Iditarod pioneer. (Iditarod, Alaska) 1910-19??, 1912-07-27
LOOKS LIKE HUNG JURY
In THE BRONSON CASE
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had been advised to do so by Jim
Hagan; witness was not particularly
interested in the conviction of the &C
cused, and was not testifying more pos
itively than he had done at the pre-
liminary hearing.
Mr.. Maltby: ''I'll convince you that
You are
Chapman then outlined his life since
1904, when we went to Fairbanks, down
10 the time Of the robbery; he remem-
bered the shortage of currency in 1dit-
arod last fall but never in his life told
the accused that he could get Sc, 900
of easy money, in the shape of a poke
then the possession oil Charley Suter:
nor did he testify at the preliminary
hearing that he had told Mitchell that
if he had been at Flat on the day of the
robbery he could have stopped it-that
he would have told defendant and Cor
man not to try it; he did not put it in
that way; he had told Attorney Roden
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guilty; he was still as sure they were
guilty as he was sure he was sitting in
a chair; he came to that conclusion
wear or SO ago; Mitchell didn't plead
with him to testify against Bronson
and German; nor did he say at the Gil
more house, in the presence of two
- n
swear against Bob Mitchell, l have 20
years staring me in the face" He did
not remember making statement In
the presence of Mr. and Mrs. Peterson
to the effect that he knew nothing
whatever of the holdup.
Bob Mitchell testified that on the
evening of Sept. q, while he was
in Casey's place, defendant told him
that he and Louie German were the
parties that heldup he tram, and that
they would have got away with it had
it not been for Joe McNamee; he next
told witness that Cleveland, on white
horse, was very close to them at one
time, and they had to cache the gold
in order to get away; when defendant
told witness the above he had had d
few drinks, but was not drunk; he had
got defendant away from Niger Tom
because he was told that Tom was try
ing to fix the blame for the holdup upon
Bronson, and he warned the latter that
if he were not guilty he should keep
away from that nigger;" after he left
Casey's saloon witness told Jim Hagan;
he always thought Hagan was a special
deputy; he could not say why accused
had told him what he did.
Angus Bronson testified that he got
up at I, went to Stanley's saloon with
German and had drink, and then
went to break fast; after breakfast they
sat for awhile on a seat. and little
later helped Tom Powers to load a
counter onto wagon. German then
left witness, who went up the street,
calling in at the Combination and
speaking to Sam Adams outside of Ed
Anderson place, ne IHen went up Lne
street into the Grard hotel bar; watched
Frank James hitch up the tramway
mules, and saw the car pull out; went
back to the Stanley bar and
saw Mr.. Stanley; went across the
creek to his tent, stayed few minutes
and left in the direction of Discovery,
Otter; that was about $50 or s:45; met
Jim Ryan, the teamster, who asked him
where the other fellow was; asked him
what he meant, and learned of the rob-
berry; had on rubbers, mackinaw coat
across his shoulder, and check shirt;
went on to Discovery and called at Karl
Theile's place about Io:45; didn't re-
member talking to anyone; stayed three
or four minutes and went to Shonbeck's
close to II o'clock, where he met Knell
and Shonbeck; later on Phil Keith came
in; had a discussion over spelling the
word "conviction;" shortly after II went
up the creek with Knell who was going
to Moore creek; saw Al Goslow at "a.
and talked about the robbery; at HIS