St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-03-01
DENY ALL COMPLETELY IN 1T
Claim to Be Holding Property
in Trust for the Benefit
Of Creditors.
HOW TAYLOR DEFAULTED
Is Graphically Described by
Judge McConnell--Talk OF
Compromise.

CHICAGO, Feb. %. = The dis
patches from Pierre, S. D., saying
that Charles T. Mccoy, of that city,
had been arrested for completely in
the defalcation of Treasurer Taylor,
and that Charles H. Wells and D. K.
Tenney, of Chicago, were included
in the charge made by the prosecut-
ing attorney of the Western state,
do not disturb the two Chicago men.
Mr.. Tenney says he does not know
where the law comes from under
which it is proposed to prosecute
MIN; neither does he know how he
could be guilty of conspiracy in the
state Of Dakota, when, as matter
of fact, he had never been there.
Neither had he ever seen Mccoy,
Whatever competition he and Mr..
Wells had with eX-TreaSurer Taylor
had been in a professional way, and
whatever information they had Sc
cured from him had been in a pro-
fessional manner. Beyond this there
was absolutely no connection.
Judge Mcconnell, who was in Mr..
Tenneys room at the time the in
terview took place, said that he did
not believe an attempt would ever
be made to bring the case against
the Chicago men to trial. The
Western states attorney, he said,
might be expected to discover al
most any kind of law that would
seem to meet the requirements of
the case in hand.
1.-THE swearing out of a warrant
against me by Attorney General
Crawford, of South Dakota, is sim
ply ridiculous" said Attorney c. H.
Wells, of the firm of Tenney, Nc
Cornell & Gotten. today.
MERELY A NATTER OF FORM.
''They don't seem to know what
trust deed is up in Dakota" con-
tinued Mr.. Wells. "As is done time
and again, merely as a matter of
from, certain property was con.
veyed to me by trust deed to Sc
cure creditors of Taylor's 1 was
nothing more or less than a trustee
for these people, and could in no
way obtain possession of this prop
erty which the Dakota official seems
to think [ have swallowed whole.
l have no idea what the property
comprises, and have conducted no
transactions concerning it, Trust
deed was only very common form
OF placing property in trust for cred
itors."
Mr.. Tenney's relations with ex-
State Treasurer Taylor We're only
those of legal adviser" said Judge
Mcconnell, land if he has beer
guilty of any indictable offense tho
rest of us who are members of Mr..
Tenney's law firm have also been.
But l fail utterly to see how the at
torney general Of South Dakota can
make. out any complaint of this
Sort
The reports of our connection with
Mr.. Taylor which have been given
to the press are altogether wrong
and confusing. AS to my own deals
or how he wasted money prior to
about the 18th of last December.
when he first came to us as a client.
we know nothing. AT that time he
had an inkling of the coming storm
and wished legal advice He told
US he was defaulter, but did not
say, and, 1 believe, he himself did
not know, how much he was short
He
TRIED TO NEGOTIATE A LOAN
so as to reimburse the state treas
ury and save his bondsmen. But at
no time did we as attorneys make
any attempts to obtain loans for
MIN. In this it was necessary to do
considerable conveyancing, and. as
his attorneys, we prepared the docu-
ments. In this connection let me
say, moreover, that Charles H. Wells