The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-02-26
WIMAN DEFENDED.
Lawyer Boardman Explains That He
Was a Member of the Firm.

New Brighton, Staten Island, Feb. 25
Albert Boardman, of the law firm Of
Tracy, Boardman & Platt, tonight gave
out a statement of MIR. Wiman's case, in
which he says: "R. G. Dun & Co, en-
pioyed Mr.. Nicoll as counsel.
He prepared careful statement
Of the case for the press. l have
great respect for MIR. Nicoll, and have, no
doubt, he believes, his statement of facts
correct. But it was Inaccurate in many
things it did state, apdinaccurate in that
1t did not state a number of most impor-
tant and material facts. The funda-
mental difference between Mr.. Wiman's
enemies and friends is that the former take
no account of the business relations be-
tween Mr.. Wiman, on the one hand, and
the firm of Dun Il Co, Mr.. Dun individu-
ally and the drawees Of these checks, on
the other hand. Any one would suppose,
on reading MIR. Mic OILS statement. that
MIR. Wiman was a cashier or book-keeper
of r. G. Dun ~ Co, and that he had no
individual business relations of any
kind, either with Mr. Dun or with
the parties in whose favor the
checks were drawn The fact is,
that for years Mr. Wiman has not only
been a member of the firm of r. G.. Dun
& Co, but in tae conduct of the business
has been the responsible head of the con-
Germ. do not suppose that Mr.. Dun has
spent as many hours in his New York
office during the past ten years as he has
at his summer home at NaTagansett
Pier. suppose that 80 per cent. of all
the checks drawn by X. G. Dun g. Co.
during that period have been signed by
Mr.. Wiman. Probably be has made the
same percentage of all the firms impor-
tant contracts.
For fifteen or twenty years he has
practically managed Mr. Dun's business.
He has handled millions of dollars be-
longing to the firm of X. G. Dun & Co. He
has probably signed 80 per cent. of all the
checks drawn during that period he has
bought hundreds of thousands of dollars
worth of materials and supplies, made 80
per cent. Of the firms important contracts
and been in every sense of the term, up to
the actual division of the profits, about all
there was of r. G.. Dun & Co When MIR
Dun brought Mr.. Wiman from Can
ada he was making little or moth
ing out of the business, but from the
moment MIR. Wiman took charge the
profits steadily increased until MIR Duns
share amounted to $350000 to $3.50 900 per
annum. Mr. Wiman's friends and the pub
lie generally, including any fair-minded
jury, will, think, find it hard TO believe
that while Mr.. Wiman was making for
himself out of the firm from SIS, 900 to
100000 per annum and for Mr. Dun
$3.50, 600 to $3.50, 900, he was scheming TO de-
fraud his firm Of about $40, 900 through the
forgery ofnames in no way resembling the
genuine signatures of parties, and where
the only purpose and effect of the trans
action was TO transfer from one bank ac-
| count against which he had the absolute
right to draw, to another bank account
against which he had the absolute right
to draw.
"If these cases are ever brought TO
trial the public will have a chance to as
certain the motive which has prompted
this prosecution and / shall be much
surprised If at that time there
are not number of very es-
Unable gentleman who, like Macbeth,
will tremble in their well-appointed
dining halls, and say. with quivering
| lips, Shake not thy CORY locks at me
thou canst not say did it,. AS a matter
of fact, notice some Of them are already
| doing So"