St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-08-03

should escape, for this sort of business
is growing here, and unless it is stopped
soon the fair name OF our goodly city
will be ruined in a commercial way.
what have said applies equally well
to Mr.. Shotwell. He appears to have
been the king bee in this big hive of
fraud. He was the intelligent monkey
which used the paw of the poor cat to
pull chestnuts from the fire. But in
this case Mr.. Clerihew appears to have
been very intelligent and willing cat,
and from all appearances he received a
lair share of the chestnuts. Just look
at Mr.. Shotwell's appearance OH the
witness stand. Why, he confessed
nearly everything, and would occasion
ally laugh, as though the untruths he
was telling were great and rare jokes.
He says himself that he tried to work
Julllard, but could not do it. When he
says he had a promise of $751; 900 he was
telling what was false, as he never had
such promise.
Judge Shaw next took up the testi-
mOny of Messrs. Shotwell and Clerihew
In relation to the statements made to
the commercial agencies, and gave Mr..
Shotwell an exceedingly lively ''roast-
ing" charging him with having time
and again made the most Outrageously
raise and untrue statements. l have
called your attention to the reckless
swearing of these men on the stand,
continued Judge Shaw, to show you
Just how much dependence can be
placed in their testimony. Both of
them have gone on the stand and sworn
falsely: that is plain
MIR. Wilson says it is not an Offense to
draw check on a bank when you have
-
is crime to draw such check and get
money out of an innocent person on it,
as these men have done. If your honor
should find that Mr.. Foss has
GIVEN FALSE TESTIMONY,
as MI Shotwell and Mr.. Clerihew say
ne has, l hope you will base your
opinion on something stronger than the
say SO OF these two men. Mr.. Wilson
gravely stands before your honor and
tells you that the methods pursued by
Shotwell, Clerihew & Lothman are the
same as pursued by every business man
III Minneapolis, and unless business
men could do business in that way, they
would all fail. All have to say is that
they had better fail right here than do
business in fraudulent way. Mr.. Will
son further tells you that foreign ex-
change is like the way in which Shot
X.
Yes, It's just about as much like it as
the Sermon on the Mount is like chap
ter from the Police Gazette, or the cloud
Hamlet showed the old man in the play
is like a whale. There is no similarity
between the two cases at all. In for
eign exchange man does not give a
check Oh bank where he has no
money and then trust to luck to raise
the money.
In closing Judge Shaw said: ave
believe we have made such case, YOUR
honor, as would justify you, and it
would be your duty. in holding these
men to answer for their crime. The
two questions are: Was there an of
fenSe, and was it such as should make
1t advisable to hold these men? an
sWer, yes. in all candor. Even Mr.. Will
son does not deny, when he comes down
to solid ground, that the methods
practlced by these men were question
able: 1t is high time that these high
handed robberies from banks were
stopped, and business men must learn
that there is a certain line which thew
dare not cross. If criminals are to be
permitted to escape because they come
INTO court and state that they did not
mean to do any wrong, it is time
change was made, and it cannot come
too soon. This business, from begin
ming to end, shows evidence of intent
to defraud. All the facts show that the
whole thing was conceived in fraud,
gestated i'll iniquity and brought forth
bouncing steal weighing about &C. 200
pounds sterling." This closed the ar
7guments. This morning Judge Ma
money will give his decision.