Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-11-20

tain Packing Company's at the time,
testified in his inimitable, old fashioned
and honest way that he met Crawford
on that morning about seven o'clock
some distance outside of the yards anc
before Crawford had reached The yards
and told Crawford that 1.-TWO young
fellers are down there q claimin that
you have stole some of their hogs.
Plaintiffs attorney tried to confuse the
witness and show that the hogs were
impossible to identify but Lofts story
was too straight to be shaken. He said
that Gregg, Clay and another man who
claimed to have raised the four lost
hogs appeared at the yards about day
light that morning and identified the
hogs which We're lying in corner OF
the yard apart from the rest of the
bunch. John Bell, foreman at the
packing house testified for the plaintiff
to the same story that Loft told eX-
cept that he had not seen Crawford
until the latter arrived at the yards
about 1880 in the morning.
Regarding the absconding and mon
ey matters connected with the protest.
ed checks, Crawfords testimony was
long and tedious, and so contradictory
as to send the man to the penitentiary
for perjury If the transcript of evidence
should ever come before a grand jury.
He said that he had made an arrange
ment with Mr.. Snyder, of the Citizens
Bank at Grinnell, to cash his checks, re-
gardless of temporary overdrafts; that
he checked on this bank on or about
March 25, 1902, to the extent of $3,700,
or more, in payment for stock which
he shipped to Chicago and sold; that
at the time he was already overdrawn
at the same bank some $500. He then
swore positively that his stock got sick
en- route, and only part could be sold
the day 1t arrived in Chicago; that 81
500 were deposited in the Continental
National Bank of Chicago that day to
| the credit of the Grinnell bank, and
that subsequently, when the rest of the
stock was sold, all of the money was
| likewise deposited to the credit of the
Grinnell bank. Witness also swore
positively that he did not receive a cent
| from the proceeds of that shipment
and that all the money went to the
Grinnell bank. On cross-eXaminatlon
by attorneys who knew that Mr.. Sny-
der's testimony showed that large
oVerdraft still remained unpaid on
Crawford's account Crawford got so
hopelessuy mixed and tangled in his
own false statements that he produced
the commission company's report of
sales for that shipment. This was the
climax of the case.
The Crisis and Impeachment.
That report contained unmistakable
marks of an attempted erasure and was
introduced by Crawford to prove that
he did deposit the sum of $4,000 to the
credit of the Grinnell bank on the first
day, but when scrutinized by the at
torneys for the defense it proved to be
d report showing that all of Crawfords
shipment of three cars of cattle, hogs
and sheep had been sold on the day,
amounting to $4,299.41 and the proceeds
accounted for except one head of cat
tie and one sheep which We're reported
on another sheet. When examined
under the glass this report further
showed that of the proceeds $1,000 had
been applied on a note, S2S.5S charged
for interest 1915 given Crawford in cur
rency, $201.42 charged for commissions,
freight and yard expenses and $2,694.41
deposited in the Continental National
Bank, of Chicago, to the credit of the
Citizens Bank, of Grinnell. The pro-
ceeds of the sale of the other two ami
mails shown On the second sheet were
also deposited to the credit of the same
srbank. Defendant Immediately introduce
led these documents as their evidence
land for nearly half day attorneys on
cross examination tried to get Craw-
ford to admit from his own document
that the proceeds of that shipment did
not all go to the Grinnell bank, but wit
ness repeatedly swore that it did, that
lie did not receive a cent in currency
and that he did not owe the commits
sion house anything at the time On
the following day he changed his mind
and admitted that he did owe the house
a note and did receive some currency.
Crawford's testimony as to his
whereabouts was equally as contra
dictory altho not so material. He said
he took trip out west with some stock
men, but had told many that he was
going.
Mr.. J. S. Haskell, credit man and
agent for the commission company to
which Crawford shipped, was called by
the plaintiff to testify as to Crawford's
general reputation. He said that his
firm trusted Crawford when it could get
some good man on his note and that
Crawford had been greatly inconSeni-
eneed by the suspicion aroused by the
newspaper articles that had been
printed about him, but admitted on
cross examination that the stories
about Crawford previous to the publ
cation of them could also have injured
Crawford's business standing. Mr..
Haskell was shown the firms report of
sales to Crawford and testified that the
report dated March 20 showed all of the
three cars of stock to have been sold
and the proceeds accounted for at the
time except two head. He said that the
firm would not report sales until the
same were actually made. Haskell also
told of Crawford's having owed the
firm note for $1,000.
Snyder's Bank Books.
The dispositions of NJ Snyder and
George M Hamlin were read. Snyder
had plainly undertaken to protect
Crawford even to the extent OF the
most brazen falsehoods. He refused to
admit that the checks were protested,
and when confronted with the protest
notices with the checks attached re-
fused to say what they were. BY agree
ment between counsel for plaintiff and
defendant the protested checks were
introduced in court. Snyder was COM
PEELED to admit that he refused to pay
Crawford's S3,7I1.53 worth of checks on
March 2S, 1902, having only S1.349.O1
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