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Q. After you said there you wanted to see him and he see you, did 

 you meet? 



A. What date was that ? 



Q. October ? 



Mr. Fieko. — There are two letters in reference to that. 



A. What year is it ? 



Mr. Fieeo. — Eighteen hundred and eighty-eight. 



A. I am not inclined to think I did want to see him. 



Q. Did you see him ? 



A. I couldn't tell whether I did or not. 



Q. Can't you say whether you met him after this letter? 



A. No, sir. 



Q. Isn't it true that after that time you were at his house, at Ben- 

 ton's house in Plattsburgh, two, three or four times ? 



A. No, sir; I don't think it was. 



Q. Is that as strong as you will put it ? 



A. That is as strong as I will put it; I Will say I wasn't there three 

 or four times, that I will say positively; I wouldn't say I wasn't at 

 his house. 



Q. Tou don't know whether after that you were at his house, but 

 you don't think you were as many as three or four times? 



A. No, sir. 



Q. During the time of this correspondence from February or March, 

 1888, to the fall of 1888, you were 1 on good terms with Turner? 



A. Personally, all ways on good terms with him. 



Q. Did I ask you that ? 



A. How do you mean ? 



Q. I ask, between February and October, 1888, if you were on per- 

 sonal good terms ? 



A. Personally I treated him well and he did me; that was so at all 

 times. 



Q. Will you answer my question ? 



A. I will say yes, at all times. 



Q. Tou have stated you were at Turner's house on several occa- 

 sions in 1888? , 



A. I didn't know that I had said so. 



Q. You stated two or three times during 1888 you were there, can 

 you remember so as to reproduce the conversation between you and 

 Turner on those occasions or any of them; give the words, what you 

 said and what he said?. 



A. No, I don't think I could; I can tell one thing that was talked 

 about. 



