The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-10-11
yvrr1E cLABKE's CHARGES.
uar Cross-sxamination Throws Grave
doubt Upon Their Truth.

Providence, q. - 49, - :
Icing. Settls L. Clarke's forgery cise VIII
40 70 .bs Jury tomorrow. probably not
So than noon. Yesterday, at the close
- IF /, looked as though she was sure
OF seouIttaL Tonight there does not
VI 10 be the same chance for her.
~ ftho continued her story this morning.
sar,,r she went 20 look up .. alexander
S sns and not finding him drove to Fred
90 IL Hock's place, where she Was shown
Sn';.h's wedding cards, the name Of the
1 ,'-iii.' b,inC Nellie Clarke King. 1t was
IL IL. Who sugges Ell that she stop the pay
-,,e9t of the 81 600 telegrsphed to Smith,
lle 3 = mas he who went with her TO see that
toe money was withheld.
While reciting this portion OF the story
NJ. Clarke wept, and this worked the big
c-ovd of women up to like fearful pitch.
O. 5aried that she borrowed any money
one for Smith and averred that he was
+he ore who prepared the notes through
.,-I,icb she was made an innocent victim.
1-tar came the cross-eXamination, and it
,ros most thorough and searching. and at
ire conclusion Nettie was nervous, OK
| bops.ed and hard pressed for answers.
| E-eonantlv she completely lodged the ques-
| lion or refused to answer.
sns admitted that she did rot leave home
tor ire south until Feb. "a, and that she did
/ ot Know Oh suCl a lAAeAu Go 1Alc4-
dor smith until Feb 2S Then she ad-
roilrsd that the note for $1,000 which she
bn1 discounted was dated Feb. IA. conse
onantlv Smith could have had nothing to
II With IT. Then she was asked who she
Siscounted the Sc, 900 note for on July l, aud
vi II was done for Smith and that it was
bis money. This brought I'D the ques-
ton WHY she took his money aud paid her
own obligations with it. she finally said
that the Ralph note. being about to come
Sra Saith had given her his note which
sbe sent to Broker Ralph as better security.
Psloh had already testified that that note
came to him entirely unsolicited and that
Ia never considered it as his own or
waited it
Going back to the Ralph note, Miss Clarke
vas asked how much money she gave to
smith while in the south. She at first said
that she could not possibly tell. and then
FIAT IL was considerable. 1t took ten min
ptes to induce her to say how much money
s1e took south. but at last she said 1t was
5000. Her board cost her $15 a week,
iss IS for Alexander's music lessons. She
was in Townsville less than eleven weeks,
anil her extras and her travelling expenses,
with $3.50 given to Smith while en- route,
used up all her IS, 900 except less than 500.
That is. there was $1,000 she couldn't ac-
count for.
This seemed to make a very bad impress
sion on the jury. From Townsville to
4 New York the attorney general jumped
with alacrity. She was asked why, if it
q was Smiths money she sent to him, she had
presumed TO stop the payment of his checks
q atthe Western Union Office. She wouldn't
N say that it was because she had been Tilted,
n but because she had been deceived in his
representatious that he wanted the money
for his tuition in college, and because of his
4 deceit in other things.
She had sworn that she was unac-
ouainted with business matters, but the
state compelled her to identify a note for
4 $500 which she had given to Mrs. Hough on
June Is. She denied that she told Mrs
Hough that she wanted to get all the money
size could TO send to New York to have ln-
vested for her by Smith.
Then the government produced two let
tiers, which she admitted that she wrote, in
one of which she promised to pay Mrs.
Hongh back i'll two weeks, and in the other
Gliding her for telling that which she hal
been asked to keep as confidential; and
these were written one week before the
forged note was passed by her.
She admitted that she stopped the pay
ment of Smiths telegraphic money order
before she knew that the forgery had been
discovered and that any inquiries were
being made as to her whereabouts. She
would not say that she did not tell Treasurer
Knight at the bank that she had had money
left TO her and that she had loaned it to MIR
Iourteliot at per cent, aud that that was
why she had his note in her possession. She
thought she told him that Mr.. Tourtellor
held the security for the note and that il
had been given to her-that is, that DIR.
Smith had given the money to her TO be
hers after they were married A direct
"a fhic
evaded
William F. Hook of New York corrob-
GRATED her story as to the wedding card:
ana her visit to the telegraph office, his idea
being to help her stop the payment. because
II he, too, was creditor OF Smith.
The defense mere rested and the govern.
ment recalled Treasurer Knight, who con,
tradlcted Nettie on the point of her loan &c
1ourtellot, and put Annie Scrutton Hougf
On the witness stand. She is the younI
"a widow whom Nettie swindled ont of hard
n earned money that size was saving M fo
the education of her two little children
81 When she took the witness stand Nettit
81 would not look at her, but kept her fac,
Il covered with her handkerchief. She SAID
Nettie came to her, told her that she wa,
making much money in New York on DR.
SmGhS Investments for her and promisal
n Us ~ per cent. year and bonus of 500
one parted with her money on these repre-
sensations, but had never been able to get s
penny back. This closed the evidence,
81 strong point against Nettie was he,
own admission that she saw Smith write :
"A note for $500, which note was ussd in the
trlal. The handwriting is the samg as ir
smiths letters and entirely different from
a enaU IN eae forged notes, whereas the writ
II ing IN her own note to Mrs. Hough aud tina
N IA tne forged notes seem the same.
Df. Snnth married Miss Nellie Kina 9
81 member OF Dr. Howard Crosby's oonerera.
Ion and whose mother and father live or
East twenty sixth street. A friend of The
# family states that when the WorICy I, 70,
pGonshsd the story of Nsttie Clark's trouble
LlpS' KING sent it to her son-in
M%, now living in Thomasyille, Ga.
IsAlng INN to reply. He prompt
d ulo SO. saying the charge,
Llaue by MISS Clarke were false and tina
cue was bad woman. He ha advanced
u Her money at the time she was south. anf
tue money which he had received from he,
sllCe their arrival north was in payment Of
er Indebtedness to him. The family h.
.leYe mat Nettie Clarke invented the state
tLeIgS sac has made against Smith. Said
IA ha friend: -'0
Know that Mr.. aud Mrs. Smith in
" SSnued to return to New York this fall. Mr.
t2Ilioh wanted to complete his studies here
IoLh what l learned few days ago | cal
'a0e Una they will not come north now"
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