The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-05-29
DR.. ST0DDARD.
CONTINUATION OF HIS EXAMINING
TRIAL BEFORE OOMMIS-
SIONER RUGGLES.

TRIAL BEFORE O0MMIS-
SIONER RUGGLES.
Mr.. II. j. Schultz, witness for the
being sworn, testified: l
live in Austin. Have been, about a
year and half past engaged in study !
ing dentistry in DR.. G. b. SrCddardS
office; was so engaged UP to the 2Sth !
of April last; Don't think have seen T!
much of his writing -nothing but his
signature; don't know that l have
seen him make out bills, but have col
lected bills that he had made out;
have delivered letters from him; pal
no attention to whether they were
sealed or unsealed; presented a bill
to Mr.. Chas. Raymond, and one to Mr..
Iglehart Have collected rents from
MILAN & Loving; l wrote
the receipt, and Dr.. Stoddard
signed it; have seen him sign his sig
nature; believe l saw him sign those
bills; don't think | wrote all those
bills, but wrote some of them; am not
certain whsther l collected any that l
did not write the body of; wrote the
second page of the paper shown me in
court, signed &c. B. Stoddard," except
the last five and half lines OF hand
writing, and except what follows
them in said paper; and l also wrote
all of said, paper that precedes the
words 'sW. Y. Leader" i'll the fifth
line of page one of said paper. Think
DR.. Stoddard wrote the rest of the first
page, and the last five and Il half
lines of the second page; didn't see
him write it, and am not positive, but
think he did; never asked whether he
wrote it; don't remember hearing him
say anything to me about it.
Witness being shown the letter
signed go woodmen," said: never
saw it before except when Mr.. Hill
showed it to me a while ago; don't
know who wrote it. Don't recognize
the hand writing; know nothing
about it; never heard DIR: Stoddard
speak of it before the charge
was brought. Never heard
Dr. Stoddard cypress any intention OF
writing such a letter; had no personal
knowledge of any difficulty between
DR.. Stoddard and Mr.. Leader previous
to April 10Th; don't remember hear
ing DR.. Stoddard speak of any difficult
ty between Mr.. Leader and Mr.. Sen
nett before the 10Th of April; know
not ring personally of any difficulty
between the last named parties; DOM
know whether DR.. Stoddard ha(
any knowledge before the 10th Of
April, 1884, of any difficulty having
occurred between Leader and Sen
nett.
EXAMINED BY COMMISSIONER.
Q.-Who posted DR.. Stoddardt
letters during the month of April
'. 1884?
Al believe 1 took some of then
: to the office.
: Q.-An?
A.-No; don't believe did; dom
, know whether he took any himself, O
: whether somebody else did.
Q.-Look at the envelope now shown
, you-the one in eVidence-and sa,
whether you ever saw it before?
Al don't believe l ever did; DI
Stoddard had not that kind of an en-
velope.
Q.-Look at the address on the en-
velope and say in whose hand writing
: it is?
Al don't know.
Odd you ever see the hand-writ
, ing of that address before?
A.-No; don't think [ ever die
Q-Do you, Of your own knowledge
l know anything about this envelope
l its address, posting Or enclosure?
Al don't know anything abou
CROSS-EXAMINED.
, Q.-What is your age?
!. A.-EighJeen.
{ Q.--Before going to study with Dl
Stoddard, had you been in any bus
:. ness requiring comparison or identif
; cation of hand writing?
A.-No sir.
!. Odd you ever make a study O
: identifying hand writings by compa1
ison or otherwise2
A.-No sir.
Odd you ever make specia
study or examination Of ID
o Stoddard's handwriting
. A.-No sir.
RE-EXAMINED.
! DR.. Stoddard had a post-office boz
= / generally went for the mail, an
y GENERALLY carried letters to the pos
N office.
: This closed the testimony for tn
Z government.
! The first witness for the defense wa
O JOHN ID. SENNETT.
+ He being sworn, said: Am Ga yea1
: of age; am the John ID. Sennett wit
whom w. Y. Leader had a diff
! Guilty in March or April, 1888
!. about some wood delivered between
: Christmas and new yeal. Mr.. Leade
q wanted to know if sold wood, and
= would send half cord; said he had
. check or draft in his pocket and woul
= pay me as he came back. l sent tn
: wood. After this Mr.. Leader took
, back street, and quit passing by m
house. l did not see him again fo
house; did not see him sometime aftel
1 met him down the street; he aske
!, me to call at his house; called at hi
! the street; l dunnGd him before sew
= eral wood-haulers at the stan
' on the Avenue. He ra,
= across the Avenue toward his office
said I should let him alone; didn'
want me to bother him; 1 told hin
that did not pay for my wood; thi
;, was before he was prosecuted in tn
: Mayors court; among wood-hauler
present was Mr.. Woolford; don't recoI
:, lect others; don't remember asking hin
4 again for pay till day of difficulty; I wa
sitting IN Mr.. Whitehead's store sho
across the street from DR.. Stoddard'
: office; l saw Mr.. Leader coming;
stepped out and said: "Mr. Leader
would not you like to pay me 70
that load of wood?" The difficult,
ensued; he cursed and abused me
calling me foul names; Their,
!; were several people about
, there were trials in the courts follow
!, ing this; did not hear anybody max
ing remarks about Mr.. Leader; tn,
wood was talked about at Justice o.
the Peace Tegener's court; Mr.
Leader afterwards came to my house
[ was in the yard and went to the
fence; he said he thought [ ought tc
be satisfied that he had to pay SIS al
the mayors court, and some fees al
other courts, and said: "You are not
satisfied with that; you had to come
to destroy my office" l asked what
he meant; he said: "Oh, you needn't
deny it, there was a letter. d. opped
at my office, and it's well known that
you know all about it, If you had no
hand in it. He said further that he
had talked with lawyers; that twenty
lawyers had decided that if | hadn't
done it myself L was well acquainted
with parties who did; that even if 7