St. Paul daily globe., 1895-12-14
SOME ONE BLUNDERs.
Testimony in Weitzner-Gruen-
berg Cnse Quite Conflicting.

Testimony in WeitZner-Gruen en-
berg Case Quite Conflicting.
! The Cumbey-Lovett replevin suit
promises to be the most sensational of
all the various suits arising from the
Weitzner-Gruenberg failure. AS it
seems now, the testimony will drag out
for about two weeks, and the outcome
OF the case depends on the credulity of
the witnesses for either side. Gennis,
the little Hebrew lad, who produced
sucn sensational testimony about three
hours yesterday. The defense is pre-
pared to impeach his testimony by the
sworn statement of a stenographer,
whom they had concealed during his
conversation with Davis. On the other
hand, the plaintiffs say they have a
dozen witnesses who will swear that
Court Officer Ehrlichmann was bribing
witnesses for Lovett and Davis.
Gennis was on the stand yesterday
morning when court opened, and Mr..
Jackson continued the redirect exam
ination. He went back a little, and
told how Davis called him in after the
failure and asked him if he did not
want to go back to his parents in New
York, offering him a ticket if he would
go. Another time, he was in the store
when J. Wallace Field was present. He
was with his friend, Kahn, and Field
gave them some advertising books and
told them to go out the back door.
They went out the front door instead.
He was brought back to his interview
with Mr.. Hendrix. He said that the
second time he and Kahn were in
Hendrix sent Kahn out of the room
and told Gennis that if he would stay
on his side he could get all he wanted.
He wanted me to give him state
ment, but 1 wouldn't. He told me to
go back to Chaska with Kahn and then
sneak away from Kahn and give him a
statement"
Gennis was then excused, and John
F. Schroeder, an eX-policeman, was
called to the stand. Schroeder is now
on the merchant police, and for five
years has been on a beat including the
store of Weitzner, Gutenberg & Co.,
and that of Lovett & Co. He testified
that he saw goods taken away from the
store of Weitzner, Gutenberg & Co.
on two-horse drays at two different
times in March last. He said that the
goods were taken to the store of Lovett
& Co.
William F. Cumbey, the plaintiff, was
next called. He had made an estimate
of the value of the goods in the store
in February, as follows: Dry goods,
$4,000; clothing, $4,000; gents furnish
ing goods, $1,000; boots and shoes, $1,000;
hats and caps, $1,000 or 1000; Jew
@
$400; hardware, 5000; candies, $10O; gro
ceries, S1OO. This gave a total of about
$36, ,OO0 and the defense tried to make
capital out of the witness by question
ing him as to the suit filed by him
against P. P. Swenson to recover the
stock, in which he valued it at $4,000
He replied that he hat counted on
some of the boxes not examined as
containing goods.
Paul Smith, Priests "side partner"
who Is another OF the witnesses ac-
cused by the defense with having Of
fered to sell out for $500, was next
called. He said he was working for
WeitZner & Co. last winter. He had
seen goods taken out and sent to Low
ett & Co.'S.
The Weitner-Gruenberg people, he
said, had received goods from the last
day of February clear up to the day
of the failure, almost every day. Dur
ing that time he estimated the goods
coming in at between sixty and sew
enty-fve cases. Goods were coming in
and going out in about the same
amounts, but the goods that were sent
out were mixed up, and they always
managed to put the new goods on top
of the boxes.
Court adjourned with Smith still on
the stand. The case will be resumed
Monday morning at 10 o'clock.