The Seattle Post Intelligencer

Against Haines.
A SELF-CONVICTED MURDERER Haines' Endeavor, He Says, was Only to Save Gardner-The Informer's Evidence Shaky.

Auburn, N. Y., Nov. 29.-Since the report yesterday the government has continued to introduce evidence showing the smuggling of opium stored in the custom-house at Ogdensburg. This was only admitted as to defendant Gardner. Collett of Seattle, was called to prove the postmark on certain letters to Gardner and two directed to Haines. He had no knowledge of their delivery. Messrs. Snow and Wallis, of the Western Union and Pacific Postal telegraph offices, Seattle, were called to prove the receipts of telegrams at their offices. No objection was offered by Haines to their testimony. Stone, one of the defendants, was then called. He stated that a conversation took place between himself and Haines at Utica last spring, in which Haines suggested the substitution of domestic opium for the seized opium in the custom house, and thus win the Gardner case. The conversation only lasted a few moments. The subject was not mentioned again, and Haines was to receive no profit out of the transaction. He (Stone) made all the arrangements at Ogdensburg and committed the larceny, bribed the janitor and was to receive $1000. He saw Haines after that in New York, but the matter was not discussed again. He wrote two letters to Haines about the scheme and afterwards stole part of the opium and shipped it to Gardner, at Chicago, and was getting ready to steal the balance when arrested. He stated that he had received one letter from Haines acknowledging receipt of his letters of June 20 and 21, but he had burned it. He never received any other letter from Haines. He wrote and received several letters from Gardner, making arrangements for the larceny and corresponded with Gardner in Kansas after he came East, and at Chicago. He went to Chicago the latter part of July, to see Gardner and make final arrangements,

Stone's testimony as to Haines was very contradictory and apparently unsatisfactory to the government. Stone is repulsive in looks and writhed under the cross-examination of Haines counsel, which brought out his former career of crime, forcing him to admit himself a thief and that he had persuaded government officers to commit a crime against their government, and betraying the confidential communications of his former client, Gardner, against his protest. Apparently those in the crowded court-room felt intense contempt for a man who would commit a crime and then attempt to swear it on to another. He presented a pitiable spectacle. His cross-examination was not finished when the court adjourned till to-morrow morning.

Auburn, N. Y., Nov. 29.-The United States court continued in session to-day, the object being to complete the conspiracy case as soon as possible. John N. Stone, one of the defendants, who turned state's evidence, stated that Haines had made a proposition to him last March, while they were both attending the United States court at Utica as counsel for Gardner in the smuggling case, that they should bribe the necessary custom-house officers at Ogdensburg and substitute a spurious article for the imported opium. He identified letters which he had written to both Haines and Gardner, and detailed at length how the opium was taken from the custom-house at Ogdensburg and shipped to Chicago, and similar cans containing wood in block put in their place. He identified the cans found in Gardner's possession in Chicago at the time of his arrest as the ones taken from the custom house at Ogdensburg. Judge Brundage, counsel for Haines, subjected the witness to a rigid cross-examination, which will be continued to-morrow.