Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-03-15
THE JURY OFT.


ing the jury III the Thompson embezzle
ment case was placed in charge of court
officers NJ. r. Thompson and John Peter
sen and locked up for deliberation.
FoR THE DEFENSE.
At the opening OF the court yesterday
morning Mr.. Hart began his summing up
and said:
Il believe this man is a victim of one of
the foulest conspiracies ever concocted to
try the human mind. 1t is not the state
against Mr.. Thompson; it is Jas. Loveioy
and his cohorts IN a conspiracy to cover up
his own foul crimes. and they are try ing to
make you become parties to what
they should have had the man
hood to face. They have
brought US the strongest evidence
to prove Mr.. Thompsons innocence. Man
by nature is honest; truth is easy aid I'M
affected; there is no forced effort made to
convince you of truth; when you see it you
know it. Falsehood stands under false
Notwithstanding the garb of truth, but
rarely succeeding. l will call attention to
defects which would prevent you from con-
viction if you felt inclined. 1t must be
proven that his crime was committed in
the state of Minnesota, but
IT HASN'T BEEN SHOWN
that this crime was committed any where
in the United States. We don't want to
hide under this fimsy pretexr, but it is
one of the things they should have proven.
The trouble is they didn't have
counsel enough. I wanted to suggest
these discrepancies to them, but they
gave me to understand that if 1 would try
my case they would try theirs. Again, they
did not show that this missing money
might not have been paid out in Farnham
u Lovejoy's business, land did not show that
the balance he turned over to Robinson.
was not the correct amountfor him to turn.
over. Is there any proof that that wasn't
all they could call him to account for? l
call attention to these defects simply to
show you that it would be impossible to
convict him. But he doesn't want to be
acquitted on any such ground. There is
ENOUGH IN THE MERITS
of the case to satisfy you that he is limo
cent. The cash that Mr.. Thompson
handled was that coming from cash sales
the remainder was in cash and drafts. l
offered to introduce these deposit slips, but
they were ruled out. 1t is your province
to consider what evidence is held
back. Lovejoy offered i'll the morning to
bring them, but in the afternoon McNair
said he couldn't have them. ''Mc" is
swrewd, and he knew what they would
disclose. He thought that was the only
way we could trace the amount of the cash,
but there IS where they were mistaken.
Crombie's books showed that in January
he paid in 1894 cash, and yet, wiGh Jim
Lovejoy looking over the books each night
they would have you believe that Thomp-
son stole 1855 of it. On May 1, Jim Love
JOY was suspicious Of Thompson, and yet,
in that month, when he was watching to-
detect him, when only $1,000 was paid in,
he says Thompson stole 81 400, over one
half of it. In July they charged him
with stealing up to the
18th, $1,000, and the proof
shows that up to that time only $1,038
was paid in. Thompson ought to have
taken it all-not leaving $29. Instead of
Lovejoy looking out to see if the book
keeper wasn't stealing from him, he was
looking out to see that the bookkeeper
wasn't catching him. When a business
man becomes suspicious he doesn't set
around and do nothing to detect some one.
He says he was
AFRAID THOMPSON WOULD SUSPECT HIM.
That's it exactly, he was afraid. On June
4, Thompson went away for ten days and
Jim was home all the time. He had the
balance then, and had the cash. Why
didn't Loveioy investigate them? This
was thirty days after LoveioY suspected
him, and yet not a solitary thing was done.
Finally Jim proposed to check Thompson
nights; Farnham says you can't do that.
you'll be too tired.
JII WAS ALWAYS TIRED.
He says Farnham suspected longer than
ne did. and from the time ne knew Farm
ham suspected, he got tired. When Farm
ham says we'll discharge Thompson, Jim
says we'll keep him; Jim wanted to keep
him; the last thing he wanted to do was
to break with Thompson. When the testi-
mony is all out it shows that up to Sep
TENDER 13, nothing was done to get
book-keeper. That was the day when
Farnham says Thompson must be dis
charged. I suspect that Lovejoy suspect
ed that Farnham was getting suspicious.
Gardner was home twenty-nine days in
August, when they had Thompson's books
and balance, and when Thompson
was away. why ClunE ne nave
Gardner check the books? He didn't
want to, jim was tired. When they dis
charged Thompson, jim said he'd check
him as soon as he could. How did he do
it? The first thing he did was to check
him for $1,000 note not due for ninety
days. He next offered to pay Thorn pson
his wages up to the end of the year.
After this he mails Thompson check for
$40 wages due. That's checking him.
This thing goes on and Farnham insists on
checking these books. Then what does
Jim do? He doesn't get an expert, but be
makes detective out of Reed, and sends
him out to catch Thompson, who has
opened an office, gone into business.
everything open and above board.
respected by all, ana stunning no one
(Mr. Hart here read the letter from Reed
to Thompson,) and said: Reed has in
troduced himself in this case as liar, and
so we'll treat him. Reed said when he first
preached this matter to Thompson, Thomp-
son said: 'There are errors on these
books, but L never stole ii dollar" He re-
ported that to Jim, and how do you sup
pose Jim liked that? He told Reed he
wasn't a very good detective. Probably
Reed thought be was going to lose his
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