Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-02-29
COURT PROCEEDINGS.
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There WAS Large attendance at court
Thursday to hear the Gottschalk n Lodor.
man case.
Tho cross examination Of G. Il Irwin
was concluded, aud the next witness called
10y the defense was Chas. + Stlckney. He
! testified that ho was special agent of tho
; Continental insurance company, aud In
May, 1889, held the same position In the
| City of London company he came TO
! Lancaster ON June Is, as tho plaintiff had
! policy Of insurance in his company on
| their stock witness saw Gottschalk
! in tho store on the day he came
/ aud saw him again on the following day in
/ the insurance office OF Bausman IL Burns
saw Lederman about the middle Of July at
! Mr.. Stoiumetzs office he told witness
| that he had put ~ 600 into the business as
| follows $3, 600 April 10, 1889 $4,000
! April 30, and 50 600 May 30, all Of which
amounts were paid in bank notes ho said
he had sold his tobacco for e., 800 and had
made up the balance of tho -, 900 in
every case he bad giyon bank notes to
Gottschalk and no checks witness had
another talk with Lldcrman aud he re-
peated this statement he also said that
he had first luaued his tobacco money to
bis brother, who had paid 1t back to him I;
he gave 1t to his wife and got it from her
terviows between witness aud Lederman
the former was handed a state ment OF the
New Brunswick goods Mr.. Irwin asked
for the original invoice aud witness
thought it was said IL was lost Colts
chalk said he had purchased 300 worth
of feathers from Blum, his former partner,
aud they were shipped to this city by eS-
press.
H. W. Hartman, who is receiving teller
OF the Lancaster county bank, was then
called IN regard to julius Lederman's +
bank account. 1t was shown by him that
81, 800 which was received for tobacco by
Lcdcrman was deposited in their bank
until June LIST there was no check paid TO
David or Joseph Laderm,n, but one to ].
Lcderman for s56.S3, This testimony was
to contradict Lsderman, who had said he
luaucd his brothers large portion of the
tobacco money; the account of julius
! L9itTman showed that his own checks,
: amounting to 1870, were made to the
: order OF GOttschalk IL Lederman. The
defense offered 10 prove the daily balance
OF plaintiffs. the bs'auco in bank on the
day OF aud after the fire, to show that they
were embarrassed and as au evidence of
what the Insurance men termed Eric
tiOu Fire"-$25, 900 insurance on $4,000
r worth of good :--Or, in other words, to
; sUb" u lAAbllNt lVI dti llNNtlNldly lIt. liz
offers were uverruled.
@ This morning the first witness calleC
a was Herman Gottschalk. lie testified
/ that on the night of the fire he and his
. brother were on their way home and they
, | stopped in front of the Examiner, where
. there was a crowd the latter went acrOS,
o the street To- see if the store was locked.
Z John \. Walling, q justice of the peace
- OF New Brunswick, testified that he meas
: ured the store which plaintiffs occupied
1t was 80 feet long, and l6 feet, inches
in width.
. 1t was offered to be shown by Honry b
Cook, assistant prosecutor Ofpleas of New
: Brunswick, that he had claims agalns
q GUttschalk * Blum in 1881, and Other
! times, for bills which they admitted TO bt
, correct, but we've unable to pay. The oile
, WAS overrulCd, as well as several others.
, Chief of Police Deichlcr testified that or
= the night Of this fire the alarm strucl
/ from box II at III o'clock witness au'
I Officer Burns went tn the store and pre-
/ vented people from breaking the from
Q door in witness went To the rea
q Of the store ami found thick smok
issuing from the store when h
# returned TO the front the fire deplrtmen
had arrived and had opened the from
door after the fire was extinguisheC
n witness again went TO the rear and will
: Chief Engineer Howell aud others entered
4 the building Officer Swenk opened
Y drawer and found piece of cotton which
. seemed to be saturated with coal oil tn
q fire seemed TO have started in the south
o western corner Of the room. Wtnes
r then described the appearance OF tn
o storeI The day after tho fire, witncs
q and Chief Howell went to Gottschalk'
: house and stated that the object of tn,
n visit was 70 inquire concerning the los
a and cause Of the fire. In reply I
Y questions GUtts3halk stated that o
"a this evening Le and brother ha
n been 10 the ball and went from ther
IA to the Stevens house aud afterwards t
y Fulmer's saloon 4; shortly after II o'cloc
i they started up North Queen on the rigb
hand side /; when opposite their stor
GOttschalks brother went across the stree
aud tried the front door, after which the
n walked up North Queen street to I'll
- depot, through it To Christian street an
:, up to Walnut and then home Gottschal
It thought that they took that route becaus
0 hc wished TO mail a letter in the box O
y the depot, but he was unable TO TecOlleC
a whether he had mailed letter or not
& he was in bed and asleep when his vii
II wakened him, stating that a boy had sal
r. the store was on fire.
h On cross-examination witness said b
:, was not employed by any of the insuranC
70 companies nor had he received any none
from them but had started to ferret ou
o tho cause of the fire on his own account.
u Harry N. Howell, chief engineer of til
Ii fro department, testified that he was {
homo on the night of the fire and th
alarm struck at 80 witness went to th
q building and found the front door open
ID the smoke was very dense and II was SON
% time befOre tho fire was located by tt
rs fircmen it was finally found to bs in th
10 southwestern corner of the room and wa
,r extingulshed afterwards witness wit
,s several others began looking around ; the
l. found that the principal part of the fr
was in the lath and plaster between th
desk aud shelving; witness found q draw'
in the shelving which was half open
-. was full of waddiug, which had bee
saturated with coal oil witnet
was positive that it was oil an
40 number of others smelled til
~ wadding, of which there were number
70 layers {; very little of the goods were burr
- ed witness found two empty oil cans o
the shelves of little room in the rear {
;. the building, from which door led fro
= the large room, couple days after u
a fire witness had conversation wit
% Gottschalk the day after the fire and
: then said nothing Of having been to th