The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-03-22
G. w. HAUPT AGAIN ON TRIAL.
ENTIRE DAY TAKEN UP IN sUPE-
RIOR COURT.


the Only Witness on the stand.
Sharp Colleagues Between the At
tOrneys ms 10 the Evidence to BE
submitted-Mr. Haupt Rearrested
on New Indictment on the Lar
ceny After Trust Case.
The entire day In the Superior Court
was occupied in the hearing of
the case of the state against George w.
Haupt, charged with embezzlement. Very
slow progress was made, and when the
court adjourned at O'Clock at night the
first witness. MIR. j. P. Williams. was still
upon the stand undergoing cross-examina-
ton by the defendants counsel.
Over three hours were taken in obtain
Ing a jury, eighty-hve Jurors being Inn
paneled and seventy-four of this number
sworn. OF this number twenty-six went
off for cause, twenty were struck by the
defendant and ten by the state. On the
panels offered were jurors who had served
on the previous trial of the embezzlement
case, in which a mistrial was declared,
and also those who had served on the
forgery case, both having been tried at
this term of the court. Most of these went
off for cause.
Mr.. Thomas P. Reynolds was the six
teenth juror called and the first to be ac-
cepted by the state and the defendant A
look of sad surprise overspread Mr.. Rey-
nods face at this result. T. A. Morel,
colored, completed the panel, being the
seventy-fourth juror called The jury was
completed at l :25 O'Clock.
The following composed the jury;
Thomas p Reynolds, j. j. Nipson, S.
McA White, Sidney s. Sollee, John NJ.
Doty, George c. Tuten, John c. Ennis,
Lawrence e. Mccarthy, Sanford Harmon,
John S. Hanes John W. Howard, I, A.
Morel, colored.
Solicitor General Osborne read the in
dictment to the jury and stated the case
for the state. The state proposed to show,
he said, that the defendant was the treas
ure Of the corporation known as the Geor-
gia Pine Railway Company,
corporation largely owned in
Savannah and whose financial
opera tons are conducted here, its home
office being at cambridge. 1t would be
shown that the methods of transactng the
financial business of the company was by
means of vouchers, approved by the gem
eIdl HidudBett WIN SiBut uTdIl dltHCneu
a check being drawn for the amount of the
draft when received in Savannah with the
vouchers.
The method by which the embez-
Element was pcrpetrated was that Mr..
Williams, the president, being frequently
absent from the city, would counters,gn
a number of checks in blank, when about
to leave the city. leaving the checks to be
filed out by the treasurer, the defendant.
So
than the amount of the drafts on many
occasions. and the money put to his own
use by the defendant For instance, if the
draft accompanying a certain set OF vouch-
ers called for 1905, check would be drawn
for 81 ,006, and this excess is nowhere ac-
counted for. There were also stock sub
scrlptions received by the treasurer and
credited by him on the cash book, but
it was nowhere shown that this money had
ever been deposited. On one day subscrip-
ton of $50 was received from one man. An
other collections for the day were depos-
tied, but there is nothing to show what be-
came of the $50.
The process of demonstrating these
charges to the jury would be a little te-
dous. Mr. Osborne said but everything
would be made plain, and it would be
shown that the total amount embezzled
was SS.0749S. The system of bookkeeping
dhOplGu ny Nllt utltu0dnL was pam ana
simple, and would show an average of $3.50
to $500 month taken by him
Mr.. Williams was placed upon the stand
as the first witness for the state. He tes-
titled as to Mr. Haupts connection with
the company and the length of time which
he had been connected with ID. Mr. VIII
Hams said that he discovered no discrep-
ancy in Mr.. Haupts accounts with the
railway company until the day his resig-
nal
quest. His suspicious had been aroused by
an article which he saw in the Morning
News, giving an account of the troubles
of church treasurer Mr. Williams gave
an account of the method of transacting
the railway business practically as al
ready described. His testimony was prac-
tically the same as that given by him on
| the trial last week.
Mr.. w. c. Hartridge, the defendants
| counsel, objected to Mr.. Williams relat-
! ing conversation which he had with Mr..
/ Haupt, in which the latter was alleged to
have confessed TO a shortage with the
| company. The jury was Withdrawn. bit
| was later returned, and Mr.. Williams al
| lowed to state the conversati ton. He had
no suspicious at first, he said, that there
was anything wrong In Mr.. Haupt's trans
! actions with the railway company. He
| asked him about the troubles with the
| NHuAttis anu w Dis ~ inclined
| towards him, especially as Mr. Haunt con-
| WINGED him that he was prosecuted man.
| Mr.. Haupt said that the church people
| were mad with him, because he had not
| invested some of the church funds as they
| desired. He asked MIR. Haupt If there were
anything wrong with the affairs of the
| Georgia Pine Railway Company and the
| Oglethorpe Real Estate Company, and Mr..
/ Haupt assured him positively that there
was nothing wrong. A few days later.
when there had been further developments
in the church matter. including that with
reference to the use of the bond OF The
real estate company, he again asked him
about the matter. Mr.. Haupt admitted
that he might be short $500 to $500 but wa
positive that it could not be more than
! the latter amount He told Mr. Haunt he
said, that he wanted to know the truth,
that an expert accountant had been en-
ployed to go over the books, and that Il
would be better for him to tell the truth
! than a perverson of 1t.
Mr.. Williams said that he had several
| subsequent conversations with Mr.. Haunt
The first conversation took place Sept,