St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-11-12
MORE OF COLON.
The Defendant on the Stand
Again Yesterday.

AGAIN eStefOaY.
As soon as the court opened COLON
again took the stand. and his cross-ex-
animation by Mr.. Wellington was re-
sumed. The witness said:
II left the city on July 4 and returned
about July 81. As near as can recol-
lect Mr.. Blaisdell indOrsed twelve notes
on July S. the day before l went away.
/ do not remember whether he Endorsed
any on July or not. The notes which
he Endorsed On July 8, and which l did
not use for renewals, gave to MIR.
Schultz, except one, which left with
the w. B. Clark Investment company.
The Dean boys held some of these notes.
do not remember whether any were
made payable to Julius Schultz or moi"
The witness was then shown the list
of notes included in his assignment. and
pointed out those which he thought
were signed on July 8. He undertook
to explain why one note, which, he
said, was held by the Dean boys. was
dated July 5, and Judge Hooker was
compelled to interfere TO stop him after
Mr. Wellington had objected.
judge. Hooker said: mir. COLON, l
never want this to occur again. GU
will confine your answers to the qnes-
tions which are asked you in the
future"
The witness begged the pardon of the
court and proceeded. He said:
1.-The schedule which l made on my
assignment includes all of the notes in
dOrsed for me by Mr.. BialsdelI from
April 8 to July s, 1889. The difference
between the dates given in the schedule
and the actual dates of the notes is par
TALLY due to the days of grace, and aIso
to the Intervention of Sundays. l can
not remember the names of all the
payees. The notes payable at the Sc
CURLY bank were all payable to +. a.
Chamberlain, the cashier"
Being asked if there was not one note
for $4,000, dated July 3, payable to
Julius Schultz, on which he had re-
ceived notice of protest on Sunday. he
said he didn't know. as he had not
opened his mail for twelve days.
Il am not aware" he said, that
there is a discrepancy of $4,000 be-
tween the statement which / gave Mr..
Farnham on Aug. 6 and this schedule"
Neither BIaisdell nor Anderson made
any report to me as to the effect OF my
confession on the creditors. When
Blaisdell asked me what the matter was,
| supposed he knew l was suffering and
wanted to show his sympathy. did not
tell him that | had sacrificed my honor,
my wife and my family to save his
credit. but asked him if any settlement
bad been made. l knew that Schultz
got no satisfaction out of Chamberlain
on Monday morning.
"When | spoke to Anderson of want
ing something back after l had decided
him my property, referred to the sur
plus of the proceeds after the notes were
paid. | wanted something to show that
the balance would be coming to me.
81 paid in cash about $500 on the
Merriam Park deal, made June %.
cannot tell from my schedule how many
of the notes were original ones and how
many were renewals. ! have no means
of telling how much of the COllOm-Blais-
dell paper is out except by this schedule.
l received great many notices of pro-
test prior to the commencement of this
trial, but they always fitted the schedule.
The note dated April 8 and due Aug. 9,
which is not OH the schedule, may be
one of the notes held by the Dean boys,
but am not sure of it.
81 went to the Office of Eustis Broth
ers to avoid publicity. and l stayed that
night at Mr.. Rupert's. do not recOl-
lect that | told Detective Rice at Davis
& Farmham's Office or at Rupert's that
] was accused of grave crime, and
that was talking too much. Aug. s
was again at the office of Eustis Broth
erS, IN charge of the Detective, and on
that occasion l told Mr.. Chamberlain
that was talking too much"
This ended the croSS-eXamination for
the time being, and on the redirect eX-
animation the witness said that he had
heard that he was accused of forgery
before he made his confession, but that
he paid no attention to the stories.
The court then adjourned until 2
p. m.
IN THE AFTERNOON
on the redirect examination the defend
ant testified that all of the notes drawn
July were not dated on that day; that
some were dated on the 10th and 18th /;
that two or three of them were returned
to him by Mr.. Schultz, which he de-
stroved, and that these were the notes
which he referred to at Davis & Farm
hams Office when he told Mr.. Chamber
lain that he had torn up some of the
genuine notes; that the note in dispute
was not taken to the bank until Satur-
day, June %; that it was not filled out
when he first went there; that he went
back to his office to fill it out. and that
he did not think that BIaisdell or Ander-
son was at Eustis Brothers Office.
Here Mr.. Wilson called the attention
of the witness to Exhibit 1. This is the
letter which S. A. Kean & Co., of Chi
cago, wrote to Mr.. Blaisdell, asking as
to the responsibility of j. F. Coleman
which Mr.. Blaisdell said ColIom took
and said he would answer. The reply
is written on the margin of the letter
with a pencil, and, after apologizing for
delay, says: Il think the party named
Is responsible" 1t is signed J. T.
Blaisdell. He said that he did not
write the answer and that, in his opin-
ion, it was written by Blaisdell.
This closed the testimony of the de-
PENDANT, and at $50 p. m. he left the
stand.