The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1896-05-19
MRS. LEES CORRESPONDENCE.
her Letters to Eugene ]. Gregory Are
Now Being Read.
Additional Testimony Taken on the
Latter's Examination in tho
Justices Court.

The examination of e. j. Gregory on
the charge of obtaining money by faise
pretenses. preferred by Mrs. Mary Il.
Lee. was resumed before Justice Henry
yesterday. The testimony on which the
prosecution expects to make out its
case is based chiefly on letters received
nv Mrs. Lee from the defendant to sub
etantiate her charge that Gregory rep
resented his firm to be solvent when she
lent it the sum of $1,000 in May, 1894,
which representation she alleges he
knew to be false.
The first letter offered yesterday. when
the case was resumed, related largely
to political matters, the writer having
interested himself, at Mrs. Lees re-
quest. in the candidacy of w. Stairley
for a. Federal position in Sacramento.
The writer also referred to his own po-
litical aspirations, and said an astrol-
oyer in San Francisco had assured him
that he stood an excellent chance of
securing a high Office.
In the same letter he replied to Mrs.
Lees request for some interest on a
loan she had made the firm in 1892 by
saying he would send it to her, provid-
ing she did not hit him too hard.
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aeknowledg ment of the $1,000 loan.
Writing again, soon afterward, Greg
ory referred to the Stairley matter and
expressed the hope that Grover would
soon get down to business
There was still another and later loan
made of $1,000, and Mrs. Lee said it was
discussed by herself and Gregory in the
Grand Hotel in San Francisco in April,
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possible, and she told him to call on her
at Red Bluff and she would see what
could be done about it. She told Greg
DRY she had all confidence in his firm.
He said he needed from $4,000 to $50,
600
The witness said she felt Gregory had
sighted her to some extent because he
seemed in haste to get away from her.
The attorneys here became involved in
a long dispute over the admission of a
question by Mr.. Jones as to whether or
not the witness would have lent the
$1,000 If she had known the Gregory
Company to be insolvent, and pending
Its settlement the court took a recess
and performed a marriage ceremony
the lawyers present acting as witnesses.
After the lawyers had concluded their
croSS-fring Mrs. Lee went briefly over
the circumstances attending the loans
She said she had expressed confidence
in the soundness Of Mr.. Gregory's firm.
The witness relied upon the statements
made by Gregory, in his letters and con-
versations, relative to his firm. to be
true. The So, 600 which she sent to Greg
DRY, she said, she borrowed from Kraft
Bank at Red Bluff. The letter contain
ing the draft was addressed to Eugene
Gregory.
The prosecution here rested, and the
defense was begun.
LETTERS TO GREGORY.
After asking Mrs. Lee her name, res
idence and age-which latter she said
was upward Of 40 years-she testified,
in response to questions by MT. Bruner,
that her first letter to Gregory was
written after her meeting with him at
the State Fair in this city She wrote
to him because she wanted to invest
some money.
In the first letter written by her
she stated that he had long been in her
mind and she hoped he would not re-
gard it as unbecoming in her to adj
dress him. She desired to invest some
money in business property that would
bring her in good income. The
writer said she had warm and dear
friends in Red Bluff, but had them else
where, too. She always liked her old
home, Sacramento.
Referring to her money, she wrote: