The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-12


show you 81, and then will have something to
say about it. He says if you add up the lists of
notes on Il and then add to this the amount
OF notes named in the proposition to give @ioo
per share, which is "HH." that 1t makes too
much money-more than the stock comes to at
$l65 per share,
MR. KETcHAM--I said if you add to the lists
on "BB." did not say Il,
Mr. BUTLER-If you ada TO the lists on 'BB'
yOu would still be wrong
MR. KETcHAM-It is 'BB." / said add "HH'
10 BIB"
MR. BUTLER-There is another point in connec-
ton with Il" If ketcham said 'BB." will use
"RB. but will first consider exhibit II"
SIR KETcHAM-I said that on .1p the McCarty
anu Ryan notes appeared
AR BUTLER-l will call your attention to tho sc
very notes. Ketcham says that exhibit Il" is
IN ar Morrison's handwriting. 1t seems to be
q copy, and purports to be signed by john {.
New and John G. Wright He says it is the
contract in which New and Wright agreed to
take all the notes mentioned in it. In that he
Is badly mistaken. You will notice on this ex
hint that every once in while out, opposite the
figures, there is name. Every note on this
eShibit that New and Wright agreed to take
has the name of either New or Wright written
down opposite to the amount IN hgures. You
notice there are two blanks down there opposite
xhe McCarty and Ryan notes, as set out on the
exhibit. Neither News nor Wrights name stands
opposite those two notes, which shows that
New and Wright did NOT agree to take the
l.
attention to exhibit 'En At the top of the
page you will find the words ''last selection" l
want you to look at these two exhibits ''i' and
~ together. want to show you that exhibit,
AZ, entitled last selection" several times be-
fore get through. This last selection" has
it, think, every note marked New" or Wright
On exhibit ~ and it has some others it that
are not on exhibit ''I at all. This exhibit enti-
TIED last selection and marked e." was
undoubtedly written at the very close of the
nffa4in I xvill toll nrf bah anly
OF it we find the words Interest on 5000 900
TO Feb. 81 1878" What do those words meant
Why they mean that negotiations had pro
crossed far to fix the date at which the trade
SHOULD be closed, and Mr.. Morrison wanted Mr..
Wright and Mr.. New to pay the interest the
i've $40, 600 notes up to that date. There were
four $40 900 notes of Hanna, Knefer. Hays and
AteCutcheon, and John G. Wright had SAC, 900 note
in bank of his own. Morrison put down on this
last selection" exhibit, in his own hand writing,
''Interest on 5000 900 to Feb. q, 1875" show
ing that he closed the trade on Feb 81,
1873, and that the notes that New and Wright
finally agreed to take In part payment were set
forth on Exhibit E." entitled last selection"
There is another important memorandum on
that Exhibit r" that / will call your attention
to further Now, Mr. Ketcham says that it
IS perfectly apparent from 'BB' and "HH,'
that when the exhibit "HH' was presented Nor
TisOn did not know anything about the Hartford,
Conn, debt, because, if you add the Hartford
debI to the total amount of the notes to be taken
by New and Wright, as stated in exhibit BIB"
and then add TO that aggregate the additional
notes named in exhibit ''HH, /" it would make a
sam greater than the stock would come to at
eai65 per share. That is his theory. glance at
ahe lists of notes to be taken by New and Wright
set forth on ''BB" will show
all Here, in the list to be taken by New. and
headed 81. c. New" we find ''E B. Martndale,
s6,OG0"-that is in Mr. Morrisons own hand
writing Now. on exhibit Il" and on exhibit
E, headed last selection" you will find it Sc,
b. Martindale, 5000" That shows that a
change was made after ''BB" was written, and
only S., 900 of Martindale debt was taken by New
and Wright instead of $4,000. Now, l was
going on to show you that the lists of notes on
exhibit 'BB" never were completed Look at
the bottom of News list on "BB," and you will
find these words, Part of the judgments say
-------." The amount is left blank because
then undetermined! Now we know that
Mr.; New finally took several thousand
Exhibit e. 'last selection" These facts and
exhibits prove conclusively that "BB" was made
at an early stage OF the ne gotiatOns. and before
the lists of notes and judgme nts to be taken by
New and Wright were agreed upon.
These gentlemen state to you vociferously
that there is doubt in the world that New
and Wright both repeatedly guaranteed the
figures Now, if that is true. what is the reason
that on "BB' and "EE' we have these signifi-
cant statements written by Mr.. Morrisona On
-'BB" these words, I'VE must expect further loss
on discounted paper in these days of disaster and
on ''EEF the legend is, 'other shrinkages from
failures must be- expected These statements
would not have been written if New and Wright
guaranteed the figures Mr.. Ketcham SAYS
that when Morrison came back to his Office and
finished up "BB,' then all the negotiations
were over If all the negotiations
were over when sBB" was writ
ten. then it would necessarily follow that
exhibits sc" Il, and iHH," were rot made
until after the negotiations were over and the
trade closed for it is certain that they were all
written after 'BB" Ketcnam admits that 1t
Is equally certain that they were all three writ
ten during the negotiations and before the trade
was closed. hence Ketchams position cannot be
maintained.
Now gentlemen. you recollect with what
force Mr.. Ketcham undertook to show to YOU
chat there was confederation of r. A. W.
Daviss testimony in certain piece Of paper,
and he used BIB for that purpose I want YOU
TO remember just what Mr.. Ketcham said on
that subject. He said: 1--WE will call up from
the grave man. and went on to describe Mr.
Morrison; and then said: This man furnishes
corroboration, although dead, on his paper
BIB He corroborates F. a. w. Davis, and
shows positively that he went to Wright's Block,
and there saw part of the assets of this bank"
Ii that were true, it would be quite circum
stance II would cut quite a fgure but the
trouble about it is that exhibit "BB," instead of
being corroboraton, is fat contradiction of
r. a. w. DAVIS. want you to look at "BB,"
1nN 0co Just WHdb the WOTQS arc CnaC Mr.
Ketcham says come from the dead man. and
strongly corroborate F. A. W. Davis These
the words down in the corner of exhibit
'BB;' "Mr. Davis says D. Root, $500
Secured by what9 Is this in judgments" Those
arr she words that they say corroborate F. A.
~. Davis. | will read them again, ''Mr Davis
says D. Root $25, 00O Secured by WHAT Is
this in Judgment" Now, what was Mr. Daviss
trssimonyl He testified that he went up to
WIJghts Block; that Mr.. New carried up there
a bundle of notes wrapped up in a newspaper
and there showed him the notes, and he turned
fkem over, one by one Ketcham tells you that
Er Davis swore that at that interview in
Wright's Block he saw the d. Root notes; didn't
hsa That is what Davis did swear.
Now, gentlemen that could not be true if
shsy we're in Judgment Because, if the notes
had been sued on and put in Judgment, the
Mates would not have been there at all. and Davis
could not have seen them Again, if Mr.. Davis