The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-03-12
DISPUTED CHECK.
story Of George w. Cranes
SIX Hundred Dollars.
DEARsoRN's ACCOUNT.
g. . - ouit Against Dexter Herton
Statements From Both
oides-C Court News.

4 ~ hank, vas begun before Judge Osborn
~ ~ superior court yesterday afternoon. The
" q he question: put to number of Jurors
ii q 4. Blaine, Of counsel for the defense, in.
800 that before the case Il through there
- = startling Developments.
4 ~ isous y really whether check for 600,
s 49, Aneu 81 1890. payable to Mary L Dear
kn 4 months after date, and bearing
49, el1oeed signature Of Mr.. Crane, was
& 80 oiened BY him or not N. Il.
n mauager Of Dexter Horton q Co., and
B peaebcrn assert that the signature II that
& n r, Crane, but that gentleman denies that
& r. - dgued the check in question: The
s ~ returned to Mr.. Crane after it, pay
& & e October 26, and was repudiated By him.
& ~ o. hanks refusal to credit his account with
e. aneunt Of II, he entered the present suit.
81 TE Crone stated his side Of the case to Z Posr-
y ssosHcsR reporter q follows: "For :
~ q years have kept my hank account
- pu3see Horton 4 Co. Ny dealings with
a ~ Ink amounted to thousands Of dollars each
-. frequently my account was overdrawn
- e tlmee my ovcrdraft amounted to q much
kNo q more. To secure these oyerdrafts
81 ~ with the bank ample securities.
dUtm came 10 check up my bank account
- G link check for $500 to which my
go ~ been forged. 1t was drawn in favor
4 N bcafborn, with whose husband have
l.
S19 ~ seen or heard OF this check. The
7111Dm q my signature was most clumsy. and
1G1l4 - 70 whom have shown the check
Is heettation pronounced II . forgery.
III f. - bank, showed Mr.. lAtimef and
RI n Denny the check, and they 1t once
1T IL was forged. Mr.. Latimer
"a RI oount would be credited with the
&c, and requested me not to make
M UcoDsing regret that had informed Mr..
H5 my attorney, who had accompanied
q - x two after this Mr. Latimer sent for
- when went to the bank informed me
~ ~ Impressive aud mysterious manner
Mn 1ad made some discoveries regarding
0eeoenk which surprised and panied him very
nnek Ho then intimated his belief that had
go, the nature Of which he did not disclose.
y ~ In said that, while It caused him the most
1 olln pefn 70 believe that had been guilty of
- a. cot, be must persist in charging the
81 - ny account. / told him that the sigma
IN h9o no resemblance to mine, and that he
& 4o14 = given an opportunity to prove his In
.1s!ona then closed my account and In
4 ming suit at once. The bank has refused to
ua = me the securities deposited by me,
oqrh DO not owe them dollar In any
- % the part Of the bank. unless It Il apart
vpc1eme to haIaso and annoy me into paying
~ tsle6 check. Papers have been prepared
ted ~ my attorneys In suit 70 recover
HI Latimers whole course in this matter
NQo . b based on the idea that there ID some
- behind this check which am afraid to
Hnde public, and that win shoulder the
- = avoid some kind OF exposure. know OF
tot mine Of which l should be ashamed,
shall not submit to blackmail from any
eyon when the scheme u backed By % In
oa an institution - Dexter Horton 4 Co,
~ whole matter can be stated In very few
: The bank has paid forged check and
Neks to avoid the consequent loss BY threat
- the suit against the bank Is concluded,
~ 70 b able to make m example OF the
-, whose identity, I think, eau BE- estab-
- I believe the forger to be . married
IN, with whose husband have had bust
his Is not the first forged check paid BY
Ii Horton 4 Co: and the judgment against
p@ In my suit will not be the first one rem
I'D against them in such suit"
. me most material part OF the case for the de-
- does not appear in Its answer TO the suit.
- answer was simple denial that the bank
qnsunts. making . total of Sl4,s5009 had been
AVN out BY him during the months of October
Q1 November, 1850, being the total amount 10
!. The case Of the bank rests mainly on the evil
nee OF Mrs Dearborn, the payee Of the check.
- 10 the wife Of Erastus Dearborn, who until
1year ago was logger at Ross and Wayne Sta
\ about IS years Of age and Is OF not unaftract-
temperance. Her account Of the reasons for
H. Cranes giving her the check goes back to
9. 1Ssr to the d:s
uveral houses conducted by her and has acted
: business agent for herself and her husband:
~ when she was conducting the Wykoff house
: numerous times after that date;
bat o. . consequence Of her intimacy with
HIM her health failed and she needed constant
pedical care and could not take care OF her
thof rif,Aa
oeeaeeu her and Crane. Mrs. Dearborn's story
vnAAt ct this time her husband wanted TO buy
4ege on some timber land: that Crane was
nfaNew Hampshire, secured by . mortgage
Eoperty OF hers In Seattle. with which
pM0 his purchase; that she delayed sign
- g mortgage. owing TO her quarrel with
~ md that her husband reproached her for
Ind for quarrelina with Crane; that on the
eo11E Of April 10. 1890, " hen they were talk
q this subject, she remarked to her
kSl1end that Crane was not SO good friend to
- = he thought. Then she tells how on the
~ morning Dearborn asked her what she
- meant by this remark, and she confessed
~ she had been intimate with Crane; how
sne cartridges and after wandering around the
Su " indecision went to Cranes Office on the
auefs return from church, accused him OF
WAND his happiness and with loaded re-
3 svtyet pointed at him threatened to shoot him.
vn Monday evening, April q, Mrs. Dearborn
~ Crane came to her house on James street
- legged her to pacify her husband; the sub
~ o. the mortgage had been dropped and
Ssne had bought or agreed to buy Dearborn's
sSs,ng camp, paying for IL partly In cash and
10y IN property, the papers being
- April IS. Mrs. Dearborn feared
~ ner husband would now leave her in sick
ana poverty, unable to support herself BY
Smtanx ooarders, and with q heavy doctors
~ 70 pay; she says that she told her fears to
49, ana appealed to him for help, Is he had
~ ner ubies: that Crane was in terror OF
lusoand, and asked her to sign a declaration
Syng her intimacy with him: that he then
ner check for $500, dated April 20 by
s - 70 pay for medical care and tide over
Isc1ness, and that she, not voluntarily,
" tne declaration he asked for.
sNemptory challenges were exercised against
son called upon the jury, when It was
s1 ~ that he 10 a member OF the same church,
ymouth Congregational, with the plaintiff.
Sesiared that even though the plaintiff be-
~ 70 the same church with himself, and It
S;, hu appear In the case that the plaintiff was
~ VI immoral conduct, he would not. when
= q juror, allow caurch scandal to
Nstict oii iiis inano in arriving ~
~ ~ prosecution took evidence from Mr. Crane
~ nat checks he had drawn, and from sew
81 ~ sitneeses as to the genuineness of the sig
Ss sH 70 the disputed check. Mr. Latimer then
b EGsAeo Tor the bank that Mr. Crane had at first
Eso3 and afterwards practically admitted
slgneu the check. The case will proba-
py the court throughout today.
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