The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-06-29
|I|l MACS AND
||lRRENT DISAGREE
4 Centradicts the Bakers
A Many Essential Points
Of Evidence.
IA TINE CONSUMED
| DISCUSSING OBJECTIONS
k,pt Still on Stand When a
,rtinuance Was Taken
Until Monday.

Ia pAgTeuis 'nN f
r..v of the McWhirter bunko
nd the part he played IN 1t, at
'ri,l of Jim Donaldson, before
Armstrong and a jury Friday,
-5mouv going in under a running
;obhctions by Attorney King.
!, t;me was consumed in arguing
;;,stion on the part of the de
3 the admission of any testi-
mbseoucnt to the poker game
4 lntlers rooming-house, the
i,;pg nut forth that the alleged
Zion charged ceased there and
.tLer testimony was competent.
Armstrong overruled the objec-
r,rt's testimony was IN many es-
4 directly contradictory of that
sy the 1.-TWO Macs Crook
4 claimed that he took a re
4 from no one in the room nor
1 cuc himself, McWhirter had a
mich he delivered 10 Parent.
4 did Parent. according TO his
sarch "Sandv' McWbirter or
else; Sandy gave up his
Voluntarily. Parent threatened
pt no one. the McWhirters
4 be did. He did not have in his
rjpr a revolver until after Nc
d bad given up his and also his
4 The McWhirters claimed the
vas snatchcd and taken from
Parents testimony is the oppo-
i avs they gave it up and took
-pl. They asserted that Parent
4 GUN from John O'Brien; Par
nn $40" And there the tcsti~
|slands now.
Defense Overruled.
b court convened in the morning
Armstrong overruled the objec.
I the defense, made the night be-
b the testimony of w. II. Par
This objection was predicated
he contention that, iuasmuch as
b had never met Donaldson until
E. into the room in the character
'rEus policeman, his acts were not
Z IS against Donaldson, even
committed in Donaldson s pres
~ Parent resumed tbe stand,
b, MIS-. Annie Peterson was
|b witness. She is a woman
BIS With q strong Scandinavian
and talks voIubly. When, dur
p testimony, the attorneys would
|srats with her for talking too
'ss would invariably respond,
! an folding you.
gist OF Mrs. Peterson S testi-
sr that the o 'Brien brothers
room from her at 253 South
lsnplc street in April. 1906, and
z for about six weeks; that she
f1aldeon at her house In MAY,
9t she later saw bim on the street
|eHy O'Brien after the room had
|Frtn up.
Lucina Levy of 264 South West
street was the next witness,
s'lhed that the o 'Brieps, together
xn John 0 O'Brien. rented a room
'F1sly from her from November,
q ssptembef, 1906, a few days
Y alleged McWhirier robbery
q OF. She testified TO having
|9,.2ldson in the o 'Briens' rooms,
M oayiDg called al her house TO
The effect of the combined
Of the two women was 10
Gqualntance between Donald
The 0 Briens; also that the
maintained two sets Of rooms
Lake for time,
fsrent on Stand Again.
tsHent resumed the stand, and
4, over Mr.. Kings objection. lie
'oat when he aud Bell went
room Alexander McWhirter
W u ne was o policeman, and
'sPhed in tine affirmative,
NE ne SAID McWhirter told him
~ eoI INTO card game. had
money and believed that the
~ lalr. He questioned Nc
- 10 whore he was from and
NJ, vas gong, and odmonished
q Utah. 'eiio"' u
~ then asked McWhirter who
/ noney, and McWbirtcr indi.
nSalasnn. nsnn. lie thereupon com.
pa ppaa Donaldson 1aid il on the
"A h.ent h.nt took charge of it. IL
t'o,a maj be then took a "phony
pon John o 'Brien,
fsr fs'Ji,uing ior to Parent, be asked
ttod toI his money, the latter
N ~ IN MN when he first came into
H. 'Is' be had little over SO.
u NJ. e came into the room He
IA NcWr,ae Nyr ae got O'Brieu g roll.
|ire, "nirier for his money and
.sr united u over, He counted
Nc gave McWhirter a receipt
Daa aud put the money in his
X. l1hlo - Nv uPpl red, WAS
lsWb;,M Mnen he got the money
'HoSe Gun Stories.
> JsSnd @,d tia that early in the pro.
esr hn haa y brien iold him that
f.r 10 aaa gun, and that he told
Wa. 20 glye it to him, which he
arIo,sa.iE Belgian automatic p,in.
rot Io taE IT, He declared that
q va ms" % a gun from John
b ,bsn y Brien have one.
faeJTsnm- n described how he and
B Te,oP oP the party, prctcnding
ls .u va. going TO the police sta,
\ lsfs, asked what hannencd
67tsa Inc room. and here Mr.
Il !, on on the ground that the
y IN IN wa Was a robbery, was con.
'd af,ae Tue room. and thai wba,
erward was not material,
tuued an d. G.,