Los Angeles herald., 1890-11-15
Henry Edelman Charged with
Having Collected One.
Did He Stick that Sixty-four
Dollars in His Pocket?
First Cousin COhn's Deplorable Loss
of Memory.
Which He Ascribes to Smoking Too Much.
Lauterio Testifes and Mr.. Dunsmoor
Identifies Defendants Writing.

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sumed yesterday. The jury is composed
of J. K. Stump, William Evans, A. G.
Day, j. w. Woodruff, l.. S. Butler, G.
Charnock, Dan Jones, Mathew Dins-
more, w. Dockseder, E. Sorabje, Jean
Parkes and Edwin Gregory. The people
are represented by Jesse Hardesty, dep
uty district attorney, and Alexander
Campbell, special counsel. For the de-
fendant S. M. White and Henry T. Gage
are counsel of record. Jabez Banbury,
county treasurer, after taking the stand
testified that L. B. Cohn, pawnbroker.
had on divers occasions presented county
warrants to him for payment. Among
them was the "Bliss'' warrant for s64,
paid March 9th, 1885, The endorse
ment was Cohn's writing. L. B. Cohn
stated that the defendant is his first
cousin. He didn't know exactly who
brought the warrant to his pawnshop.
He had received warrants ON several
occasions from Henry Edelman. He
did not know exactly who had author
lied him to sign F. A. Bliss on the back
of the warrant, but he thought it was
the person he got it from. He had not
exactly stated to Mr.. Hardesty on Thurs
day that the defendant had authorized
him to sign. Witness had signed F. A.
Bliss, by L. B. Cohn. He did not recol-
lect whether Henry Edelman was pres
ent when he (witness) saw the warrant
for the first time.
Frank Lauterio, ex-deputy county au
ditor, followed. He swore that he
saw warrant 1908 in the auditors office
at the time it was issued. His recollec-
tion was that he delivered it to Henry
in the habit of delivering to him slips of
paper with the names of Jurors, and
their amount of pay, upon them. Wit
ness then drew warrants which were
handed to defendant. The "Bliss" war
rant was made out either by Sackett Cor
nell or Wood.
Up to this point the defendant had
not yet been connected with the war
rant, and a recess was taken till two
O'Clock.
Frank Lauterio was again placed on
the stand in the afternoon. The wit
ness stated that the defendant brought
him a paper with number of names
upon it, to whose credit certain sums
had been placed for jury fees. Among
these names was that OF Bliss. The
defendant said to him, that he had au-
thority to draw warrants for all the par
ties whose names were on the paper.
The witness admitted that he issued the
warrants. but he corrected himself by
saying that he had delivered the war
rants, which had been prepared by some
one else in the Office, to Edelman.
Lauterio, on crOss-eXamination. con-
fessed that he had conferred with Mr..
Hardesty during recess. He stated that
he left the auditors Office on June II,
1889. He admitted being under indict-
ment, and that his case had been pend
ing nearly sixteen months. He denied
having made an arrangement with the
district attorney whereby he was guar
anteed immunity if he would turn
states evidence against Henry Edel-
man.
The stub book from which the Bliss
warrant had been taken was shown
Lauterio. He pointed out the stub,
which was offered in evidence. The
written part of it is in witnesses hand
writing.
Ex-Supervisor J. w. Venable testified
that in 1878 he was member of the
board and chairman of the finance COM
mittee. He identified a document as
having passed through his hands at that
time. 1t was filed but not read. the
prosecution stating that it would be
read when other testimony, showing its
relevancy, was introduced. The dOcu-
ment was afterwards identified as jury
list, in which the name of Bliss ap-
peared. The list had been audited and
allowed by Mr.. Venable. Other jury
lists, passed by witness during his term
of Office, were also identified by him.
L. B. Cohn was recalled, and his tes-
timony before Justice Austin at the
preliminary examination of the defend
ant, was read to him by Mr.. Hardesty.
Mr.. Cohn's memory has become
badly deficient, as he could not
recollect any of the answers
he made at that time, and he in fact
stated tnat he could not remember hav-
ing given any testimony either at Aus
tins or anywhere else. The failure of
Cohn's memory caused suppressed
laughter in the audience several times.
He remembered that he had received
warrants from Henry Edelman, but it
took powerful urging to get him to rec
ollect such an unimportant incident.
Smoking Mr.. Cohn said, was the cause
of his regrettable loss of memory.
f. A. Bliss OF Duarte, where he has a
lIult IdHCIl, odltt IC ldQ ScINcu as u
juror in October, November and a part
of December, 1888, after which he was
excused and did not serve again in the
supreme court. Being shown the $64
warrant, he said he had never received
the money, nor was there any money
.due him by the county as term trial
juror. The Endorsement on the war
rant was not written by him, and he
had authorized no one to sign for him.
He further said that he had not acted
as juror in January, 1889, and had not
given authority to any body to receipt
for $64 for him, alleged to have been
paid to him for such services. Bliss
said he was the only man of that name
residing at Duarte. He swore that in
1889 he had not acted as a juror.
G. H. Dunsmoor, ex-county clerk, tes-
titled that he appointed the defendant
as clerk of one of the departments of the
superior court. A certified copy OF the
appointment was admitted in evidence.
Witness identified the jury list in which
Bliss was credited with $64 as being in
the handwriting of the defendant. The
list was then offered in evidence.
The trial will be resumed this morn
ing at 10 O'Clock.
HONEY AND MONEY.