The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-04-13
BRANCH CONCERNS, hooks.
Teller Robinson shows No Entries of
the Cnbinet COmpnny's DRIFTS.


Judge Baker was detained yesterday
morning and ii was 915 o'clock before the
federal court convened. The novelty of the
occasion seemed to have already worn away
and there was not the crowd Of curious
auditors in the court room that there had
been on the day before. The evidence was
a dry recital of amounts of drafts and
purely business transactions, without a
particle of sensation about it other than
the astounding rapidity wIIh which the
cabinet company, after wiping out one over
draft by the deposit of worthless paper.
acquired another by flood of checks
against the credit given them on the pieces
of paper left with the bank There was
somewhat different arrangement of the
tables in use by those connected with the
case The table for the use of witnesses
in examining books and papers had been
set cross-wise before the jury, and at the
south end of il sat District Attorney Burke
with Mr.. Kern, at the other end sat Ferd
Winter of counsel for the defense and
close beside him sat Mr.. Harris. The wit
ness sat at the side of the table facing
the jury and the court reporter sat be-
tween District Attorney Burke and the
jury.
Six witnesses for the prosecution who
appeared in the court room for the first
time were called before the bar and sworn
and then instructed to leave the room and
converse with no witness who had testi-
fled in the case nor TO tell any one what
they might testify to After the with
drawal of these witnesses, Teller Louis
Robinson was recalled and his examna-
tion-in-chief continued by Mr.. Kern. At the
hour of adjournment on Wednesday night
the witness had been asked to state the
condition of the accounts between the In
dianapOliS Cabinet Company ana the var
ious branch concerns. This question had
been objected to by counsel for the de-
fense and the objection overruled by Judge
Baker and the question left unanswered.
The question read to the witness by
the stenogTapher and he was told TO an
examination of the cabinet company's
books. which lay before the witness on the
table. He said the entries on the books
of Richmond. credited with 2l,S30, which
entry he explained to show that the cabinet
G9nPh SamT in aS the sum of si24i1 The entry
showed $17,633 credited 10 the Indiana Cabi
net Company. of Boston, which meant that
the Indianapolis company was indebted to
the Boston company in the sum of $l4,7iS.
The entry showed the indianapolis Office
Furniture Company, of New York, credited
with 500 500 OS, showing that the cabinet COM
pany was indebted TO the New York branch
| in the of S10,566.27. 1t was upon these
houses that the cabinet company had de-
| posted drafts in the sum of $4,000 on May
| 3 1893 and for which amount they had
| been given credit, the drafts being carried
| as cash items The evidence was given TO
| show that at the time the cabinet COM
many drew these drafts il already in
debted TO each OF the branch houses upon
| which they were drawn. The next ques-
tion asked the witness, after testifying to
the condition of accounts as shown by an
| examination of the cabinet company's S
| hooks was: Have you examined the
! hooks of the Wooten Office Desk Company
= of Richmond, and the Indiana Cabinet Com
| many of Boston, to ascertain If these ac-
| counts are entered on them?
| sI have" answered the witness.
Are the books here?" interjected Mr..
| Winter. ,
| The witness was told to examine the
| hooks which were brought from a large
| chest I'm the rear of the court room, and
| state whether or not he found any entry
| relating 10 these drafts upon the books of
| the Boston company.
| BOSTON CONCERNS BOOKS.
Mr.. Winter objected TO the witness testi-
| flying till the books had been identified.
| The witness answered that the books were
those that had been brought TO this city
by Mr.. Nutting, the general manager OF
| the Boston house. but the witness did not
know OF his own knowledge that they were
the books OF the Boston company. Mr..
Kern said they would follow the testimony
! OF this witness with other evidence going