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

q. Yes?
4. Well the barn | had at that time,
about that time, Is not the barn ! nave
now in use. .
q am speaking Of the one you had
then.
a. That was dow right w~llere-down
on Front street. on the grounds where
the Oil Company Is.
q. That barn was not ut the same
place your house Is?
A., no, nv house Is on 9th and Sweet
street.
@. What use were you making Of that
barn at the time? Did you ave any hay
in It?
\. Well, l used the barn about a ycar
and Il half.
@. What use were you making? What
did you do with 1t? Have horses and hay
in 1t?
a. For my horse and hay and grain.
&. Did you use 1t that way ali the
time?
a. | used it that way until | built an
other one.
q. Now, in November. 1911. did you
find some Intoxicating liquor there?
A. Yes sir.
@. What was it that you found?
4. | do not think | could just say
what was in it exactly, but II was two
barrels. One Of them was not opened
and the other was just a little takcn out
Of. | do not know a bottle OF beer from
II bottle of whiskcy.
g. Was there anything except these
two barrels there in the barn?
\. Yes. there was a COW In the barn.
g. Nothing in the way OF intoXicat-
ing liquors?
4. No just those two barrels.
q. After you saw them what did you
do? After you found the two barrels?
a. | did not do anything. but came
@. Did you see MI. Mcdonald?
4. He was right there at that time.
| had went after him.
q. Before that?
4. no, the same hour. ! didn't so in
there by myself. He went in. | went
and got him to 90 in and see what was IN
there.
@. You found the two barrels?
A. ! didn't find them until got him.
lie found them.
q. Did you know they were there be-
fore Mr.. Mcdonald came down?
A. ! did not exactly know, but alimost
knew it.
@. Did you communicate with Mr.. Nc
Donald Of The police force and tell him
that there were two barrels In that barn?
A.. No ! told him there was something
in there; that they had taken Off my lock
and put on another lock on the barn and
wanted him to so over and see what 1t
was.
Q. Did Mr.. Mcdonald go down there in
the first place?
A.. When | went after him.
G. You went after Mr.. Mcdonald?
A. Yes sir.
@. And he came Town there and you
two went into the barn?
a. Yes sir.
g. And you investigated?
A. Yes sir.
g. And how long were you in there?
A.. | do not suppose we were in there
over half an hour. Possibly that.
9. And what was done?
\. Wasn't a thing done.
@. Did Mr.. Mcdonald 70 away?
4. He came over to town and | went
@. Did you see the two barrels in
there after that?
a. No never saw them after that.
@. DO you know who too them out?
a. No.
@. Did Mr.. Mcdonald state to you
what the barrels contained?
A.. No sir. l don't think he did. He
called It booze.
@. Were the barrels opened?
\. One of them was open and the 9TH
cr was not, and he put his hands on the
barrel II l think he was reading the a1-
vcrtisemcnt on it, but we didn't talk
much longer.
@. The one that you opened, did that
contain bottles?
A. Yes, bottles there.
\. Wha size?
A.. | think they were beer.
q. You know the size Of Il beer bottle?
A. 1t is generally a round bottle.
Q. How nigh?
4. [ think it was a beer bottle. posi-
bly, that high. ~(indicating).
G. Do you know what the brand was
on it?
or the barrel. | stood back and let the
Chief investigate.
.. SO after you had investigated you
parted. You went home and he came up
town"
4. Yes, we went a little ways togeth-
g. And that is the last you know about
the two barrels?
a. That is the last l kno Of it, only
what ! nave heard.
@. Did you and the Chief. after you
started away from the barn meet Charles
Campbell?
A. Yes sir. we met Mr.. Campbell.
@. And did Mr. Campbell claim tho
COW?
\. Yes sir.
G.. And what did he say about The
beer?
a. Said it wasn't his'n.
@. Did lie say anything about moving
A.. Yes. he was ordered to move it.
Said to take it out. Still he said it
wasn't his II.
O. Do you know whether there were
soldiers in Campbell's place there about
the time the beer was in there?
4. AS l went down to the bar, now.
hard like-that there something in the
barn and | went down in the evening and
seen that my lock was gone, as 1t was a
bright lock, and it had a black new lock
on It. ! went down again just about.
it may have been 10 or II o'clock-a little
late. and Of course I could see. and as ]
went down. | came up with six soldiers,
Fort Lincoln soldiers. We came right
into one another and ! went across 10th
street towards the old shack where l had
used for my barn and the soldiers stopped
in Campbcll's yard and they was a talk
in.
@ Did you at that time ask Mr.. Nc
Donald to arrest him?
a. Yes sir, I wanted him to 80 in.
Forget just exactly what I said, but !
says they're drinking in there.
q. What did he say to You:
A. Don't know az he said anything.
only he said--I remember in the barn |
spoke about the shavings that was there
or whatever 1t is-packing--it was all
over the barn. ! suppose about two or
three inches deep. and an empty barrel
that was buried in the corner. about 7
or 5 inches of the barrel out, and l went
and dug down In that barrel That was
all | done and there was nothing In II
but that shaving or packing, and ! want
cd the Chief to hunt him ,p and he said
It might be that they bought It for their
CROSS EXAMINATION
BY ME HANLEY:
@. Is that barn connected with a
house? House o the same lot?
a. That new house that has went up
there.
@. At that time the house was there?
A., No.. not at that time. Old shack OF