The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-01-22

What 2. z. DAVIS Has 70 Say Abo,
Eim-Their Relations Explained

Him Their Relations Explained
TIE people who take thing FOR granite
continue % send IN goods to W. S. Fletcher
VINO did a dourie hing business in orange.
here and pad for them in checks on vision
AIRY bank accounts until the protested ? pc.
b gan % come back when Fletcher left.
Mr. Z. +. Davis, whom Fletcher desig-
mated as his boOkkeeper, says that he tad
70 previous knO leige that Fletcher ir-
tended 70 defrsuI his customers, nor did
he think that be was under arrest
for Fletcher when Constable Kaufman
sent Detective ST Easch with him 70 SOC Mr.
Palmer about the WaldrOn protested check
last week.
Mr Davis was asked last night what are
his exact relations with Fletcher. He stated
that ne was not in the employ of Fletcher,
but assisted him in keeping the books. and do
ing the outside work and looking after his
finances. That he himself was getting
apples, pOtatOe and cabbage from Boston
house which he sold and receipeed for in
the name # Fletcher, and paid Fletcher
storage for the goods, and some Of his g5oIs
ne exchanged with Fletcher for oranges
which be shipped to the Boston firm.
Davis also says that he loaned Fletcher
$40 IN two drafts in New York-one for
500 and the other for 300 and that
Fiether had only $500 capital Of hi, own.
OF this amount ad yancrd 20 Fletcher Davis
says he has received about $3.50 in money
and goods and delivery team which 10
value az about fG5. He does not think that
the bitterness OF feeling which IS directed
against Fletcher should also be directed
against him. lie avs that the oranges re-
celved last Saturday from Federal Point,
Fla, and which he sold, he turned over the
proceeds u amounting 10 SIPS to w. d.
Simkins a. Co. yesterday
Yesterday forty boxes Of oranges came in
from Walter Thomas # Nor walk, Fla
which Davis says were turned over to Sim
kins 81 Co. He also sid that Fletcher had
sent a check to pay for these oranges, bit
no felt confident that the check would not
be paid, and so he turned them over to Sim
kins q Co. Davis says that he has two
bills Of ladlng received Yesterday which he
will turn over to Slmkns 81 Co. to-day
One is for eight sacks Of meal from North
Carolina and the other for twenty one
boxes u oranges shipped bv Mr.. Soanda
Of Oyeido, Fla He also SAYS that four or
five days ago he wrote TO Fletcher's
customers, as far as he knew them
Encouraging further shipments, and that
he stopped shipment Of sixty boxes of
oranges from Mr.. Causey Of Seville, Fla,
70 whom Fletcher was indebted, but he
does not think that Fletcher owes Causey
oranges. According to Mr.. Davis state
ment Fletcher had taken a bill Of sale ten
days before, and concealed his fight until
Mr.. Palmer attempted to collect the pro-
tested check for his friend Waldron of
Welska, Fla, q week ago.
When Mr.. Davis was informed last night
that the MORNING NEWS had suspected the
house the week before Christmas, and had
learaed that Fletcher was using Davis letter
hauhs aud ha l.
to give satisfactory answers u the mercan-
tile agencies, to whom letters Of inquiry
had ceen directed both as to w. l.. File cher
and +. +. Davis d Co., evidently showing
that both Of them were in business, Mr..
Davis replied that he was ignorant Of the
fact that Fletcher had been using his sta
tionery, and he added that no regretted
that the MORNING NEWS had not at the
time exposed 10 MS lie would have been
better Off. He disclaimed all collision with
Fletcher and denied that he was in Fetch
er's employ. claiming that he has paid for
all goods shipped to f. +. Davis, and stated
that all goods coming hereafter to Fletcher
he will refuse 10 receive, but will turn over
to Simkins q Co.
He says that he cannot pay any more OF
Fletcher's debts, but that he shipped some
Of his own own goods TO Waldron. He paid
the protested check sent Waldron, and one
''i4'i uc SUN W Ohe . 'uIuoli Dduh, ne says
thinking that there would be no more Of
them, but when he found that there were
Others he stopped payment. or Fletcher
he says no knows comparatively little. He
was IN partnership with him in Hull, Mass,
last summer, but Us they did not fail.
The extent Of Fetchers indebtedness will
probably never be known, but it foOtS up
about $500 due only six Of the many Flor
id ans. North G rolina and Georgia cred
TORS have not yet been heard from, and
great deal OF goods came from both states.