The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-08-16
IN THE POWER HEARING
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Northern Pacific affairs and produced a letter book. He said he understood that Mir. Lamb was his attorney. He had never met Lamb.
 To other questions Mir Bouden said he never saw the complaint filed in the suit and never authorized the action. He left all that to MT Thomas. who told him when he gave the stock that the suit was to be brought. MT. Thomas told him that MT. Weidenfeld was in- terested in the suit
 MT. Bouden identified a letter he wrote to MT. Lamb on August 1 asking him to withdraw as his counsel in the suit pending in St. Paul. He produced also the letter in reply withdrawing from the case and enclosing a bill for $2,5O0 for professional services, etc, which he sent to Mir. Weidenfeld. MT. Thomas promised him that he should be put to no expense in the suit, and that MT. Weidenfeld would foot all the bills.
 In August, the witness continued, Mir. Thomas told him he had better get out of the litigation. He went to see Mir. Bulkeley, one of the western lawyers, and Bulkeley told him to write to MT, Lamb asking him to withdraw.
 E. R. Thomas, formerly of the brok- craze firm of Thomas & Post, but now senior member of the firm of E. R. & C. F. Thomas. was the next witness.
 What did MT. Weidenfeld say to you about this suit?" he was asked by MT. Guthrie.
 He told me suits were being brought against the constituent companies to the Northern Pacific merger and that Governor Van Sant and Judge Lancas- ter advised some big Great Northern holders should be among the plaintiffs as a guarantee that the suit was for principle and not as strike" came the reply.
 What did you say?" was the next question.
 Well. told MT. Weidenfeld that I owned four hundred shares of the stock and if a principle was at stake I was willing to help him. told him that I did not desire my name mixed up in it, and that would make over the stock to Bouden, in whom I had full conf
  lidity of the merger. was interested as 8 broker in that question. Many people seemed to doubt the validity of the merger and I among others wanted it decided"
 Do you not consider it an unusual transaction to make a clerk a gift of so large a sum of money that he might masquerade as plaintiff?" asked Mir. Guthrie.
 T do not. It is common enough practice in Wall street." said MT. Thomas.
 Edwin Main Post, board member of the dissolved firm of Thomas & Post, said he first learned of Bouden's con- nection with the Northern Pacific suit when he read 1t in newspaper. He spoke to MT Thomas and at his request MT Thomas went to J. P. Morgan & Go. and explained that the transaction was an individua! matter of his own and had nothing to do with the firm. He said the four hundred shares of Great Northern stock were never the proper ty of the firm.
 To a direct question from Mir. Guthrie the witness said he had no knowledge that the four hundred shares in ques- ton were lying in the office safe for some weeks.
 "I should have been exceedingly dis pleased had I known it." he said Tt would have been unusual"
 By agreement adjournment was taken until Tuesday at II o'clock. MT. Lamb said he would produce Peter Power at that time probably, and by the follow ing morning positively when the pro- ceedings for his disbarment are to be heard by Judge Lacombe.