St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-03-06
FRANK ON The STAND.
THE Y0UGGER or THE FLCYDS TELLS
MS STORY.
RATHER A REMARKABLE ONE.


Says He Was Entirely innocent
in the Whole Matter, and That
He Had No Idea There Had
Been Stealing From the Bank
Tho Strain Is Telling ON the
Unhappy Mother.
The Floyd trial is beginning to drag
a little. Mrs. Floyd has been discharged,
and Scheig is not on the witness stand.
and these two circumstances tend to
make matters trifle dull. Frank
Floyd was on the witness stand all day
yesterday, and up to 5 o'clock in the aft
ernoon kept telling the little details OF
the trip South and his acquaintance
with Scheig at the instance of his attor'
ney, MIR. Byrnes. The crowd in the
court room was large one. especially
in the afternoon, but it was noticed that
the women did not take the same inter
est in the proceedings as when the eX-
bank teller was telling his story. Mr.Nye
was very suave in his croSS-eXamination
of Frank, and dallied with him until
toward the close of the afternoon ses-
sion, when it was apparent the young
fellow was becoming slightly tangled
in his own tale. During the entire pro-
ceedingS Mrs. Floyd watched her son
closely, and when the prosecuting at
torney appeared to doubt what he said
she looked at him Indignantly through
her veil The strain of the trial is tell
ing on her, and last evening, shortly be-
fore court adjourned, she sank back on
the shoulder of che Of her lady friends,
thoroughly exhausted. A bottle OF
smelling salts was produced and applied
to keep the lady from fainting.
Franks story is the same as that out
lined 10y Mr. ByrneS i'll bis remarks to
the jury. He knew nothing Of Scheig's
populations. and supposed all the time
that he mad plenty of money. At any
rate, he was not cogniZant of anything
wrong so far as the bank was concerned.
He supposed Phil wanted to get away
from the city because OF domestic in
felicity. When Phil, who sat among
| the states witnesses, heard the witneS 5
testify concerning the alleged unhappi
ness of his married life, he hung his
head and pretended, at least, to drop q
| few tears. So far as the rest of the
| evidence was concerned he was per-
| fectly Indifferent, and sat thro ughOuI
the trial biting his finger nails and
| staring at the floor.
Frank, in being quizzed by the county
| attorney regarding The profiigate life
| he had led. replied that had his papa
| been alive it was likely things would
| have been different" In speaking OF
the outfit" he said he had purchased 6
''prairie schooner" and the audience
looked at the young fellow as much as
| to say that "beer schoonerS" had been
more in his line.
In narrating the story of how he came
to 20 with Phil OH the trip, on direct
examination the witness said he mel
| him at Dietrich'S saloon and fixed the
matter up. Phil told him that President
Kirby's nephew, who was well fixed
wanted to make Southwestern trip fol
his health, and that Frank could &c
| along. Frank worked on the outfit list
about two days. having some difficulty
in keeping it quiet because Lou was
aronDd. Frank then telephoned to Phil
to meet him at Dletrich's. They had a
bottle of champagne, for which Phil
paid s. gold piece, telling the waiter
to keep the change. Phil then told
Frank his life was unhappy, his wife
was unsympathetic, did not love him,
and was jealous, even denying him the
privilege Of seeing his own folks. He
said his idea was to disappear. and that
he was the young man who WAS going.
Phil thought it would be a good plan
for the two to start anew among the
mines in Mexico. He also said he had
| outstanding debts to the amount OF
Sl2,CO0 Or 5000, and that he and Frank
were to share equally in the profits.
Frank didn't remember about the
library.
During these interviews what was
SAID about the bank?"
"Iasked him what he would do about
the bank. and he said he might tell
Matt (Botferding, the cashier on the
quiet
Did Phil say anything to you about
his condition at the bank, or his being
short at the bank?'
mo, sir; nothing of that kind. l did
not know that he was short or stole. /
thought he was the soul of honor, and
was known as tie sQuarest man III a
card game there was. didn't suppose
he could do thing of this sort until
this matter came up"
Frank, did you know the money Phil
had was stolen?" asked Mr.. Byrnes.,
The reply was: "N-n-no, sir. That
is. | didn't know it was. Ali knew
about it was what l saw in the paper. /
had never worn the belt Oh the trip at all.
All there was about the scrap when |
was arrested was that had that cable
gram in my pocket and | didn't want
that found on me, so l tore 1t and put
part of it in my mouth. The detective
from Scotland yard said l was tearing
up money and choked me. l struggled
then to get away from him. When we
got TO Bow street station, Mr.. Gillig
said that if we had any plant to give ii
UP. l said we had some and so did
Phil. Afterwards | went TO Phil and
asked him if he had plant He said
he hadn't and l told him TO make some
hlDU vi q elclCillSbt WDSlS thS luOllCS
had gone. He did so aud as near as L
can recollect he placed it like this ~
Frank gave figures as follows:
The Pease Glass works. sis, 600
The KNAPP mine Observation-Disclosures. IL, 00C
Frank Cotharin. 49,. ............ 11,00U
Collins 5000
Personal loans. ............ 10000
Alterations in his house. SOC
Money recovered by the bank 80. 5000
Outfit Observation-Disclosures. 5000
Library .. ............ 1000
Total. ..... $50, 10C
"He told me also that it had cost him