The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-01-09
1t this point the court adjourned for


Objection was made by the government
to the course of the examination ON the
ground that it was revealing privilege
communications between attorney and
client.
MarShall-'I did not write these let
tiers as attorney, but simply as a favor
to the Greek because he could not write
English"
The district attorney had the witness
repeat this statement.
The second letter October 29th) was
one of inquiry as to prices of certain
metals.
'fCotsobelus,' y he said, ''told me he need
ed these articles to go with the silver
had ordered
The answer to this letter was read.
son the day before election (Nov. 7th)
I wrote the next letter ordering 10
pounds of antimony 90 ounces of silver,
10 ounces of nickel and 3 pounds of
bronze. He gave me $40 and l gave him
a receipt for it. MIR. A. T.. Pemberton,
a farmer in Cumberland county, was in
the office at the time.
The next letter i'm the batch was one
dated November 10th, from the Penn
Smelling and Refining Company. making
inquiries as to the order which they said
they did not understand.
To this Marshall said he replied, but
that the letter was not~in the batch and
he had reason to believe it had been sup
pressed.
Following this was bill for the arti-
cles ordered, and this completed the
batch of letters and bills.
when he got me to make the second
order he said he couldn't get the right
kind of material in Wilmington to carry
ON his plating business"
The witness deriied number of POlitZ's
statements among them that he bought
a plumbers furnace for melting metal.
He said he was i'm the store of the Will
mington Iron Works when the furnace
was bought by Politz but that he had
nothing to do with it and knew nothing
of it, He denied that he was ever in
Politz'S room. had nothing to do with
renting n room and was not engaged with
CotSobeluS or any one else in making
counterfeit money. He denied that he
employed McClammy to defend PolitZ.
"Politz employed McClammy and gave
him an order on Mr.. Craig. | took the
order to Craig and got the money"
The witness said he and Bellamy and
Pellamy We're employed and were given
so each Politz gave him the conbina-
tons of his safe. and they went to his
store and got the money. He produced Il
memorandum of the combination to the
SAFE
This memorandum together with the
one used during the forenoon were asked
for and filed with the clerk. Marshall
asked to be allowed to explain the morn
ing's memorandum. He said it was a
memorandum made ont by his wife, of
groceries to be ordered from PolitZ.
"All except the last item." he said,
(which is quart of whiskey. That was
written by me-" a
This caused a laugh in the court.
The witness denied that he ever asked
POLITE to allow the Greek to leave his
counterfeiting outfit in his (Politz's)
store He said he went to Darkley after
POLITE was arrested and Darkley told
him he knew nothing against Politz. nor
anything about counterfeiting going or
there.
1T was stated that you were at
Politzs store every night for 20 or %
days. Is that true?"
ut is not | was there one night when
he gave a supper to the United Order of
Ancient Drllids, to which we both be-
long. One night after that we went there
as a compliment to POLITE. They Were
the only times was there late at might.
Marshall also denied that he asked
Politz to go to his (Marshalls) place
down the river and help him make mon
ey. He said, however, that he did own
a place down the river at that time.
This completed Marshalls direct testi-
mony. and at Lao o'clock District Attor-
ney Bernard took hi min hand for cross
examination.
"How often did you say You went to
the jail by yourself to see Politz?
II may have gone three for four times
or four or FIVE times but | know | didn't
90 every day or every other day.
The defendant said he had two or three
conversations with the detective. Perry
In answer to q question by Mr.. Bernard
the defendant said the Druids was the
only secret society to which they both
belonged He said he had seem and
spoken to Politz before he had the fire
but that he had no business relations
with him.
Didn't You have both Politz and Dark
ley niaturalized|
Il think / did"
Darkley's naturalization papers We're
handed to the defendant He acknowl-
edged his signature. 1T was dated Octo-
Der ), 1898.
Marshall's examination was completed
at 5:2J. having been on the stand fo1
three and half hours.
lMarsden Bellamy, one of MARSHALL 5
counsel. was next sworn. He corTobor'
ated Marshall as to their employment rs
attorneys by Politz when he was arrest
ed for counterfeiting and Marshall,s get
ting the combination to the safe.
On cross-examination Mr.. Bellamy
said he and his brother John d. Bellamy
signed Marshalfs bond when he was
arrested.
The last witness examined was Thomas
]. Belcher, truck farmer. He said
Marshall was his mothers attorney. and
he was in Marshall'S office sometime il
October, 1898. The witness didn't re.
member the date exactly. but it was the
only time in October he was
in Marshall's office. \ woreign
| looking man was in there. he said
he and Marshall were talking
something about a plating patent. The
witness described CotsobeluS as the man
opd .orrohorat tod Marshall rs TO the con.