The Portland daily press., 1888-02-25
Afternoon Session.


was exhibited and the erasure shown where,
If there was the figure 2, the deficiency would
be made up. Adjourned.
Afternoon Session.
At the afternoon session Mr.. Hamilton
continued his testimony. He referred to his
book and showed where d. r. Shaw had
been charged with $3.50 ON October 20, 1877
and November 18th had been credited with
the same amount. The witness also showed
that Mrs. Il. r. Crafts was charged with
$500, October 20 and credited by deposit Nov
ember u with a like sum.
Various other changes were made in her
account on the bank books. He further tes-
titled that trial balance, signed by the Off
of the bank October 20, 1879, and made by
Mr.. Barron. showed the amount of deposits
$1,000 less than the actual deposits and the
loan on collaterals $1,000 more. A duplicate
copy of Mr.. Barron's report to the bank COM
mittee, November 8, 1887, was presented. In
it, the assets of the Bank are given as $685.
319 while the trial balance showed them to
be 500, ,319 and the loans on colaterals were
$40, ,7SS. 80, $1,000 less than in the trial bal
ance. The witness presented the Banks
account from the 9TH of January, 1878, to the
22d of February, which showed that the
| amount of cash which the bank should have
had on hand when Cashier Barron was
found, was 1925 while the sum found was
$3,061.
Cross-examination-" think the Leonard
accounts were all restored after while and
cannot find that the bank lost a cent through
them other than on the dividend. l did not
1occ n0b ba hoN or
entry. claim there was an actual loss to
the bank by reason of the false trial bal
ance, October 20, 1877, Of $4,000. L am not
certain that the bank received $2,100 from
the Barron estate as an offset for the dificien-
cy in the accounts. The estate afterwards
suid to recover this amount" The witness
was not positive that the bank was willing
to pay 81, 400 and have the case defaulted.
He was questioned in regard to the finding
of.Mr. Barron, and testified that, together
with Mr.. Curtis, he pushed in the vault door
to gain an entrance into the Savings Bank.
He described the wounds ON the head in a
similar manner as that of the other witness.
He had seen one of the pieces of rope dis
played in court in the forenoon hanging
around Barron's neck. He had no donbt
was murdered. 81 signed cOroner's find
ing that Barron died from the blows on his
head and the effects of the gag lying in the
vault | saw Detective Dearborn enter
the vault and shut the doors after him. At
a signal from him, found the vault doors
fastened and he was gagged and handcuffed
and lying as Mr.. Barron was found, he hav-
ing nothing but screwdriver and lamp The
gag and rope connected were placed in the
safe, and while / was sick the rope disap-
peared and | have not seen it since. found
the lamp and Screwdriver on the safe short
ly after took possession of the bank, March
18th. | don't know how long afterwards
| told the president of the bank about find
ing these. Mr.. Barron had no more dust
upon his clothes than / have now. The bank
officers have stood al00f entirely from the
prosecution against the prisoners. | was
not present at the Dexter hearing when the
prisoners were arraigned."
Re-direct-"The coroners inquest was
held the 25th of February. The bank put
out about $4,000 to hunt down the murderers.
The whole amount required to be charged
off after Barron died, to get the balance was
S1S02.
Re-cross examnation-"Mr Cleaves
failed entirely at first to recognize me and
spoke of losing her faculties" The witness
was not positive that Mr.. Barron gave his
personal note for $4,000 with his insurance
policy for $4,000 as collateral to the bank to
cover the loss of about $1,000 which was
loaned to parties in Cambridge. Mass.
MRS. HELEN t. CRAFTS,
J. K Leonard, David r. Shaw and Albert
W. Chaplin, depositors in the Dexter savings
bank in 1877, testified that they did not de-
posit money or draw any out on dates when
Cashier Barron made entries as testified by
Mr., Hamilton.
JOSEPH ABBOTT,
one Of the trustees of the Dexter Savings
Bank, testified that every effort had been
made to discover the murderers on the night
of the tragedy. He signed a trial balance
November 3rd, 1877 and stated that the sum
of SIC, ,7S9 80, amount of loans on collaterals
had been raised $1,000 since by the erasure of
a cipher and substituting the figure 2. On
cross examination Mr.. Baker elected from
the witness that he did not know as the
bank lost anything by the change as a cor
responding change was made ON the oppo-
site side.
NATHANIEL DUSTIN,
of Dexter, went into the national banking
room, February %, 1878. Mr.. Barron had
lust been brought out. 81 saw several
wounds on his head" said Mr.. Dustin, hut
no blood was flowing sThere was no dust
on his clothes. | saw no indication OF
struggle in the room. The window was up.
[ went down early that night to see If there
were any tracks in the snow under the Win
dow and could see none. A day or two be-
banks and was so nervous that | could not
sleep nights The witness testified that
change had been made in the trial balance
the same as stated by Mr.. Abbott and 9TH
ers.
MARY LOUISE WOOD.
testified: 81 was employed as telegraph OPP
orator in the bank building, under the coal
room on the day of the tragedy. | was
there all day except at loon and cannot re-
member that heard any unu sual noise or
aLy scuffie above. l can hear noises above
The court then adjourned. The defence
will probably complete their testimony to-
morrow.