The herald., 1896-06-17
Many Witnesses Testify Regard
ing the Alleged Forgery
DEFENDANT HELDTOANSWER
And Ia Default of Bail He 10 In.
carcerated
Banquet by Tuesday Evening Club Members.
Boy Badly Hurt-soclaI and Per-
sonal Pasadena News


crowd present The first witness called
was o. p. Clark of the Title Insurance
and Trust company of Los Angeles His
company had furnished a certificate of
title to Josiah Russell.
The next witness was Mrs. Nancy Jane
Bryan. She was shown the promissory
note and mortgage in Veach's favor
which bore her name, but she testified
that she had never signed them and had
never seen them before. e. G. Crib, the
Los Angeles notary, testified that he
had never acknowledged the signature
of Josiah Russell to the assignment Of
the mortgage, but had acknowledged
Veach's signature, for which the name
Of Russell had afterwards been substi-
tuted by erasing the name of Veach and
writing Russell's name in its place.
Edwin Stears was called but he knew
nothing Of the case. Messrs. Russell and
Gibbs had met in his office to look into
one of the Veach loans-that was all.
Court then adjourned till afternoon.
After lunch Clark A. Shaw, the Los
Angeles notary who once held the forged
Bryan note and mortgage, was put upon
the stand. He testified that he received
from Veach an assignment of the note
Veach. and that when Russell took the
loan Veach made an assignment of the
securities to him.
Judge Terry Of this city testified that
no persons named Bryan had acknowl-
edged their signatures before him as no.
tary; but that he had taken Veach's ac-
knowledgement to an assignment of the
$500 mortgage to Russell, in which in
strument the names were afterwards
changed the same way as the other,
as an inspection of the paper showed.
The defense put in all the usual OBJ
jections to testimony of witnesses, and
some that were rather unusual, and fire.
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cisions of the court, which were uni
formly against these objections. After
the speeches Of counsel the prisoner was
held to answer to the superior court with
bail fixed at $4,000 for the present case,
and $4,000 for the second case. Being
unable to secure bail he was taken back
to the county Jail.
TUESDAY EVENING CLUB
The Tuesday Evening club gave ban
quet and dance last evening in the par
lors of the Carlton hotel, which was a
very enjoyable affair, marking the clos
ing of the meetings for the summer
Three large tables were beautifully dec
GRATED with flowers, the menu cards be-
Ing artistically painted by hand with the
monogram of the club thereon. Mr.. F.
r. Harris. president of the club, acted as
toastmaster and presided in a pleasing
manner. Chester G. Miller responded
to the toast The Ladies in a pleasing
manner, Miss Chamberlain to the toast
The Gentlemen, Rev. w. NJ. Jones, The
Human Being. Mr., Beech on Entertain
ment, President Keyes of Throop on
Clubs, David Heap on Anglo-Americans
Robert Allen on The Tuesday Evening
club. Much merriment was occa-
stoned by the different speakers. Dane
ing TOOK up the remainder of the even
ing.
BADLY HURT
The accident which befell young Nc
Mahon yesterday afternoon turns out
to be more serious than at first thought,
though the boy Is likely to recover un-
less unforeseen complications arise. The
ball from the 22-rifle went through his
breast and punctured the tissue of the
lung, causing hemorrhages last night
The rifle which did the shooting was in
the hands OF Romeo Buchanan, who was
cleaning 1t at the time and had Just sent
his friend into the barn to get a ramrod.
young McMahon came out of the barn
ana received the shot at a distance of
about twenty-five feet from where Ro-
meo was working the breech. There is
no blame attached to Buchanan by eth
er OF the parents of the wounded boy. as
the shooting was purely accidental Nc
Mahon Is resting easily today.
M'LACHLAN'S WELCOME.
There was a meeting in the recorders
court room last night of the several COM
mittees having in charge the reception
TO be given to Congressman McLachlan
upon his return from Washington.
chairman j. w. Wood of the committee
on arrangements reported that the
Green could be had for the night at a
cost OF $15 of which J. Fl. Holmes would
contribute SIS. The Pasadena band will
furnish music and City Attorney Arthur
Will make the welcoming speech. The
committee on reception was increased
to forty members. among the names
added last night being J. A. Buchanan.
II. II. Markham, c. H. Keyes, John Nc
Donald and Thos. Banbury.
A SURPRISE PARTY.
The home of Mr.. and Mrs. w. j. Pierce
OF North Raymond avenue was the
scene last night Of jolly surprise party
thirtieth birthday of Mr. Pierce. Whist
was played and dainty collation. served.
A cake containing ring and dime
caused much merriment and at the
dime fell to the lot of DIR. Dalrymple. the
ring to w. w. Benedict. c. H. Jordan on
behalf of the guests presented Mr..
Pierce with handsome inlaid card ta-
BILE. The following gentlemen were
present: DR.. N. A. Dalrymple, E. ].
Pyle. H. G. Holt. Hiram w. Wadsworth,
DR.. j. e. Parker, w. w. Benedict, T. A.
Simpson. H. Newby, c. H. Jordan, Ly-
man Craig, w. ]. Craig, Mr.. Randolph.
L. j. Huff, F. H. Furnald, w. j. Pierce.
BREVITIES.
The death of Mrs. Celia Sloan occur
red this morning at about o'clock at the
home of her daughter. Mrs. Mccoy, of
South Los Robles avenue. Mrs Sloan
was SO years Of age and her death was
partly caused by the shock she received
from the death Of her husband about a
week ago. The funeral will take place
from the residence Wednesday after
noon at o'clock.
A number of members of the Christian
Endeavor society and friends Of Miss
June James surprised her at her home
on South Pasadena avenue last evening.
Miss James departs for the east tomor-
row intending to return in the fall.
The accrediting certificates from
Berkeley to Throop were received by
President Keyes yesterday. This grants
Throop the privilege of transferring its
graduates without examination to
Berkeley and sets it on a footing with
the foremost Of colleges.
The following races are open for en-
tries at the Crown City clubs blue rib
bon races to be held at the Lincoln track
on the 30th instant: One mile novice,
one-third mile amateur, one mile 2:40
class, one-fourth mile dash, one mile
2:25 class, two-thirds mile tandem, one
mile open, three miles handicap, ten
mile team race.
M. c. Potter is about again after a two
weeks illness.
T. J. Martin and daughter left this
aIternoon Tor Catalina to remain about