New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-03-02

A. Antoine Dubuciet.
Q. What public position do you hold in
the State!
A. State Treasurer.
Q. How long have you been State Treas.
urer,
A. Since July IA, 1868.
@. Do you recollect any conversation be.
tween yourself and Senator Lynch, in Jsnu-
airy. 1869.
@. In regard to warrant issued irregu.
larry?
A. Yes, sir.
Mr.. Semmes of counsel: / object to any
conversation being narrated between the
witness and Senator Lynch. unless 1t was in
the presence of Mr.. Wickliffe.
The Chief Justice: Do the managers desire
to argue the question:!
Mr.. Manager Lowell: Iprop0se to show BY
the Treasurer that he received this warrant,
and finding it irregular, he asked Mr.. Lynch
to take it to the Auditor, and the Auditor,
upon the suggestion of Mr.. Lynch, received
the warrant and returned the money.
Mr.. Semmes: OF course. any act that he
did, or facts that he knows, that he Can tes-
tify to. What object to is the narration of
the conversation between him and Mr..
Lynch.
derstands that counsel objects to the
declaration of Mr.. Lynch being Narrated.
The Chief Justice is of the opinion that
declarations are not evidence, but only the
acts done.
By Mr.. Manager Lowell:
@. What was the number Of the warrant
A. do not recollect.
@. What was it for.
A. 1t was drawn for coupons, the odd
coupons think amounting to nineteen hun.
dred dollars.
Q. What was the difficulty with the war.
rant? why was your attention called to it
particularly?
A. Well, my cashier called my attention to
it because he thought it was Illegally drawn.
@. What was the irregularity?
A. Well, sir, it waspostponed day or two,
and when the warrant was presented again
l told the cashier to pay them, and sub
mitted them to Mr.. Lynch. Mr.. Lynch took
the warrants over to Mr.. Wickliffe, and Mr..
Lynch stated that Mr.. Wicklife would re-
fund the money.
Q. He refunded the money and took up
the warrant did he?
A. Yes, sir.
Q. What first called your attention to the
irregularity of this warrant?
A. Those coupons were past due.
Q. What do you mean by that?
A. They were not payable at that time.
9. What d: do you mean by not payable!
Mr.. Wickliffe could not draw warrant
that could pay.
Q. Why could he not?
A. NV cashier will be able to answer you
more correctly than can.
@. Do you know, what bonds the coupons
were detached from?
A. No, sir.
DISCRIMINATION by counsel for accused;
@. Did the warrant to which your atten-
ton was attracted specify the number of
the coupons for which it was drawn?
A. think it did.
@. Did they ever specify the number the
warrant?
A. Yes, sir.
Q. Do you recollect those numbers,
A. No, sir; but it can be produced, l
guess, by the cashier.
@. The numbers of the coupons?
A. guess they can be produced.
@. would like to have them; do You
recollect the number Of the warrant,
A. No, sir.
9: Do you recollect the amount of the
A. 1 believe it is nineteen hundred and
odd dollars.
@. Was it all one warrant?
A. Two warrants.
@. What was the respective amount of
each warrant?
A. can not tell you that that; could
be ascertained very quick by going to the
Office.
Q. How did you happen to recollect the
$1,000; how is it your memory is SC good
about that; how do you know it was $500
altogether?
A. We added it up, sir.
@. What was it that attracted your atten-
ton to these two warrants?
A. Well, it was my cashier that called my
attention to it and told me.
@. You did not know anything about it
yourself?
Q. Was your attention attracted to it
before payment by your clerk?
A. Yes, sir.
@. 1t had been presented for payment?
A. And he refused when was not there.
Q. How long was that before the warrant
was paid?
A. A day or two.
Q. Was the warrant left with you for con.
sideration and examination
A. No, sir.
Q. Did you take any memorandum of the
warrant?
4 A. believe the cashier did.
Q. Do you know what consultation was had
and with whom, in regard to that warrant?
A. presented them to Mr.. Lynch?
Q. That was after payment, not before?
A. No, sir.
Q. The warrants were presented to you;
your cashier thought there was some little
doubt about it, and took a description of
them; that was two or three days before
they were paid; what was done in the inter-
val between the time the description was
given and the time they were paid; did you
consult with anybody?
A. Not as I recollecf.
Q. Don't you think that. if the matter was
in some doubt, you ought to have made
.ome examination into it, or did your clerk
10 so for you?
A. Well, sir, he examined the warrant.
Q. Then, when they were presented the
second time. he, having made the examina.
ion, paid the warrant?
A. Yes, sir, he paid them, and then / SUBJ
nitted them to Mr.. Lynch.
q. How long was it after they were paid;
We would suppose that, having paid them,
The cashier was satisfied with his investiga-
ion? How long wee it after the warrants
we're paid, you began to think they were
A. Right sway.
Q. Do you know whether or not Mr..
Lynch gave instructions to act in this matter?
A. That do not know. He took the war
ANTS to Mr.. Wickliffe; he said-h would re-
und the money.
Q. How long was 1t before Mr.. Lynch re.
unded the money?
A. He did not bring it; sent clerk.
z. When was that on the same day the
warrant was given to Mr.. LynchI
A. That can not recollect.
Q. Did not Mr.. Lynch, on that very same
lay, come in and tell you that Mr.. Wickliffe
would pay back the money?
A. The day he collected the warrants.
Yes, sir.
Q. What did he say?
A. do not recOllect.
Q. Did he not say, at that time, in pres
nee OF Mr.. Campbell. that Mr.. Wickliffe
lad said it was mistake-accidental?