Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-03-02

two to four hundred letters every day.
(Witness was objected to by attorney
for the defence, and objection over
ruled. Letters Of Mr.. Vinette, drafts
and the note with the endorsement
were given to witness for examina-
ton. ! would say the drafts we're
signed by the same person who wrote
the letters, but the name on the note
/ should Judge was written by a DIFF
ferent hand.
Cross examination Il form my
judgment OF these signatures not so
much on my experience as teller OF
the bank as upon previous study de-
voted to the subject Of signatures and
hand writing.
ARTHUR vINETTE
Was next called and testified. re-
side in Los Angeles and am brother
of the prosecuting witness. | have
known Mr.. East since last June or
July. My brother sold his land to
Mr.. Randall early last spring. l do
not know when he left for Colorado,
but received letter from him after
he arrived at Manitou Springs, ask
ing me to call at Mr.. East's Office and
secure a note left there. (Witness
identified the letter, dated August the
9th, and note OF the same date ad-
dressed to Mr.. East.) I presented the
note addressed to Mr.. East to that
gentleman. He asked me where my
brother was, stating that if he had
his address he would write to him
and get a power of attorney, as he had
a chance to dispose of the note. l re-
Piled that the proper thing for him to
do would be to turn over the pa
pers as my brother requested. He
then refused to turn over the
papers. l wrote to my brother and
in reply he sent me power of attor-
ney which l presented to Mr.. East.
He called attention to the fact that
the instrument was unacknowledged,
and told me must send it back and
have it duly acknowledged by No
tary, as he might get into some trou-
BILE if he turned the papers over with
out my having the proper authority
to receive them. again wrote to my
brother and soon afterwards received
a power of attorney duly acknowledge
ed. When l presented this to Mr..
East he told me must have itrecord-
ed, and then if l would call in a few
days he would turn the papers over.
l called several times before / found
him in his office, and when I did he
told me the papers were locked up in
safe and he would call at my store
in the evening with them. In the
evening he told me he was unable to
get them as they were still locked up.
l tried to get him to tell whose safe
the papers were in, but he would only
say that they were in safe belong
ing to some insurance COM
pany, told him I had
fooled long enough about the
matter and would institute legal pro-
ceedings if he did not do something,
He begged off and told me to come to
his Office once more, which l did.
There he told me he had found that
it would be necessary to have re-
cept from my brother and that he had
written to him for receipt which,
when received, could sign, and then
ne !. would turn over the papers. in
October / learned that the note had
been sold to A. J. Vele and calling
at his office 1 found the note to be that
belonging to my brother. Mr.. Miller
showed me the note. When my
brother came home l turned over all
the papers and correspondence.
Cross examination: I know Mr..
East's handwriting from the instru-
ments and letters he sent my brother,
and which were returned to me. l
did not see Mr.. East write them but
1 suppose of course he did.
A recess was taken in the case until
8 O'Clock to-day.