San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-07-13
THE NEWS EMBROGLIO.
WHO THE OWNERS AND STOCK
HOLDERS ARE.
A Good Many Politicians Seem to
Have Had a Finger in the
Pie or Soup.


press work to the amount of Sl21.07,
came up in Justice Herron's court
yesterday afternoon at $3.50 o'clock.
Messrs. Blair & Hobbs acting as at
torneys for the plaintiff and w. h.
Huston, attorney for the defendant.
Mr.. Blair demanded, before pro-
ceeding with the examination, that .
list of the stockholders of the News
publishing company be furnished,
which was objected to by Attorney
Huston. who claimed that the books
of the company nad been destroyed in
the fire and that the duplicate book
only showed a part of the stock hold
Ars, claiming that the remainder of
the ockholders could not be
remembered. The objection was
soverruled and the secretary of
the company, on demand, produced
the duplicate stockholders book. On
investigation of the same, it was
found that there were twenty eight
stock holders, five of which had been
filled out blank, five given out and
the remainder not accounted for, the
secretary claiming that they could
not be remembered. The names of
the stockholders given so far are
Theo. Kunzmsn, thirty-four shares;
Henry Ryder-Taylor, three shares;
Louie Marke, three shares; P. II.
Pond, two shares; and Otto Wahr-
mund, one share.
Mr.. Fritz Russi, city street commits
sioner, was called as the first witness
and made in substance, the following
statements:
'.Some time before the fire, which
was May Is, was told that l was
treasurer of the News Publishing
Company, and acted in that capacity,
although L was not q stakeholder nor
n director; dsn't Know whether L was
appointed or net but they told me L
was treasurer. After the fire [ did
not act as such tor there was not q
cent in the treasury; before the john
con Bros, Printing Company ordered
new type after the fire they said that
q deposit of $40 was necessary before
ordering and furnished the money;
the goods were then sent for and ar
rived through FrobOese d Santleben.
They had to be paid for before they
were delivered and Mr.. Kunz.
man, president of the company,
came TO me and told ME of
the affair and that he had no
money belonging to the company. l
took an interest in the paper and
went and borrowed of Albert Myers
$500 and gave my note for that amount,
with Thad Smith and Jacob Weber as
security. 1 then paid Johnson Broth.
ers $50, and paid tor the type and
other goods, which were being held
for payment. / then mad the plant,
including chairs, stools, tables and
everything, transferred TO me to SO.
secure me, and became owner of the
entire belongings of the company, the
transfer being written by Ryder.Tsy.
lor. D)n't think that the stockhold-
ers were notified as to the transfer. l
went to DIR. Amos Graves and he con-
tributed to me personally, q draft for
800, payable to me, as donation to
be used In cancelling the debts OF this
company. Did not give him any
security, neither was he given
stock in the company and
is not now, am positive, q
ockholdor in the concern" On
cross examination when DR.. Graves
draft was produced, he testified that
he did not get a draft from Graves,
but tnst Graves gave him an order
on Kslteyer & Son, and they. the
latter, gave him the draft. Mr.. Russi
continues: Il then endorsed the draft
and gave it to Johnson Brothers
Printing company as part payment
of what the News company owed
them. | never received any money
from Bryan Callaghan. have, on
one occasion only, believe, received
money from Judge McAllister and /
think he is a stakeholder in the COM
psny. There were $50 gotten from
Otto Wshrmund for chairs sold by the
company, but / did not get that
money. 1 have paid all told,
something like 5000 or 500 for the
News company. After the transfer
of the goods aud belongings OF the
company was made, verbally agreed
to rent to said company the stock
etc, at IS per month. Have no writ
ten agreement to that effect. Then
after this oral agreement we again
orally agreed that as soon as the
News Publishing company was finsn.
cially able to do so, they were to pay
me the money that 1 had advanced
and by so doing become the owners OF
the entire plant"
Mr.. Blair then in his cross. examin.
alton asked again If he had ever
signed his name as treasurer of the
company since the fire. He stated
positively that he did not and when
an order, signed by him as treasurer
was produced he said he had forgot
ton and said that so far as be knew
now, he had not since signed AZ
treasurer.
The court then adjourned, it being
6 O'Clock, to convene at 10 o'clock this
morning.
Mr.. Russi, at the opening of court
was anain nIacad ON thu atand and