Show THE TRIBUNE LIBEL SUIT there have juet been filed with clerk Ib mcmillan Millan of the third district court depositions taken in chicago before alxander alexander F steven sn km in support of the good character nd standing in his profession as aa an 94 torney tt oraey of mr besne B barton the plaintiff in the pending libel suit at n t the salt bait lake co an sosea k en in the order in which the they y the file the first deponent is axmear ar 01 on n blott Anthony ludge Judge of the superior court of chicago who states that he diw ate been well acquainted with mr barton for the past fifteen years when lm irvint ant became acqua acquainted with him plaintiff was a clerk in the law department t of chicago deponent was wa atthe at the time corporation counsel he had bad since known mr barton as a practicing lawyer at the chicago bar his character was first class clan As ac a private citizen his reputation for foi honesty and integrity had bad never to his hia knowledge been questioned by any one ife he had always regarded him as a most exemplary man his hie professional reputation in chicago and tho State of illinois was first class and he never knew a more care careful fid painstaking man in the discharge of his duties benjamin D magruder J judge adge of the supreme court of the state of illinois tates states that be knew mr barton for for several years prior to 1886 1885 at which time deponent went anthe on the bench and he did not remember to have seen him since then at the time referred to mr barton stood well in the community he had never heard anything against his character he knew of no BO man in the legal profession whose character stood better thomas A moran judge of the appellate court of the first district of illinois has known mr barton for at least ten years and says he always a ways understood his character to be without question first class he had never heard a word breathed against him neither as an attorney nor as a private individual detective john bonfield of chicago deposes that he has known mr barton for upwards of twenty years for about thirteen of these he had bad been practicing as a lawyer in chicago when deponent went to salt lake in january 1890 in connection with the city municipal election he employed quite a number of men to ascertain what tte the 14 liberals were doing in the way of frauds he established an office there in which mr barton made his headquarters daily in cross interrogatories batore the commissioner mr bonfield said that in the election referred to he himself was employed by the peoples party which had no connection with the mormon church so far as an he knew he was not employed by the members of that church but by the executive committee commit teeg he be believed of the peopled party mr barton was employed by him at his own instance but not as a detective lyman Tru cabell a prominent lawyer of chicago has known mr barton eight or ten years he says he is a gentleman of excellent reputation and has never herd anything di disparaging dg spoken of him judge murray F tuley of the circuit court cook county ills states that as a resident oi chicago he has known mr barton since 1878 or 1879 he was an active practitioner in de ponente ils court ilio his reputation up to the time he left chicago about two ye years ro ago was that of a man of high integrity great professional ability and so far as he knew morally his character was without a blemish |