The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1896-05-21

which the witness stood exceedingly
well. A. E. King identified check
given by King Bros. on the Citizens
Bank by Mr.. Huntington on March
| q, 1898. He could not testify wheth-
er or not he received the money on
the check from the bank.
| H. N. Bell, j. w. Ferris, w. Il
Caswell, Henry Winter, and G. M
Huntington, all testified to receiving
and identified checks on the Citizens
Bank given by w. P. Huntington.
G. D. Thompson was the next wit
ness called. To his recollection, he
stated, he had no business transaction
with the bank on March %, 1898, al
though he could not positively say
whether or not he gave note to the
bank on that day. He was quite posi-
tive that he did....not give a note for
$1,000 to the bank on that day in
question and was certain that he did
not receive $1,000 in cash for note.
He had no means of knowing posi-
lively regarding his business with the
bank on that day, and on cross exam
nation said that he was renewing
notes some for $2,OOO-with the bank
repeatedly before and after the date
in question, and admitted that he re-
newed some of these notes about the
time of the date in question.
J. H. Bowers, who assisted in in
vestigating the affairs of the bank,
said that he discovered a shortage;
testified that he had a conversation
with the defendant after the trouble;
that no threats or promises OF trouble
we're made to the defendant at the d.
rectory meeting and that the defend
ant did not seem frightened at that
time. Mr.. Bowers claimed that Tur
rell, at the directory meeting, was
asked to point out to the directors the
different amounts taken from the
bank. He pointed out, said the wit
ness,the $1,000 Huntington credit,and
said that he used it as an entry on the
G. D. Thompson bills receivable. Tur-
rell also pointed out the Alonzo Neale
matter of 1920, and said that he kept
it, according to the witness. "He said
that he made no entry of the Neale
matter" according to my recollection.
On cross examination Mr.. Bowers
said that the directors did not know
of any shortage in 1898, and only saw
cashiers statement of the bank when
it suspended in June of that year. He
went over the ground covered by Mr..
Philhrick on the preceding day, relat-
ing to the management and discovery
of the shortage of the institution, and
his statements differed very little
from those of Mr.. Philbrick's.
Thursday afternoon Alonzo Neale
was the first witness called. He gave
only one note for $3.50 to the Citizens
Bank and another for $40. On cross
examination Mr.. Neale acknowledged
that he was mistaken in his testimony
of Wednesday and that instead of re-
ceiving the difference between $3.50
and $3.50 from Graves & Vinton
through the Citizens Bank he received
it in check handed him by F. L.
Warner, the agent of Graves & Vim
| ton.
]. M. Huntington was called and
testified that no threats we're made
against or promises made to the de-
fendant prior to his making confess
sion at the meeting of the Directors.
The witness said that the defendant
admitted having taken about $4,000
of the banks money-$2,OOO on the
opera block transfer and $3.50 on the
Neale note, the balance unaccounted
for. Mr.. Huntington did not believe
that the defendant admitted having
taken cash from the bank, but rather
bills receivable. The witness could
not state whether the defendant con-
fessed to having taken the Neale note
or the cash equivalent, when collected.
Dwight Bissell, another bank direct
or present at the alleged confession,
denied threats of arrest having been
made at the Board meeting at the
time of the alleged confession. He al
so affirmed defendants confession of
the transfer of funds to w. P. Dun
nington's account and could not say
why he paid more for his half of the
building than G. Fred Thompson.
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