The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1922-11-16

TIME III answering questions that
were submitted to her and seemed
to be laboring under the impression
that there was no demand for her
to engage in oratorical pyrotechnics
and that the least said the sooner
mended, and with that idea domi-
mating her, apparently, she made
answer with "yes" or no." un-
less absolutely required to amplify.
After counsel for both sides had
concluded with Mrs. Asbury, and
she had retired from the witness
stand, several of the jurors seemed
to be in condition just a trifle
short Of comatose-fuddled, con-
fused, wondering just what it was
that Mrs. Asbury had testified to
that would justify them in arriving
at the conclusion that women should
longer rest under the odium Of be-
ing called gabfest gossipers su-
preme.
The defendant, Squires, went on
the stand for himself and made a
very clear statement of the episode
that eliminated with his arrest for
the violation of the law that re-
quires the purchaser of a beef to
see the hide, read the brands and
keep a book record of the latter.
Squires related a coherent, con-
nected story of the incidents, which
was as follows:
"As l went into the front door of
my store, along about o'clock in
the afternoon april 81, on a re-
turn from trip up the street,
saw Ed .Tregaskis carrying in a
quarter of beef on his shoulders
through the door in the rear of the
store. That was the busy time of
day in the store and l went behind
the counter and waited on the
trade. The butcher who was work
ing for me went back to the rear
of the shop and weighed the meat
that Tregaskis had brought in and
gave to Tregaskis a slip of paper
bearing the weight of the meat
Tregaskis came forward with it and
l told him to put the iron
on the paper. was busy with
customers and did not have time
to go back and look at the meat
nor did l have any talk with Ire
gaskis about it. I supposed that
he was still in the back part of the
store, waiting for me and did not
know any different until Sheriff
Brady and Lamb came in and said
that Tregaskis was in their charge
for having brought in meat with
out hide; and I told them that
If that was the case l did not want
the meat"
Edward Tregaskis was asked
after Squires had testified in his
own behalf, "What variation from
the actual happenings was noted by
you in listening to the testimony of
Squires? Did he tell things truth
fully?" And Ed Tregaskis, the
man who unquestionably knows
about what actually transpired, an
swered "Squires told the whole
truth-that was all there was to it.
"The fact of the whole matter is
that l went out in the country that
morning after a woman who wanted
to be brought to Winnemucca to
take the train for some place; and
when got there it appeared that
she got way to come with some
one else, without any cost, SO there,
| was with long trip for nothing.
To get pay for my trip, in some
way, | thought l would go over and
see A. DeLong, for whom had
hauled meat to town, once or twice
and see if he had anything that he
wanted hauled in. He said that he
had a cow in good market shape
and we would kill it and I could
bring it in for him. After we had
dressed the beef DeLong said that
the hide was such a good one that
he would like to keep it and make
a whip out of part of it. And
he asked me if l thought that
could market the beef without the
hide. told him that I didn't
know, but that l was willing to
take chance and that if
couldn't could come back and
get the hide the next day. With
me 1t was merely taking a chance
to get paid for that trip-I had
nothing to lose. And that is all
there is to the matter. l dumped
the meat into the back end of
Squires' shop, his butcher came
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