St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-11-15
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bosoms of their respective families.
i Judge Hooker. the counsel, the tax
| payers, the jury. and even the re-
| porters, will be relieved when the end
| is reached, and the defendant will be
! i'm like fix if the verdict is one of ae-
| qnittai. The question as to how many
addresses will be made to the jury in
| closing is as yet unsettled. The law
| gives the defense the closing argument,
but it is said that the attorneys for Col
| ION desired that in case tour arguments
| were made to the jury the state should
/ make the two first and the defense the
two last. This the state was unwilling
to eoneede. 1t offered to alternate with
| the defense, giving it the close, but the
| proposition has not yet been accepted.
| The state practically rested its rebuttal
| last evening. The defense will proba-
| bly, call few witnesses this morning,
| and by this afternoon the arguments
| will doubtless be in full blast.
j. L. Blaisdeli was the first witness
| on the stand yesterday morning. He
| testified that he signed three notes in
| Collom's Office On July l. but did not
sign any on June %. and refreshed his
memory with regard to the transactions
by references to a red pocket memOran-
| dunn which he had, and in which, it is
claimed. he has entered all of the notes
| which he has Endorsed for Colon. The
state wished TO introduce this book in
| evidence, but it was ruled out. Contin-
| uing his testimony, he said:
II was in j. B. Bassett & Co.'s. Office
| in the Lumber exchange. on June q. l
went.there about 10 o'clock on that day
| to buy bill of lumber. l remained
there until about IL 30. when l went to
the yard of the company to look at the
! lumber. | went in buggy, which, l
suppose, belonged to the firm. A young
| man went with me and drove. 1t was
| black horse, and he got to the yards just
at the time the whistles were blowing
| for noon. went home on the motor,
| and got there about 1880.
"Mr. COLON was not in the habit of
calling at my house. and L do not re-
member that he called there On the
morning of June 80. He never con-
suited me about his investments, and l
never knew that he had bought prop
| erty at Gladstone, Mich, until after this
| trouble commenced. He did not men,
ton any statement which he had made
| to Mr. Chamberlain while he was with
me at Lake Minnetonka on Sunday.
July %. never said to him on our trip
! to Merriam Park what he says ! did
about paying his notes, and he never
told me that they amounted to over
100000. did not sign any notes in
Cellon's Office ON June %, nor did /
ever sign any in blank"
On cr0ss-examination Mr.. Blaisdell
said he signed some notes in Collom's
Office on July ]. some time in the morn
ing, but that Mr.. Num- was not there at
| the time; that the entries which he
made in his memorandum book were
made at the time of the transactions;
that he intended to keep track of all the
notes which he Endorsed, but did not
put down the 5000 fve-day note, which
he Endorsed early in July, because it
was for such short time. He said that
he did not at any time. indorSe notes for
COLON in Roekwond's room. George
Gage, an emplOye of j. b. BaSsett d
Co., testified that Mr.. Blaisdell was in
the Office OF that firm the greater part
of the morning of June %, but that he
went out and did not return be-
fore the witness went to dinner.
An adjournment was then taken until
| D. M. j. B. Bassett was the first wit
ness after dinner. He testified that
Mr.. Blasdeli was in his office on June
IS; that he came in between 9 and 10
O'Clock in the morning and remained
from One-half to one hour. When he
left the talk was that he was going to
our yard to look at lumber. | do not
know who went with him, but / think
he went with my horse and buggy. The
horse is black. w. l.. BasSett followed.
He said that Mr.. Blaisdeli was in J. B.
Bassett d Coz office on June %. in the
middle of the forenoon, and remained
about one hour. He did not recolect
what time he left nor who went with
HIM. At this point MIR. Blaisdell was
recalled by the defense and shown the
contract by which he sold COLON
the lots on which he commenced
his house. On the back of this con-
tract is receipt for S930.40 for interest
dated July l, 1889. Accompanying it
the witness was shown check for the
same amount from Collom and dated
the same day. The witness sa d that he
received the check on the day which it
Is dated and denied that on that day he
ih,lorsed So 900 note for COLON in the
Office of the defendant which was to
run five days. He said that he Endorsed
such note about that time in the Sc
curity bank; that COLON told him at
the time that he had a large real estate
deal on hand and expected to secure
loan.
Ii. N. Farnam was called and denied
statements that Colon made as to the
time when the deeds to Anderson were
made.
f. f. Davis was recalled and denied
that he said. as alleged by some of the
creditors ''he got all he wanted of COLON
for BlaisdeH's benefit. You had better
make the best settlement you can with
him." He SAID the creditors were both
ering him about getting settlement;
that he told them Blaisdell had nothing
to settle; they had better settle with
Coilem. He said that a number of the
creditors we're there, but that FL. N.
Peek did most of the talking.
ID. T. AmeS was recalled. The de-
Tense objected to his testimony on the
ground that 1t was not rebuttal, but
Judge Hooker held that as Mr.. Ames
had no opportunity to examine the
standard signatures of the defense be-
fore he testified in brief, but had since
examined them. his testimony was adj
Missile. He said that he had not
changed his opinion as to Exhibit A be-
ing a forgery. but, on the contrary, an
examination of the exhibits of the de-
Tense had e0ntirmed him in that opinion.
He took large photographs of Exhibit
A and defendants exhibits ~ and ~
and compared them to show that exhibit
A is not like exhibit II, as the experts
for the defense claim. Some tracings
of MIR. B!aisdelfs signature which he
had offered in evidence were not re-
ceived. DIR. Taiman was also recalled
and testified to the same. He exhibited
some large cartoons of exhibits A. IL
and rs. made by the camera lucida
process, and showed wherein the last
two differed from the first. He also ex-
hibited some Photographic Transparent
cies of the exhibits. and. by superimpes-
ing one on the other before the window,
undertook to demonstrate that exhibit
A is forgery. Attic close of his testi-
mony the state rested ITS rebuttal evil
dence and the court adjourned until 10
o'clock this morning.