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"I don't know whether I am or not."

"You hope so?"

"I expect he will pay me for what work I have done, but I don't know anything about it. He said he would and I guess he will."

"Does your pay in your contract with Mr. Malone in any way depend upon the result of this trial?"

"No sir."

"Who was present when you had this contract with Jim Malone?"

"Nobody but Jim Malone and myself."

"At what time of night was it?"

"About twenty-eight minutes past 9 o'clock. I think, when we sat down.

"And it was while you were sitting there that he gave you this statement?"

"Yes sir."

"I thought you said you were standing on the steps of the Capital hotel when he gave it to you."

"No sir: I said we were sitting down on the Capital hotel steps, on the north side of the house."

"Were you sitting on the steps or in chairs?"

"On the steps."

"On the 25th of March?"

"About that time, I can't tell within three, four or five days."

"What time of night was it?"

"It must have been about twenty-seven or twenty-eight minutes past 10 when we sat down there."

"You had a purpose in getting any admission out of Mr. Malone at that time if you could, hadn't you?"

"Not that time I hadn't."

"Was it given to you in confidence?"

"No sir."

"Just told in a general way.?"

"Yes sir."

"Now, hadn't you been trying to pump Malone in regard to this matter before?"

"Not at that time, only as a matter of mere curiosity to myself."

"But you had as a mere matter of curiosity>"

"Yes, sir. I had no object in that, though, until at the time of asking those questions."

"How many times had you asked him questions on this subject similar to these previous to this time?"

"I can't say. I have had several talks with Mr. Malone before and since that time."

"Haven't you asked him about that same question in a fact several times before that?"

"No sir, not on that subject."

"Since that have you not been trying to get additional information out of him?"

"On that particular subject?"

"On any subject connected with this Sheedy murder?"

"I have got considerable information out of him since that time, but not on that subject."

"Have you any concerning the Sheedy murder?"

"Yes, sir."

"And you would then go and impart it to the other attorney?"

Objected to; sustained.

"Did you ever tell Malone that you were in the employ of the other side when you were talking to him?"

"No, sir."

Redirect by Strode:

"Mr. Hall has had you up in his office a number of times trying to pump you, too, had he not."

"Once."

"He was talking about employing you once, was he not?"

"He said something about it."

Re-cross examination by Hall.

"When was that?"

"That you had me up there?"

"When you came up there?"

"I was sent for to crime up there."

"Who sent for you?"

"Somebody told me you wanted to see me."

"Who told you?"

"I would not undertake to say all the men that told me that Mr. Hall and Marquette wanted to see me."

"What kind of a looking man was that?"

"I would not undertake to say who told that you wanted to see me, but somebody told me and I came up there. I don't know but what it was Mr Malone; I don't know that it was: I would not say."

"When was it that man told you?"

"Can't tell you."

"What month was this?"

"My recollections is that it was between the 20th day of March and the 25th; along there somewhere, but I could and would not say within a week."

"Did you say I employed you at that time?"

"I say we had a little talk about it."

"Answer my question. Did I make any attempt to employ you in connection with this matter at that time?"

"Don't you remember a conversation you and I had?"

"Just answer my question?"

"Well, I don't know what you would call it; I call it that?"

"Did I offer to pay you anything?"

"You said Dennis Sheedy had lots of money and I might get a piece of it."

"Did I say how much of a piece you might get?"

"No, but you cautioned me not to let Marshal Melick and Malone know I had anything to do with it if I did go to work on the case."

"Did you go to work on it?"

"No sir. Yes sir, I did go and see one woman for you."