Dr. Van Gesner, convicted with Williamson and Biggs, after three bitterly contested trials
testimony of this witness, that Dr. Gesner came to the stable and took the witness to his office, where Williamson was seated, and told him that he could not let him have the money to prove up, and that Dr. Gesner handed him the newspaper containing the reference to Secretary Hitchcock's contemplated crusade against bogus entrymen.
It appears that this information had the effect of causing the two members of the sheep raising him to conclude that it would be unwise to proceed any further in the direction of acquiring the titles, and that all the entrymen were advised subsequently to relinquish their claims. The article in question follows:
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