Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1894-03-15

day. The reading of Governor pecks
| deposition was completed as was also
that of Banker a Woodland Mr.. G
W. Welsh, of this city. whose sigma
ture got ON the Clinton banks bond in
some WHY unknown 10 him, was also
examined as a witness.
1t took Attorney NJ. G. JetIriS an hour
and . half to complete the reading OF
Gov. Peaks deposition, As soon as
Mr.. JeffriS had finished, Attorney j. NJ
Olin took the witness chair, Offering in
evidence the deposition of W. c. Douo-
van Counsel for the defense objected
on the ground that Mr. Donovan was
present in the court ROOM was a resi-
dent Of Madison and should be put on
the witness stand rather than to have
his deposition read Plaintiffs attJr-
ucys explained that Donovan resided
in Waubesha that his deposition was
taken there and that counsel for the
defense who were then Directing were
present The defense seemed to fear
tine deposition ana determined it should
not be read, The court thought that
as Donovan was present the proper
/ procedure would be to put him on the
witness stand plaintiffs said they did
not wish TO call the witness at thal
/ time aud the matter was dropped
Counsel for the plaintiffs then called
! G, w. Welsh to the stand Mr.. Jefrrs
conducted the direct examination. He
asked Mr.. Welsh II lac had signed the
bond He answered that it appeared
that be did, but he didn't know how
( he came TO sign h. He said that he
is positive that he did not sign Il in
the presence of Assistant Attorney
/ General j NJ. Clancy as Justice OF
the peace as the bond would indicate
that he did He said that he dii not
know Clancy and had never spoken 10
him. lie did not sign The bond q The
office OF lhe state treasurer or at thal
Of the attorney general in the capitol
and would have remembered IL If he
nad. Senator Bashford did not hrug
the bond to him, nor Clancy, nor
| Private Secretary Clark, nor Banker
Woodland. lie did not know how he
came to sign it, He sworc that he
did not know ii was Il bank bond to
the state Of Wisconsin, A copy of the
bond was shown witness indicating
that he had sworn to the justification
before Mr., Clancy. Mr.. Welsh was
positive he had never sworn to the
signature before Clancy
Mr.. Clancey's attorney, II. w, Chyno-
weth, cross-examined the witness and
drew from him the statement that he
would have sworn that he never had
signed the bond if he had not seen his
signature upon it; that 1t looked like
his signature and he supposedly was.
Mr. Welsh gave his evidence with
suaightforwardness which was most
convincing
The deposition of Banker Woodland,
of Clinton, was next offered in evil
dence Attorney Olin read it to the
jury. In this deposition Mr.. Woodland
reGtes the thoroughly interesting story
of how and when at the suggestion and
urging Of Clarence Clark, his bank
was hurriedly made q state depository
about the time the project for starting
The Madison Times, was well under
way; Of how he received $4,000 Of the
state funds one day and sent $4,000
back to Madison as loan to Col
Clark to be used in starting The Times.
Before Mr. Olin had gone far with
the reading Mr. Chynoweth objected TO
the deposition as immaterial because
there was no contention on the part Of
plaintiffs that the making of the
Clinton bank state depository was
a part of the alleged conspiracy. After
short debate between counsel Judge
Siebecker oveTuled the objection and
instructed Mr.. Olin to proceed.
The deposition further showed that
for the $4,000 loaned to Col. Clark
Woodland had taken in security Col
Clark's note $500 in GAINESVILLE Re
cordcr stock and some stock in The
Madison Times when it was issued
four months afterward
II was also brought out that the only
money ever paid back to Woodland was
one years interest, $500, which was
paid nearly year ago, soon after Col.
/ Clark had received $50 600 from the
plaintiffs in the present suit on the
roster contract It further was sworn
1 by Mr.. Woodland that he didn't think
he could have let Clark have the money
I If his bank had not been made state
depository.
, The deposition also showed that Mr.
Woodland had nothing 10 do with Sc
curing sureties on the bond receiving
! the bond from Madison, signing IT
himself and returning it to Madison,
and no business relations existed be
tween himself and the people in Madi-
son whose names appear on the bond
When the reading Of the Woodland
deposition was concluded Mr. Jeffris
offered in evidence the bond Of the
Clinton bank,
Plaintiff George Dow was then called
as a witness and Attorney Olin con
Quoted the direct examination The