The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1893-06-27
MIR. KosHLAND ON TRIAL.
he Has Formidable Array OF Legal
Talent.

i Talent.
PORTLAND, Or, June 26.-It has been
many months since case has appeared
in the criminal courts of Portland in
which SO much interest has been taken
by the public generally as that against
merchant Matthias Koshland, which
came up this morning.
Henry McGinn, for the prosecution,
stated that the prosecution was based on
on the statute passed by the session of
the legislature of 1886, referring to the
receipts issued by warehouses for goods
stored in the building. That the Jury
might understand the grounds for the
indictments returned by the grand jury,
he read the sections which referred to
the point at issue. He read the third
section of the statute, which states that
it shall be the duty of persons operating
warehouses, commission houses, mills
and other such buildings where grain,
wool, pork and other products are stored,
to deliver warehouse receipt, which
shall state from whom the wool was re-
ceived, date, etc. He read a following
section which states that no person shall
receipt for such products not actually in
the store, or shall issue receipts fraudu-
lently, and the penalty clause, which
makes the violation of the act crime,
and provides punishment of a fine of
not more than $4,000, or imprisonment of
more than five years, or both. Upon
this act, said the attorney, on March 81,
the grand jury returned Indictment
against I. Koshland, charging him with
violating this provision. That on Feb
ruary %, while running warehouse, or
place where wool was stored, the firm
known as Koshland Bros. did issue to
the Bank of British Columbia ware
house receipt purporting that they had
received 522 sacks of pork, equaling 1861
400 pounds. That in truth and in fact
the said Koshland had not this amount
of pork in the building when he issued
the receipts.
J. W. Whalley presented the case for
the defense.
He said that the defense lay in the de-
NAL that the statue under which indict-
ment was made referred to the defend
ants case. He did not carry on q pub
lie warehouse, but was an ordinary
bailee. He said that the law was
framed to provide for the prevention of
fraud by persons running public ware
houses, but was not intended to affect
commission men. AS a public ware
house, the state would have to show
that Koshland Bros. allowed depositors
to store goods in the building, which he
GO 4 xroe oIo = 10 case
The attorney then gave short his
tory of the firms business relations with
the bank of British Columbia, their
failure in business and their assignment
to that corporation. He stated that if
the goods mentioned in the excerpt did
not happen to be in their store at the
time it was to their credit, and that
the receipt WAS given to the bank
to balance their account, as is often
done in business transactions. eff"
said Mr.. Whalley, s'Mr. Koshland
wanted to defraud the bank, he could
easily legally kept the 100000 worth of
real estate which he turned over to the
bank to satisfy its claims He closed
with an appeal to take into considera-
ton the character of the defendant, and
the fact that he has stood among the
highest of business men in this city for
over % years.
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