Daily Arizona silver belt., 1908-10-30
WOODS LIBEL CASE UNDER ADVlSEM ENT
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(Continued on Page Fve.) I says, "Sure, but don't do nothing like that.'
 It would take mo about two days if I went ahead and told all of Palmer s schemes. It was to give Henry Thomp son and Jack Newman the worst of it. But I think I am the one that is get ting the worst of it.
 Cross Examination.
 By Mir. Jones:
 Q. Did you ever sign any affidavitS A. No, didn't sign any at all. e. Were any affidavits shown to you or read to you by anyonef
 A. No.
 The Court: These friends of yours Billy Taylor and Ed McGee and Billy Stiles--did they say they signed any afIidayitsa
 A. No. they didn't make any aiii. davits. They told me they would not, and am pretty sure they did not.
 Q. Did they go up to the lawyer $ | office with yous A. No, they went up after I came back.
 O. The next day after you saw them -d'd they make any statement about having seen any affidavits prepared or that were offered to them to sign9
 A. They said they tried to get them to sign affidavits-this old lawyer did but that they didn't sign them and | didn't make them. They came back and joined me and we all went up into saloon and talked and laughed about it, and the next morning I hit tho train and they pulled out too.
 Q. Do you know if any of them or any person, has since then writer letter back here to anyone concern ing this mattcrf
 A. No, don't.
 Q. You speak of the "old lawyer. Who do you mean by that description
 A. I mean that old, broken-leg law yer. -L
 Q. The one who testified here. yes terday eveningi
 A. Yes, that's the man.
 A. Yes, that's tho man.
 2. You say there never was any af fidavit shown youf
 A. No. I went up there. and the, got little old type machine out, anG I seen what they were going to do, ant so I says, ''I can't read nor write So they says, "You had better get Ton Flannigan, and I says no. I says will go down and get the rest of tn, boys. I seen what l was up against there and thought had better get oui of it the best I could-so they didn [ get any affidavit.
 Q. Did anyone ask you to sign ar affidavit that he would preparei A. Palmer did. He said his lawyer would back us up in any kind of scrap, we got into, but haven't seen hin coming around and it looks to me lik' need him pretty bad now.
 Q. Was any reason given to you ol anything said to you why they wanted you to sign an affidavit against Henry [ Thompson and Jack Newman. A. Yes.
 2. What was it'
 A. Palmer said that Jack Newman and Henry Thompson was trying to dc | bim up on his elaims-was working ! against him.
 ! Q. Was anything said to you by any 1 lawyer about iti
 A. The lawyer worked through Pal mer and me--he didn't come right out
 The defendant: I want to say { word to the crowd and to the judge: van to say this: This here statement about Henry Thompson is lie--it i' some of MT. Palmer's makeup and min, ! together. Henry Thompson has nothing to do with it. He is an innocent of it as ten.yesr-old kid, and 80 is MT ! Newman.
 Mr. Jones:
 i Q. Did any lawyer tell you that ht wanted to get an affidavit against Hen " Thompson' | A. He said he would Ike to get 2 hold on Henry Thompson--it was that | old broken-leg lawyer. He said he would take Henry Thompson like that (hold ing out his arms). Q. Who was present at that timef A. Just me and him was in the of fee. He said Henry Thompson wasn' ;, fit for sheriff-of course sided in with