Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-10-15

had and that Giilum had told him that
{" Doc did a poor Job at his place" and
in another conversation before the pre-
liminary examination. he stated, Gil
lum approached him on the street and
asked him IL he was going to be a wit
ness in the case. to which the witness
stated, he answered that he did not
know, whereupon Gillum told him not
to go on the stand as he did not intend
to go to the pen, but would go to the
boneyard first and some others fellows
would go with him. or a statement 20
that effect.
SEVERE CROSS EXAMINATION
The witness was then turned over to
the defense and was cross-examined by
Captain Davis. who first took up the
matter of his interests in the selection
of a jury and his visits to the court
room several times when the jury was
being selected his object being to show
bias upon the part of the witness
against the defendants. In his cross
examination Captain Davis brought out
the Oberbillig was the man who had
been the cause of the dismissal of Ju-
ror Sheffield from the jury. and that
while nthe court room he had made
remark to A. j. Hall, the adjustor,
when Sheffield was under examination,
that the state would exercise its fourth
pre- emptory challenge as Sheffield had
made ad affidavit In the abatement
case. The witness testified that after
that remark to A. j. Hall he was later
called up by the county attorney, who
asked him about it, and admitted stat
| ing that it was fact that the affidavit
had been made and was on file, and
his statement of facts to Hall was one
he thought the prosecution knew all
about.
DEALINGS WITH SHEEHAN.
Captain Davis then took the witness
| over his business transactions in Boise
since his residence here, the dealing
with Sheehan, his leasing of buildings
/ together with Sheehan and finally
suit to which Mrs. Sheehan was plain
| tiff and the witness was defendant,
which the witness testified was set
| tied out of court under an agreement
| that he would take an active part in the
abatement cases with the understand
Ing that the notes against him were
not to be collected. Asked If he took
an active part, he replied he had as far
as was legitimate. Asked concerning
his collection of rent on buildings for
! Sheehan, he stated he had collected
rent from Ruby Vaughn at times when
| Sheehan did not have the nerve to go
over to see her, and also of going TO
the Newport and collecting rent there
twice q week, and of his finally putting
the party out for the reason that she
was not running the kind of a house
she had agreed to ru nand he had got
ten such information from the police.
Detail after detail concerning the
, witnesses business relations with Shee-
han were gone into and was the subject
of the same line of inquiry when court
closed.
w. S. Walker, formerly an insurance
agent, who wrote the policy on the per-
sonal effects in the Gillum home, tes-
titled as to the policy being written and
stated he was satisfied at the time that
the goods in the house were of the full
value for the amount they were in
sured. A. J. Hall, the fire adjuster, fol-
i lowed with testimony concerning the
settlement of the insurance claim with
! Gilum over the objection of the de-
Tense. a portion of the settlement
agreed upon was admitted as EVIDENCE.