The morning call., 1893-06-14
out and the events surrounding the dis

out and the events surrounding the dis
coyery.
Il have been in the bank nine years.
said the son of the president of the COM
pany, land since its incorporation | have
been acting as assistant cashier. | have
known Mr.. Flood ever since l could re-
member.
u was not at the bank when the Bank
Commissioners came that day. l came in
after 10 o'clock. Different tellers and my
self counted the cash in the vault and
made notes of what we found there.
THE next day saw Flood at the bank
at o'clock in the morning. He gree ted
me as usual. | asked him where ne had
been the day before.
Don't ask me, he said.
II told him ii was very awkward his not
being there the day before, as the Bank
Commissioners could not make his cash
balances.
81 have been fool he said. They
can't make 1t square. I've been the TO ol
of two - villains. | did not expect to
be here. L was out at the ocean beach
yesterday thinking TO end it an
u counseled him to do nothing rash.
He iudor sed his certificate of bank stock.
l asked him to stay and see father. He
said:
"'No: cannot do It. When the COVER
nor shakes his fist at me and asks me
where that money Is cannot face him.
The news must be broken to him first by
somebody else.'
Later in the day was sent for him and
brought him down to the bank in the car
riage.
Father asked him where the money was.
He said. l am an embeZzler and thief.
l have allowed you to be robbed OF S164 600
by the villainy of two scoundrels.'
My father asked him who they were.
Flood replied that they were beyond
the jurisdiction of the State. and he would
not reveal their names. 1t would do no
good:
I'VE spoke very gently at the time. /
asked him If he were to die If we would
then know the names of those men who
got the money?
"He said we would. Before he died he
would put their names on a piece Of
paper"
General Barnes - Since that day have
you ever had any conversation with him
The witness-Yes, he came In two or
three times after that. Once for his tin
box, which l could not let him have. /
told him was sorry. He said:
II know you are, Joe"
He felt badly tears were In his eyes.
asked him again: Flood, whena re y you
going to put an end to all this?"
What do you want me to doP XIII N.Y.
felt?" he asked.
said that would only make matters
worse.
''Do you want me to kill couple of
those reporters?" ne said.
No." | replied.
That was very laudable," interjected
Mr.. F0ote.
asked him again for the names o. those
men. He said his embezzlement anted ated
the Incorporation OF the bank, but he would
give me the names.
l said, mo; If they are as old as that
come down and tell them to father. or some
one who would know them. 1 do not
want to know"
Zone Of the men has committed suicide, "
| he SAID, and the other is outside the juris-
diction of the State"
Upon cross-eXamination Mr.. Foote asked
tho witness TX he were sure that it was after
his arrest that Flood said the shortage oc-
CURED before the bank became ipcorpo-
| fated?
''Y es," said the witness.
.H0w do you fix the date?"
The witness could not fix the date by
ANYTHING In particular but was sure it was
after Floods arrest
Mr.. Foote-He told you that he had not
got as much as five-cent piece ont of the
money, didn't he?
The witness-Yes, he said that.
a, y. ;Mchinnon, one of the origina
stockholders and director OF the bank,
was the next to testify. BE remembered
! that Messrs. Eastland andFloOd and himself
had counted the cash. He remembered
Mr. Grant was there, too. As to the date
he was not sure about that. His testi.
mony was mildly corrObnrated.
j. D.. OFarrell, the real estate agent.
came next. He had known the defendant
Tor sixteen years, he said.
=, Since April 4, 1898, he bad talked to
faooo several times about the affairs OF