Evening journal., 1899-03-29
BOGGS UNDER FIRE.
Tells of His Relations With
Cotter In Real Estate Deals.
ooTTLR's 5000 RANK CIGARS


yCRS CONRERRED-wERE NOT
FuT TO SMOKE OR SBII4-TlHE
DEFENDANT KNEW OF BOGGS'
SHORTAGE DURING HIS TRANS
ACTIONS WITH HIM.
AT the opening Of yesterday aiyer-
Moons session OF United States Court
WLi,.am N. Bcggs resumed his tssti-
m-ny as to his relations with w. E.
Cotter in Dover Bank transactions.
DAMAGING TO lIOTTElR.
Boggs said that slhere were 50 many
transactions with Cotter that he sell
dom knew head or tai, cf the matter.
Cotter made the deals amt the witness
lpaid The ohecks. The first transaction
was in raoe-track transactions. Shortly
after Cctter knew him ha began to
ask that checks be callhsn or money
LOANED. Sometimes Otter took money
to Gloucester and Washington Cotuer
advised the witness to go into real CO.
tate deals to make up FOR his gamb1,ng
losses.
The defendant, he eaid, was a real
estate bu-ker, and after the gNmbling
losses Cotter came with a proposition
to make Boggs large sums of money.
He was rhort at ahe bank and had
gone over IT with C,trer. They then
entered into an agreement by which
Cottsr was % make the deals and
, Boggs was to pay THE checks. He jump
ed at Cotter's proposition TO make up
the m-ney. In all they spent about
$4,000 of the monlsy of the bank, which
was never returned. Cotter knsw that
he was using the money of the bank for
THE purpose of trying TO make up the
! amount that HE was short.
A large bundle IF CetteTs from Cotter
to Boggs, which it took several hours
to examine, were admitted in evidence
THE checks which were drawn Ny Cot
ter were also admitted
Boggs said that Cotter was in the
; real estate business and appeared to
take kindly interest in him, and offer
ed to help him out. After me first met
COtter HE asked favors, such as CASH
ing checks or leaning him money. Cot
ter knew that THE witness was accom-
mlodating other people, and knew That
the Cbscks were being paid cut CT tAi,
funds OF the bank.
Boggs was still cn the stand when
court adjourned until thfs meaning.
BOGGS ROsS-EXAnTINED.
Court opened promptly at 1O1,
O'Clock this morning, and tha exam,na.
tiOn OF Boggs was continued. In rsla.
tion to collateral that accompanied
certain checks of Cotters, wlsnaa
stated the collateral. deeds, etc, wert
returned to him, as they could be uset
for other traisacbl-ns Boggs stated. tina
a few days before his fight he had
consultation with Cotter at hi
0Boggs) house as to whom ne shouN
settle with after he had left
In referring TO Cotters account witt
the First National Bank, witnes
stated that the account was not
regular one, and was only an easy wa
: TO carry out the scheme on hand a
that time. None OF the checks In evl
= dence appeared in the account. as thsr
re were not more than a half dozen eic
&c TRIES in a period of two years. He ma
e no idea that the checks given in 1Ss
le' would be in existence in March, 1S9
5h as the plan was to take Them up b
de some way shortly after they we're prl
OF scented.
This concluded the direct examins
IS. tion Of Bolggs, and he was turned ov,
. to Mr.. Higgins for oross-e1aminatio
e. Witness stated, in answer to a cue
tion. that he would be "a yeals of az
ed on July IL, 1899, and had been appo,n
&C ed TELLER Of the First National Bank
- Dover I'm 1882. When HE left the ban
st. the actual shortage was S1O7, 900, ar
or he kept a reckoning in his head fro
At time to time cf the amount of THE d
- fcit. His first act was committed wthe
- HE carried a check for Thomas S. C.al
in THE Spring OF 1898. He first met 90
. ter I'M Philadelphia, but may havs sa,
ny him when he lived IN Dover, hut h.
'er newer met him. He knew that Cott
all had put extensive buildings, etc, on,
farm near Dover on tho river s-n
J. time during his residence There.
Nv Mr. Higgins asked witness If HE j
me quired to be introduced to people d
at met on the streets of Dover, as he or
Nd Nd KNEW Cotter by slight. 'Is depends
eaid Boggs, upon what is to be the c
l. tent Of the intimacy. If a man is g
. ing to touch you for 500 or $50, it
necessary to be introduced to him,
.he ehou,d think"