The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-05-01

| rounding the Globe Savings bank fall
ure, the jurors confess that they now
know no more than when the bankers
protege tripped across the jury room
threshold For one hour the secret
room guarded a session which was per-
haps as interesting and amusing as
ever took place within the gray walls
of the criminal court building. Miss
Erwin testified that she had received no
salary from any source since 1898 She
had since that time added TO her earth
| ly store a paltry SCI 600 in real estate
$4,000 diamond necklace. a few other
! trifles, and had lived in luxurious style.
Opened Their Eyes i'm Wonder.
The jurors opened their eyes in Won
der and laughed. Miss Erwin laughed, |
too. She thought it was grand jury ETH
quette. Then she told her little story.
She told it we'll and the jurors listened
breathlessly as under Assistant States
Attorney McEwen's questions il was
brought out. In the mysterious recess
es under the Globe Savings bank. hid
den away among the vaults. was an
iron-bound box Miss Erwin had the
open Sesame to tits receptacle.
When she wanted a few thousand dol
lars she went To this box, turned
mystic key and the money which she
wished was there. No matter how
much she wished she was never disap-
pointed. She wanted to purchase a par
eel of lots I'm j. Ford's subdivision. The
price was several thousand dollars
just how many she had forgotten as
she kept no track Of such trivial de-
tails She went TO the box and the
money awaited her. She traded this
later for property on Juneau terrace
MISS Ervin's coy ways, the bewitching
smile and her sparkling eyes won the
grand jurors.
Enjoyed Literary Work.
They had no heart to ask her too try
ing questions. She told the jurors that
she had assisted Mr.. Spalding i'm writ
ing the genealogy of his family She
enjoyed literary work, she declared.
she Informed the jurors, amid much
that the book contained 500
names and sold for So AS to the prof
rs, they were small. but she received 7
Ill She freely admitted receiving from S
Mr. Spalding and the mysterious box
ome SCI 900 worth Of property.
To save Mr. Spalding from iail.
urned over TO him, at the request of
Attorney II. w. MCGEE, all this prom
rty," she said.
Don't you think We had better indict L
his lawyer for obtaining money under y
alse pretenses? asked a merry Juror o
mid general hilarity Miss Erwin | o
aughed as heartily as anyone and the c
strlch plumes of her dark bonnet nod c
ed an affirmative, Miss Erwin was the =
asst witness Of the session and she left =
ne jurors in good humor. -
Npalding's Indictment Certain. 6
prominent men whose names have p
cen connected with the Globe Savings j
ank are trembling No one knows -
mere the lightning will strike. Banker OF
paidings indictment on both charges -
Ioregone conclusion The list of bie ~
robable companions grows each dav e.
ne deeper the secret body probes into r
he Globe bank affairs, the worse they dl
ecolne. The morning testimony flr- "a
lshed' apparently, the last corner 10
-ohe 10 the evidence that the bank ei
'celVed deposits after insolvency. w ~
u robinson, eX-bank examiner. testi ~
sd to an examination which he mada
December 1892 His report. as rem
red. was startling. 1t was another In
'ot AT the lax methods in the auditors w
partment under Governor Altgeld He 10
-clafed that even then the bank was ST
aky. lie stated that at that time ono. 90
III OF It's capital stock was Unmarried du
looked Tor an almost immediate ex M
oson III