as he could. Then we all walked
back 10 town. We went to the house
that the o 'Briens were just moving into.
Bell and Donaldson went out to get n
bill changed and the next morning we
went to work as usual
Q.-Did you see the Chief after that?
A.-Ges, sir; / saw him about the
rear of the station after Bell called him
up by phone.
Q.-When was that2
A.-That WAS on the morning of the
10th. We Went out to divide the money
that morning,
Q.-Where?
A.-At Donaldson S room. I don t re-
member the name Of the house,
Q.-How did You divide the money?
Donaldson Kept Gambling Winnings.
A.-Donaldson and the two o 'Briens
kept the $4,000 they won I kept $4,000
of the $1,000; that was $4,000 apiece.
?.-Then you gave $1,000 back?
A-Yes, sir.
Q.-What was said about the Chief?
A.-Ihey wanted me to take 90 per
cent from the whole thing for the
Chief; they said they were to give him
that. We said we were paying for our
own business and we wouldn { submit
to 1t. After the money was divided we
went TO the Sanitarium. where we were
living. gave Newton 500 out Of it.
l. gave him check on the Deseret Ma
tlonal bank for il.
Q.-Dld you see the Chief after that7
Ave saw him on the goth.
Q.-What occurred that day7
Ave put $1,000 each in the bank
and kept $175 each. We went to
drug store near the station and called
the Chief up on the phone and said we
would IKE TO see him; we were right
across tho street After a time we saw
the Chlef near Second South. Bell over
took the Chief; | crossed over behind
them, Bell and the Chief stepped into
little shop, AS | got to the window
or the store | saw Bell give the Chief
the money-s350. Bell came ont:
went over to place and had nv shoes
shlned. Bell Joined me and we went TO
Owork that afternoon.
ness?
A-Yes.
Q.-What occurred7
A. There was nothing else occurred.
we Just went to work then
Whlrters'
A.-Yes
Q.-Where?
AT the Sanitarium That was the
Following Monday night We had been
at the snow with our wives, and when
we returned saw the elder McWhjrter
and al stranger looking at the register
Inc elder McWhirter recognized ms We
went out back way and went TO a sa.
loon near the corner of Second Soutb
BelI telephoned to different peonle W.
told the 0 'Briens that the fellow vas
pack IN town. We stayed at O ,Brinn. :
Temple. 'ou'h
The next morning we saw Mr.. Ra.
,rtgn as SANDING out in the alleyway. Bell
went out to meet him: thew botb
seemed to be very excited Rsr ran
pack pack 10 the house and said the two fel.
lows mad gone to tho Sheriff's ofico
ana we would have to leave town -
c., witness stated that Bell wrote Mr.
% Sheets W9 letter rom Kansas CITY
When we left here, he said, .Sxe ieft
apout $500 or $1,000 in checks in Mr.
hhewton hands for collection, We
MI. Newton we wanted either the
checks or the money. We wrote n LEI.
ter to Newton. but did not hear from
nm We talked IL over and Bell de.
clded to write Chief Sheets, bnt We
did not hear from either one of them "v =
checks1 'u'Se
Ave had won them in a game
Q.-After you were up in the Ant1or.
was the game explained to you?
Alt was NOT explained; 1 saw the
hands. Jt was the ''BIg Nit. - that's
all [ know about it. '''''V
Donaldson Had Four TRAYS
Witness was asked to illustrate and
be, be dealt hand, pointing out that Nc,
Winter S was the one with three aces
and Donaldson the one with four
trays.
Witness told about one man who was
brought from the Temple grounds by
Be Bell and had, $1125 taken from him.
witness explained more fully their
methods at this point. He said he snp-
gested to the man the writing of a
letter to the Montana National hank