| Show AH ELECTION ECHO Bartons Deposition l His Suit Against the Tribune THE KID OF MAN HE REALLY IS Eminent Chen Speak Highly of Him A Bit of Past Campaign Iliatory From Bonefleld The depositions for the plaintiff the big libel suit of Jesso B Barton vs the Tribune Publishing company in which Mr Barton sues to recover heavy damages for libels published in the Tribune in the last city campaign arrived here from Chicago yesterday They are very interesting not only because ot Mr Bartons connection connecton with the campaign but because they show the character oftjtho man who was for weeks the subject of the most violent attacks at-tacks in the Tribune The depositions are substantially as follows TESTIMONY OF A SUPERIOR JUDOE Elliot Anthony in answer to interrogo tories stated My age is sixtyfour and my present occupation is that of judie of the supreme court of Chicago Coon county coun-ty Illinois I am well acquainted with the plaintiff and have been acquainted with him for about fifteen years When I first became acquainted with him he was a clerk in the law department of Chicago when I was corporation counsel Since that time have been acquainted with him as a practicing lawyer at the Chicago bar His character was first class as a probate lawyer and his reputation for honesty and integrity was never to my knowledge questioned by anyone on any occasion 1 will state further that I have always regarded him as a most extraordinary man and the professional character of Mr Barton in the city of Chicago was firstclass and I never knew a more careful painstaking man in the discharge of his duties as an attorney at-torney I have had occasion to know how I he transacted his business in court and how he performed his duties how he prepared pre-pared his papers and how he prepared his cases and I think in all cases he exhibited commendable diligence and care His standing and reputation as an attorney and counsellor at law was and is firstclass To my knowledge he resided in the city ol Chicago from 1S7G to within a period of a few years last past I dont recollect when I he left the city and became a resident of Salt Lake 1 was associated with him to this extent that he was I clerk in the law department circle I was at the head of it as corporation counsel coun-sel in 1S70 He was pretty universally known to the greater portion of the mem bers of the Chicago bar and to the judges on the bench 1 would mention to my knowledge his acquaintance with Francis Adams one of the judges of the circuit court Judge Magruder of the suprem court Judge 1 F Tuley Judge Joseph E Gary Judge Gnnnell Judge Suthell Morroe Heath oxMayor Jon A Far well excomptroller and very many members mem-bers of the Chicago bar I never heard Mr Bartons character called in question or discussed in my presence He was frequently fre-quently In my court with regard to cases and has conducted cases in my court bu as to my giving the title of tho san or their character I am I unable to do so I recollect one importan case however which came before me where he was engaged That was an important im-portant case involving the question as P i whether where a contract provided for the payment of certain amounts noncompliance noncom-pliance therewith should be regarded as a penalty or liquidated damages BENJAMIN D JIAGUTJDOK deposed I am 53 years of ago and jug e of the supreme court of Illinois I knew Mr Barton several years prior to ISbS a t which time I went on the bench I do not remember to have seen him since I d 0 not recollect just when I first became acquainted ac-quainted with him He had some busines I before me when 1 was master of chancery 7 of the superior court of Coo I county before November lSS i At the time I know Mr Barton he stoo dwell I d-well as a member of the community I I never heard anything against his iras ir-as a private individual and so far as I 11 know the character which he now bears in i 1 the city of Chicago is good I know of no j 1 man in the profession whose character I stood rood better I regard his character as The answers to the crossinterrogation brought out nothing new Thomas A Moran deposed I am 5 1 years of age reside at Chicago and ax nudge n-udge j of the appellate court o the firs it district of Illinois I have known Jesse B Barton for at least ten years I always understood his character to be first ClUBS without question I never heard an thing against him 1 knew him as a lawyer thing his professional standing ana reputation asa as-a lawyer wero good I associated with him as judges and lawyers do associate in i conducting business I never heard his character or reputation as a private indivi i dual questioned As a lawyer he stoc dwell d-well at the bar I know of his being employed em-ployed in Chicago in cases of average importance im-portance He has tried cases before mo that involved questions of average importance import-ance BONEFIELDS STATEMENT John Bonefield deposed I am fiftysix years of age reside in Chicago and am in the detective business I have known Jesse B Barton for twenty odd years He had been a lawyer practicing his profession in Chicago for about thirteen years I think He was employed by ino from early in November 1SS7 to about February 10 1SOO Ho was under no contract in writ inc with me In September of ItsSJ 1 think it was I was approached by a businessman business-man in this city who had business connected con-nected with people in Utah and who desired de-sired him to engage me to send some men out there or go myself to discover and mysel prevent pre-vent if possible anticipated frauds in the approaching election In conversation with him 1 found he know but little about the lay of things there and I told him it would be necessary for me to go down and look the ground over but that it was impossible for me to stay there entirely myself and that in my opinion a man ought to be placed out there who was a lawyer and well verseu In the law one in whom he could depend and who could decide on the legal points that might arise and advise on them I told him that I had in my minds such a man who eye was a Democrat a reputable practicing attorney and who was I thought desirous of changing i he could get a hold in some solid place outside out-side of Chicago where his services would be appreciated Ho thought it was a good idea ana said the Mormon people out there had to depend on the Gentile but in their church matters in litigation he thought if such a man as I described would go there and act honorably by those people there would be a good opening I sent word to Mr I Barton and shortly afterwards he came toy m to-y office and I explained the matter tom h to-m I told him I thought it would be a good opening with his knowledge of the law and acquaintance with Chicago politics hp c could make himself valuable to those eople In Utah and that I needed some one we ell versed in the law to look after that end of itto look after my interests I told him that I was to go out there in a few days and look the ground over and if the s tuatiun was as I anticipated if ha saw fit to o go out there and accept it under those o onditions I would like to have him I wi say right hero that it was not to do any detective work t at he was e mployed but simply and solely as an at oruoy Shortly after this conversation I s tarttia for Salt Lake and stayed there a week or ten days During that time I had nterviews with people connected with the c ommittee of the Peoples party and explained ex-plained the situation to them I told them I thought it would be advisable on their part and necessity on mine to have somebOdy some-bOdy go there who was a good lawyer and I a man to bo trusted They agreed to thefi alter and I then telegraphed to Mr Baron t Bar-on to come if he was willing or if ho thought the situation was about as I had xplained to him I stayed in Utah u ntil Mr Barton came and met him in Og den and accompanied him to Salt Lake where I introduced him to at least two if not more members of the campaign committee com-mittee We talked the situation over ana i n a day or two after Ileft about Jan anl S90 or shortly after I went to Salt Lake and staid there until the 10th or 15th of February I was in daily communication vith Mr Barton I might state that during dur-ing l tho tiine from November 5 until the early part of January the detectives who were in my employ reported to the Central committee With those reports Mr Baron Bar-on was familiar and he wrote me and kept me posted on the work that was going on while almost daily he consulted with the members of the central committee of the Peoples party After went there in the early part of January IbJO I employed quite a number of men there to ascertain what the other people ware doing in the way of frauds 1 established an oftlce which Mr Barton made his headquarters daily He was there continuously Reports came in there affidavits were made and submitted and he passed on these and continued to do so up to the time I left In answer to cross inrtorogatories Mr Bpnelleld said Jesse B Bartons present wife was tho widow of my urother I was employed by the Peoples party which had no connection with the Mormon church so far as I know I was employed there not by the socalled Mormon church but by the executive committee I think of the Peoples party Mr Barton was employed ployed by me in the early part of November torney Novem-ber > IRS not as a detective but as an at i LTMAXJTKUMBULIi deposed I am seventyseven years of age a lawyer and reside in Cbicaco I have known Jesse B Barton for eight or ten years He is a nentleinan of excellent reputation rep-utation and character so far as I ever knew or heard His reputation as a lawyer was good He lived across the street opposite to my residence for several years I 1 iiever knew anything disparaging to him Las L-as a man or to his character as an attorney attor-ney I have associated with him Our families visited each other He was well L known in Chicago and to give the names of all the persons with whom we were mutu ally acquainted would simply consist of along a-long list of names He was well known to I all persons In the neighoorhood where ho I lived to the bar of Chicaco which consists of more than two thousand members and ito i-to many other persons I never heard his I reputation or character discussed I know he was esteemed and respected by his neighbors I have understood that he was at one time empl yed in obtaining the right of way for some of the roads entering Chicago matters invo ving large interests MURRAY F TULET deposed I am sixtyfour years of age and judge of the circuit court of Cook county Illinois I have been acquainted with Mr Barton since iSiS or 1879 I know the character of Jesse B Barton in the city His reputation up to the time he left Chi caRO was that of a man of high integrity great professional ability and so far as i know his reputation for morality was without a blemish He was one of the foremost members of the Chicago bar at the time I become judge in 1879 until he left for a man of his age He had considerable con-siderable practice in my court and my inlormation as to his legal ability arises from that source and from my knowledge of him as assistant corporation corpor-ation counsel for the year 1673 1 associated with him as an attorney in various ways We knew each other socially but with no particularly close social relations I had known his wife for several years prior to 1 becoming acquainted with him and know I that she belonged to one of the iirst families I fam-ilies in Chicago I knew her first husband I who was at one time corporation counsel of Chicago and a man of high standing Mr Barton belonged to the Iroquois club asocial a-social Democratic organization and was highly rosLOcted by all of its members Amonsr others I have heard J K Boyeson W C Goudy A W Green Frank Walker and Judge Francis Adams speak of him in j highly commendatory terms as a lawyer and a gentleman 1 never heard his reputation repu-tation for integrity or morality questioned I He was assistant attorney to the board of South Park commissioners and in what is known as the Phillips case in court be took some part for the South Park commissioners commission-ers I recollect an important railroad question in which he figured but cannot remember the title of the case Also a condemnation case in which a question arose uetween me villages of Hyde Park and the railroad company as to the right of the company to lay a track on a street near the South Park waterworks i I which was I case of considerable importance i import-ance I can simply say that he has appeared in more than half a dozen matters I or cases of importance in which some of tie best counsel in Chicago were arrayed against and with him I |
