Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1884-05-13
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referred them to Bateman & Co, and pos
sibly had given Col. Morrow note OF in
PRODUCTION to Bateman. Nothing was said
in the conversation about pay-vouchers,
and witness had no knowledge of any
duplicate vouchers issued by Col. Morrow,
and since then had no knowledge of any,
except by newspaper rumors and public
talk. He had not learned that
Bateman & Co. had loaned any
money to Col. Morrow on his
pay accounts until the matter was
published in the newspapers. He de-
MED ever having had a conversation on
the subject with Bateman in the latter's
coupe, as related by Bateman in his testi-
mony. He denied having had any con-
versation with Bateman in the latter's
office, as testified to by Bateman, in which
the latter stated that he (Swaim) had told
him of securing bill of sale on Col. Nor
rows piano, and had said the old man
didn't get left. Bateman, he said, had
told him, after Morrow's business became
noised about, that he (Bateman) had been
caught by Morrow, and witness had said
he was sorry, and that was all there was
about it.
Witness then testified that the only
financial transaction he had ever had with
Col. Morrow was loaning him $3.50 with
out security, without even a note for the
amount. Some time after he had made
the loan Col. Morrow wished to sell him
his piano for the $3.50 and witness agreed
to take it, but the next day after their con-
versation Col. Morrow told him his wife
had sold the piano.
Witnesses attention was called by coun-
sci to the conversation testified to by Bate
man, in which he (witness) was said to
have threatened to squeeze Col. Morrow
| at the War Department so that the bank
ers could not get their money unless they
contributed to help him (witness) out on
his account against Morrow.
Witness denied having made such
threat, but said that he had once said to
Bateman, with some warmth, when the
| latter had been talking of his losses by
army officers, that he thought it was too
late for them (the bankers) to talk of fraud
after they had seized on Morrow's assets
and absorbed them to pay his indebted
ness to them, they having been making
money by him to the exclusion of
bakers and butchers and grocers'
bills, and such accommodation loans
as his. Witness had asked him
why, if they wished to act fairly, they did
not include all of Col. Morrow's debts, as
they had included all his assets. He had
also, he said, told Bate nan that grocery
man had been to him (Swaim) to ask what
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Morrow, and he (witness) said that class
of claims might give the bankers trouble.
The remainder of the examination OF
Swain was principally directed to showing
his transactions in stocks and other
wise with Bateman & Co., and his reasons
for dissatisfaction with their methods OF
keeping his accounts. He said Bateman
had bought and sold stocks for his
(Swaim's) account without orders.
He was questioned briefly as to the
$4,000 due-bill transaction. He testified on
this point that, when ]. Stanley Brown
withdrew from the firm of Bateman & Co.
Bateman asked him (witness) to allow
the $4,000 deposited by Brown to stay with
him (Bateman) as investment on the same
terms as he had loaned it to Brown, and
that with this understanding he allowed
it to remain. 1t was never considered g
deposit.
Witness was still under examination
when court adjourned.