The San Francisco call., 1901-10-11
D|MN|Ck TELLS
ABOUT VOUCHERS
Gives the Reason WHY
Hebrew Money From
Cashier Cole.
Is Flatly Contradicted by
Superintendent Leach
and Others.

The Dimmick case was closed in the
United States District Court yesterday
afternoon SO far as the evidence was con-
cerned, and Bert Schlesinger of special
counsel for the Government concluded the
opening argument to the jury. Mr.. Col
lins will begin his argument for the de-
fense at II o'clock this morning. d.
Walter N. Dimmick, the defendant, was
placed on the stand the first thing in the
morning He gave his testimony glibly
and with an apparent air of frankness,
but left the witness stand several times
for the purpose of holding a whispered
consultation with Mr.. Collins. He denied
that he received the $49S 81 from Cashier
Cole on April Z, 1900, but admitted that he
year He explained that he had on that
day sold twenty barrels of bluestone to
the Selby Smelling and Lead Company
for $4O5. The bluestone however, had not
been delivered and the Selby Company
had not paid for it. In making up his
statement for the quarter ended March
would leave an apparent shortage Of $405,
being the unpaid bluestone bill
Held Bluestone Item Over.
Dimmick testified that he took the
voucher for $49S 81 to Cashier Cole
and drew the money, explaining at
the, same time what he wanted
safe in his office and told superintendent
Leach about the $405 discrepancy in the
statement and what he had done to rec
tify it. Leach instructed him to take out
the bluestone item and hold it over until
the next quarter. This Dimmick lId, the
S49s 81 remaining in @ his safe. A few days
$4O5 for the bluestone, that money was
also put into the safe by Dimmick The
witness swore further that Cashier. Cole
was mistaken as to the date of the draw
ing of the s49S 81. 1t was not April I, but
March 81.
The witness denied also that he had
drawn the amounts of two other vouch-
received was $49S 81.
Then the witness told how he had been
laid on his back with rheumatism, and
that on April So 1900, he had come to this
city in a carriage. drawn s4OO from Wells,
Fargo & Co.'S bank. gone to the Mint,
taken the $498 81 out of the office safe and
swore further that he had had a quarrel
with Leach ana Cole and that they were
| therefore preju 1iced against him.
Leach Contradicts Dimmick.
United States Naval Officer John P.
Irish and Leon Blum testified that they
had known Dimmick for many years and
that his reputation for truth, honesty and
integrity was good.
Superintendent Leach was recalled and
testified in contradiction of Dimmick that
bluestone and other by-products of the
Mint, when sold, were never delivered un-
til after they had been paid for, and that
he mad not instructed Dlmm1ck to carry
the bluestone item into the succeeding
quarter. He denied also that Dimmick
on March 81, or at any other time had
made any explanation to him about that
transaction.
Cashier w. K. Cole also denied that
Dimmick had told him that he needed the
money to straighten his account for the
bluestone, item. On the contrary, Dim
mick said that he wanted the money for
the purpose of paying the Selby people.
Ben w. Day, chief clerk of the Mint,
testified that Dlmmick was absent from
the Mint from April q until May 21.
E. r. Synd, office clerk, testified that
he saw Dimmick enter the office on April
80 and put some coin into the drawer Of
the safe. The witness knew that it was
coin because he heard the money jingle.