Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-12-14

In the municipal court, before Judge !
Cooley, yesterday, the case of the state
against William F. Thompson, former
head book keeper in the employ of Messrs.
Farnham & Lovejoy, heavy numbering
firm, upon the charge of embezzlement.
j. B. Gilfllan, of the firm of Lochren,
McNair & Gilfllan, City Attorney Benton,
County Attorney Hale appeared for the
state, while Messrs Levi, Cray & Hart con-
Quoted the defense
The first witness who testified was James |
A. Lovejoy, of the firm of Farnham & |
mOny was the fact that Thompson was in |
keeper and that through him all the cash |
receipts had to pass in the regular trans
action of daily business. Suspecting some
thing wrong, Mr.. Thompson had been dis !
charged from the Office. The books had
been examined by an expert, and grave dis
crepancies developed.
WIN. N. REED,
being sworn, testified: Am employed by
Farnham & Lovejoy for three years; until
Sept. IL as assistant book keeper; since
Oct. as head book keeper at their Office;
was employed as an assistant to the de-
PENDANT until he left Farnham s. Loveioy's
employ; Thompson laid out the work for
me; the cash was all paid direct to Thomp-
son; Crombie's books showed sales made
by him and moneys received; Crombie
passed money all to Thompson; bank
money was handed 20 Mr. LOveioy with
deposit slips; have examined day books,
journal and ledger from Jan. l, 1882, to
Aug. %. 1882; entries in day book Of
Crombie's sales generally made by me;
| entries for moneys paid out OF deposits,
generally by Thompson; Thomp
son always checked back
items daily from Journal; he did
all posting; N the examinations L find
this dropped out or not Transferred from
day book to ledger; the totat Sanount of
these entries not transferred is $9,375.55,
during the year 1S82-Jan. 1Eth to Aug.
II: each and al these items appear Is
checked eff from day-book to journal and
from journal to day-boo!z by Mr.. Thomp-
son; mono OF these checks made by
any one else; he cid al the
posting; al items aside from these are &C.
counted for; accounts made to balance by
throwing those out; funds come in in reg
ular course of business; lumber sold for
cash; have examined accounts of Thomp-
son personally; none of these items ap-
pear there; Thompson had sole charge of
each drawer except when away for day or
two he left it with Robinson; had been
book keeper for three years; by dropping
out receipts on one side, and
cash sales on the other, the accounts were
made to balance; if credit and debit were
ignored the cash account would balance;
when Thompson left he assumed to turn
over the cash on hand; don't know what
became of shortage; defendant has
i MADE ADMISSIONS
to me; relative to these accounts; he told
me on Nov. 90, 1882, that he had forced
his balances from the day he came into
Farnham & Lovejoy's Office; at the
time vi SO stating ne added he had faisi6ed
the books but had taken nothing-simply
forced the balances and entries, which, il
checked by an expert, would
SEND HIM TO SALTWATER.
On Dec. he told me he had already ad.
mitted enough to nae that, as near as car
remember, he had taken $17 900; said most
of it was in Crombie's cash; he wanted me
to check books, and no matter what
found to say everything was all right.
The witness was subjected to searching
, cross-examination, in which it was evi
IDENTITY the intention of the defendants
counsel to show that the financial trans
actions of the firm were conducted in 6
very loose and irregular manner. The
counsel undertook to show that Mr.. Love
JOY was in the habit of going into the
I Office daily and takevarious sums Of money
from the cash box, but the witness stood
firmly to the evidence given upon The e1
animation in chief. He had never known
Mr.. Lovejoy to open up the cash drawer
Made the examination of the books tx
which he had certified about week ago
Heard of suspicious existing regarding
something wrong with. the books KEEP
by Thompson shortly after Thompson
left Farnham & Lovejoy's employ. II,
ascertained the fact by being asked if h,
could find time to check the books. Wa!
told that there was something wrong
The INSTRUMENTATION of the books occur
red the day previous to Thompson's arrest
Thompson had written him letters anl
telephoned him (the witness) that hi
wanted to see him. They had frequen
interviews relative to the matter.
The counsel for the defense here intro
duced a letter written by Thompson tt
Reed, Nov. 9Th, 1882, marked exhibit
No.. 2.
A copy of letter written by witness tx
! defendant was also introduced and was
marked schedule 5.
The witness called frequently at thu
, Office of Thompson & Reed. At one inter
/ view with the defendant, defendant wanted
to know the reason why he had been dis
charged; witness replied that the book.
were said to contain errors; defendant
said, Il want you Reed, to check thos,
? books and, no matter how they are, wan
you to bring them out square" Witness
:: said he would check them. Saw him agar
on following Saturday, in answer to tsle
3 phone; defendant then seemed to go wild
he said there were false
footings in the books which
, if examined by an expert would send the
defendant to Saltwater; he said he had
s taken nothing but had forced footings Oh
balance; defendant wanted witness to &C
with him and steal the books, saying s'i1
yen cont do it have two Kegs of powder
and will
RI BLOW TEE OFFICE TO HE'LL
if don't get the books; he was wild and
witness was frightened; when he picked uI
his mitten he found q note of $500 in the