Salsbury Confused

His Memory Faulty on Certain Dates and Transactions

Grand Rapids, Mich., Dec. 2.--Although the features of the examination of ex-City Attorney Lant K. Salsbury in the water boodle cases in police court Tuesday were lacking in sensational disclosures, his testimony at times was interesting because of voluntary statements made by the witness while under cross-examination. His testimony implicated no new names with the scandal, but his eagerness to volunteer information of a character he desired to place before the people and his lapse of memory regarding corroborative evidence were prominently noticeable.

Salsbury's testimony was completed during the morning session of court in the cases of Alderman Depagter and ex-Aldermen Muir and McCool, but that against Alderman Ellen occupied the attention of Judge Haggerty all the afternoon, and the cross-examination was not completed when court adjourned.

The direct examination was brief in each case, it being confined by Assistant Prosecuting Attorney Ward to the payment of money by Salsbury to the aldermen for their vote and influence in carrying the water deal through the council.

At the afternoon session, after Salsbury had told his story of passing the boodle fund to Alderman Ellen, Attorney H. H. Walker put him under a rigid cross-examination and kept him under fire several hours. Salsbury's memory was faulty regarding time and place of certain important conversations and transactions in his boodle scheme of 1900, and Mr. Walker took advantage of this weakness to embarrass the witness in all vital points of the case.

It was reported last night that ex-Alderman Donovan, Aldermen Mol, Johnson, Stonehouse, Slocum, McLachlin and Losier and Carrey P. Bissell, who are now under arrest, will go into court today and waive examination. In this case they will be held to the present term of the superior court for trial. This will conclude the preliminary examinations of the batch arrested through Salsbury's confession.

It is expected that the prosecuting attorney will issue warrants at once for the arrest of a few of those who were implicated by Salsbury Monday. The prosecution refuses to state who will draw the next prizes, but it is said warrants are already prepared.