The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-11-19
GREGORY FACES
TRYING ORDEAL
district Attorney Finds Much to
Explain in His MetalIur-
giCaI Operations.

THE testimony at the trial of Ebon
gregory was TO have been completed
last evening, but as F. NJ. Bishop. as
- could not finish his examination
- slug turned over to him. the case
,reut over another day. is believed
tbat all the testimony viii be in by
noon today. and the case will be given
10 the jury soon after the opening OF
the afternoon session.
Gregory was put on the stand b. the
defense again yesterday morning, and
il was not until 1880 o'clock that he
was through giving his testimony. He
tried hard TO maintain and keep up a
,vel connected story OF his transactions
With the United States mint at Den
yer while undergoing merciless cross
examination by United States District
Attorney Booth. Gregory gave the
court a technical description of how he
eeDarated the gold and platinum from
the lead slugs brought him by Taylor
and Lawrence" In his testimony he
said that all the slugs brought him
weighed from half an ounce to two
ounces. and in greater part contained
platinum The slug produced as eVi-
dence weighed sixteen and one-half
ounces. with no trace Of platinum
At one time during the examination
of Gregory in regard to a slip of pa
per belonging 10 him, which he said
was d record of gold taken from the
slugs. he mentioned three twenties.
When asked on cTOsS-eXamination what
he meant by three twenties," and If
il was not a slip of the tongue, he could
not recall having said anything about
the twenties On the paper, which he
claimed TO be a record of the slugs,
one its read ''3-20s Sos and showed
the weights of both before the gold
had been extracted and afterwards, and
showed that about 10 per cent of the
gold had been taken away from the
original piece. He denied that the fig
ures in any way had any connection
with United States gold pieces and said.
they were meant only to show what
the slugs he received weighed and their
value. AS to the items reading three
twenties and three fives,'' he was not
sure what they meant and could not
remember.
The figures on the sheet showed in
greater part all the way through that
about 10 per cent of the original weight
Of the slug or coin had been deduct
ed. His answers to any matter con-
corning gold were in a most indirect
way, and at one time he asked Judge
Marshall il he should answer a ques-
=
was ordered TO answer the question,
which was. assuming that the figures
on the paper meant dollars. do they not
show all the way that 10 per cent had
been deducted. He answered that they
did.
He was asked on cross-examination
why he did not try and locate the men
Taylor and Lawrence after his arrest,
so that he could yindicate himself. He
said he did not know on what charge
ne was arrested until after he had been
In jail for three days, and by that time
the men had disappeared. He. was
asked IL he did not make a proposition
20 J. J. Chinn. q Commercial street ci-
gar seller. to buy from him new gold
coins a little above their real value.
Gregory replied that no such PROPOSE
ton had been put to Chinn by him.
When Chinn was put on the stand in
rebuttal he testified that Gregory had
offered to buy gold pieces from him at
price higher than their real worth.
but that he had not sold him any. He
also testified that he had often given
Gregory gold in exchange for silver or
currency.
Mrs. Gregory, wife of z. ]. Gregory.
whose maiden name he had used so
often in his transactions, was called
10 the stand. Her testimony did not
throw any new light on the case. She
testified that her husband had Il melt
ing furnace at their home on Third ave-
hue, some years ago, and that two men
had often come to the house and used
u. She did not know what they were
doing and knew very little about her
husbands affairs