St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-11-02
Judge Rooms Able Statement
of Collom's Side Of the
: Case.
The Very Intimate Relations
of Blaisdell With the
p
q Defendant.
Collom's Confession Was Made
at the Suggestion Of
~ Anderson.
It IS Said to Be Untrue and
= Should Not Be Used to
Convict.

At the opening of court yesterday
Hooker sustained the objection OF the
defense to the admission into the case
of Collom's schedule of liabilities in his
assignment.
E. I'll. Moulton, city treasurer and
cashier of the Farmers Il Mechanics
bank, was the first witness called. The
usual exhibits were all submitted to
him and he gave it as his opinion that
the Endorsement on exhibit A, which Is
the one in dispute, was not written by
the same person who wrote MIR. Blais-
dell's name or the others.
Mr.. Moulton, on croSS-examinatfOn,
said that he was not scientific expert
i'll pennmanShip, that he founded his
opinion upon the dissimilarity in the
signatures. He said that if he were
shown genuine signatures of Mr.. Blais-
dell which had the peculiar characters
tics of the one in dispute, it would
tend to shake his belief that the dis
puted signature was forgery.
+. A. Smith, cashier of the City bank.
was called and his evidence was almost
an exact reputation of that of Mr..
MoultOn, although the witness was not
SO clear as his reasons for thinking that
the disputed signature is a forgery. 1t
was quite evident that he was not an
expert witness.
j. T. Blaisdell was then called to the
stand by the defense for cross-examina-
ton and gave it as his opinion that his
signature on exhibit n is genuine.
He was asked if he did not have a
m, xuifIr I Wilfiama dfs-
count clerk OF the Security bank, on
Saturday, Aug. 8, at the time when he
waived protest upon some notes, and
asked If he did not say TO Mr.. Williams,
''Goshl did not know that l was on
all of them notes, but | will pay 'em
ALL"
Mr.. Blaisdell said he did not remem-
Der any such conversation.
He was asked If A. T. Merrill did not
present to him some notes bearing his
Endorsement and ask him If they were
genuine, and that he referred Mr.. Mer-
sriil to Frank f. Davis for all answer.
o; He said that he met man whom he
did not know. who asked him some
! snide question, and that he might have
told him that he had better go to the Of
flee of Mr.. Davis.
! He was asked If he did not have a
conversation with Daniel Bassett on
Aug. z, in which Bassett showed him
notes by COLON TO the amount of
,sl2,DO0. bearing his Endorsement, and
that he said they were all right.
= He said he told MIR. Bassett the sigma
lures were not his.
J.lW. Williams, discount clerk Of the
Security bank, was recalled, and said
that the note in dispute was brought to
the bank by Mr.. COLON.
w. B. Anderson was recalled by the
Rdefense for croSS-examination, and said
he came back from Gladstone, Mich,
Aug. 8. that on the train he had con-
verSation with E. S. Tieree. of Glad
stone, but denied that he told Mr.. 1ierce
that when the COLON matter was set
tied he expected to get $4,000 from 1.-THE
Old man."
III. M. Farnham was called by the
state to correct some minor inaccuracies
in his testimony, aud at the conclusion
Mir. Jamis0n announced that the state
rested the case.
The court then adjourned until
p. m.