Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1913-02-13

donald drank Ill tlcIe VI Aoe'
A.. No sir. ~
o Ever see Mr., Mcdonald in the Crit
fin barn during the period you nave re-
ferred to?
O. Don't know whether he drank or
not?
@. Never saw him drink there?
A.. No sir.
FRED REESE. a witness for the COM
%plainant, was duly sworn and testified as
DIRECT EXAMINATION.
by MIR REGISTER:
Q. What is your name?
4. Fred Reese.
@. What is your business?
4. Common laborer.
Q. What is your age?
a. Raised in Minnesota.
.. How old are you?
a. 80 years.
4. l have been here about four years.
a li.tle over.
@. You know where the Clooten livery
barn is?
@. You know a. r. Mcdonald?
\. Yes sir.
@. Were you at the barn in November.
1911. when Mr. Mcdonald came to the
barn there and spoke about knowing
where some beer was?
A. I was not in the barn. but l have
heard lots tell about it.
9. You have no knowledge, yourself?
\. Don't know whether he said 1t or
@. You did not hear Mr.. Mcdonald
say anything himself:
Q. Now after Mr.. Mcdonald went
away did you and Slower go down and get
some beer out Of a barn?
A.. Yes, we did. There were three of
us.
q. WHO were they"
! a. Slower. and don't remember the
! Q. How much stuff did you get at the
time?
| A.. We got two barrels.
| @. Where did you bring 1t?
' A.. Took one up in the barn and one
we took UP in Matt Clooten's place.
I 9. After you had taken this barrel up
in the barn / suppose 1t was opened II
, you helped drink some of It?
| A. No sir, l did not drink any Of it
because it was ali gone in the morning
when l came back.
G. Were you up in the barn at all at
ter the barrel of beer was put up there?
A.. Went up there the next day and
the beer was gone.
9. Did you see Mr.. Mcdonald drink
any of the beer at that barn?
Gloss EXAMINATION.
Q. What part of Minnesota did you
come from?
a. Brown county.
@. You were the one that took the
beer up to this Clooten's barn?
\. The hack driver took it up.
Q. You did not get it from Mr.. Nc
Donald?
A. No..
q. Don't know that he knew anything
about it?
A. Not that I know of. a
Q. And whatever was drank in that
barn the Chief was not there?
4. I was not there. Could not tell
anything about it.
@. So far as you know tho Chief had
nothing to do with 1t?
A. Don't know.
Q. Clootcn's barn was not a blind pig?
iCoMMISsIoNER JACKsoN:
q Where did you get this liquor FROM
what barn"
a. l could not tell you what barn it
was.
c.. What part of the city?
\. South side of the track.
COMMISSIONER LU.AS:
Q. Did you get it yourself? s"
\. No sir. Slower got it out Of the
9: You can't state about where it
a. 1t was about back of the South
Side Grocery. l. think it was.
RE;DlREcI EXAMINATION.
III MIL. NELIlS l Elk.
Q. Did you hear Mr.. Allsbury testify
this morning? 1
A.. Yes sir.
@. Would you say the ~ocation of the
tarn was about the place where he stat
A. No, sir. That was not the place.
lie stated where the Standard oil Co.
was.
9. This was a different place?
9. It was over in that direction?
RE:cRoss EXAMINATION.
by MI. HANLEY: H~": .&' ~
.. Mr.. Reese. you heard the dcscrip-
ton given by MIR. Allsbury and you are
satisfied that the barn where you got
this Is not the same place which Mr.
Allsbury described? 9sf r. = .
\ Yes sir, it Is not the same place.
LOUIS lCLOOTEN, a witness for the
complainant, was duly sworn n tcsti,
fled as follows: t-
DIRECT EXAMINATION.
BY MR.. REGISTER: ..
q. What Is your m "
\. Louis Clooten.
g. g. g. s"O ~" ~ a'e 'ou
9. Live in the city Of Bismarck?
a. Yes sir.
G.. What is your business?
\. Work in livery barn. 49,"
Q. Sen of Matt Clootcn?
\. Yes sir. GsE i
". were you III Tue Duru III NOFcIl-
Der, 1911. when Chief Mcdonald came III
there and spoke about some beer?
A.. Yes sir.
Q. What did he say about it?
A.. Did not hear him speak about 1t.
Q. After he came IN there do you
know about some beer being brought
there?
A. Yes sir.
Q. How much?
A.. A barrel.
q. One barrel?
a Yes sir.
Q. Do you know il Reese and Slower
brought It there?
A. Yes sir. y
a.. Could not saS:who brought 1t there.
Q. Where was the barrel put that was
brought to the Clooten barn?
A. Put in the barn.
@. You helped dring some of 1t?
A. Yes sir.
Q. You see Mr.. Mcdonald up there in
1.-THE loft drinking some?
A. No sir.
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