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went to Loon lake in 1888; it was in 1887, and he confounds two 

 transactions; puts them together. It is the old trick to have some 

 truth with the falsehood to make it appear true. He undoubtedly 

 did sue^him as he says. He found some logs, or found about some 

 logs there; perhaps he went there and found the logs on this seventy- 

 five hundred acres; that a part of them, he supposes two-fifths were cut 

 on that land, and three-fifths were taken from other lands, and he 

 got Albert Turner, his uncle, who loves Ben so, to go in and 

 look it up, and having looked it up, they brought a replevin suit 

 and grabbed the whole, not only the two-fifths but the other three- 

 fifths which he owned, the State had no interest, in, so that it was 

 a dishonest, oppressive suit, and before Mr. Turner could get a 

 log of those, that eoncededly and confessedly belonged to him, he was 

 obliged to give bonds in the sum of $10,000. Tries to confound 

 the two transactions. , He says the time he went up there, was in 

 1887 and he didn't open this matter of the deals. He is as 

 prudent as the man who got on the fence; he is prepared to jump over 

 one way or crawl under the other, and he wholesale denies he was 

 over at Turner's house in 1888, the spring or summer, and that he 

 thinks covers the whole ground. That is, his denial alleges that 

 he went up in 1887 and on that ride this deal wasn't opened, and then 

 denies he was at Turner's house in 1888, so that Turner is not 

 correct when he says the deal was concluded there. That is the 

 extent of his denial. Ordinarily to impeach a witness whom you 

 suppose to be devoid of truth and his neighbors knew it, you would 

 call in his neighbors and inqure what sort of a character he had. 

 If I had called all of Garmon's neighbors down here, and put to 

 them the question, what sort of a standing has he at home, and 

 what was his character, they couldn't have made him look any worse 

 than Garmon made himself. He stood up and made a photograph 

 of himself which you all have and he looks worse, more pitiable than 

 if all his neighbors had come and denounced him as a man not worthy 

 of belief. On cross-examination I inquired of him about going up 

 there and he confesses, and these are his very words from the 

 stenographer's minutes, he accepted Turner's invitation to ride up 

 there, and was gone four days with him, and he says, " It was a game 

 of cheat on both sides." We start off with a confession that he went 

 up with Turner on a four days' trip to cheat him; it was a game of 

 cheat. The confession affects him, that he was a cheat, which implies 

 falsehood and deceit. That is the character he confesses by those 

 words, that he is filled with deceit and falsehood, and wouldn't 

 scruple to use them to carry out his ends. If his neighbors under- 



