Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-01-01
The first / knew about the case was

The first ! knew about the case was
from letter I received from my
brother. / went to Mr.. East and pre-
sented my authority to Mr.. East for
the papers. Mr.. East asked me where
my brother was, and told me he had
customer for the note and could get
its full face value. told Mr.. East
my brothers. address, and showed
him the note from my brother author
izing me to get the papers. / got an
other letter from my brother enclos-
ing power of attorney unsigned. l
also got another power OF attorney,
and told MIR. East about it. He sta
ted that the power was not proper
one, and / sent letter to my brother
telling him to send me proper pow
er OF attorney. This l received and
several times went to MIR. East but
could not get the papers. He
kept putting me off and telling
me he would advance $50 ii
he wanted money. / saw it was use-
less as l could not get the money, and
told him l would institute legal pro-
ceedings. l afterwards saw the note
at real estate dealers Office. and saw
my brothers. signature on it. | told
the gentleman it was a forgery, as
know it was false signature. have
not spoken to Mr.. East since.
Cross-examined-Mr. East told me
he wopld not give me the note, as my
power OF attorney was not correct. He
promised to pay mo the value of the
note ii i. would bring a receipt signed
by my brother and myself; he also
told me that he had sent a receipt to
my brother to sign, and then l would
countersign it, and he would give me
the note.
| ANDREW ]. vIiLE,
TestiGed-I live in Los Angeles and
am broker. know Mr.. East and
negotiated or sold the note for him
about the 81 of July. 1t was endorsed
when l got it from Mr.. East, who
told me he wanted to get more money
on it. l sold it for $3.50 and gave the
money, less the brokerage, to Mr..
East.
| Cross-examined-M East told me
he wanted to use the money for CON-
pleting trade in Pasadena. Iunder-
stood the note was his.
\ The State here rested its case.
| A. B. East, testiied--I first knew
Vinette about the first Of April. ]
| / procured certificate OF title for
him and mortgage for lot. Mr..
Vinelte was at my office several times
and asked me to get him monev on
his note, and wanted me to take the
note, telling me he would pay me
we'll. told him could not take the
note myself, but would try to sell i,
ior him. w. H. Vinette signed the
note that / might the more readily
negotiate it. He went with me to
Mr.. Myers office, but he did not want
it, and Vinette said, let us try some
one else, and we went to Mr.. Moore.
sent a notice to where | supposed
Vinette to be, viz, Fulton Wells, tell
ing him I had got the money for him,
but the letter was returned to me,
dieter produced.)
/ then went and asked Mr.. Randall il
he knew where Mr., Vinette was.
: negotiated the note to get the money
to pay myself ami that he might get
| some money for his wife. The las
, time he was with me put the note
r in Browns safe. He never asked mt
, for the note in his life. / once tol,
him that the note was in Brown''
/ safe. l wrote him two or three time
!. after he left telling him | wanted ,
settlement, and enclosed blank re
ceipts for him to sign, / wanted tn
receipt from him, as did not knoS
a his brother, and knew his relations il
}. regard to his wife, and therefore