Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1898-12-15

testified to- Mr.. Biggs said, Ibid
that come back unpaid?"
III don't know, y was the reply.
III it did, was it then taken care off"
eyes. w.
"Boggs stated that he placed to your
credit $1,000 on one occasion which he
took from the banks money and that
you knew who took it; also that he
placed after the. deposit in your pass
book the initials 'W.N.B.,' what are
the facts?"
ssBoggs and 1, were joint owners in
$50 shares of Bay State Gas. Up to
that'ti he had not paid any part of
the price or margin. / had solicited
him to pay his part. He then de-
posted s1,00o to pay his share in part
or in full, his indebtedness to me being
for 100 shares which were carried by
me for him on the books Of Cuthbert
IL CO."
"Was the $1,000 due from You to
him?o
at was. l bought at his solicita-
tion,n .s..
Witness snid he did not know that it
was the banks money and II no had
he would not have permitted it. lie
said he erased the initials w. N. y.
after the deposit at time after ms
passbook had been examined with
other passbooks following Boggs. de-
partpre. Concerning deposit Of S407,
which Boggs made for him on Septem-
Der 9Th, he said that was also in settle
ment for Bay State Gas account,
| Boegs being in debt to him for that
amount The erasures, witness said,
were made to prevent any misunder-
| cd, ,.1sprf in tho Ft1ti1rp.
| Relative to deposit of 5000, which
1 Boggs made for Kenney OH February
| 10th, 1887, witness made the following
/ explanation:
| 81 left Dover on the It'll, went to
Washington and did not return until
| the night of the 10th, the date on
| which the deposit was made. The
| transaction is somewhat clouded to my
memory. have been unable to thor
oughly clear my recollection as to thai
| deposit, The day before i think some.
| thing like 81, 800 was deposited.
have come to this conclusion from my
| indistinct recollection that Boggs had
occasion to collect certain foreign
checks or drafts, and told me that hi
deposited that amount of money Il
enable him to do SO, asking me tt
return it. That is my vague recol
lection
nDid you return him the money!"
"Yes,n
| "To enable him to collect some for
eign checks?"
/ 81 think SC"
\ Witness denied that Boggs had eve
attempted to show him how his accoun
appeared on the books and how i
would have appeared il all the check
hud been settled, up. He said, how
ever, that Boggs had occasion to diife
with him several times as to how hi
account stood and on such occasions h
would accompany Boggs to the BAN
and they would go over the books an,
Boggs usually succeeded in convincing
him. He branded as false the state
ment that Boggs had detailed to hin
the arrangement for carrying checks
He alleged that he never, heard @
Boggs carrying checks until the trials
He said that he did not take his boo
to the bank hardly one time in
hundred in the past four years, Arle
b. Magee usually attending to tina
matter for him. Concerning the bond
given by Clark, Ford, McGonigal an
Cole, he said he only knew about tn
) Clark and Ford bonds and explaine
that they were given for debts whic
{ Boggs claimed the parties owed hin
kenney said he had no interest in an
I Of the bonds but hud been endeavorin
/, to make some collections for Bogg:
i After Boggs' return, Francis Shun
Brown Of Philadelphia requested hi
i, I'd, assign the bonds referred to to til
bank, but he declined to do SO an
! assigned them to Boggs.
III M n ,l.a+b +,
: Clark had told him that portion
J the "a, 600 in the bond represented
/. gambling debt. Mr.. Vandegrift oil
Q iected to the question and the cou
q 4 sustained him, holding that the rep
& would be hearsay testimony, but Il
judge suggested that the defence migl
ask for a writ of habeas corpus
s bring Thomas s. Clark here to testif
s Counsel for the defence noted an e.
0 ception. ~
t Mr.. Biggs asked the witness: Bog
q said he had consultation with ye
d relative to the eXtradition laws
}. | Cuba. Is that true?'
n "That is absolutely false: he new
it mentioned the extradition laws
d Cuba or any other country"
it Witness said that on one occasio
y in 1896, after he had loaned the fir
Anderson check and was going
% Philadelphia, Boggs asked him to s
10 Cotter and ascertain something abo
Ie the Anderson building matter. /
g could not remember just what he W
re to ask Anderson, but thought t
object was to find out if Boggs HI
ID been released on some ground rem
at water rents or taxes. Witness call
IS Mt Cotter's Office but didn't see hi
IS This he reported to Roggs and hea
Mt nothing about the matter in that CO
at nection afterwards. Mr.. Kenney deni
lie writing, in any letter to Boggs,
Of quest that it be destroyed, he bel
is most positive about this matter wi
10 regard to letters concerning bank trai
m actions.
er Mr.. Biegs asked the witness il Bog
ve ever told him that "Zeke'' (meani
ne Cooper) was sin it'' for 500. COO,
ng which the witness replied, that
IS. never heard of Cooper being in a
as transaction that was illegal until
nd was indicted and tried in the co,
ny here.
n Court adjourned until 10 o'clc
a this morning.
When the trial was resun
ar Judge Bradford announced II
30 Ezekiel L. Cooper had been brous
IA from the prison at Trenton, N. j., a
lal was then on his way from the railre
le- station to the Federal Building and
! / very few minutes it was annount
that he had reached the buildil
is Counsel for the defence wanted to W
is until afternoon before putting him
the stand, while District Attorl
an VANDERBILT did not want to proc'
IS. until Cooper had testified. 1t '
mi finally decillnd that Mr.. Nnndegl