The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1897-12-11

end of banking hours2 Can't you recall
VIII Their you.won in that game s2oo or 'hc
ESQ
\. Indeed. 7 cannot recall 10 TO save
my life. sir I tell you the considera'
ton OF The checks, ana ,nc circumstance
attending them. I have told you all /
could.
Q. believe the Planters National Bank
i'm this city closes al o'clock 10 the
afternoon
A. believe so. sir. J deposited them
there. sir. / reckon / did. / don't re-
member. either I'm person or by letter |
don't rem cmbcr which. 81 am just tell
ing You that those two checks must have
been given differently They are both
the same date. and the considerations
are the same. but / don't remember the
circumstances attending their execution,
! have really forgotten
Q. Judging from the endorsement upon
those checks they were given upon the
10Th Of October. before o'clock on that
day. they were either deposited 10 your
credit or you received the cash for them.
VIII you please state. sir, whether YOU
collected those checks In cash. or whether
the money went 10 your credit az the
Planters National Bank
4. ! am very certain that 7 did no.,
receive that money over the counter ot
the Planters National Bank have never
received that much over the counter and
10 must have been that Il was placed 10
my credit T cannot recall. sir. that
had the use Of 500 in money 10 carry
home with me. or 20 use out In the coun-
try
no MORE LIGHT
Q. Colonel since the adjournment ~
this committee on yesterday. have you
examined the ledger OF the Planters
National Bank 20 get any further lighi
on that question?
A. J have not. sir; and ind out TOO
sir. that II has been my custom as nave
seen u shown by my present check nooA
lust 10 give the amount OF the checks ON
my memorandum and not hy whom drawn
or anything else-perhaps the date bur
did not see any necessity Of going there
10 the ledger. but sir. n the committee
can md out anything IN the world crave
that the ledger shall be examined H
they think IL will throw any lsht on the
subject -.
Q. DO you recall the fact that tnese
checks werer read out by Major Randolph
when he produced them-the race A''u 'N'
endorse ment both2
4. Yes. sir I was sitting back there
and understood Major Randolph 20 sa.
distinctly that f. was Octoner l'''' Ou'
was mistaken: and you Will remeh,''
that Yesterday. before I took the checks
I said II they were dated IN 1880 they
were forgerles. When ! saw they were
dated in 1891 / recalled the fact That t"o
years previously ! had ceased haylns any
sort of-wel. recognition Of Mr. WomacN.
previous 10 that time-it was IN lhl'
ala not know whether 10 was in ~" ''
1894 had wound up my transactions WIZ
him. until found out from hr. h',N'
that IL was I'm 1884, that We were IN h
mingham. and then said thar was "..
consideration Of those checks. ahd sly
80. still did understand MAJOR i"n
dolph 20 use the word 1896 and "heh "'
said II. I said In an undertone mos.
checks were forged" lie read II lN'' O''
I understood him 1896.
O. Did I not also read those cne ~
during The examination ~ Major ran
dolph? 4.
a. / do not recall. SIR The tAct
though. II was 1898 until took inem N
nv hands because you VIII Iene'ho.'
I pronounced them forgeries before iook-
ing az them. before found out any '''ns