Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1896-03-19
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THE MISSING LEAVES.
Clark continued. We come to the
missing leaves. The d-fehse pays /.
poor compliment To your intelligence
when they try to make you think that
Harris took those leaves out to destroy
q record made a ear or SO before he
cam- in the mint They treat you as
idiots or as men whom they thought
had barred your minds from the facts
in the case. Harris when he dis
covered the l4aves gone. reported the
fact to his superior He called Jones
attention to it, and Jones said he
would go and see Kofer and find out
about it. He went away and
came back to talk about the leaves.
D1sAGREE1NG ATToRN1Es.
Woodburn says that Harris took
the leaves. but Dennis the ether at
tornev told you that he did not believe
Harris took tho leaves out of the !
book and did not claim it.
Clark then read from the shorthand
note of Dennis speech in which he
~exonerated Harris.
JONES FALSE TESTIMONY.
Jones testified fnhsnly whom he said
he had examined the CO.'S lidatjon
books. Clark then read from jones'
testimony given in direct examination
in which be swore that he attempted
to trace spurious met 1874 with Harris
and that the book was complete.
Harris testimony was read from
[ the notes. He sw0rn that he never
was with Jones tracinC the melts.
Harris denies it absolutely. jones
testified that Mason informed him Of
a the nat the day he examined the re
cord on March goth and Mason
swear that Jones came to him on the
Y spurious melt, and he declined to give
: it to him. He produced the note from
his diary.
:; Here are I NO witnesses of absolute
+ veracity c~ontradicttng Jones, aud
o Noteware also shows by his testimony
thai Jonea lied. Three absolutely re-
liable witnesses prove his perjury.
: what do vow think Of a man, gentle
# meh of the jury, who would so testify
q on the witness stand, who would steal
. hn"ton and hen commit he crimo =
tN.ic t. saddle it on to - innoc: IT
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JONES STOCK ACCOUNT.
IT We took The pains to lock up Jones
r stock account Jones told Inspector
q Mas0a 10 he presence Of the District
If Attorney and Detective GaHaher that
he had made about $4,000 in stocks
and when asked what st elk. referred
to Con. Virginia and other stock, he
n gave Wells, Fargo & Co. and others
=, as his brokers. When asked what
other banks he REPLIED:
+ II decline to answer now, but Whpr
" the time comes I will tell all about it.
70 Gentlemen of the jury, has he told
is Why has he left YOU and his friends
IN in the dark about this pretended stock
- transaction? He has never told vOr
of when he made these sums in stocks
A dozen words would have shown yOl
l. if his claim was true, but those word,
are withheld. We produced his Well:
Fargo transaction in Court and hi.
Bullion Bank transactions and he los
q S1S45 instead Of making it.
10 We put in evidence all his bank ac-
20 counts and he deposited in these bank
ox-n, tSn nnn Ma bo ,,oI-> +Io,n 40
posits out Of his salary or out Of hi.
h. stock losses? How preposterous tC
d. think of such a thing. 1t has bee'
m suggested that he deposited the sam
IL sums over and over again, drawing
H. out and putting back The attorne,
then showed a certified list of his de
m posits at the Bullion and Exchang
g. Bank, naming over one large amour
k after another ranging from $1,000 +
r. $4,000, while he drew out sums angin,
from 1875 to 800, the amount he spen
.at from day to day.
in Then they come to the front wit
witnesses who swear that Jones ha'
.o+ told them that he had made money il
stocks He could tell the people o.
the street that he had made money i
in stocks, but he never attempted on III
~ witness stand to show where he mad
90 it, He made these empty declaration
on the street to explain his sudden ris
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