The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1898-06-16
TELLER BOGGS
ON THE STAND
tie Tells of the Transac.
lions Between Clark 7
and Himself.

At tho opening of tho United Stated
Court this morning District Attorney
!; Vandegrift and John Biggs, the counsel
In the Clark case, appeared In good hue
NOR. The counse! appear at each sessi0R'
| of tho court in different suits. 1 :,
| Mr. Biggs wished to note objections to
all questions, as to checks barred by the
statue of Limitation. 3
William N. Boggs took the stand and
| deposed as follows: 4
Mr.. Vandegrift: You stated yesterday
that tho checks you delivered to Clark
were represented In the bond. We're these
$3.50 checks included =?
| mo sir. They were delivered to Mr.. 4
| Clark later. The settlement for tho May
! 9Th check, which was given for Bay State
| Gas, Clark expected to have the funds to
meet 1t. The officers OF the bank dad not
/ know witness carried the checks. IncteRd
| of taking up that check another check for
$3.50 came from Clark. Protest was com.
menced at once. Clark came to Witness
and told himlhat the market had not gone
right. 1t would never do to let the check
60 back.
In order to secure witness the stock was
transferred to him. Instead of the trans1
fer being a security 1t was d loss.
Mr.. Biggs objected to this line Of evil
dence. Clark transferred the stock to
Boggs, got his checks back and there and
"Was the bank ever reimbursed
mo sir. There was nothing to do so
with. Nothing was realized out Of the
transaction.
"Tho stock proved q total loss Clark
knew other pooplo had Bay State and he
he wanted some OF 1T too. The checks
were never cancelled. Clark had an ao,.
count there and his regular checks were
cancelled. His account was different from
all othDrs. His methods were notorious. {;
He reo1llected that tho two $3.50 checks
came through tho Farmers Bank He was
unable to remember others checks came
direct and were paid by witness.
lone was given to Harry Mcdaniel.
Clark wrote to witness concerning q. Q. ,
d. matter at the express office The check :"
was for 800. Clark glve him two notes
and they were paid The proceed. were
placed to Clark's credit An order for
$400 was also received. This was on q
New York savings fund. Another for slOf
was received, loss the discount.
He committed tho first error In the bank
with Mr.. Clark. In all these years several
conferences about the money took place.
The purport would DO that Clark al ways
had deal pending. Would run it out and
find 1t was OF no avail.
In October, 1895, Clark came to his house.
There be told Clark that he was in addi-
tionai trouble and would like to straighten
up the account All the checks that had
been paid before that time were there
amounting to s., 500.
Wo talked over the manner in which the
checks had been made. Clark cautioned
Bogg5 as to whom to talk. Nothing was
said On February s, 1897, the mode OF
procedure al the bank was changed so that
the bank examiner was sure TO lind the de.
fulcaton. Clark advised him then to flee.
Clark was The man with whom he made
tho first error in oDnnoctjDn with tho
bank. He turned TO the individual lodger
and depOsed that he credited Clark with
$3.50 against IL checks amounting to
SOS 92and on August II, credited $270
against checks for S26i
To Mr.. Riggs he said he did not know
when he took tho first amount. The event
was we'll impressed on his mind, but he
could not remember the date. In 1895 he
was before committee of tho bank drec-
tors and witnesst old them he had not mis-
applied Il dollar.
He notified his bondsmen. They asked
him if he m!sapplCd dollar and he said
that ho hoped he would drop dead or
words to that effect in order to continue
his position and to get the same men on
Gas in March. 1895. The next was May
of 80 shares There was little pool formed
on May 6. The next purchase was the
transfer of Clark's 100 shares. He never
mads money out of Bay State Gas.
lie never mentioned tho purchase of the
first 40 shares "How did you take Sl07, coo
from this bank and not arouse suspicion
until you were gonoP'
"By tho cOnfidonee which the bank OIL
Gals had in me-"
"When you took these large sums Of
money did the bank officials think 10
stranger
at was not done in a day"
To the officials ho would say the hard
times and deposits in trust companies.
Told one Of them to look at his own uc-
count where ho used to get 81 cents for
corn and was then selling it for quarter.
1t would have taken an expert account
ant who was hunting for defalcaLion to
discover the same.
He did not go to Clark's Office about the
first check for $50 A conversation took
place before tho check came in. He did
not ask Clark to provide for that check.
Clark did not tell him to protest tbs check
He denied he stated to Clark in he hearing
of G. II. Butler, that Bay State was Il good
thing, that 1t would go up fifty and that
Clark should carry 1t.
|. He gave up the two checks when ho got
the tran sfer Of tho 100 shares of Bay State
Gas. He continued to buy Bay State Gas
after that time. lie denied Clark tod him
to protest he second check and that Clark
said he had not tho money to meet tho
check. On May s. 1897, tciegraphed for W.
H.. Cottor and met him at the depot. He
thought he had fifty six houses in Philadel.
phia,
We went to thc house of tho witness.
Clark often handed money to witness
without deposit slip NJ book was used.
Such IL course took place many times, He
had no rccolec ion of betting on horses at
Eas,un fair beyond dollar or two. Ho
did not think he played on tho wheel of for.
tune. The court took u recess at this stage
of tho proceedings.