Evening journal., 1899-03-31
C0TTER DENIES ALL
Says He Had No Knowledge
of Boggs' Shortage.
WAS A "PIKER" AT HORSE RACES

NUMBER OF LETTERS THAT /:
WERE WRlTTEN TO HIM BY
BOGGs- -CROSs- EXAMINED THIS
MFTERNOON.
When United States Court met yes
terday afternoon wv. E. C,tter again
took the stand and continued his tes-
timony relative to mis- transactions with
.Boggs.
In reference to the time he requested
.Boggs to secure $500 or S4OO for him,
Cctter said: "a shcrt time after that
met Boggs again in Dover at the post
Office and told him that / was going
back to Philadelphia in the real estate
business. Boggs asked if there were not
lcften properties i'm Philadelphia which
could be purchased at a small outlay
Of cash. but were good iRterest-bear-
ing properties. He told me that l had
an account and 1 could use a check
for small amount Cnce in wha.eI
and he w-mld deposit the money toI
my account. 4 said l had no check
book and but one blank check He
went in the post Office and got me a.
lew blank checks. He to,d me to al
ways let him know the amount"
"Were these checks To- be paid?' II
was to pay them ais soon as able"
After you went to Philadelphia did
you have an INTERVIEW with him? State
when, where and what Yes. in
Philadelphia, shortly after l reached
there. He tod me when / asked him
If / could use a check, certainly, if it
was a small amount. He said TO- al
ways use them in the regular channel,
because that gave more time to secure
the money to deposit. He eaid to send
the money in time if I could, but If
could not he would accommodate me. -
Did he at any Of those interviews
say that he would take the money for
these checks out Of the funds Of the
bank?" Certainly not. If he had
There w-uld never have been a check
drawn"
Mr.. Cotter said that Boggs hat
never, except ON May s, 1897, even init
mated that he was short one penny il
his account at the bank. No checks
were ever returned to him as beinl
unpaid. The witness was then shown
a transcript Of his account at th'
bank and asked If he ever inspectei
Ihis account at Diver. He said that b.
did rot. He also detailed the histor,
cfUhe various checks. He remembere
lhaving paid Boggs $40 in Philadelph!
for a check to M. J. Kelley. The chec
was given to KeNey for rent for a h.
- tel property which Cotter's son wa
running at Sea Is,e City. He also ne
membered having provided for olthe
checks which Boggs had paid for him
, He recalled ancthsr instance where b
had sent deed for forty lots in Bas
- port, R. l., as security for checks whic
- he was carrying, and also note i
have discounted. Boggs agreed
: cancel two checks l-r commission owe
=. Cotter On the Manley street deal +
never received a statement from Bog
as to his accounts. Mr.. Cotter relate
- his visit to Boggs on May 8, 1897. I
~ came in answer to telegram fro
- Boggs. Gotten said in part:
be 1.-THE fact connected with this w
that Mr.. Boggs asked me if I oou
en- raise some money on his Fhiladelph
g property. He said he wanted $4,000
2 S12, COO. / tod him that woarid be il
,e. possible, because they were partly Il
NJ finished. He later said: We'll, Cott
/ must do something, for 1 am ehC
. at the bank. / was shocked. cou
II not understand how a teller could car
ore a shortage. 1 have had heart trout
Gov since l was in the army, and l felt IN
% l must get cut in the open alq. Bog
ans said here are all your paDers. So'
rod of them j have nothing to do Wi
and you might as we.s have them
ar- not I said l must go cut in the fre
,.r air and l would come back next d.
.al I did mot feel equal to this task OF (
ing over those things, and l did ]
&c hack. I did not talk with Boz
next day. On Monday morning I S
o,, him and had conversation with Obi
tile ;fWhen BOggs told me on that nil
ses at his house. / reminded him that
ian best thing for him to do was to
ony Mr.. Richardson. He is a large+hear
on. man, and I told him I believed
int. would help him. BOggs said The co
d not do that, and I advised him to
his friends. He said he had no
who could hep him. 1 asked 0
flee about Miller, and he said Miller
one nothing. I advised him to see
'ses friends in Wilmington. and he s