The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1899-04-01
TELLING
HIS STORY.
COtter Still on the Stand
When Court AdjOurn=
ed Yesterday.

David NJ. Tess testified he Is real es.
taIe broker in Philadelphia. He owns q
house on 49th street in tho row where
Bo.gs had tho house. 1t was worth be.
tween 81, 600 and 1000 Cotter was cross
exalnined by Mr.. Vandegrift He said he
had been in business since he came out oI
the war His dealings In real estate went
oyer ten or twolve years. During that
time lie has had considerable transactions
He has been in tho oil business and also at
farming. He had clerks to look after his
business and kept bouks. His fir + con-
nectlon with Boggs began in 1888 In
some instances he received commissions
from Boggs for leal estate transactions.
In reference . ho Harringt farm trans
action knnney was counsel for Boggs
Inc farm was $3.50 and he held 800 MS
his commission. iIo identified letter
wri ten Ly him to Bosgs on March is,
1895. In it, he said the price would be
u, 400. In II letter of March 2l. 1895. he
wrote to Boggs. l will haya ths money
turned over tG All attorney and that man
would be Mr.. Konney.
"Now, Mr. Cottcr take Albemarlo honses
and say what Boggs made out Of itS'
''Hc made nothing
Did you evFr get anything else out Of
tho Centre county land except the $3, QUO
murtgnge?'
"Bosgs got tho interest in six houses.
A Strawmun Is II live man. He is Tvs hon
est us you ur a!e and ho is not particular
about people knowing about his mort
CAGES He could not ell what Boggs got
on, Of The Amanda street property. The
19th stree houses paid rent until Doggs
went away. Aftar that tho property was
sold The Anderson houses wtre not
owned by the property. He did not know
II Eugs> got anything ont of the deal.
III Il t,,.,, tNf,
csived more than ono check from Boggs
He Knew by lho promise Boggs gave hun
that the checks would be paid by Boggs
He wa, acting On instructions from BoGgI.
1t did not excite any suspicion III his mind
hat Buggs did not give his own check.
He did not know Why Boggs gave kenney
and Cooper's checks. He kept IN account
at ho Market Street National bank up to
1898. He had u balance there and drew 1t
recently. lie had il small account ut an
other banking huuso. He had a CONVEX
satiun with Boggs they talked ovor his
checks He never got tho two notes from
Boggs. He remembered writinga letter
TO Bogss about making $1,000 out of tho
AEae son deal. In letter II May II,
1873, Cot.er wrote to Boygs that nc was in
no hurry with tho vouchers. Tho reason
kenney's checks were use! was thai it
took about week to got tho money on
hi, checks. The only deal WAS the COIN
mi sion he was 10 receive.
did Finley have any thing to do with
this Harrington farm?
Icannut remember. do not know that
he was he purchaser CT the farm. In II
lu,ter he stated he lhough5 it best not to
accept h'inley's offer.
Cotter read three letters written by him
to BogGs. He said hat he judged Bog!s
was d man of luOncy, He could not tell
what he wrote to Boggs becau.o real
estate broker is Likely t" write whole lots
of things. This eau ed Il general laugh in
which the jury joined. In reIer1nce 10 the
visit ma,!e 10 Boggs on May 1877, they
held an interview and did not ste tho list
"f checks stated by Boggs.
Boggs did not tell him ho was going
away on Monday. He told BogSs to go to
his friends and see Mr.. Richard ion and Mr..
MI. Bateman and geo what could bo done
He never mentioned the fact that BoGgs
was II defauter to Mr. Bateman or Mr..
Ho lad written to Boggs to
bs careful of T. S. Clark.
The district Attorney handed letter to
Cotter ard us he was her long reading
it Mr.. Vandegrift told him ho had read il
thrcs times and Golfer answered: Per
haps you are not as Interested IN TINS caso
rs am"
"Mr Vandogrift am not
"Alr Higgins you ought to be-
Here an interesting letter about horse
racing was read In which Cotter stated he
wanted SEQ by telegraph to play IL sure
hing.
In letter on December l. 1891. ho wrote
letter part of which rend III you think n
title bit OF me don't let that $l4 check
:ome back" He falt that Boggs would 1
,lacs either his (Boggs) money to meot |
rbn pr his yyInln Ina ]
here to meet it, He gave his bank book
. Boges in 1894 he never closed out the
ccCunt he had taken ut the BANK years
go. Some ono else put money to his
Iccount and drew it out on II check. He
sept no account of Boygs transactions. He
:ad no book to show any OF his transac-
ions either with Roggs or Others. Court
djourned at O'clock and will meet
gain on Monday morning.