The record-union., 1891-03-21
HANGING FIRE.
No Result Yet Reached in the Waste
Basket investigation.
Attorney~Gerreral Hart Wants W. B.
Carr and w. II. Brown Examined
Tracing the Money.

resume the investigation into the alleged
use OF money in connection with legis-
iation OF some sort, as indicated by the
finding OF certain papers in room in the
State Library.
When the committee had been called
to order, Mr.. Salomon, who represents
Assemblyman Dibble in the matter, was
permitted TO read from a telegram pub
hshed in the San Bernardino Courier of
several days ago, which had been sent
from Sacramento to that paper, and con-
tanned reference to the Riverside bin in
connection with the affair that occurred
in the library. He wished to enter de-
nial, in behalf of Mr.. Dibble, to the in
situations contained therein.
Mr.. Leake was recalled and asked by
General Hart where he was on Monday
evening. ana witness went for the Office
register to see what entries it showed. 1t
was shown by the register that Mr.
Leake and deputy Clark were in the
library from o'clock that evening until
alter 8, witness leaving little before the
latter; also, that Miss Green, another
deputy, was there from p. NJ. until 9:I5.
Mr.. Leake said he could not recall the
fact of any outside person having occu-
pied the library Office on that evening
he could not say positively. He had no
recollection OF having received circular
from person named Atkinson, of Chi
cago, but such things We're received al
most daily, and he could not remember
any particular one. The mail was opened
usually about o'clock in the morning.
The torn circular found in the waste
basket with the other scraps may have
been thrown there by him, but he did not
remember it. Usually he threw his waste
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money was ever handled by the employees
OF the library, all transactions being in
warrants.
Various questions were asked Mr..
Ieake concerning what was done by at
taches OF the library on the evening be-
tore the papers were found, or the follow
ing morning, but nothing new was
elected.
THOSE CHECKS.
a Mr.. Tucker, a resident of Fresno, was
called, and asked if he could identify the
handwriting on the back of one of the
checks. It looked to him like that of Mr..
Mckenzie, one of the bank officers, but
he was not prepared TO say that it was his.
BY this time MIR. Mckenzie himself had
arrived, and being shown the blank
checks said they were the same as used
in his bank. The writing on the back
was that of Mr.. Hopkins, one of the
clerks in the bank. The slips of paper
supposed to have inclosed packages OF
currency were the same as the bank some
times used, but witness could not iden-
tify the figures thereon.
Mr.. Hart asked witness if any sum OF
s. 800 was paid out in currency on the
10th, and he replied that he could not say
without consulting his books, which he
had left at the hotel. The figures
8-l6o seemed to indicate the date
OF March 10th; he did not see what
else they could mean. Some of the
figures appearing on the backs of the
checks Were not in Mr.. Hopkins hand
writing. He knew that S., 800 was sent a
few days ago from his bank to the Crocker-
Noolworth Bank in San Francisco: it
was in currency.
waiting for them Mr.. Barling. paying
teller and assistant cashier of the bank.
WAS called. He identified the figures So
14-9l' as those of Mr.. Hopkins. The
checks were such as are used by the bank
He did not think the figures or the words
Fresno" on the bands We're those of Mr..
Hopkins. Some of the figures on the
back of the checks were made by Mr..
Hopkins, but others he thought We're not.
To all appearances the figures ON the
bands or wrappers were made by the
same person that made most of the figures
on the other slips. The figures ''3-16'' ON
some of the slips We're not, witness
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WHAT THE BOOKS SHOWED.
The banks cash book was here pro-
duced, and witness read therefrom to
show that on Saturday, the 14th, So. 800
was sent by express to the Crocker- Wool
worth Bank. Witness could not say that
the figures ''3-16'' on the bands were made
by any attache of the CrocBer- Woolworth
bank. He thought the blank checks ex-
hlbited were the same that inclosed the
If tn hn lott
bank.
Mr.. Barling then examined the book
and found that no large sums We're paid
out on Monday or Tuesday.
The figures appearing on the bands, or
wrappers, were then figured up by the
committee and found to aggregate $500.
Witness said that if the other s., 900 was
drawn from the Crocker- oolworth
Bank, ii was probably unbound and the
bills inclosed in the other packages. The
currency sent to San Francisco was not
in the name of any person.
Mr.. Mckenzie was recalled and testi-
fed that the blank checks used as bands
the same as inclosed the money sent from
the Fresno Bank to the Crocker- w ool-
worth Bank The ''3-l4' indicated the
day the packages left his bank, and the
''3-16'' figures We're in the handwriting OF
some one else.
the date Saturday on which the money
left Fresno. and the latter the date Mon
day. on which it was handled by the bank
in San Francisco.
Mr.. CARR DEPARTS.
AT this juncture Attorney-General
Hart asked that W. B. Carr be called. and
that the Cashier of the Crocker- Wool
worth Bank be subpenaed-these were all
the witnesses he desired to call.
The Sergeant-at-Arms was sent in
search of Mr.. Carr, and reported that the
latter had left on the morning train fol
San Francisco.
General Hart said that Mr.. Carr had
promised him he would wait until called
as a witness, and he proposed that he be
telegraphed for, as well as W. ii. Brown
and the Cashier of the Crocker-W " ool-
worth Bank, which it was decided to do
The committee then adjourned until s
o'clock liz the evening.
At the Evening Session.
When the committee reassembled in the
evening, the first witness called was Ed
ward Cushing, the San Francisco banking
agent for Wells. Fargo q Co. He testified
that on the 10th instant he received q
package of paper money from the Fresno
Loan and Savings Bank. and delivered il
TO the conSignee, w. Gregg, Jr., of the
Crocker-W Woolworth Bank. who receipted
therefor The package, which was of the
value OF $500, was delivered about 9SO
a. NJ, before banking hours. 1t proba-
bly, arrived Sunday night, and it might
have been Saturday night.
These facts were shown by COPY of q
way-bill produced by the witness, who
said he had talked with no person con-
cerning the matter for which he was sub
penaed.
RIyFRSTOE Ac,rN