Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1902-02-14
ANOTHER POSTPONEMENT.
Lieut.. Gov. Allen and j. w. Ketchum Get
Another Stay in Bank Cases.

Lieut.. Gov. Allen and j. w. ketchum Get
Another Stay in Bank Cases.
The cases of Lieut.. Gov. Allen and j.
w. Ketchum charged with completely In
the wrecking of the Farmers National
Bank of Vergennes, have been again post
poned. They were to have been heard at
the present session of the United States
circuit and district courts at Rutland, but
J. w. Ketchum pleaded the sickness In
his family and Judge Wheeler granted
the extension of time prayed for. Judge
Wheeler named April IA as the time for
hearing.
Both Lieut.. GOV. Allen and J. w
Ketchum were on hand when court con-
vened Monday morning, and they met
in the federal building. A Herald re-
porter says Ketchum looked thin and
somewhat tagged. lie would not talk
of the case and soon after Judge
Wheeler arrived at the federal building
went with his counsel to the attorneys
room, where he remained till after court
adjourned. On the delayed train from
the north, which arrived about 4 40
o'clock in the afternoon, were the health
officer and Dr. John Gibson of Vergennes.
They went at once to the court house.
where they were closeted for several
minutes in the judges room with the
Judge, district attorney and ketchum's
counsel. The report soon gained cir
culation that Mr.. Ketchum was working
| for another postponement of the case on
the grounds of sickness in the family.
Judge Wheeler said to a reporter that
the announcement of the postponement
of the Ketchum case would be made on
the opening of the courts the next morn
ing. The reason for this delay, he said,
is that the defendants wife is just con-
valescing from two weeks sickness with
scarlet fever. Quarantined in the house
with her is a young son, who has Just
recovered from an attack of typhoid
4 fever. In view of the harmful results
which might obtain from the trial of the
husband and father at this time, the
application for the postponement was
granted by the court.
When the announcement was made of
the postponement of the Ketchum case,
Lieut. GOV. Aliens counsel at once
applied for immediate trial of the Allen
case. This was opposed by District
Attorney Martin, who argued that the
case against Allen vas largely depend
ent upon the outcome of the Ketchum
case. He gave his reasons as follows,
according to the Rutland Herald:
sit was apparent on the examination
of the books of the bank, when the in
dictments were first found, that Gov.
Aliens account had been increased
fictitously by nearly $4,000; that the
deposits, to illustrate, of 500 entered
upon the journal !were carried forward
on his Individual account at $500, and SO
on until it amounted to, as say, nearly
$4,000.
at was then understood and believed
and in fact evidence was susceptible
that Gov. Allen admitted checking out
the whole of that sum, but claimed that
he did not know it. 1t has since trans
pired to the satisfaction of the prosecu.
ton, Gov. Ormsbee and myself, and OF
the experts employed by the govern
ment that as matter of fact Gov. AL
len never checked out that amount, but
that large sums of money were charged
of to him. His deposits would bt
doubled and perhaps trebled and ther
balanced by charging of a large sum Of
money perhaps by booking an Increase
of check, which really was $500, by {
prefix to it so that it covered severa
thousand dollars.
"For what Mr.. Lewis did abou
it, he is now serving his senteL ce
Evidently somebody in the bank, wh(
wanted 500, would take from Allen
account or Quinlan's account, or from
some other man who was keeping NJ
passbook or no track of his affairs will
the bank, the 500 and put ii in the
pocket and then either duplicate checl
or carry the amount forward by falsify
ing figures.
'.When Mr.. Ketchum became clerk II
the bank, and thereafter while he was il
its service, there appears TO have been
large duplication of those checks. II
Illustrate; Ga the lst dav of July
check was drawn for SOB II and it wa
charged and paid across the counter OF
the Sd day of July exactly the sam
amount was charged again, and on tn
9Th day of July the same thing was don
again. This was done by taking tn
check and placing it back on to tn
spindle July 3 and >, so that tn
same check was charged three time
and all in the handwriting of MI
Ketchum. Somebody, to balance tn
books of the bank every time the charg
t ing of the checks was duplicated, mus
have put that amount of money in thei
pockets.
"Now, | say that work on the book
is In the handwriting of Mr.. Ketchuu
He stands next to Lewis In this transa'
ton, and therefore said to counsel, q
!. | have said to the court, the case agalni
Lewis should be disposed of first
: has been. Second should come the ca;
4 against Ketchum; then the case again
:, Allen, if he is guilty"
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