| Show POINT GAINED FOR DEFENSE Affidavit Admitted in Evidence in the Nebraska Land Fraud Trial WITNESS IN BAD POSITION CLEAR CASE OF PERJURY MADE MADEI I OUT 1 I Ir r Omaha Neb eb Dee Dec Ani of f session lon of or the tho mst ck I Iland land fraud trial in the United States dis district IS i court was the attempt by the of offense o I to discredit a government witness I Iby by introducing during his an affidavit signed by him which contradicted the testimony he had just given The witness was William H Campbell of Missouri Valley Ia la laIn Ian IaIn In n his general testimony the witness I told practically the same story that has i been repeated by all the soldiers who bad been solicited to 10 file on the lands by bythe bythe y the Hulls at the Iowa end of the land and nd Huntington Comstock at the Gordon end cud d of ot the line The same general pro procedure procedure procedure of ot making a visit to the lands lauds ex cx expense expense pense pere free Ire fre and allowing fees paid for forby fo foby forby by Huntington or Hoyt were gone sane over into some gome detail Admitted the Affidavit During the the wit wi witness witness ness floss was asked to Identify an affidavit as his own in which he declared that he ho did enter the land in good faith and with the intention of living JIving on It ft Mr Campbell signing the affidavit but said saidI I i wish to explain this affidavit by b saying that I did not take up the land in good faith that is with the intention cf cI living on it The affidavit was wa written with a type typewriter writer and Mr Campbell said The affidavit was presented to me al already already ready written I did not read it before signing it The paper was brought to me mc meby meby by a young oung man at Missouri Valley 1 I Ido do not know his name The attorneys for the government made ma strenuous objections to the admission of the affidavit as evidence but the th court overruled them and let the affidavit go goin l goin J JIn in inThe The affidavit further stated that th thO affiant never newer saw Tom rom Huntington Hunington to talK to During the of the fol loT following following lowing witnesses the defense tried to in introduce Introduce Introduce affidavits similar to the one made by Campbell but the governments attorneys attorn attorneys n succeeded in keeping all but hut the th Campbell affidavit out of the testimony |
