Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1885-04-18

d CHECK payaOl 10 mis- r. WalakaT 1OT
$500, with instructions to deliver it as
soon as proper security was made.
Creel was simply agent for the loan.
Witness said he (witness) had nothing
to do with the payment at the land
Office; wrote Creel a letter instructing
him to see that the security was good
for the money loaned. The check be-
ing produced, witness recognized it as
the one he sent to Creel.' Witness SAID
he never received a mortgage executed
by Walker. Did not discover until
| quite recently that a crime had been
committed; came here as soon as l
found out the trouble and swore out a
warrant. Have had an interview with
Creel since l came; discovered that some
facts were not in my possession when I
swore out the warrant.
Here a cross. fire occurred between the
attorneys. The witness wanted to tell
all he knew, but was moi permitted to
do so.
Just as o. B. Corset, who cashed the
Walker check, was being sworn, a
legal student came in and wanted
the INTER-O OCEAN reporter fired. He was
offered as high as 500 to do it himself,
but didn't come to the center.
Mr. Corset testified that he is the
cashier Of the Bank of Devils Lake.
The Walker check was cashed by him
about the 28th of June; recognized
Creels signature on the back of the
check. Witness went to the bunk and
found that the check was RENTED
June Path,
Chas. Budde being called by the pros.
ecution testified that he had a convers-
alton with Creel on this subject day be.
fore yesterday. Creel lad told witness
that four. receivers receipts for money
paid at the Grand Forks land office
were missing, WALKERS being among
them and he was trying to find them
Creel said he had written to Register
Tiffany about them and Tiffany had
written him for u full description of the
land; Creel did not say he had received
the money on the Walker check.
John A. Percival, register of deeds,
swore hat there was no record in his
Office of the Walker mortgage.
H. L. Prescott, of the North Shore
bank, testified that Creel deposited 1926
June q; it went to his general account,
as all his deposits did, and as did the
deposits of most loan agents.
Counsel for defense again moved to
dismiss, but the court, at the close Of
counsel's argument, remarked that the
evidence adduced was sufficient to IN.
dict and he would not entertain the idea
| of dismissal.
Recess until 2 o'clock.
THE DEFENSE. i.
The court convened at two O'Clock
and Defendant Creel took the stand,
He correlated Hodgson's testimony in
regard to their business relations, and
admitted receiving the draft and draw.
ing the money on it; usually sent his
individual check to Grand Forks to
pay for land for clients, but sent
the currency on the Walker
proof by request of Receiver Anderson;
his clerk opened all communications;
his clerk took the mortgage 10 the reg:
ister's office; got the mortgage about
July 7; kept mortgages for some time;
during the great fire most of his papers
were removed from his Office; some Of
them he had not found since; after fire
kept come papers in woodshed and
some at residence; Office occupied by
North Shore bank for we two months
after fire; had not used it as an office
since; didn't know the Walker receipt
was missing until some time this winter;
then instituted search for it.
In May or June discovered gross neg
ligence in his employees; knew the mort
gage and notes were not forwarded, be
cause it did not show on his loan regis
ter; during the fire his safe was thrown
out; important papers were in it: some
time elapsed before he could get into
safe; opened it about August; his clerk
and Emmett Orr knew, the combina
ton; P. A. Havrevold-w was his clerk.
Witness knew he enclosed 1902 in ar
envelope to pay for Walker proof, and
left it in Office; Havrevold always
mailed the letters; presumed he took il
to the p%ostof6ce; cannot swear I evel
sent the money; didn't know,howman,
times he sent money that way; sen
money in an envelope for proofs O
Freebnrg, Ole Thorson and Walker.
Witness said his memoranda showed
he sent the money for the walake,
proof; had sent 100 letters with money
and none went astray; all letters with
money are noted on his book; sen,
Walker proof papers to the Forks, but
th'y wsr' not returned; gsasrally get :
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