The San Francisco call., 1909-05-29

tornev to trap any one who might make
any advances TO him, and~.it was Tor
the purpose of witnessing any such
attempts that Policeman Charles Con
and J. II. Lorentzen of Burns staff
returned with Helms to Trinity county.
This fact was asserted by Heney in the
course Of his argument later in the
afternoon. but it was not put in evi-
dence on account of the interruption
made by the defense with the intention
Of keeping d full explanation out OF
the record The witness did testify,
however. that he and Goff and Lorent.
zen returned ~ boa - Eureka and
that Wingheld :. Lamb was passenger
on the same boat.
Lambs visit W. then asked about
and Helms declared that it occurred
on April 2S Lamb drove TO Ruth, dc.
companied by AssembIyman John Nc
Clellan.
Lamb first told me he was going
on 10 another ranch for the night and
asked me if I could go with him. said
Helms Il told him I could not and
suggested that he stay overnight al
my place. He agreed to that and then
Mcclellan got out of the buggy and
Lamb and 7 drove down to the river.
Lamb stopped the horses in the middle
of the river to get a drink, and then
said 10 me. Helms, are you dc Mason?
told him ] was. and h said. ] am
Mason. also. and ] hava proposition
TO put TO you, but I'll IL axe it to you
only as a Mason. | asked him what
the proposition was. and he said he
came from Monroe. He told me to tell
you To stand pat. he said. Don't allow
them TO get you. and don't testify, and
the railroad viii stick by you until
he'll freezes over ! said You tell
your man. Monroe. to notify your peo
pie in San Francisco that ] want SO 600
and ] want it handed TO me by you.
Then In not appear. He said he would
20 down al once and deliver the mes
81 ge to Monroe at Eureka and would
see me there when [ came through"
Heney attempted to draw out the
statement from the witness that he
had reported this conversation imme-
diately to GoT, and here it was that
the objections We're interposed which
effectually shut OFF further testimony
for the remainder of the afternoon.
Before he was excused from the stand,
Helms asked permission of the court
TO make statement lin answer to
the various epitbetsT that had been
applied to him since he went on the
stand. The permission was not granted
at once, but Judge Lawlor promised
that a full opportunity would be given
before the witness was finally ex-
cused.
MONROE'S DISCREPANCIES
The cross examination of Alonzo
J. Monroe. the Humboldt county law
yer. was taken up by Earl Rogers at
the beginning of the session yester-
day morning and an effort was made
by the questioner to smooth over the
contradictions in which Monroe be-
came involved while unde1n direct ex-
,,, ION, %hp Micprpraa rcK
between Monroe's declaration that he
thought Helms had been arrested by
forest rangers and his letter of former
date in which he practically admitted
fun knowledge of what was going on
was reverted to. and the witness said
that while he believed Helms had been
arrested by forest rangers he did not
understand that it was in connection
with forestry matters
on redirect examination Heney asked
the Witness if he knew that Patrick
Reddy former law partner of William
H Metson, had one time defended
Lamb on murder charge or on a
bribery charge growing out of mur-
der case The witness answered in
the negative. but said he remembered
case IL Trinity county in which
Reddy had defended a man named
kutz who was tried for the murder
of sheepman named Erickson.
And didn't I<utz confess that Lamb
had been one Of d pool of cattlemen
who had bribed him to commit the
murder2' asked Heney. .
sNotg that l remember answered
Monroe
Detective Sergeants George i. Null
cahy and Thomas c. Murphy. who were
in charge Of the raid made upon the
United railroads, offices on March 81,
when the stolen reports were recovered
from Abbotts safe. told the details of
the seizure.
MUlcahy said that after the police
entered the rooms none of the carmen
was allowed TO leave without being
4 searched. In the room, which these
men had occupied was later found a
collection of revolvers. siungshots and
controller bars. Mulcahy also told of
the subsequent search on the following
day and of the drilling open of safes.
sHe was corroborated BY Murphy who
added the details of the raid made on
Luther Browns office. which was found
occupied by Brown and Banjo Eyed
Kid Lorentzen. and from which two
papers were taken,
William H. Schenck and his, son.
Charles Schenck, were the only other
+ witnesses called during the day. They
- ,,r ,of.