The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1912-12-12
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"a making the most OF Us opportunity
TO destroy By counter testimony the
ferce aud eject Of the evidence pre-
sented by the prosecution since the
beginning Of the tSlni on November
18th.
In answer TO a question from coun-
screor the defense Just before his dis
missal from the witness stand Tues
day afternoon U. $. okey testified
that he found. as n result OF his re-
cent survey and measurement there.
S.aat 1921 feet OF first class lumber.
AL 1880 feet OF common lumber.
bad been used In The construction y
the female bnildlng Al tho penitea-
tHary and that It's Canon City market
price at that time Was seyenty-nre
and thsrty-hye dollars per thousand
feet respectively. Chas. A. Dunn Of
Denver. lumber expert for the porze-
cr;ion. stated on the witness stand
last week that hIs measurements
showed only 81 900 feet OF nrst class
lumber and only s.soo feet OF co.nmsn
lumber had been used in tho struc-
tnre. Mr. Dunn figured that the mark
q price OF lumber at that time was
sixty dollars a thousand feet for the
be-, and thirty dollars a thousand feet
for common lumber.
ssH. S. Maddox. former station agent
OF the Denver q Rio crande Railroad
company here. stated ON the witness
stand Tuesday afternoon that he had
thrlng the yeaFs iso.-s. aud for soms
time previously. both written and YER
bal lnatrurtlosn from the Gibson
lumber company and the Fremont
supply company 10 deliver all car
loads Of slack coal consigned TO then
TO the peniteat!ary track in order thAt
II might be more convenient Tor tas-
ing into the prison grounds Tor un-
loading. Mr. Maddox said that he
invariably followed these instructions
and said tnat it sometimes happened
thatfcars OF coal consigned TO other
sealers here we're taken over by the
Gibson lumber company and the Fre-
mont supply company by purchase
and delivered AT the penltentiary. On
account OF this the way bills on nis
In the railroad Office here did nor
1T any time show all OF the deliveries
q coal made by the defendants to the
p-nsientlary.
Mr. Maddox said. in reply to inter
soxation. that orders were given him
Esyp the railroad company not to a.
Ncmpt to deliver at the Penitentiary
grounds amy cars OF coal Weighing
in excess OF 100000 pounds ON ac-
count OF the danger Of derailment m
the prison switch. which was laid with
light rails. ny reason OF this order.
he said. IL was occasionally necessary
to unload cars OF coal outside the
walls Of the institution and haul their
contents in by wagon. lie recalled
particularly a car OF coal unloaded "a
taat way In December. 1907. from the
yards OF the Colorado Canning conf
peny. which the state had endeavorsi
to show Ad been diverted to other
purposes.
Il. r. Jewett. former president 81
tho Diamond Fire Brick company. tes-
tined that two car loads of coil
we're unloaded in tho brick yards n
south Canon In December. 1907.
Z nd their contents hauled by conylc,s
With prison teams to the penitentiary.
Hc said that such oceurnnces were not
/. aucommon and that a car load of coal
kpr the penitcntIary had been unload
e In the brick yards in April or May.
1897.
The hrst witness called this morn
Ing was John B. Wells, superinteni-
~ q the prison stablss and tcams
ousins ths Standardization Of Ex-wAr-
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