The record-union., 1899-04-19
GOLDSMITH UNDER
A SCORCHINC FIRE.
The Experts Testimony as to Un-
lawful Use Of Money
Very Much Shaken When Cruss-Examined
by Counsel for the Defense.

Nearly All the Apparently Damag-
ing Entries Attached to Ex-
Senator Quay's Name OF Account
as Testified to on Monday
Explained Away or Modified by
Statements of the Common
wealth's Principal Witness.
fense had its inning to-day in the trial
of Senator Quay, and made the most
of its opportunity. Expert Accountant
Goldsmith, the Commonw ealth's wit
ness was under a scorching fire OF
oss-examination all day, and the re-
suit of it justifies the opinion that the
network of evidence wrought by the
prosecution from the books of the
broken bank tend to show Senator
Quay's guilty participation in the un-
lawful use of the banks money was
very much shaken by the admissions
the witness was compelled to make
under the skillful questioning of At
torney L. S. Shields, admittedly the
best cross-examiner practicing at the
Philadelphia bar.
Nearly all the apparently damaging
entries attached to Senator Quay S
name or account as testified to yester-
day were explained away or greatly
modified by the statements of the Com
monwealth's own witness.
Judge Biddle's ruling of yesterday
had the effect of confirming testimony
tending to show the existence of a con-
spiracy between Quay, Haywood and
Hopkins, as charged in the Indictment
to the two years ending November IL,
1898. Lawyer Shields got from the wit
ness the statement that if Hopkins had
credited Quay's account with amounts
that belonged there the books would
show that at the beginning of the al
legged conspiracy, November H. 1876,
the Senator owed the bank only $236.
instead of over $4,000, as is alleged.
Taking up the allegation that Senator
Quay had borrowed S1S5, 600 during the
settlement period ending October 81,
1897, the last settlement before the
bank closed, Mr.. Shields forced from
Goldsmith, piece by piece, facts tending
to show that in nearly every instance
the amounts charged to Senator Quay
were really loans to other persons. poll
ticians mostly. for whom Quay indorsed
Where there was a definite loan to Sen
ator Quay the repayment was clearly
proven.
In this connection it might be well
to say that District Attorney Rother-
mel claims that he has clearly estab-
lished the fact he started out to prove,
namely, that 100000 of the State de-
posit in the bank was set aside for the
use of Senator Quay. and whether he
used it himself or loaned it is not ma
terial in proving the conspiracy
Toward the close of the days pro-
ceedings Mr. Shields asked Mr.. Gold
smith some questions which indicate
that the defense is about to attempt to
prove it's contention that Senator Quay
was the victim of Cashier Hopkins,
who. they assert, used the name and ac-
count of the Senator without the lat
ter's knowledge to cover his own Jug
Cling with the banks funds Hopkins,
they say. appears to have used fictitious
names for loans presumably to Hazen,
as well as the name of Senator Quay.
He had the reputation of being a heavy
speculator in the stock market, and the
inference is that the defense will at
tempt to prove that Senator Quay had
no knowledge whatever of the alleged
loans on his account.
Mr.. Shields put a different complex
ion on the entries in the red book by
compelling the witness to admit that
many of his figures We're not proven
by entries in the regular bank books,
but We're the result of what he prac-
tically acknowledged to be his
o,z.,1 zf 70 in
unintelligible figures written in the
red book
Goldsmith was still on the stand when
court adjourned for the day and the
questions put to him near the close were
full of promise of interesting develop
ments tomorrow Much of the sting
was taken out of the shake the plum
tree purchase by the statement that
the purchase of Metropolitan stock
thereby was made by $1,000 of Sena-
tor Quay's own money his deposit at
that period exceeding 100000
While Senator Quay was listening in
tently to the cross-examination of the
expert. a telegram was thrust into his
hand containing the information of the
break in his ranks at Harrisburg. The
Senator carefully adjusted his glasses
and read the dispatch. Then a half
frown came over his features. and his
face turned from the witness to the
courtroom window, out of which he
gazed in a contemplative manner for
several minutes. He made no COM
ment to any of those seated near him
on the news the telegram conveyed TO
him.
EXPERT GOLDSMITH CROSS-EX-
AHMED.
PHILADELPHIA, April 1S.-When
the trial Of ex-senator Quay opened to-
day it was evident that from the brief
examination of Meyer Goldsmith, the
expert accountant, by District Attorney
Rothermel, that Judge Biddle's decision
yesterday ruling out testimony relating
to other than the alleged specific con-
spiracy prevents the revelation of many
alleged manipulations. by State Treas
urers and others of the State funds on
deposit in the Peoples Bank.
Mr. Goldsmith was on the stand for
less than five minutes to-day before be-
ing turned over to the defense for cross
examinations In that time Mr.. Rother-
mel brought out the fact that on -Au-
gust 3, 1896, 100000 was deposited in
the bank by State Treasurer Haywood.
making the State deposit aggregate
$500. .00O Two days later loan of
500. 600 was made to Richard r. Quay
on note indorsed by Senator Quay.
The witness said the books did not show
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