The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1874-06-18

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- to. One error Of 500, in the book which
y was promptly Iishted at the time: don,
|. Know OF any money passing over the tonn:e,
n OF Smiths. that he cid Lot get credit fer.
y ne SAID be gave party on the street sic OCO
70 be placed 10 his credit but he believed
K The party had failed to credit hin. A. re-
CARDS to Credits OF the S;h and Oh Of July.
Knew nothing about further than made the
ht,ce. from the deposit ticket have been
: 70 Smiths ONCE for money fer the b.uk
!: when she vas in need OF funds.
rEsTENONY OF H. ". GuLE1r.
e Know Smith; have had an OPT o-tun;ty of
2 knowing him. Question atked-Are Won
z one Of his bondlmen? Well. NV n,r,s ia
E ON paper they claim Is . bond. When
. the rumoIs were aAoat that Smith y "a short.
, went to bin AMI told him he must do what
) be could to secure his sure,ies. He OK.
> pressed willingness to do 50, and placed
\ all his property in the hands of Mr., Trace
and mysef; no trouble va. experienced in
getlng the conveyance /; Sni Ii saii at time
ne Old not believe there was ANYTHING
wrong unlts, be had been robbed: every
ming h had was turned over, even 10 his
Wee Jewelry, piano, &c; We got three or
iour thousand dollars worth Of properly
tnat We could Iot have reached ordinarily.
did not go to see Smith until he had par,
TALLY recovered from bis Sickness. The
witness produced the notes, deeds and siare-
ments OF Indebtedness turned over bv Smith
and fully explained their nature to the pros-
ecution. The tss imory en- these rotes. ac-
counts, &C., Was very volum ioous, and nc,
particularly interesting.
TESTIMONY OF GEO. s. SMITH.
The defendant wss put upon the stan 1 ard
gave full explanation Of the &c d. .pd
mortgages, which were intrtd Il as ey.
oence by the presto I,ion. According to his |
statement very little money Changed hand.
IN these traLslc'iHs The Hophins' a. Cd
for $500 wa purchased for $3.50. The p.
d. Smith deed for the payment of taxes
and certain commas. Oos du- from an old |
customer Of Smiths. The Kinnear pork
house for warfan'ee deed Of the farm in
Missouri, the Smith lot and $500 in money:
Hastings farm traded for a sock of goods
in Southern Ksnsas. and 50, 500 in cash.
Susan Smiths deed obtained for money
loaned and payments MADE In regard n
the Psice of scrip being used as collateral,
Smith stated that he found it was no. can.
celled, took II to Scott & Co.'s bank and
borrowed 5000 on it for county purposes
reported the money in the German Savings
bank ; paid the S.. 900 afterward and carried
the piece Of scrip in his poke. for some-
time and finally ,urnsd it in 10 the Office.
He stated tia. the money was used in
paying of the county indeb edners; often had
a large amount of scrip IN hand; cashed
more scrip than there were funds for so
dong, meielv for accomm Odatitn, In re.
gard to the $4,000 note mentioned in the
testimony OF A. +. Shr.ve, Smith CAV. the
foItOu inc I l,l. |
did not take up The collateral (:6.OO0 in ,
scrip; i, was in tie vault of tie German !
Swings bark eslected to call Tor it when !
took up the note, and have not seen II
from that day II this. Demanded of the /;
president OF The German Savings Bank a q
statement Of my account sfter NV sickness: 5
d d not Ct the statement; then served a ,
notice in writing. Before taking the Office h
OF Treasurer had some cons deraole rroper o
~; farm 10 Missouri, store and stock of /
goods IN Leroy, interest in FLAMING mil. o.
money, deeds, scrip, &c. Never KEEP. any re
sccuraie account Of what / had in the
banks. Did not want people to know where
ny deposits we're made, from the fact that =
il made great many bi ter enemies. r.
pine did not lose his election by nv popu.
srity, but because of the enemies created bv
his bank councillors. There was at tina,
ime very bite feeling toward the bank.
ng houses OF Hines & Eaves, and Newman O.
I Havens; kept out of such trouble by de-
'ositing in the various banks; always count =
d notes and scr p as cash; previous 10 nv !
lection was considered we'll off, l did not ..
mbezZ!e and convert to my own use any of d.
he public money. When went into Office OF
lad about $50, 900; turned over to my Sc g. g.
urities when the troubles commenced about v
IS, 900 or 100000, minus the life insurance T,
olicies perhaps about 100000. While in ~ ~
be office no payments were refused when cr
here were funds In hand to pay them with IN
iy sickness was caused bv strenuous eudeay- IN
rs to get the German Saving Bank out o, a.
Is financial Difficult ies; went to Southern "
lanss, to raise money an! then was A,
AIKEN sick and came home W,
'hen rec.verei 1 went to Boston to try II
nd Close out the balance If the Court ga ga
touse bonds. Had authority from Mr.. III
Whom to draw the amount of the proceeds an
the bonds s'ld-some S2l COO; the panic
anne en- while wss Their; cOuid do moth.
ng and Game back; hef,re l vent into =
flee did bus ness vih Ge,m.n Savings
Sank, Scott II CO. anu ,ne Second National
sank; did not always draw my checks at
he Office; sometimes filled them out on the
ireet, and sometime, at the banks; did no,
eep an account in: be office OF the amount r,
n hand in the various bank; the checks - -
pturned 10 me by the German Savings =
; nix were put in nv private desk in the ~.
flee; after the trouble came up l looked en-
yer these papers and one of the checks for N.Y. N.Y.
$50 "a was not to be found; thought af- HI
awards that this check might have bsen pc
Olen, raised and charged up on nv pri- s su
ate account; the checks we're left tied I'D as
q bundle IN an old iron safe in the To-
lice, and when went to get them they To-
ere gone. In regard to nv losses. they saI
Ie a, follows: On the Leroy etore, some COZ
1000 the planning mill, q clear loes- IVA
bout 81, 200; on the West transsc ion. ros
bout So, 600. There are sll my losses. ing
lille in the Office and just previoa. to nv t EH
hing into Office. Never purchased or dealt sec
stocks; never gambled any; family .x- II.
enses about 81 500 per year; live 10 plain rna
DRY -and-s-hslf house; have not been ex.
avagant; value Of furniture in the hou.e. ".
'out 81 500: still reside in the houfe, but n"
, not own it; decided it about a week ago of
Gen. Stone TOE email balance on mort fai
,ge he held. ,o,l
My election expenses We're very heavy: I
I'd TO pay all the assessment OF the first cam =.
,igD, some $4,000; last election cost me !.
'out $1,000. In regard to the Texas specu. =
ton; Jim Lesate came into the office and
Id me if wanted to risk $3.50 he had
heme in Texas, which would prove
'o6iable; talked with him about the Till: u
: vas satisfied he could get il through a
ade a written agreement with him hattie q
'pense to me would net exceea $3.50, paid 9
IN about $500; never invested any more g
oney in the scheme. The balance Of the =.
stimony has been fully set forth in preyi- =,
u articles in regard to how the thing q
Never went INFO any other 81
beme, except this in which l lost sny q
oney. p
The amoun's have mentioned are the
tent of my L ses don't own any properly u
~ and have not got dollar In the world: =,
I'VE lived siEce my misfortune BY don atoms lie
DIM my friends; their liberality has enabled ts
e to live; had it LOt been for the panic and e,
, severe sickness Could have met every 2.
e of my obligations and paid every cent "a
Ie; do not know and cannot account fer =.
e existence Of the discrepancy CT bow j, =
me about. The examination of Smith oc. c.
pied the whole afternoon, and while the y,
'iimony is rot given in full, ali the i'm. -
rtant points are fully set forth. A rerbasim o.
port of Smiths testimony alone muet gil a. a.
e or six columns. The cras exanina,ion q
now in progress and will be longer even Z