The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-07-14
MAY GO FREE
Checks and Bills Disagreed.
But the States Case
Is Weak.

II va L<tAStAN ~
Ter in the trial of Alexander S. Let's,
charged with having embezzled $23, 1866. 93
from the Pennsylvania Railroad was
concluded late yester lay afternoon. 1t
resulted IN placing the accused man in a
more favorable light before the jury. Mr..
Butler was shown some receipts purport-
ing to have been signed by Let's. He
said the signatures did not look all alike.
and he would not swe II that they were
in The handwriting of Let's. Mr.. Butler
said further that two cash clerks had
access TO the money drawer.
Herbert Temple, agent for the Adams
Express Company, was the mex witness.
He identified some freight bills as ones
that he had paid. but he could not posi-
lively say TO whom he paid the money.
When he paid freight bills he was salts
fled when he received his receipt, and he
did not concern himself about what be-
came of the money.
IN LET'S DESK.
: Charles E. Gordy. the last witness ex-
I amined yesterday. testified that he was
cashier in the freight department.: had
been such since 1881. On September 2S
Eugene Hicks. a clerk, called his atten-
tion to a discrepancy in the a%ccopnts with
ING 1911 11EfCI 1OhOy btAAC al III
v~estiYatien and fouud some bills stamped
as paid in the bill book which were not
entered 10 the cash book. He cOrrobor-
ated Mr.. Butler o notifying Let's in
the office lat his accounts showed a
shortage, and said further that he troke
into Let's desk and found there a meun-
orandpm of bill numbers and amounts on
1t. Gordy did not at first know what
the numbers and figures represented. but
later he found out that the figures Tailed
with q number of Fall River bills
amounting in all to 81 ,25S. 10. The bills
were all stamped paid in tins. bill book.
but did not ppear in the cash book. He
also fonnd four checks that had heen re-
ceiyed from the Fall Rive Linz on July
30, In payment of freight bills. One
check from Stanley Brothers for 81. 100
was In the hatch, but nil that was entered
on the cash book was Sl22. Mr.. Gortiy
also learned that the account of the
Harlem Riaer Company had been raised
60 Sl5. 5s6.6 60 to cover a supposed dlscrep-
apcy,
Mr.. Gordv admitted that he did-not
Know who received the checks.
The Harlem River Companv's account
book showed that a check had been paid
on September 2, but the bank book i'll the
Office showed that the same check had
gust account.
FAVORABLE TO LETS.
Cross-examined by Counsellor Black,
Mr.. Gordy said DO money or checks ever
pas sed through his hands. He could not
say for a certainty about how much bust
ness was Ion daily or the amount of
money received. Deposits were made be-
tween two and three O'clock, and all
money and checks That came in after
then were held over. until the following
day. All cash and checks were received
by Let's and Scott jackson, a clerk, aud
they turned them over to the cash CLERKS.
who made entries in the cash books.
Let's was not supposed to make entries
IN the cash book, but could do so II he
desired. MIR. Gordy denied that Let's
Became indignant when informed of the
shortage and that Let's left the office
saying he would not return until his rep
utation was free from the cloud. After
considerable pressing on the part OF Mr..
BlR ok, the witness finally admitted that
Let's bad made such a remark in the
presence Of himself aud Agent Butler.
TOOAY'S PROCEEDINGS.
Today the trial was continued but no
evidence was taken until the other bust
ness of The court WINS disposed OF. Edwin
A. W~estervelt, the first witness testified
that on a number of times Let's had
given min checks aud freight bills which
did not amount to as much as the cheeks,
aud that Let's had told him TO give him
the difference in money.
Cashier g. II Gordy was recalled and
the books that had be en- sent for from
Philadelphia were submitted to him to
prove the claim of the St ate that Let's
made mp the monthly sta tement of all
unpaid bills, and that he made out
fraudulent bills to balance his accounts.
On cross-examiDation it was shown by
the awyers for Let's, BY examination of
the books, that Let's did not make out
the monthly reports except on one or two
occasions. The reports were in the hand
writing of other clerks.
Charles h. Tompkfns testified rs to the
method of keeping the accounts and to
the fact that Let's or one day directed
him 10 charge up a check of SIS. $40. so to
the Harlem River account because he
had depositrd a check from that com
papy to the wrong account. Witness
did as directed. He afterward learned
that by adding the amour of this cheek
to the Harlem River account it
made s37, 583.S7, while the Harlem
River Company really owed but S22.0 07. ~.
He believed that Let's hao this lone to
cover a shortage in the local
The witness eviuced an eagerness TO tes-
tify against Let's. aud when Counsellor
KlInk cr-oss-examineu him he eliciJed
tbs fact tnat Let's had sued the witness
since the alleged discovery of embezzle-
ments.
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