Show TELEGRAPEIO THE STAR ISODES Washington 23The cress examination examina-tion of Eerdell was resumed in the star route trial by Ccl Injjereoll Referring Re-ferring to the interview with Dorsey at Willards witness said he left the room At the request of Dorsey and went to the Jailers room at the hotel Dorsey locked the door and charged witness with going over to the government but said you reckon withou your host I have got you within my grap and propose to hold you there I can send you to the penitentiary for puijjry 1 have those letters and propose to publish them New and I have written what I want I want you to go and copy it take it to a notary republic bnd swear to it I can have you arrested ar-rested before night if I so desire Witness was completely crushed He supposed he could be prosecuted for perjury per-jury In making the flrBt affidavit hedid as Doreey desired and on the day fol wing the interview gave the affidavit to Dorsey in Boelers presence Dorsey wrote in the words and others then striking a match burned the pencil draft of the affidavit Witness did net remember telling ilacVeagh and Woodward that Dorsey gave W H Turner 1500 or 2000 shares of mining stock for the influence of his official offi-cial actioDf did not snow them a memorandum memo-randum to that effect did not recollect telling Woodward that Dorsey gave J M Tvner 2000 shares of the same mining stock to influence in the same way bis official action remembered sbe wing a memorandum The memorandum was in the handwriting of S W Dorsey and iven to witness by Dorsey It was in KerdelFs desk at his office when ho was sent to jail but be has notEeen it since lu his efforts to trace the two tbouEand dollar check which Rerdell said had been paid to J B Belford ho telegraphed tele-graphed his home bank the Rocky Mountain National Central City Cal and received the following dispatch CEl > aiJAL CITY Colorado Feb 22 Hon J B Belford Washington This bank did not cash a check of Dorfiey in your favor for thousand or any amount during i9 Signed T H POTTER Cashier Belford says this is the only bank in which he made deposits or with which ho had financial relations in Colorado IcgerEoll called the attention of tho court to the filet that it had been alleged that Reidoll imitated Dorseys writing He referred to a statement made by witness wit-ness on Wedneeday concerning Congressman Con-gressman Belford whom he Irgersoll believed to be a perfectly honest man Witness had stated that a check for 2000 had Leen given Bilford and the amount charged to the mail route Now the fact was that Dor cy had in his possession a peculiar kind of rifle and Belford saw it and wanted oneand Dorsey prccured one for him and in payment drew B check for 29 That check was for tho rifle and was marked on the stub against J B B that was the only transaction trans-action between them Of course Belford did not know anything of that check for it was not given to him but to the person per-son from whom the rifle was purchased Ingersoll desired he said to go into the memorandum to show that it was made entirely by witness that he used a pen ill because it wits easier to imitate I handwriting and that to show I that no payments such as had been sworn to by witnesies bed ever been made to Belford Tyner or Turner He wanted to show that they could not have been made by Dorney These statements of witness had been put in the nseoci iled press dispatches and read by millions mil-lions of people He thought it only fair that he be allowed to probe the matter to the bottom and put witnesses on tho stand to tell the truth Merrick said if ho defense wishd to vindicate these gentlemen gen-tlemen they should produce the books |