The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-01-18
Henry Allison Before
Commissioner
IN CIRCUIT COURT.
Revenue Stamp Case Which
Attracts Attention.

Fftchburg, Jan. 1.-THE trial of Henry
Allison before the United States Com
missioner Fiske in the United States
Circuit court, was held today, he an
swering at this time to a charge of re-
using internal revenue stamps The
| government witnesses included Collec-
tor Gll, Deputy Collectors Alexander
and sewall, Isaac s. Borley, R. A. Leo
nard. Misses Mabel W. YoungIove,
Bessie w. Blanchard of this city, Jas.
r. Doyle of Boston, Miss Carrie New
ton of Leominster and j. w. Skillings
of Winchester.
The complaint was not read. but
charges the use of a four-cent stamp
on bank check which had once been
used on an insurance policy Mr.. ALI
| son waived the reading of the COM
pla1nt and pleaded not guilty. George
j. Burns of Aver and Alfred Hemmen-
way of Boston appeared as counsel.
District Attorney Jones opened the
case and said that he should show that
the defendant fraudulently reused a
revenue stamp on a bank check on the
18th of October, said stamp having been
previously used on an insurance policy,
he said that he would satisfy the court
that the stamp had been cancelled and
delivered on a policy to the insured and
later the policy had been cancelled. and
the stamp removed and used again at
the order of the defendant
*. A. Leonard of this city testified
rhat he had some policies that expired
ON the Sd of September and two renew
ais were handed to him to take effect
sept. 10, assigned to j. w. SkiIlings,
mortgagee. A few days later he met Mr..
| Bofley, who wanted the policies back.
as he didn't care to assume the risks.
James r. Doyle offered testimony to
the effect that Field and Cow1es of Bos-
ton had refused some policies issued on
the property Of Mr.. Leonard that had
peen issued on the Royal Insurance
Company of Liverpool.
Mabel B. Younglove, a clerk in the of
nee, was the next witness She testi-
neu as to her general duties: to the
TACT That Mr.. Allison usually came into
the office after the bank closed for the
DAY; she identified the signature of the
check as being that of the firm: she
was OF the opinion that the stamp was
cancelled by Mr.. Borley, and not in the
handwriting of Mr.. Allison, but she
would not state positively whose writ
ing II was She stated that the clerks
nad been told that if policies had never
neen IN force to remove the stamps, but
II they had been in force, and the
stamps had not been removed, il was a
clerical error She said that it was the
custom to remove stamps from policies
that came back to the office. She tes-
titled that Mr.. Allison told her to use
certain stamps that had been taken off
from policies if they had never been
used before.
Carrie B. Newton corroborated the
testimony of the previous witness as
to the practice of removing stamps
from policies
Miss Bessie Blanchard testified to the
fact that stamps were removed from
policies that had not been in use. She
had taken off stamps, but had not used
them again herself. Mr. Allison told
her it WAS all right to remove cancell-
ed stamps if they had not performed
their office. The case rested at 3.55.
and adjourned until 10 a. m. tomorrow.
At the annual meeting Of the
trustees of the Burbank hos
rital, it was voted TO accept the re-
port of the building committee, who
presented advance plans for new hos
pital buildings. The plans arrange for
a set of five new buildings, all facing
the south-southeast, of the present To-
cation. The five buildings are to be
cuiiHecteu WIN corridors, the center
cne, an administration building to be-
ct two stories. TO one side of the lat
ter building is planned a general female
ward, and still further along an oper-
atlng ward.
On the other side Of the main build
ing will be the general ward and the
wsrd for paying patients. The accom-
naodations are arranged for 50 persons,
and this will exceed the present ac-
commodations by &c. The old buildings
are contemplated being used for con-
tagious wards It was voted to petit
ton the city government for permission
to petition the state legislature for a
special act to borrow 100000 for the
new hospital buildings.