Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1888-12-04
AFTERNOON COURT.
Evidence FOR tie Defence In the Dental
Company's Case Counsel split Hairs ON
Legal Questions.

Evidence FOR tie Defence In the Denta
Company's Case -CounscI Split Hairs o,
Legal Questions.
/ The Superior Court re-convened vester
Cay afternoon at 3 o'clock with Chief Jns
! tee Comegys and Associate Judges
houston and Paynter on the bench IN,
The trial Of the case of the Wilmington
Dental Manufacturing Company is. tn
Adams Express Company was resumed
Clerk of the Peace n Il. Cochran taol
the stand for the defence and produces
the records Of the court Of General SOS
slons, showing the conviction Of Silas
Murray the colored emplove OF the den
tai company for larceny The record WAS
pm IN evidence, Mr. Higgins noting au
exception
Attorney John Begs testified
that Murray oiIense was the larceny ot
platinum scrap from the Dental Com
pany.
Samuel 7. Bolts, agent for the Adam.
Express Company testified that the com.
phaN haa not lost any packages in tho
twenty seven years the had been ia its
employ other than the three packages
claimed e have been lost By the plaintiff.
Mr Higgins objected to this evidence
aud was sustained by tho eonrt.
W. Belts then produced the manifest
looks Of the express company, which
showed no entry Of the three shipments
n goods claimed bY The plaintiff. There
wa ho entry pa the books of tho main
Office q the office Of the r.. ~. Il hi
railroad station. Mr. Bird claimed thet
ine receipt for shipment made oil Octo.
her 1856 was changed from III boX" to
DON Ivy some one when there
was really one box shipped
Tor which the express company
hold the receipt Of the foreign transpor.
latlon company IL was customary To
write the words tive and not tile figure
for more than one Tie witness testified
20 using ail efforts to find the packages
claimed 70 be lost, but none ever turned
up IN The cross examination, MIR. Hin
gins brought ont that witness ala not
personally make the entries in the mani
lest books but believe his clerks did So
CORRECTLY
Edward J Doagherty. Pinkerton de.
tective who had been EMPLOYED hv the
express company to work up the ease
testified that Moody the witness for the
plaintiff, whose evidence was heard YES
terGav morning did not tell him that he
saw Mr. Hall, the express MESSENGER
with the box that was shipped On Nav
10 lie suspected that the figure had
been changed to2. in the shipment of
october ., because il was blurred He
thought the signature of Mr.. Hall The
eN messenger was easy to copy.
George Hall. the express MESSENGER
VINO called for the goods at the Dental
Company's office in the summer % 1856
was put ON the stand He said If the
goods ga not happen 70 be ready some
times Mr. Moody would say lie would send
Silas Murray down to the express office
with them, or he would sometimes say he
would send one Of the cooas. The
signature to the receipt Of May 10, 1856.
was not his signature. The signature To
the receipt in October he was not sure
was his. Neither was he positive If the
genWneness Of the signature 10 the re-
ceipt q November 8 Mr. Bird and Mr.
had tested his signature On
the cross examination the witness stated
that he could not deny that the signatures
e tha three receipts Of May 10. October
2 and November S, were his HI had
known packages TO leave Whining
ton without being wny-billed, but
never the Dental Company packages
William q Mcdaniel, who has charge
Of the office Of the express company III
the p, M. & B station, was put on the
stand Mr.. Bird at once sent him 70 the
depot after manifest book that he had
not brought In his absence William II.
Tunis, route agent for the Adams Express
Company, took the stand He was with
Detective Dougherty when the invest
cations were made Mr.. Moody said in
regard TO the blurred figures. that one
box had been gotten ready first. and
another soon after and the figure was
changed. Witness had seen Sias Murray
at both express Offices with goods. on
the cross examination, witness said he
was route agent between Wilmington
and Norfolk, over messengers and agents
Harry Belts was the next witness. He
said that Silas Murray had brought goods
to the express office for which he had
given him receipts After putting in evil
dence the.book Mr.. Bird sent for. the dc.
fence rested
Mr. Higgins called Stansbury J Wiley
rs a witness for rebuttal, TO explain the
on October ., the figure on the
receipt for which was changed from to
I. Mr. Bird strenuously objected but the
court did not sustain him. Both If these
packages went TO destination and were
paid for. The package missing was
shipped October g.
Michael Moody was also put an the
stand to explain the alteration He ex-
planned tins satisfactorily This concluded
he evidence at s. 80 O'Clock, and court ad
Iourned until 10 o'clock this morning.
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