The age-herald., 1902-02-02
ABOUT FALSE ENTRIES.


 Do you say that when you made en- tries in your books to show that you have S25 100 in two banks. when as mat ter of fact there is no money there, that this is not making false entries?" asked MT. Weakley.
 T do," replied the witness
 The witness was then cross-eXamined concerning the making of the new letter book No. 6. There were 900 to 1000 pages in the book, and witness stated 1t had been made because there were a few letters in the book relating to a proposed suit which had never been brought. These letters had been copied by a stenographer and signed so as to appear l like the original letters. Did you not tell your stenographer to doctor it up so that it would appear like the original book?" asked MT. Weakley. q told her to make a true copy,' said the witness.
 Continuing, he said that some of the letters were left out of the new book be- cause they were so blurred they could not be copied He did not know the num- Der of letters left out.
 Tn January, 1900, a resolution was passed by the directors Of the Alabama Steel and Wire Company authorizing us as directors of that company to purchase from ourselves 1000 shares of stock In the Joliet company.
 At this point MT. Tillman, representing the defendants, objected to going Into this transaction, as 1t would not throw any light on the question before the court He intimated that complalnaht was seeking to obtain information here which he could use in litigation in llli- nois about the Joliet Wire Company. MT. Weakley for the petitioner con- tended that the information was relevant, as it would go to show the motives the Schulers had in destroying certain DOCKS which related to these transactions. warm argument ensued, and Judge Will lxinson ruled that the general nature Of tbe transactions as they might have been shown by the burned books could be in- quired into.
 Continuing witness said he and his brother sold their stock in the Joliet Wire Company to the Alabama Steel anu Wire Company taking pay for It In stock or the latter com pany. The amount TOT which the Joliet stock was sold ought to appear on the ledger. He did not Know on what book the issuance of stock or the Alabama company ought to appear.
 ''Did you not tell me that you would only give me one book at time when I went out to Ensley?" asked MT. Weak ley.
 q really do not remember" replied the witness.
 Continuing he said that the construc- ton books were before MT. Rudolph on May 15 and that subsequently 1t occurred to him to burn them up. l said to Mir. Thompson one night that " I believed I would burn those d. books up right now
 We were not talking about them-the
 idea just suddenly occurred to me and we went to the vault and got them and burned them. The cash book showed the contraction of the plant to be about S0O.- 00O l carried the books myself to the rod raill furnace and burned them up. Thom D. son was present and perhaps a couple of negroes. l told no one about 1t the next day-dont think I mentioned it to any one for some time. l did not tell my bzjsher about 1t until after you (Mr. Weakley) had been out to the plant He made no remark. did not express any dissatisfaction, did not smile, only look ed steadily at me for a moment.
 On July 9. a new cash book was order cd The old one and the ledger were used up to August. My best recollection is that I ordered the new cash book. did not order it anticipating that the old one was to be burned.
 "Why did you not burn up the cash book and ledger at the same time you burned the construction books? asked MT. Weakley
 'They were in use and the balances had not been transferred"
 "Was the company's business in condi- ton for them to be burned at that time?"
 Tt was not-they were still being used"
 The old cash book was in a condition to be burned August 1 and the ledger September 1. at which dates the new books were started.
 "Why did you not burn the cash book in June, as there are no items to be trans ferred from one cash boox 10 another?"
 'I never considered it.''
 "A cash book can be destroyed at the end of any business day. can it not?'
 'No; at the end of any month" GAVE NO INSTRUCTIONS.
 The witness denied that he had given any instructions to MT. Thompson to burn the cash book and ledger.
 MT. C. E. Robinson was asked a few questions. and the evidence then closed.
 Mir Robinson said he was told by Mir F. T. Schuler on January IS, 1902. that the books were burned. He was first in-