Show NELSON ON TNE sji Testified Yesterday in Disbarment Dis-barment Proceedings I J I IE WANTED TO GET EVEN Tho Man With Whom tho Famous Contract Was Made by Evans nnd Rogers Said Ho Felt Bovongeful Against tho Attorneys When They Refused to Pay Him He Admitted that the Drift of Their Conversation Conversa-tion Was that Ho Hud Not Fulfilled Ful-filled His Contract The taking of testimony In the din larmpnt proceedings against Attorneys Lindsay Rogers and David Evans was continued before Special Master D TT Jwomey In tho Federal courtroom est es-t afternoon Thomas Nelson oC Reno Nev a brother of Charles Nelson Nel-son tho man who was killed wag tho only witness examined during the afternoon after-noon his evidence consuming almost three hours Thomas Nelson IB the man with whom the alleged champertous contract was made Ills testimony I brought l out little that way new In the I eLise but a very Interesting and amusing amus-ing time was had with him P L ni lama was not present during the examination exam-ination The direct examination was conducted by W A Lee of the prosecution prosecu-tion Nplson said among oilier things Uiat the widow had received 3000 Insurance In-surance on the life of her husband the policy having been paid wIthin a couple of months after his death and that she was not consequently In needy circumstances circum-stances at the time the trial was begun The widow he said was not able to give any testimony of value In the case but MI Evans Insisted on having her brought Io each of the trials claiming I that it would haVo a good effect with the Jury LIVELY CROSSEXAMINATION The crossexamination of tho witness by Judge Powers was quite torrid In Its nature and several protests were reg istered by the witness Nelson persisted per-sisted in volunteering testimony and had to be called down several times for doing so by Judge Twomey The fact that Judge Twomey has no power to rule out any testimony gave the examination exam-ination a very wide range and caused It lo be prolonged Judge Twomey tried 10 get the attorneys to move along faster once or twice but did not have much luck at It Nelson on crof3ex nmlnation showed plainly that he did not have any great amount of love for Messrs Evans and Rogers He said his purpose carrying his case to the Supreme court was to show up Evans and Roger He was unable to say definitely whether himself or Mr Williams had suggested the disbarment proceedings Nelson admitted that he had been the business partner of his brother the deceased and stated that no settlement oC their affairs had ever been had 5 hadWITNESS WITNESS WAS WARM After some further direct examination examina-tion by Mr Lee the witness was taken In hand by Judge Dey and a hot time resulted Nelson at times refused to answer some of the questions until requested re-quested to do so by Judge Twomey Let time Judge ask me a civil question and Ill answer it he said once and tliS < attorneys for the defence with one voice demanded that this go into the record What satisfaction did you expect by putting Mr Evans and Mr Rogers on record Judge Dey asked Oh I dont know what you might call It Nelson replied You might call it v revenge Yes revenge or blackmailing said Judge Day I did not say blackmailing responded re-sponded the witness Wouldnt you call it that No thats what you called It Nelson Nel-son then said It might be called a desire to get even Whal satisfaction was It to you to have Evans and Rogers put on record Spit It out said Judge Dey I wanted other men to know I wanted the records rec-ords of the Supreme court of this State to show what kind of men they were I wanted It known that they had made an illegal contract with me one that they knew I could not collect on They ought lo have known it was illegal They re both good lawyers TALK ABOUT PAYMENT Nelson then Bald that he had spoken to Mr Evans about payment and Mr Evans told him to call again when he could see Mr Rogers about it Nelson said ho called the following day and saw them both and Rogers said he would not pay the contract Nelson then said that he left at once as he could take a hint and did not need to have a brick house fall on him He said he had not consulted Mr Williams prior to that time Asked If there had not been further conversation at the time he said he caught the drift of their conversation and did not wait but a minute The drift of their conversation was he said that he had not fulfilled his contiacr This was evidently tIm statement the defense was trying to get out of him for with expressions oC satisfaction they all straightened up and asked no further questions In response re-sponse lo further questions by Mr Lee Nelson said that at the time h called at the ofllcc otf Evans Rogers all he wanted was his money but when that was refused he wanted them put on record The examination will be re aumed this morning at 930 It Is expected ex-pected that Albeit Nelson another brother will have arrived Irma Wlnnemuccn Nov by that lime and h vIll be examined It Is believed the taking of testimony will be concluded today |