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was not the pleasantest feeling between them, and Mr. Turner went 

 back with him within a week upon the property and they found there 

 that he had taken thousands of logs from this lot, and that Mr. Gar- 

 mon's suspicion at the time when he was there with Turner was proved 

 to be an absolute fact; that he had been cutting timber upon the 

 southeast quarter of that township, and that he had been doing not 

 only that, but falsifying to Mr. Garmon, with whom he had gone up 

 there to show the lines, that he hadn't been cutting any timber upon it. 

 Garmon tells you under oath, that this was the only trip he ever 

 made with this man, between Saranac lake and Loon lake. It is the 

 only time Benton Turner says he was there. Turner says he was there 

 but once; Garmon says he was there but once, and this is the time, 

 the 1st of February, 1887, and at no other time, upon no other 

 ^occasion; and there Benton Turner tells you, gentlemen) that it was 

 talked between him and Garmon, that they two would unite into the 

 deal; that he, Mr. Benton Turner, would buy the southeast 

 quarter of the twenty-fourth township for $15,000, and that he 

 would pay Mr. Garmon one-half of the difference between the 

 eleven and the fifteen, which would be about $2,000. I will appeal 

 to you as men of common sense, laying aside the qualification which 

 some of you possess of being educated in legal lore, and having to 

 pass upon legal cases, simply appeal to you as men, let us see if the 

 facts do not show that Turner told an untruth about that transaction. 

 "What are they? Why, he says he would make application to the 

 Comptroller to cancel the title on the southeast quarter of the twenty- 

 fourth township, and the taxes would be about $11,000. We have 

 introduced in evidence before you the fact that this man, Benton 

 Turner, had, on the 9th of December, 1885, made an application to the 

 Comptroller's office to cancel out two of the three State titles; that 

 they had examined on the southeast quarter of the twenty-fifth town- 

 ship, and that the Comptroller's office had, during the month of Decem- 

 ber, 1885, or the early part of January, 1886, cancelled out one of the 

 titles of the State to the southeast quarter of the twenty 'fourth township. 

 What next? There was another title against it he wanted to cancel, 

 and that was cancelled out by the Comptroller's office in the fall of 

 1880. What ! Cancel out titles here, when he procured two of them 

 to be cancelled out prior to the time he claimed the deal was made on 

 the southeast quarter of that township ? The very record of Benton 

 Turner, of other applications in the Comptroller's office, show that it 

 is a base falsehood without a tissue of truth in it from commencement 

 to close. What next ? There was another tax title against it ? An 

 application was made to cancel that, and he says Mr. Garmon 

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