The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-07-03


cation of the rooms in her hotel AS she
described them she said there was none
numbered 13.
Were the men that rented room No. 4
from you Larry and Jack O'Brien." asked
Mr. LOOfbOuroW
Il don't know Larry O'Brien or Jack
o Brien from Adams off OK"
can you tell me who occupied the
other rooms in that portion of the house ?"
NO. l can't recall them now"
Gould you by referring to the regis
II don't know: several leaves have
been stolen from my register"
BY whom %
Il don't know
Trying to Connect Sheets.
How long after this affair on Sept.
10 did Chief of Police George Sheets call
at your house,
Three or four days"
Did he take those leaVes?''
mo, he didn't take them?"
How do you know that Chief Sheets
did not take those leaves from your reg
ister?''
''Why. just the same as I know you
didn't take them
WAS l ever in your house?'
y never saw you there"
well, now. can you tell me how YOU
know that Chief Sheets did not take those
leaves?"
81 saw him go away"
Did you look in his pockets? Did you
look in his shoes?'
NO. sir; I'm not in the habit of looking
in mems pockets
We'll then, tell me how you knew he
didn't take them?"
I've given you all the reasons 1 can.
You are just like Farley Christensen"
Yes, Farley Christensen Mark Brat
fet and, Deputy Sheriff Sharpe visited you
and asked you if Jim Donaldson didn't
rent that room from you, and you told
him he did; isn't that true?"
Farley Christensen Is Told Things.
''Emphatically no. / didn't tell Farley
Christensen any such a thing-I told him
he was a great big stiff
Z see; what else did you tell him.
81 told him lots of other things. He got
impertinent and I ordered him out of the
and l told him it was none of his bust
ness"
And is that your answer now?'
No: got just 50 out of it, if you want
to know
On redirect examination Mrs. King sue
ceeded in Strengthening out the stolen
register leaves incident. She said that the
dates of the leaves torn out were prior to
the alleged robbery and that she had
missed them several days before Chief
Sheets had called. She said she didn't
think they could have any connection with
the case.
Mrs. Young said that Farley p Chris
Jensen had tried to intimidate her on sew
eral occasions, but that Deputy Sheriff
Sharpe had always acted the part of a
gentleman
After Mrs. Young had left the stand
and order was restored, Jim Donaldson
resumed the story of his career. His
early life he spent in Utah. working in
the Park City and Bingham camps In
Park City he worked under David Keith
together with former Senator Kearns.
in 1893" said Donaldson, Il went to
the worlds fair in Chicago where for the
first time I became connected with a gam
hing house WI q
until that fall. when | went to New York
The next spring | sailed for London. go
ing from there to my old home in Scot
land. On my return, in 1895, [ went to
Cripple Greek. where ! worked in John
ME Nolan's gambling house for about a
year and a half.
Jim Makes $4,000 in Alaska.
when the rush of goIdseekers to
Alaska began in 1897 I went TO SkagWay
Alaska. From there I went to Dawson
the following year. In the fall of 1900
went with Mike Sullivan, a former police
man in Salt Lake, by dog team to Nome
travelling over the ice ], 800 miles. The
year following I returned to Salt Lake
Before leaving Dawson had sold half
interest in placer claim for $4,000 in
gold dust. I sent IL TO San Francisco to
be minted and got the returns from il
when 1 landed in Seattle"
After returning to Salt Lake Donaldson
said he had been connected with various
gambling houses in this city up until
the first of last year, when Mayor
Thompson put the lid on gambling. He
said he planned to start a ''gentleman's
club here last year and asked Chief
Sheets about it, but the chief turned down
the proposition and refused to allow him
to operate.
Meets Jack O'Brien.
Donaldson said he knew the O'Briens
slightly. He was introduced to Jack
O'Brten last August in the Wilson bar
On the 18th Of September. he said, O'Brien
told him he had started a poker game In
the Antler roOming house and invited him
to drop in. The next day he went to First
West TO catch the o'clock car on the lit
tie line out 20 the New England addi-
ton, where he was going to see his sis
ter. He missed the car and on return
ing up town thought that he would 20
up to Jack OBrfen's poker room. He said
ne was curious to know how O'Brfen was
able to run poker game when he had
been refused permission to do so.
When ne entered the room at the Antler
rooming house Donaldson said he saw
Jack OBrien. a man named Peck and c.
w. Scott in the room. He said he knew
Peck slightly, but knew Scott very well.
as he and Scott had been playing the
races together.
At this juncture an adjournment was
taken until this morning, when Donaldson
will relate his version Of the famous Nc
Whittier poker game.
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