The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-12-22
DID NOT SUSPECT.
Witnesses in Defense of
GreenwaId.
Stated That the Accused Scalper Had
No Reason to Suppose That Any
thing Was Wrong.

The chief feature in the trial of A. B.
Greenwald, ticket-broker for buying and
selling forged tickets on the Southern
Pacific C9mpany's lines, resumed yester-
day before Judge Daingerfeld and a Jury,
was the cross-examination of T. a. White
side. one of the employees in the ticket
auditors Office, who manipulated the
forged checks
Attorney w. w. Foote did the cross
examining. He expressed belief that
Whiteside aud Andross had concocted
their extraordinary confession. by which
they sought 10 implicate Green wald. FoOte
said that the Southern Pacific Company
had held out Inducements 10 them of i'm
muuity from prosecution. But this theory
did not prove itself in the cross-examina-
ton OF Whiteside. and in response to
questions on the subject Whiteside sto utly
denied that such was the fact. He SAID he
did not know whether he was to be prose-
cuted or not.
You are sure you've confessed the
VIII ole scheme?" asked FoOIe presently.
Sure"
You are holding nothing back"
Nothing at all"
Then tell US whether it was you or
Andross who first hit on this scheme of
forging checks"
This Whiteside could not do; as in the
case of ADdross the day before. his mind
proved to be sinsularly blank on this
point. But he did know that they ar
ranged il all together and divided the risk.
Sometimes the witness, sometimes An
dross, would do the selling, but they never
took any reckoning. Profits were divided
10 all cases.
This ended Whiteside's testimony, and
than AcSiStant District Att0rnHu III ar
asked for continuance. He said he had
one more witness, who, however, had not
shown up. But long-suffering jury de-
INJURED and SO did Judge Daingerfeld, and
so Hosmer was compelled 10 close his case
and allow the defense an inning.
R. w. Whitehead, another scalper, was
called as the first witness. Whitehead
said that ticket-brokers were often brought
into requlslton when railroad war came
on. The railroad would cut fares from
one terminus TO another. but intermediate
fares would remain the same. 1t was then
that ticket-brokerS or scalpers were use
full. Whitehead said he was convinced
that Greenwald had bought these tickets
in good faith and had suspected nothing
wrong. 1t was a common practice to buy
tickets 10 that way.
''aaYe you ever seen tickets sold in such
large punches as these" asked Attorney
Kellv in cross-eXaminatloD.
mo, have nOi."
Would you buy them in bulk if they
were offered TO you?"
Certainly should, if 1 thought it was
all right"
A. r. Slaughter and c. II. Duffy, two of
GreenWald's clerks, also testified for The
defense. Slaughter was the man who was
first interviewed by AndrosS and White
side res pecting the purchase of the forged
tickets. He said he only knew them by
their assumed names of Ames and ALERT
and that they represented to him that
they had picked up the tickets around the
hotels.
Duffy was the man who sold the two
tickets to Detective Hammill. resulting in
the arrest of the men. Hammill expressed
some doubt concerning these tickets, but
the witness treasured him. saying it was
"all right" and that be could travel on the
ticket from San Francisco to Los Angeles
without fear.
The trial will be resumed to-day.