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is it too much to j ask that two or three days afterwards, after finding 

 he had willfully and deliberatelymisstated the fact to bring it forward. 

 The suggestion, to the chairman that he might not know he had been 

 indicted is impossible, because he must have been arrested and given 

 bail on each of these occasions. 



Chairman Ryan.— , Did he testify he was only indicted once ? 



Mr. Fieko. — He did not,; but he did testify when he was asked if he 

 was indicted, that the indictment — 



Chairman Ryan. — You offer those indictments for the purpose of 

 discrediting his- testimony? 



Mr. Fiero. — Yes. 



Chairman Ryan, — Suppose the man had been indicted but never 

 been -convicted and never "been brought to trial. 



Mr. Fieko. — It would go to- his credit. 



Mr. Cameron. — Did you ask Mr. Turner if he had been indicted 

 more than once ? 



Mr. Fiebo. — No; because we supposed when a man- had been 

 indicted once it was enough to discredit him; his answer was he had 

 been indicted, but' there was a cancellation in regard to it. 



Chairman Ryan. — ■ Do you stand on that statement, that is enough 

 to discredit a man if he had been indicted once? 



Mr. Fieeo. — I think it goes largely to discredit him in the absence 

 of explanation; if sixteen of the jurors of his own can find him 

 guilty of grand larceny, I say it goes a great ways toward it, and 

 when three times sixteen men indicted him it goes a longer way. 



Chairman Ryan. — If he had been convicted of anything that would 

 be a different matter, but here are indictments found some years ago 

 against that man; for reasons that were satisfactory to the powers in 

 those matters, he was never brought to trial; that is all there is about 

 it; but we won't admit any documents, as tending to throw any 

 discredit on Turner's: testimony. . 



Mr. Fiero. — As far as the rule of evidence is concerned, a,man may 

 always be asked whether he has been indicted, and it may show that 

 he has been; dt is unfortunate we didn't know he had been indicted 

 three times when he was on the stand. 



Mr. Connelly.— * I have been here several years, and I will say 

 this, I have been in other committees and that I never knew of a 

 committee that has acted more impartially than this. 



Mr. Fiebo. — I oertainly am finding no fault with the committee; on 

 the other haifd, I think the committee have acted very impartially, 

 and if the committee think my opinion with regard to it is of any 

 value, I will very truthfully bear testimony to the fact, for this com- 



