The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-07-03

The taking of testimony in the lost
draft case of Harry Edwards against
the Deseret National bank TO recover
S1.64924. the amount of the draft
cashed by the plaintiff, the payment
of which was stopped on the ground
that it had been stolen, closed at 1890
yesterday and the arguments to the
jury were made by Attorneys Krelis
and Hoppaugh for the plaintln and by
Judge Henderson for the defendant.
The result was a verdict to the effect
that the draft for S1,649.24 be turned
over TO the intervenor, the TapDan
Pump company, and that the company
also have judgment for 500 interest
against Harry Edwards.
WEIR's VERSION OF IT.
Robert Weir. the agent of the Tap
pan Pump company who bought the
draft from the bank for his com
pany. was the first witness examined
yesterday morning. He denied Chap
mans story to the effect that witness
had put up the draft on q bet in the
lock trick game and lost ii. He told
about meeting Chapman who, witness
said, represented himself as a stranger
from Seattle. Chapman he said made
frequent visits 10 witness room and
his theory was that it was on one of
these occasions that the draft was
taken from his vest pocket. He sus-
pected Chapman of having taken it,
although he wrote TO the bank that
he could not account for its disappear
ance He did not like to put his sus-
picions in writing at thai time. He
discovered his loss in the morning and
notified the bank in the evening of the
same day.
DETECTIVE SHEETS.
Detective Sheets testified that
Gately, who endorsed the draft as
Brown, was a sure thing man. He was
once arrested for grand larceny and
let out on $3.50 bonds which he for
feited and never appeared for trial.
Osborne, another man mixed up in the
affair, witness said, bore a bad reputa-
ton.
Cross-examined by Attorney Hop
paugh, the witness said he and Chap
man were friends Notwithstanding the
fact that witness had arrested him
several times recently. Witness had
no interest in this case and would not
have been present as a witness if he
had not been subDoenaed. He hadn't |
threatened any of the witnesses ex-
cept in a ''joshing' way. He had, how (
ever. told Captain Donovan that he |
would impeach his testimony.
Detective Raleigh remembered the /
time that Weir lost the draft. The !
reputation of Chapman, Gately and |
Osborne was bad.
officers Janney and Burbidge also |
testified to the bad reputation of |
Chapman and Gately.
Captain Eslinger said the reputation
of Chapman, Crosby and Gately in
May. 1895. was bad. He drew no dis
tinctiOn between the individual who
by artifice succeeded in getting away
with mans money, and the man who
put his hand into another's pocket for
the same purpose.
Sergeant, John Burbidges testified to
Chapman's and confederate's charac-
ter and said they were all bad.
Harry Edwards was recalled and
asked by Judge Henderson if he went
Chapman's bond in the police court
recently. His answer was in the af-
firmative. The amount of the bond
was $50.
Ex-Police Captain John ]. Donovan
said he remembered a conversation
with Mr.. Weir at the police station in
May, 1895, when he told him that he
lost a draft on lock trick game. No
one was present save he and Mr.. Weir
Witness was also of the belief that
Mr.. Weir said he did not like the no
toriety the affair would give him. The
UNDERESTIMATE he got from Weir and
Chief Pratt was that he had been
robbed in lock game. Weir first came
to the police Office alone. Judge Hen
derson might have introduced witness
10 Weir but it was subsequent to his
having first met him. Did not tell
Sheets that Edwards admitted getting
draft of Gately.
Sheets was recalled and said that I
Donovan had asserted that Edwards
got the draft from Gately or Brown.
He was positive Of this. Edwards told I
Donovan that Gately was Brown
Mr.. Weir, recalled, said that when
he went to the police station il was in s
company with Judge Henderson He I
had never been there before. The first I
time he ever met Donovan was when
he was introduced by Judge Henderson.
This closed the testimony, and the !
and verdict were as stated. 5
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