The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-09-17
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the company. and unless these securities are re-
stored the company will be ruined, and in or Ter
TO get these securities restored to the company
the officers OF the company are willing to pledge
immunity to this transgressor 1t has some
times happened in the course of business affairs
thata young man, trusted, had been given the
confidence OF the institution that employed
him; who had been given full and complete
sweep and who had fallen, nobody knows how.
and had taken their money, had been forgiven
by the institution and they had been willing to
have hushed up the matter. II has happened
amongst good men, that the employer of
institution felt that probably in view of the
years of the employe and the implicit
trust that had been placed in him, that they
themselves had been somewhat bameable in a
moral point of view by giving too much scope
and sweep TO the young man. and that they
would be willing to save him provided they
could do it without injury to their institution.
1t may not, under q strict law, be right to do
that, but it is human nature and it is something
that is sometimes done, and we know that it is
done by the very best of people; it is done
through the kindness OF heart, and through the
generosity of the employer, through desire to
give the a trial once more. This may
have passed through the mind of Robert
B. Albertson. merely give this as an illustra-
ton. 1t may be that Mr.. Albertson having had
communicated to him that the institution would
be lett without its securities, but by this ar
rangement they should be restored, and that if
they were restored these people were willing to
sign the paper that should guarantee immunity
as far as it could be done, under the law. to this
person. Now under these circumstances Mr..
Albertson did not like to have anything to do
with it, and yet at the same time he does not
think it is right, or manly, or generous thing
not to do it IT, without hurting anybody, he can
save the honor of a party and preserve to
this company its property. The next day after he
had communicated with his partners, he did
draw an agreement, and that agreement in blank
was read to this court. Ny learned friend says,
is 1t not strange that knowing that that was7a
bank, and Its combination taken, and neces-
sarily the bank closed, that there must neces-
sariy be something wrong in the story which
was narrated to him by this individual, Mr.
Ross. Now, the trouble with that is my learned
friend is on the imaginary side of the fence
again; there Is not q word in that document
about the combination of the safe. There is not
a word in that document of a vault; there is not
a word in that document, if your honor please,
about the combination of a vault, or about
bank, and there Is not a word in the testimony
of Mr.. AlbertsOn to the effect that the institu-
ton was a bank On the contrary, Mr. Dom
worth, his partner, knew of Mr. Ross in
Seattle who had been engaged in the life insur-
ance business and was an attorney at law
There was nothing to indicate that it was a
bank, and there is nothing in the testimony
that it was Ny learned friend has confused
the later events with what transpired at the
time that this was at Albert
sons place. From the testimony
it appears that the agreement which
was signed was not the agreement that was pre-
pared by Mr.. Albertson; that was not the
agreement that signed by Mr.. Wallace, if
the statements of Mr.. Wallace and Mr.. Powell
and Mr.. Campbell be true in regard to the con-
tents of that documenr, and as far as they went
think they are They all swear that that in
strument was in manuscript: that it had refer
ence TO the combination of the vault as well as
to the restoration of the securities; that the
securities were designated in that instrument,
none OF which as the instrument shows which
was read here, appeared in the document which
Mr.. Robert B. Albertson drew. Time passes on.
Mr.. Albertson was mystified and speaks of it to
his partners He submitted that TO George II.
Preston aud he submitted it to George Donworth
He took no step in the matter because it excited
his attention, and was calculated to create an
interest in q matter of that kind, and he talked
it over with his partners, and was unable to
think what one of his friends had committed so
serious an offense Time went on and he sup
posed the whole matter was settled. The first
intimation, subsequent to that time, that he
had of the real state of the case was
in brief letter received by him about
the same time that he received a
telegram. The letter came from Edward
Albertson and the telegram from Mrs. Albertson
Robert B. Albertson received letter from Ed
ward Albertson is strong circumstance OF the
guilt of Robert b. Albertson. Now, il yonr
honor please, let us examine the situation. On
Sunday or Monday Mr. Albertson received
letter from Edward Aibertson in which the
writer stated that the man Ross, whose real
name was Chandler Il do not know whether
that was in the letter or mott, who called on you
some time ago. called in my interest
That letter was read by Mr.. George Fl. Preston;
he has stated its contents in terms
precisely as Mr.. Albertson has done. The let
ter, instead OF duplicating or discriminating Mr.
Albertson, Is the very strongest circumstance
that Albertson had nothing to do with il, and
had no knowledge of the conduct of his cousin,
| Edward Albertsou. He DESTROYED the letter, it
| Is true. That, my learned friend
says, is strong circumstance. I
| do not know how my learned friend
would feel in regard to that, but think should
know how should feel If had been in Mr. Al
bertson's place and received a letter from a
| cousin with whom had an acquaintance, and
who had committed a crime of the character
| that this man, Edward Albertson, committed,
| and who should then write TO me, am sure I
| would very promptly destroy that letter.
would not have any connection
| by letter or otherwise with any
one who degraded his family
as that man had. I can see how a man situated