Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1900-04-25
Some Interesting Reading Taken
From His Testimony in the
Recent Trial.
TWO WARRANTS NUMBERED
Alike We're Issued by Him, But OaIy Oue
Stub Shows the Transaction on
the Warrant Register.


y. MIR. Tannahill, please look AT states
exhibit A, being a warrant drawn July
30, 1898, i'll favor of G. ID. Stockton and
signed by yourself, the number in ink,
2444, and state what you know about the
issuance of that order. and upon what
authority you issued it,
A. This warrant was issued as a subse-
quent payment for bill of SIS, which
the board of county commissioners had
previously allowed in the sum of $37. so.
This bill was allowed upon their order.
This was drawn upon their order
.. What was the date of previous bill
of $3.50?
A. | would like to have the bill.
=. | mean, what was the date of the
previous warrant drawn on that bll9
A. July 80, 1898.
! .. How comes it that the bill last
drawn is dated July 20, when the one
first ordered bears the date of July ,othi
A. This subsequent warrant, states ex-
hibit A. was drawn from the stub; that
is, the memorandum was taken from the
stub, and it is evident that niistook the
80 for a 20 and dated this warrant 20 in
stead of 80.
| Q Look at the stub and see if it is dis
tinct or not Look at the stamp and say
if it is not almost indistinct, and how
came it so?
The Court-It calls for a conclusion.
Q. Explain how you came to make
mistake in the date.
A. That is all the explanation l have
the indistinctness of the date. drew
the warrant as ! remember it, from the
stub. and didn't examine it closely, and
made that mistake in dating that warrant
the goth instead of the goth.
.. Were you trying to get the last war
rant the same AS the first
A. Yes, sir-trying to make them the
same date.
Q. Why so2
A. Because they referred to and Gov
cred the same bill and to the same man.
Q. What are the numbers
A. 2444
/, Q. How comes it that one of them is
in favor of F. G. Stockton and the other
i'll favor of G.. S. Stockton
A. The first warrant drawn was drawn
; from this bill. The party drawing that
: warrant had this bill before him, and the
, bill is allowed =. G.. Stockton; that is the
; way it appears i'll the stub. When drew
. the other warrant took the stub, but
. knew the correct initials of DR.. Stockton
!. and so made the other warrant correct.
!. Q. Mr. Tannahil, this first warrant, OF
!. the one that is dated July 3o which w
I call the first warrant, has a stub here
! where did you get this werrant from
Where will YOU find the stub of the war
? rant from which YOU got that
, A. MUST DE IN THE BACK OF THE WAR
y RANT BOOK.
Q. How came you to take that from th
back of the warrant book?
A. Because had to have an extra war
rant to make that warrant.
Q. You desired to make both warrant
correspond TO the bill
a. did, sir.
O. find on the register here one war
rant registered and the other not. Ho,
do you explain that?
A. The warrants are registered from tn
stubs-that is, the stub Of the warran
book the warrants are given out. and tn
warrants are not registered as the wa,
rants are drawn. They are taken by tn
parties in whose favor they are drawn
but registered from the stub afterwards
Note the answer of the defendant I
the last interrogatory. Study it wei
There is food for much reflection in it
Ed.
o. look at plaintiffs exhibit + in ev
dence, being a warrant drawn April 2
1907, in favor of the Pioneer Binder,
600 for supplies, number 1857, signed J.
Yourself. State what you know abol
the issuance of that warrant.
A.--That warrant was evidently issue
for the payment Of supplies purchase
from these people for the use of Il
county.
o. Did you issue another warrant
] them on the same day
A. believe did.
! O, Look at that. and see If that is Il
other warrant YOU issued?
} A. Yes. sir, this is warrant III II
} handwriting.
O. This | notice, is number IIt
I They were about the same time, we
1 they,
= A Yes, sir.
y o. Have You got any regular contra
~ with this company,