The herald., 1893-05-28
HE WILL BE MARRIED.
DIR. FLOYD GETS our OF HIS SAD
IRON TROUBLE.
The Prosecution Fails to make Case
and the Doctor VIII wed MRS.
Miller in San Francisco on
Monday.

DR.. Earl Floyd had a seance wit
Justice Bartholomew yesterday. an
emerged from his sitting smooth an
smiling as ever.
The inability of the district attorne,
to prove that deed of conveyance to til
doctor of sad-ircn heating apparatu
belonging to J.. M. Wiahart of Topeka
Kan, was bogus explains the reason
why he smiled.
But his smooth appearance is ex
plainable only on the theory that it il
characteristic of the faculty which ena
bles the doctor to transfer other peoples
money to his own pocket by species Of
legerdemain safely outside the laws
governing such transfers.
The occasion for DIR. Floyd's prasence
in court was charge brought by James
M. King of Redondo, that he had swim.
died him into buying the right of the
patent referred to for Los Angeles coun-
ty, and afterwards found out that the
debonair physician did not own the
patent.
The examination was quite lively. the
defendant having r. A. Ling to defend
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conducting the prosecution.
The prosecution put Mr.. King on the
stand, and he told how he called on DR..
Floyd In this city with Thomas Thomp-
son, who formerly knew the doctor in
San Francisco. Mr.. King is an ignorant
man, speaking English badly, and
seems to have been easily convinced of
the merits of the sad-iron patent. He
entered into an agreement with Thomp-
son and they bought the right OF the
doctor for 5000. The transfer they had
recorded in the recorders office, and Mr..
King testified that he paid the defend
ant $72 on the agreement before he
found out that he had bought worth
less piece OF paper.
Inthe meantime Mr.. Thomas Thomp-
son found it convenient to 20 elsewhere
than Los Angeles, and could not be
found for the purposes of tine examine
tion. E-
Mr.. King grew very wrathy on cross
examination, and when asked by Mr..
Ling if he felt friendly at the present
time towards DR.. Floyd, sputtered out
that he did not and could not.
Deputy County Clerk r. A. Marshall
was called by the defense to testify az to
the defendants paying money to some
one in the clerks Office one day. either
In December or January last. 1t was
supposed to be money paid to Thomp-
SON as change from 500 gold piece. Mr..
Marshall created some amusement by
his explanation Of how he remembered
the occurrence. A young woman,
niece OF the DOCTORS, was living in the
family OF the witness, and the defend
ant came there frequently. On his
visits he talked largely Of the vast
amount of money he was making, but
the witness never saw any OF it, and
was suspicious of the doctor. When be
came into the clerks office to get 500
changed, he thought Floyd was running
bluff on him to show him he did have
money, and that was the way the cir
cumstance was fixed in his mind ----
Df. fIoyd swore that he never received
any money from King, all his transac-
tions having been with Thorn pson,
whom he said he met when Thompson
was night clerk at the Occidental hotel
in Stockton.
He explained that the two men came
to his office, liked his patent and in
vested in Los Angeles county as terri
tory, for their operations.
He also gave quite an extended review
of how he bought his patent from j. M.
Wishart, in real estate Office in San
Francisco, but could not remember the
name of the real estate man, and very
little about the personal appearance OF
Mr.. Wishart.
The deed, purporting to be from Wish