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Show THE IIASK1NS PERJURY CASTS. liefore McKe;ui, C. J., iu ehnmheis. Wednesday, Juno 17. I'honms Duvis, survcyov nd onpi-neer, onpi-neer, sworn for Ihc pivscrtilion. it-ue.-s tcatifunl (lint w Imd tlotie surveying sur-veying for Mr. llnskiiis-, but received orders to do the aimo from olher pur-ties; pur-ties; J)r. CoiiKiir Imd funiislietl witness wit-ness with maps f the LiM. Chiiuce, HiuwAthn ''1' eronte.iiina mines, which he, witness, had copied on a Inrgo scale; at. I ho request, of Dr. Cougar, who told witness the position of tlie Client Kastern and tireat Western West-ern claims, lie put them on the maps; had never had a, conversation with la.-ikiiis, and when talking with Cougar, Cou-gar, Kaskins' name was never inei!-tionctl; inei!-tionctl; Cougar told witness, that the maps were made to protect his rights, and to prevent others from obtaining patents for his ground. J. G. Crocker testified (hat in tlie spring of 1871 Uaskins told him to find James W':l and take him to the Townsend House, which he did; Mas-kins Mas-kins told Wall that he desired that he, Wall, should make a, copy of Mountain Lake mining district records; rec-ords; Wall agreed to make n copy; witness heard nothing about changing tho record , but tl icre wits talk of changing something and he thought it wad tho record; Wall refusal (o comply with llaskin's request to sign ii paper, and the latter asked him if money would induce him to sign it; had never talked with Uaskins in regard re-gard to nioncv. trass-examined 11 is teehngs towards to-wards Uaskins were not favorable to that gentleman: at the time of the conversation alluded to Wall had the records in his possession; heard Uaskins tell Wall that if he would keep sober he would assist him to make money; the statement that Haskins asked Wall to sign, was drawn up hy the former; didn't know to what it referred. James Wall, former recorder of Mountain Lake district, was sworn. He. looked at the record of the location loca-tion notice of the tireat Kastcrn, and thought the words "One-fourth mile" originally read "two miles;" he had made a copy of the record for I las-kins, las-kins, which ho and Dalton compared; at an interview with Haskins that gentleman asked him to sign a statement state-ment which was incorrect, but it did not refer to the record; had never had a conversation with Haskins aKnit changing the reconl; Haskins had never o tlcm.1 hini money lor signing anything, but made him some Mattering Matter-ing ol lei's of assistance, provided he, witness, would assist in defeating Haskins' opponents; witness never knew where the Great Kastcrn was except as appeared from the location notice; did not know any of tlie locators lo-cators of the claim except Dr. Con-yer: Con-yer: he had been over the ground, and In lSGd saw some prospect holes there; if ore had been taken from the claim he would have known it; had riven the vornnl to thr mioitc r- eorgarat the request of Uaskins, who did not think it was safe in witness' possession; some leaves had been ali-straeted ali-straeted Itoiu the record before Haskins Has-kins came to tlie country; Haskins had requested him to make a correct copy of the record; Dr. Cougar reduced re-duced about 2.IMK.1 pounds of bullion in ltW. Colonel K. A. Wall was re- called, but his testimony was , a Unit the same as given by him on his former examination. The prosecution then elated their side of the ca.se. Mr. F. M. Smith, for the defendant, defend-ant, then moved the Court to discharge dis-charge Mr. Haskins, on the ground that the prosecution had failed lo introduce in-troduce any evidence to sit-tain the charge. He made a lengthy argument argu-ment in support of the motion, at the close of which Mr. liaskin anise to reply, but the Judge said that be would like to hear the evidence for the defense; he had commenced the investigation, in-vestigation, and would go through with it. F. M. Smith was then sworn, and made a statement almut as follows: In June. 171, -as attorney for J las-kins, las-kins, he drew up a contract for the purchase of seventeen claim-' ! in Little Cottonwood, among which ' were the Great Kastcrn and Great Western ; had seen the original records rec-ords but once, which was in June, '71; James Wall was frequently in his oliice, and was employed hy Haskins to copy the record, which Haskins Wits (articular nWuit having copied correct! v ; that copy was sent to Val-lejo Val-lejo ; wiien witness commenced to file the protests against Col. Wall's application appli-cation for patents, he got Fabian lo make another copy of tlie reconl, which witness always kept in liLsoIlice; defeudanthad never handled thateopy; tlie diagrams which Gillespie testified testi-fied that he made, were made by Dr. Cougar, and Gillespie only made copies of them; Haskins had always requested that he, witness, would be particular aUmt making the protests correct; Gillespie was eniploved bv .Smith, and nut by Haskins; the defendant de-fendant was angry when Gillespie was employed, because he was a. drinking . man; witness had not noticed an alteration al-teration of thi record until Haskins told him uf it; Haskins was much chagrined at the occurrence; witness gathered from the defendant that he suspicioned Fabian of making the ul-, ul-, teration. ! Haskins had always cautioned wit-; wit-; ncss to be accurate in copying the reeui'ds, and had relied on him wholly in making out the protests. Ji. F. Dalton was sworn, but he knew nothing of the tireat Kastcrn execptwhat he bad been told, ite had assisted Fabian to make a copy of the reconl, and he believed that copy to bo correct; was acquainted with Haskins' writing, and the alteration in the record was not in defendant's hand-writing ; The further testimony of this witness was principally as to the making of the diagrams and maps, and was the same as that of Smith. K. ). Woo I ley was recalled anil repeated re-peated his former evidence in regard to the reconl. George 1'ierson had been acquainted acquaint-ed with Little Cottonwool mining for three years: snow-slides and waterspouts water-spouts sometimes Idled up shafts and cuts; witness had a shaft from which he had taken out seventy-live tons of ore, completely filled with dirt and rocks by a snow-slide. The examination adjournal to Thursday, at 11 o'clock. |