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Show LIFE IISIffiMCE OFFICERS APPLY THE "CID TEST" 4-4 4. 4. ST. LOUIS, Dec. 22. Attor- neys for the New York Life T Jns'.'fance company applied tho acid test" this afternoon to ono of the details In the re- f markable story of John B- Swinney, by whoso testimonv -f t- other attorneys are trying td J- show that George A. Klmmel, t- the famous Nllos, Mich., "man of mystery," was murdered in -f an Oregon forest .while on a search for burled gold in 1S9S. Swinney, a ranchor of Naravlsa, X M who says he killed the man who killed Kimmcl, told in his deposition on cross-examination, how ho and his comrades dug up two half-gallon glass fruit Jais, one containing 06 and the other 104 ?20-gold pieces a total bt $1,000. Each of the jars, ho said, was a little more than half full and supposed sup-posed two Jars wero used because ono -would not qulto hold all tho gold. Made Teat of Gold In Jar. John F. Green, one of the Insurance company's lawyers, took notes on thlB part of the testimony, then went to a bank, on his way buying a half-gallon half-gallon fruit jar. He v. took the jar into the bank and 200 shining double eagles were brought in by a clerk. At Green's request tho clerk emptied the coins Into the jar The filled it hardly one-third full. Green then returned to the deposition deposi-tion taking and told his colleagues of the result of Ms test. Told of a Pact of Silence. Swinney told of a pact of silence between himself and the late R. M. Snyder! of Kansas City, to Keep tho circumstances of Kimmcl'B death a secret Snyder, he said, agreed to tell no one .of the hunt for gold, in which thejvKimmel and J. A. Johnson engaged, en-gaged, of the murder of Kimmel by Johnson, and the slaying of Johnson by Swlnnoj. A son of the late R. M. Snyder has written to the lawyers that his father fa-ther was in New York at the time Swlnuoy says tho killing occurred. |