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Show "ACID TEST" APPLIED T0TJLEJF1TISS Remarkable Story Told by John B. Swinney in Kimmcl Insurance Case, ST. LOUIS, Dec. 22. Attorneys for tho New York Lifo Insurance company thin afternoon applied the "add tost" lo one of tho details Jn the remarkablo story of John B. Swinney, by whose testimony other attorneys are trying lo show that Georgo A. Klniinel. the famous Nlles. Mlc... "man of mystery" was murdered in nn Oregon forosl while on a search for buried gold. In August. 1S9S. Swinney, a rancher of Nanivisa. N. M.. who says ho killed the man who killed Kimmcl. told in Ills deposition on cross-examination cross-examination how ho and his comrades dug up two half gallon glass fruit jars, one containing ninety-six and tho other 101 S20 gold pieces, a. total of 51000. 12ach of the jars, ho said, was a little more than half full nnd he supposed iwo Jara were used becauso one would noi quite hold Ihc whole. John F. Green, one of the Insurance company's lawyers, took cluse note on this part of tho testimony and then wont to a bank, stopping on his way to buy a half gallon glnss fruit Jar. Mc look the Jar Into the bank and 200 .shining double eagles were brought In by a clerk. At Green's request the clerk emptied the coins Into the jar. They filled it hardly one-third full. Green then returned to the deposition taking, and told his colleagues of tho result of his test. Swinney lold of a pact of silence between be-tween himself and the lale R. M. Snyder of Kansas City, to keep the circumstances of Klnirnel's death a secret. Snyder, he said, agreed to l?ll no one of the hunt for gold, in which they, Kimmcl Kim-mcl and .1. A. Johnson engaged, of tho murder of Kimmcl by Johnson, and the slaving of Johnson by Swinney. A son of the late R. M. Snyder has written to lawyers that bis father was in New York at the lime Swinney says the killing occurred. |