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

a. About II o'clock in the morning.
Q. Did he come in there alone during
this time?
A.. Sometimes alone and sometimes
with some other fellows.
@. Did you ever see Mr.. Mcdonald
drink in the Brcslow drug store"
A.. Yes sir.
9. Did you wait on him ut amy time"
@. What was kept there about the
fountain--any whiskey or not:
A.. No whiskey kept there when |
worked there. An the whiskcy was kept
behind the prescription case.
O.. None was kept below the fountain"
@. You heard the testimony Of the pre-
ccding witness?
A.. Yes sir.
9. Was the whiskey bottle referred TO
kept there at thai time:
\. No sir, not at tina time.
.. Did you ever serve to Chief \. +.
Mcdonald any whiskey"
\. No sir.
q. Did you ever see him drink any
whiskey in there"
\. Not that | knew was whiskey.
.. Have YOU seen him so behind the
prescription case and drink"
\. | have seen him so back there. DO
not know whether he was drinking Or
not.
q. DO you know whether he drank any
whiskey in there during the time you
worked there?
A.. Am not positive Of 1t.
q. Did you ever smell any glass from
which Mr.. Mcdonald had just drank and
smell whiskey?
A.. Did not remember any particular
glass.
Q. Who said the whiskey while YOU
We're there"
a. Mostly Michael Levy.
g. Ever see Michael Levy sell MI. Nc
Donald any drink?
\. Yes sir.
9. At the fountain"
\. Yes sir.
9. You know what it was he drank
at that time OF on this occasion:
\. Yes sir.
e.. What"
\. Cherry phosphate.
q. Have you stated all that you know
with reference to this matter Of Mr.. Nc
Donald's drinking whiskcy in there:
\. Yes sir.
9. All you can say is that you saw
Mr.. Mcdonald so behind the prescription
case with Mr.. Levy?
\. Yes sir.
q. You never were behind the case
when the two were there together?
4. | was usually up in front whenever
they went back there to talk, and ! sup
posed 1t was none Of my business to listen
and was not supposed to be there. j.,
Q. Did you ever see Mr.. Mcdonald
drink Whiskey mixed with phosphate on
any occasion"
i. | don't think so. Am not sure.
G. Did you ever see MIR Levy, when
Mr. Mcdonald came in there and drank
at the fountain, go to the prescription
case and bring a bottle of whiskey to the
fountain"
@. SO if Mr.. Mcdonald drank any
whlskey in there during the time that
you we're employed at Mr. Dreslow's 1t
was behind the prescription case?
A.. Yes sir.
@. md YOU were ncvc. behind the case
when the drinking was going on, If there
was any going on?
A.. Went back there once and there
was no drinking going on atathat time
It was not my habit to 30 back there. Z.
COMMISSIONER HINCT<LEY:
would like to ask you IL you ever saw
anyone come in there n drink whlskey
outside Of Mr.. MCDONALD:
A.. Yes sir.
q. You are positive that they did?
\. Yes sir. | have seen them drink
out Of a whiskcy bottle.
@, Drink right out of the bottle?
a No turned 1t into a small glass, one
of the graduates.
c.. Did they ever do that when Mr..
Mcdonald was in there?
~. IncrC were some olIICcIS iIOHI lIC
post in there.
@. Did you ever see them serve whis-
key to anyone in Mr.. McDonald's pres
Cnce while you were there?
A.. Could not say for sure.
COMMISSIONER LUCAS:
@. You would remember it If you had
seen it,!
\. [ think 50, | don't remember
coMMissloNEH .luNcKLEy:
q. You say YOU never saw nnyOnc
served with whiskey in Mr.. McDonalds
presence?
\. No sir.
MIR. REGISTER:
@. { think you state Il that there was
no wl,iskcy bottle kept about the fo,n-
tain there at the time you were employed
at Brcslow's store:
\. No sir. there was not.
cROSS.ExAMINATiON.
@. You stated that the Chief came in
there there two or three times q day:
\. Yes sir.
G. Would he come in there" to tele-
phone?
\. Yes sir.
@. Would there be many times when
he would come in there on business and
not take anything at the fountain?
a. Sometimes he would come In and
telephone, and sometimes just come in to
/ talk.
G. Where is the telephone located?
4. On the desk on the east side.
@. How far back?
4, About the center Of the front part
of the store.
@. Are there W telephones there"
\. No sir.
@. You served the Chief at the foun-
tain?
\. did. u
@. Often"
4. Would not say very often.
@. More than once? =
\. Yes sir.
G. SO that his taking a drink at the
fountain was not unusual as far as he
was concerned was it?
A. No sir.
q. Any of these times was any whis-
key served to him?
\. Not by myself.
Q. Cherry phosphate was what he
drank?
4. Think every time he called for any
/ thing it was cherry phosphate.
q. So that it was no unusual practice
for the Chief to drink cherry phosphate at
that fountain?
A. No sir.
@. And you know Of your WI knOwl-
edge there was no whiskey or fntoxicat-
ing liquors in it? "
A.. Yes sir.
@. And l believe you stated that you
went back of the prescription case at
times when the Chief was there or had
been there n you saw no evidence of
any wliskey having been drank?
A.. I remember of one time going back
there and they we're not drinking At that
lBY Mr.. WATKINS:
@. How are the different juices or
preparations kept there that were used
| at the faucets there,