536 



A. Yes; it might have been the day we went up there, the last day 

 of January. 

 , Q. I am asking the year ? 



*.. Eighteen hundred and eighty-seven. 



Q. You are as sure of that as anything else you have sworn to, I 

 suppose ? 



Mr. Anibal. — I object to the question as incompetent and improper. 



Mr. Adams. — I won't press it. , 



Mr. Pieeo: — Allowable in justice court. ■ 



Q. How long were you gone on that ? 



A. Pour days I think. 



Q. How came you to go with Turner ? 



A. I went there with him to look for a trespass; I came because he 

 asked me to go, or I told him. 



Q. Which was it ? 

 < A. I told him when I met him in Plattsburgh there was a trespass 

 reported on that quarter; he had threatened lumbering there. 



Q. How came you to go there; did you ask him or did he ask you ? 



A. He asked me. 



Q. Then you went with him ? 



A. Yes, sir. 



Q. And he stated to you that the logs on the creek upon this lot had 

 been cut on adjoining lands ? 



A. Yes, sir. 



Q. And he told you where he understood the lines were ? 



A. Yes, sir. 



Q. And you say you affected to believe all that he told you ? 



A. I didn't dispute it; I wasn't able to dispute it. 



Q. Last night you assumed all lie said was true ? 



A. Yes ; take it that way. 



Q. You stated last night you didn't believe it ? 



A. I didn't believe a word of it. 



Q. You were practicing deceit on him to draw out information, 

 weren't you ? 



A. Put it that way if you like. 



Q. Do you think'it comports with the dignity of this State that its 

 officials should practice deceit upon people against whom the State 

 have claims ? 



A. It does when they are deceiving you; he was deceiving me as to 

 the lines. 



Q. It was a game of cheat on both sides ? 



A. It looks a little that way. 



