The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1895-08-08

him.
Odd you not tell him that you had to
meet the train and were in a hurry to get
there?
A-No, sir.
Q-When you got the medicine, what
Ale told me the price; he wrapped
up THE medicine.
Q-What sort of paper did he wrap it
up in?
A-MinihDa paper.
Then what occurred after wrapping
I'D the medicine?
Al then gave him the So bill, and asked
him for a memorandum of it.
Odd you not ask him for a bill, then
A-No, sir, i don't think did. i asked
him for a bill as he got the medicine down
from the shelf.
Q-When was II THAT you asked him for
the bill?
Al asked him for the bill as he got
the medicine down.
Q-Are you sure that is the way il oc-
cured?
Ayes, sir.
Odd he look at the prices on the bot
ties?
Al think he looked at them before he
wrapped them up.
Odd you see him do anything else
Ale showed me the price on the So
bottle.
Q-What did he say it was?
Aust gave me what l asked for.
Q-Then you got your package and left
Ayes, sir; taking them down home
Q-HOw did you break that one?
A-The gate shut and broke it,
Odd you mot pocket the balance of
the money yourself?
A-No, sir; i did not.
Q-I<nowing that Tobin desired to
md ho1 ~; 4 10
petrate this job and get this man in
trouble, and that the purposes of accom-
plishing this object, and particularly sat
isfying this desire, and having paid this
man S4.25, and knowing that by putting
a dollar of this money in your pocket
that you would satisfy your employer
did you not put one dollar in your pocket?
=. A-NO, sir; did not
Q-HOw much did Tobin pay you for
this job?
A-Nothing.
Q-Is this your first effort at detective
work?
Ayes, sir l think it was.
Q-How was Chintz dressed that morn
ing?
Al think in the same clothes he now
has on.
Q--HOw We're you fixed up?
AIN my old clothes; had been up all
night.
Q-You say you had been fishing?
Ayes, sir; Saturday night.
Q-You did want that medicine for any
other person?
Ayes, sir; did not lie.
(By Mr.. PendeXter@
Q-Judge Robertson has asked you if
You did not steal that dollar Did you
steal that dollar?
A-No, sir; | did not.
Q-Did you have anything to say about
that broken package?
.A-Nothing about it except to pay for it.
Q-YOu do not know whether YOU would
have acted differently if DR.. Tobin had
not been your employer or not?
A-No sir.
Q-Dr. Tobin told you he suspected Mr..
Chiutz? i, ptE9
Ayes sir.
Q-YOur parents live here?
Ayes sin.
Q-What does your father do?
A-Nothing at all.
Q.oHow long have your parents lived
Any father has lived here % or 30
years; | was raised here.
(By Mr.. RObertson)
Q-What did this fellow do with the
55l5.0O bill?
, yA-He opened the register and rung up
70 cents; l took particular notice; saw
70 cents rung mp.
Q-Can you tell when fellow rings up,
just what he rings?
Ayes sir.
Q-IJow can YOU tell it?
A-By seeing it.
Q-How do you ring it?
A-By pressing the button.
Q-What did he do with the $500 bill?
Al do not know.
Q-NIight it not have been 1926 that
he rung up instead of IS cents.
A-No; it was 70 cents.
Q-Have you talked to anybody about
this? ,.,.
Ayes, sir; to several persons.
Q-Who did you talk to about it?
A-Ernest Pressler first, and then Otto
Ankenman; l can not say who adj L nave
been talking to about it,.
O-When did you talk to DR.. Tobin
about it?
A-Sunday morning about u O'Clock.
Odd You talk about what your testi-
mony would be about it?
A-No sir.
O-You do ont know, then, that the fell
low here stole the money, do you?
JNO. BLONIEKE.
Sworn to and subscribed before me
this, 9th day of August, 1895.
NJ. NJ. JOHNSON, J. P.
Testimony of ]. l.. Hume:
ct is agreed by aid parties that the
property charged to be stolen was the
property of J. L. Hume, as trustee, and
that defendant was employed as clerk OF
said Hume, and if he took said money
it came into possession as clerk for said
Hume, and that the transaction occurred
in Travis county ON the 18th day OF
July, 1859
Examined by Mr.. Pendexter:
o. will ask you if you gave him any
authority to retain or appropriate any
money?
..;A-No, sir; I did not speak to Mr.
Schintz.
Odd you authorize him to retain
any money?
Al did not speak ITO him; did not
know him by name.
O-There is testimony here, Mr.. Hume,
\ that YOU, DR.. Tobin and MFR. Lucy, were
together at your Office in this city when
.Hhe mater was discussed with reference
ITO "a charge that this defendant was steal
ing money belonging to the store. Please
texplain this fully. .,
y AMIR. Tobin met me either Saturday
: might or Sunday morning and wanted me