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Show GENERAL BELL PliOVESJARIAR Denver, Colo., .March 2. General Sherman M. Dell proved a tartar for the attorney who called him to the witness stand today in the suit of Mrs. Mary C. Carloy against. Goneral Bell and ot Iters for damages hocauRo of the death of her husband during tho Cripple Creek riots In 1901. "I did not get out any special written writ-ten Invitation to the mine owners, the trainman, the newspaper men, ihe deputle.--, tho military or any other persons, to go to Dunsvllle on Juno S, 19t4," asserted General Bell on tho stand. "They went at my command. It was I who ordered them on the train and they surely went. I had chargo of everybody and everything I didn't talk with Mr. Carleton, Ihe president of tho Mine Owners association that morning. I knew my own business." There was no evasion In the replies of the stern warrior to the question of Mrs. Cnrley's attorney who sought lo prove that her" husband was slain by tho orders eif Geiie'ral Bell and al-i'o al-i'o tried to prove (hut the niiuc owners own-ers were partly responsible General Bell talked the examining lawyer off his feet and almost completed com-pleted the reading of the proclamation proclama-tion of Sheriff Edward Bell of Teller county, showing that the miners were In a state of insurrection, and others statements that the .plaintiffs attorneys attor-neys did not W'ant to get the jury's ears. In tho meantime the jury looked both pleased and amused." General Hell said lie talked with the sheriff of Teller county before he gave orders for the mobilization of deputies and troops and to nobody but the sheriff. Mrs. Carley attempted lo show General Bell's cllpabiltty by trying to show that the civil authorities had not beeir called in to settle the trouble. |