Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-09-18
HUNTING Up LOST MONEY.
WINDING OUTFLOW 70, It OFFICE
ORDERS GO ASTRAY.

Joshua Pullon Charged with Forging
His Employers Name 80 n Money
Order Recsipt-uis Arrest by Deputy
Unttod states Marshal Han and Par
Uai Hearing Before Commissioned
Erwin.
y. II. Pullen was arrested yesterday by
United ststos Deputy Marshal Hall, on d
warrant charging him with ;rauduIently
collecting money order. The accused
has been for several years a bookkeeper
for Mr.. Daniel OConnor, wheelwrlght aud
blacksmith on West Broad street
On May y Pullen, by instructions from
his employer, bought a money order at
the Savannah post office and had IL made
payable TO man named Frank, ia
Charleston. The amount Of he order was
So 20. 1t transplred some time later that
the payee never received the order, nor
was 1t ever presented at the Charleston
post Office for payment.
When MIR. O'Connor learned that the
order had not been paid he instructed his
bookleeper to make application for
duplicate ORDER suppOslng that the
original was lost, When application WAS
made Money Order Clerk Z. A. Warlng
turned back over the books, and stated
receipt with the signature, I'D. O'COn-
ner,N attached, was produced. The date
Of the repayment was May %. Mr..
O'Connor pronounced the signature a
forgery, and tried to ascertain TO whom
tho order was repaid. The clerk said he
could not remember, but afterward said
that Pullen had presented the order
The postal inspectors took hold Of the
case to work II up, and rnaly obtained
sufficient evidence they thought, to war
rant Pullen's arrest. He was taken be-
tore United States Commissioner Erwin
yesterday afternoon and given prelimi-
nary hearing. Pullen's counsel was I'M
able to be present and the accused asked
Tor DOstpOnement, but the Commissioner
decided to begin the hearing and exam
Inc the principal witnesses. as the postal
inspectors stated that II was necessary
for them to leave the city tonight.
L. A. Warning, the money order clerk
was first sworn. He stated that he has
held his present position since Feb. .
last. He remembered that on May p
Pullen presented an application for a
money order and that be (the witness) |
made it out. he testified that be did not |
know the accused at the time.
Pullen asked for permission to crOss-eX- /
anime the witness, il it would not deprive |
his counsel hereafter from crosse amin- !
ing on the direct examination. The Com |
missioner did not object TO few pertin- /
eat questions, and the accused, mention |
ing the application for duplicate, asked |
the witness il he was not making the or !
der out when one OF the other clerks came |
up behind him and remarked that the or /
der had been paid. The witness replied /
that he did not remember. Pullen then |
stated that when he applied for the dupl- !
Gaze the witness told him that Mr.. Hull /
had paid the original order. In reply 70 /
l1rrff a
that ne had said that he thought Mr.. Hull /
paid the order, because he could not re-
member having paid it himself.
The clerk added that he pays sixty or |
seventy orders a day, and he cannot re- |
member all OF the faces. He went on to |
say that Pullen expressed surprise when 1
told that the order had been paid. He /
tthe witness did not remember then that |
he had paid the order, and it did not Oc-
eur TO him for some time.
A prominent young member OF the Sa-
Nannah bar, who happened to be present,
and who was sitting near Pullen, leaned
over and whispered something to him.
The next moment Puilen asked, "Can
you tell whether it was the next day or
the next week or the next month that you /
remembered paying the Ordery7 The wit /
ness did not remember when 1t first oc- /
Cured 10 him. The young attorney whis- /
pered once more, and the prisoner, who /
was conducting his own case, asked an /
other pertinent question, when District /
Attorney Darnel objected to further /
cross-examinati0n by the defense unless I
the privilege of future cross-examination 4
was waived on the ground that be APP
peared TO be represented by counsel.
Il have 10 counsel in court" quickly /
responded Pullen.
Postmaster Wilson was asked for a |
statement, aud ne said that the matter /
was brought to his knowledge about /
June 10.
81 then went to the money order clerk" /
said the Postmaster, land asked him II 1
be had repaid the order. He replied that /
be did not think ne had, but be thought /
that Mr. Hull had repaid 1t while he |
tWariDg) was at dinner. / then asked /
Mr.. Hull about IL, ana he stated that he |
had not repaid the ORDER"
Mr.. X. ID. Muniord, paying teller of the |
Southern bank, WAS called US an expert |
70 examine the signature, I'D. O'Conner." |
Mr.. Munford was positive that the sigma |
ture was not genuine, and he said that I
he would not honor a paper bearing the
signature in question.
The examination of this witness closed
the case until the return OF Mr.. O'Connor,
who Is in New York. Bail was fixed at
$500, and the defendant secured it and
was released for q further hearing Tues
day, Sept. %.
Pullen denies having collected the order
and his theory Is that il was opened in the
post Office. He told one of the inspectors
that he dropped the letter in the box on
the outside OF the Office, and that when he
heard that 1t had not been received In
Charleston he supposed at first that tue
order had been lost.