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Show FIERY CLASHES MARK MASONIC CASE PROGRESS ; Thomson Is Given Grilling on Stand Under Searching Search-ing Cross Examination by Prosecutor for U. S. Cross examination of Mntthpw Mr-I Mr-I Wain Thomson, grand president of the American Masonic federation, resulted I In frequent clashes today In the I'nlt- cd rUulra district court, where Thorn 1 aon, Thomas IVrrot, pomlnlc Bergera I and Hun-rt Jumleson are on trial for alleged fraudulent use of the mails. Negoi iMions with the supreme council coun-cil of IvouWUna, Thom Bona derivation 1 of hla authority, hla alleged personal i pain from 'no business of the federa i tln and ihe hlatory of hla connection j with King- tViomon lodge of Idaho were. nnhlngly tnquln-d Into hy Kpe-; Kpe-; cimI I'ronocutor John Jensen. The witness, gray, and with one eye bandaged, took fntiucni offne Ht the qucxtlon of the prosecutor and -er sist.d In answering or making denials over tha ol.Jevtton of hla rounal. I lcfernce to Thnmion'i "under- ground" diiya In Idaho and the direct ; Interrogation. "Is It nut true that you i were then employed aa a spy" and were yru not at on time "burned In i effigy?" brought forth a atorm of pro- teat from the wltneaa. M. K. Wilson for the defense, complained at bi (Continued on page I.) RERYCLASHES (Continued from 1 point of what he termed improper cn-durt cn-durt on the part of the proiocut ton. I Thomtn disclaimed Hny k rutin ledge of the financial uffalrs of the federation. federa-tion. He mild he did nut know whirr the funds wrf kept. " the rcHMiHi you can't tell whrrn the fund Wf re kept. th.it you got thm yours If .'" thundered th prone rutor. IN OTHER HANDS. "It was not." the witness replied iind on being urged to lell the lury vhy hi-, could not fcrivi u piatcm-til as to iher financial affairs of his organiratinn , explained ihal tint wan entirely in the! hand of the Pfrn-inrv iind treasurer! nnrl I hut hi was puiely an a dnnn i-1 .1 1 tiv officer. On tifinf nkfd r---arl.rn; lutnk nr. ( roiintn of thf ordr. Thommm. who w , hHng pri'MHfd to ajiv dt-finlti- d.itrH, fliiHlly rrpllfd ttiut h" kinw of no m --oufit k'-pt b'f'ir I'M! nfhf.- th.in tlisit In th I'lah Stiitf National hank, that hf didn't know :tp.rimhit;M' lv, mid Ihnt h tlldn't know 'to hU hint ri-r.!ii.r-tittn." Th-n I'rorittor .Ifn-jm dirtTtcd htt ronntn. rritvlnir th annwr that ' Thomson had had on. ucniunt inct J 1 1 '.V ! " Vf mi hay initl" from $WtO to $:ii'K i n month tn tht ln-t nix years'" Thf1 wUhphh r plied with an i mpl: it Ir no J "How mm h have you made?' thr- rext nuentlon. ! "That n norm of your 1hiI?i."oi " I Finally, howfvir. Thomnii paid that I h had f-arnfil an ayoraK-' of $:'0ft to f J f 0 a monih. mim monthn hut t' i'tid ; $Ht. a h worked on a ronimlp?tlon bnn!a. Other ipiiTle alonn ttim line n-- t ferre1 to tho wltni't- montlily 4iik lm lance and hi on-iipittlonx. SIGNATURE QUESTIONED. Thomson repeatedly affirmed that he had never claimed a rh.irtrr fnnu the 1 a'lprem. r-ouru'd of 1 ,oti imli nn The n' -testation of the mdnrHaimn on Tlmm-miM Tlmm-miM pitent from He'diand by Ctoij."' I. Maury of the Louisiana Uody was, Hked hern line mime do.;.t l.a.l ItetMi encountered that Ihe Pivniture of Jo- i peph N. Cherl. hy whnm till' p'Tinit t' him to work new territory ua Krnnted, ' wan genuine. Uettera from t he drf-ndant I'ermt. dif4(uHsina; the takhm oer of I'otnr Htar lodRe hy adding; nv-niiM-rn of the A. M. K. to the faw original int'niher. ; were read hy Jenaen. The witnenH stated that he had nevi r-Httempt.-d to take ov r the xnpremn emmeil of Itii.-iHna. 'iMTiniKe In- knew his own authority wan iVft-ctive and he d'-slted additional Ktrenth " A let-ter let-ter hy Pen ot recnrdinc a plan to muke the Louisiana hoily a part of the federation was not direct ed by Thorn- p'ni, whc. :iid. however, that he thought the plan a good one. of fern t " m:ikf Maury a ml t 'lurl hiiih offK-'T- In the fed- ration w.-ie ilaimed In the rorrenoni!.-nf.' ;n!rn-dtif-ed hy the pronerut imi and in- v t -nepn wan Hsket whether th-" tltii'' wre not mmllar in ahie t.i hu own. An objection by Attorney Wilson wax auntained. At this point t he controversy contro-versy between Jensen ; n I the wttnex roue to ItM height, Thommm declaring that "iinleHa the quextlona are linked properly. I won't answer." Jinlge Martin Mar-tin J. Wade, presiding, cautioned tlie witnen and also the prosecutor. The J witness admitteil th.tt he threatened P i break off relation with the fopri ine round of Louisiana iiiile.-n his author-J author-J :tv wer- n i-o'.'tii,. d FRENCH LODGE. ' "l ud on t-vr l i.bliJ-h 'ha t'i sti pn-nie council of Louisiana was a ire- i !e or w negro Inn: .'" Thorns' m was ; a-ke.i Hi i pi ltd that h" n.Vff eon-, eon-, ;.'. T' d it iieo NM.-iry. He i.t'Vcr lo!d . j Cavitt, a prosfi nt ion witne. that lit was a i'cik i lodge, lie dt-tiaiol. ad'lim; with oim- auger thai we would like to tell what he did J-'ay to ('avltt. Never In bin life did he say that he claimed no authority from thei Fsouisian.i order for craft degrees, Thomson stated. " Aft.-r the Louisiana lodge'a refusal to sign iin extension of your patent or 'agree to n merger or the taking over of the Polar Star, didn't you decide tn fmni an iMi-rnaiion tl Mammlc feii ra t urn at Zurich. S ilzerland '.-- "You're ad wrong." tin wltmss in -formed the proc ciitnr. The ipu-mion of the m-n-'e of authority cl.unied hy or exercised by the ( ira nd I'onncil of K;tert of Scot land was t he JUibJeet of i much Interntg.iMon. Thomson declared de-clared that he hid not naid his patent from the council had nothing to do wit h craft degrees. I hough t hat was true in Scotland. At this Juncture the witncMw remarked that he was bewildered be-wildered hy the rapid change In the discusHinji from Scotland to America and return ami the procen of cron examination was Interrupted by sharp interchange between Thomson and the prosecutor. In conned ion with his patent a tetter tet-ter to Maury was introduced. reo,uet-iiu' reo,uet-iiu' Maury lo isHue a nia lement or certificate that be hail seen Thorn -nn'fi docuni 'iii Thomson denied that lie had kept the patent closely guarded guard-ed heiMus it did not Indicate au-thorit au-thorit . but stated his object was to preserve the document, which was precious to him. lie desired to use a certificate from laurv In order to save it from wear and t-nr, he nald. SMILED A BIT. At the beginning of cios examlnn-'ion examlnn-'ion Tiiomsoti ml!ed a bit when nkt'd i lie was the "highent living Mason." saving that he had made no such extended claim. The common law of Masonry a. so termed was not know n to hi in. he waid, and he hMd first heard the .expression in the courtroom, lie wan aked to look at a chapter on the common law of l'Yccmasotiry by Iean Itoscoe Pound of Hie Harvard law school, nd in roHpiuise to various interrogations declared de-clared that he had never heard of the book, of the chapter on the Masonic common law, of Pound or of the Harvard law school. lifeiise "oi,tiel Wilson concluded his direct examination carlv in the session. Thomson reaffirmed his authority au-thority as coming through the t Irand Council of Kites of Scotland by Indorsation In-dorsation of the supreme council of Louisiana. The decision referred to by Cavil I in which the defendant .Tamlesnn Is alleged to have been branded as nn Impostor, had nothing to do wlih Thomson's authority under Ihe Orsnd Council of Pltcs. he declmetl. Wilson's Wil-son's questions brought out a statement state-ment that t lie witness bad ta!kc! with Cnvlti. but he absolutely did r.oi lake Cavltl's Masonic oath to keep t he court decision under cover, although, al-though, he said, he might have advised ad-vised hlia not to create a controversy contro-versy nr extended discussion through the clipping froMi the r;;acnw Herald shown tn evidence. He had seen the decision before the witness Ftat.d the day of the decision, in fact and it wa a matter related entirely to f lie Knights Templar lindy in Krof'and Thomson's diploma as grand iruulrr of the fr and Jodge of Kumanla. a ' the merii of their respective lodge I becHuse Thomson was a .Mormon, was 1 ordered stricken from the record. I Hft-gern related details of visit a to I lodgea in Scotland. Kftgland and Pritnee. In then lodges, ha said, he was admitted after pacing the usual examinations and found the practice lo conform clonety to that of the American federation. roll of paten;s granted him by foreign lowers and his doemit from the King' S .lomon lodge of Idaho were offered In evidence b the dcf-nnv DEFENSE OPENS. The defence opened Its presentat Ion of evidence yen ter da v with the tetl-monve tetl-monve of Thomson and Itergera. Hoth ; affirmed their belief In t he principle, of Ihe federation they represent, and I' claims to recognixed Masonic origin. I'ii'-mKon testified that he look his fli Pt MriNonlc degree in Scotland in " : I leirreen hdd by the w linen ben he rmoyed to the I'nited States r 1-i'ed as those to Ihe thirty -third in the , ef Jen md Accepted Hlte. to f' v'v emnd In tlie Karly Irand ".-rMi-h I!:tM, to the n:ne(b-th In the -tie T lisri,.lii ind la' 11 : net v - f if t h In the li: ' .Mem;, )tl; became a r.iimi'ct- of K'l'tg Sojomen lodge f NTonttet or, ': . he s'ateil. and when difficulty nifti" thTo over degrees h" h'd Tal'en f-o;n iV flrind Council of j T; 'tee r :-'cc" .nd I't'd over r t 1 1 i'm''i t k tv Vont r - M iwiii that "Mormons i v-fi iv'iihi 'r e .I;'".n." he took l's J d" i. ' f f ni 1 ': t 'o.'te -nd beg 'in h j fot-'T'.n ! 'oi t t w?vit l."-.imf the Artier- ! ',' n t !r f r(e-n t Inn. j Tnrimoii ti-(!f'1'l "vif be had nu-jtlorpy nu-jtlorpy to enfrr from the if itrth o the t ' v -ond undc jr.-'tenf fmni the 'tj-.tnl Council tf I Ris of tVot'- nd. Th' bo.1v. n wild. ' descen 1"1 frn-.i "tie eh.ch h id con-j con-j (erred, hlrber degre t i i S- otiund I f i om '"f" in the et'it- i: it i"ii'nrv. I It pntb..sj V'-an-'o- '! ih" rids. the witnesn mid. whrh iv-re fol'owf-d 1 In the I'nited Htnt -s bv the supreme ! council of T.oiilnl ina only. I TRACES POWERS. The American federation !s in amltv jwlth many organizations throughout i the world. Thomson said. In describing the process of it formation. His . power lo confer degree he traced to the ituprcme council of Ioulslann. I which, be s.ttd. derived its powers ' fnm Krapce. t h Krene'i hodv h'tvina ' bren grnrd a chirler by the Karl j of Kilnnrnock, who t I rlMmd i was grand master of the. grand lodge of Scot lend and of Mother Kilwinning lodge. No. 0. rganl7"erH for the federal !on. the witneiiM alaied. were ordered t ex- plain that there wns another .Masonic body, which did not recognize it, in the. t'nited Btaten. - Tesllmnnv by Merge ra to the effe-t j that the In te Christopher Plehl. for-' for-' mer grand eeeretary of the grand ' lodge of I'tah. hud refused to enter a debate with Thomson nt Helper on |