Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1913-02-13
PROCEEDINGS OF THE SPECIAL
SESSION OF THE CITY COM.
MISSlONERS.
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whiskey?
@, How long had you been doing it at
that time?
a. i drank it about four years ago;
q. one drink about four years ago!
A. Yes sir.
O, Between that time and up to June
l2th you had been il rather habitual
thinker?
\. No sir.
Q Had not drank any at al?
O.. So your experience with whiskcy
~ that YOU drank one drink four years
ago?
4. More than one drink.
q. Did you get drunk
4. No sir.
q. How many drinks?
A.. pid not drink them all ut once.
q. What ] an getting at Is wlclilcr
YOU have been addicted to the use or IN.
loxicating liquors so that you have lau
considerable experience with "?
a. Not considerable experience. =,
O.. AS ! understand it. you just had
that experience four years ago?
a, Yes sir. .
u.You did not drink anything out Of
this bottle?
@. What sized bottle was it?
A.. | think 1t was Il pint bottle.
q. You say 1t was labeled!
4. Yes sir.
@. How was it labeled?
A.. Cummings whlskey.
q. VIII you tell us where that bottle
was kept?
4. Down below the fountain.
q. whereabouts down below:
4. ON the floor.
G.. No shelf?
a. Yes sir.
O., You were in there behind the foun-
tain each time the Chief came In ana
took q drink?
A.. Not every time.
q. Were you there many times!
lyitn 81 Tnyu
O.. How many times will you say it
was that yol were behind tho fountain
when the Chief took Il drink?
A. Don't know how many.
q. Two or three or more than mat!
A.. More than that.
O.. Can you give us any idea about
how many times?
\. Half a dozen times.
g. For what reason were you there at
that time, Houser?
A.. | would be by the cigar case look
ing out the window and ! would stay
there. Brcslow would come back ath
serve the drink.
O.. Any particular duty that you were
performing back of there at tina time?
A.. No sir.
@. You state that one time YOU smell
cd of the glass. You mean by ma you
took 1t up and smellcd of 1t?
9. WHY did you do it:
A.. ] don't know. just smeIlcd it.
g.. We're you In there for any purpose
Of acting as a kind of Il reflective?
A.. No sir. .
@. You nave no other explanation of
why you did that?
a. No sir.
@. 1t was no part of you duties to COL
lcct money in the store. was 1t?
A.. No sir.
@ so as to whether or not the drink
wa spuid for, it would not have been paid
to you
G. And it might have been paid with
out your knowing 1t?
A. Yes sir.
@. And you do not intend to swear
that it was the practice of the Chief to
come in to the fountain and get drinks
and not pay for them?
\. Could not be sure about that.
q. Anybody else present at any time
when the Chief took a drink?
@. You can't name any citizen of Bis
inarck or this community that was there
ut the time you mention:
A.. No sir.
Q. It was not the practice of Mr.. Brcs-
low to serve drinks indiscriminately
there, was 1t?
A.. DO not understand the question.
O.. ! believe you answered the question
q moment ago. saying he was careful
with any intoxicating liquors there?
A.. Yes sir.
@. You had some trouble with Mr..
Brcslow?
A No sir.
O.. You were fired?
a. No sir.
@. You are positive?
a. Yes sir.
@. Positive you had no trouble with
him"
@ You never made any complaint
about this matter yourself?
a. No sir.
O.. You never figured there was amy
.tt.. ~ tI, ,,.l;l;ttnr 1nuy IN thiS
transaction"
A.. knew it. but never said anything
@. Never said anything about it to
anybody?
o.. Was this matter talked over by
you last night with anybody?
a. Yes sir.
q. With whom"
A.. Mr.. Watkins.
@. Where?
A.. AT home.
@. And the question as to villa, you
would say today gone over was 1T?
o. Nothing said as to what you were
going to testify to today?
A. Yes sir.
O.. What, if anything. was said as to
what you were to testify to?
A. I jus. read over what I Swore to in
the Breslow case.
@. Mr.. Watkins had some statements
that he prepared?
4. What I had sworn to in the Bres-
low case.
O.. DO you know what statement 1t
was he had. whether it was II transcript
or what 1t was?
A.. It was quite Il few statements.
O., He read them over to you?
a. Yes sir. ,
@. Told you that was what you said
in the other case?
A.. Yes sir.
@. And you refreshed your recollcc.
ton?
A.. Yes sir.
O. And you are testifying now as to
how your recollection was refreshed last
night in these statements?
A. Don't understand the question.
@. This conversation you had With Mr..
Watkins last night?
a.. Yes sir.
@. And Mr.. Watkins in going over the
matter with you last night read to you
from statements alleged to have been
given in the Breslow trial?
A. Yes sir.
O.. Now what you are testitying to now
comes from your recollection OF the mat
ter as refreshed from those statements
read to you last night?
A. From that and my own knowledge.
Remembered most of it.
a.. Fart Of It comes from those state
lncnts read last night?
A. Yes sir.
O.. All of the drinks in that fountain
we're kept down under the fountain?
Yes sir.