Asheville daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1890-1900, 1893-08-18
NO EMBEZZLEMENT CASE
TWO CASES AGAINST GLOVER
FALL TO THE GROUND.
NO Evidence of CriminalitS Vet
shown On GslOyer's I'art-A Not
able Cross ExamillatIOn-N
xenCe I'm bookkeeping.


Gence In Bookkeeping.
In the Glover case yesterday afternoon
DR.. X. ii. Reeves was on the stand to
prove the charge of cmbczzlcment. He
Jones. Capt. w. A. Dills was examined
as to the sale for S., 500 of a tract of
land to the Asheville kaolin company.
He testified that he was paid $1,000 in
cash and that Mr.. Glover gave him a
note for $500; that he afterwards
credited $500 on this note, thongh that
amount had not been paid him: that he
was induced so to do by Mr.. Glover s
representative that a factory would be
erected on the land Dills sold to Glover,
thereby enhancing the valge of Dills'
other land, and also out of good will for
MIR. Glover whom he, Dills, considered
had befricnded him.
Under Attorney Cobb's cross-cxamina-
tion of Dils, which was poem in the
beguiling way it led Mr.. Dills on, Mr..
Dills swore that he endorsed this pay
ment of $500 on the note as paid, solely
| on Mr.. Glovcr's personal account, and
not as any return to the company, which
| he had not known in the transaction.
When Mr.. Dills left the stand the at
torneys for the State consulted a mo-
ment and then announced that they
rested. Judge Armfield at once stated
| that no case of embezzlement had been
made out by the State. Attorney ]. S.
Adams struggled hcroically against this
view, putting the opposite with proba-
bly, all the force there was in it and ask
ing time to gather authorities in support
of his position. Judge Armfeld said that
it would take an overwhelming list OF
authorities to change his mind, and the
State dropped The subject. Later Judge
Armtield directed the jury to find a yer.
dict of not guilty, on the ground that
| according to the States own showing
II any offcnsc were committed at all it
| was not embczzlcmcnt, the one charged
in the bill.
The case OF State against Glover for
| obtaining So 500 from A. ]. Lyman 10y
means of false representations was then
taken up and after the testimony of Mr.
Lyman had been heard Judge Armfield
said the State could not sustain the
charge and had failed to make out any
case, and directed that a verdict of not
guilty be entered. Judge Armhcid added
that he was convinced that the States
attorneys had been mslcd by theil
clients.
At the meeting Of the court this morn
ing Mr. Adams, tor the prosecution
asked that the court bind Glover to the
next term of Criminal court, SO that {
new bill might be sent against him for th
Dils transaction, presenting it as falls
pretense instead OF embczzlement. Thi
Judge Arnfield declined to do. statiuj
that he had heard nothing of the cas-
except what had come from the prosecu
ton and that while he had heard moth
ing of defendants side. yet from th
States testimony heard he could not Sc
that crime had been shown, and there
fore would not hold the defendant t.
bail. The Judge stated further that tn
evidence tor the State showed negligcnc
in bookkeeping, but at the same time i
might have been inadvcrtence upon TIL
part of defendant, and there was NJ
cvidence of crim1nality.