Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1904-12-21

for me to go into office; saw him agair in the evening when he related the story of robbery saying he had suffered 1000 hells in the vault during the night. He said he had made as much noise as possible kicking on doors and after he got the gag partially loosenec he also yelled as loud as he was able.
 Saw him again next day or second day afterwards and told him I had the envelope with his private papers. The envelope contained his tax receipt fol 1902, and receipt for payment of s2le and note of some kind, receipts tc Storm for interest paid to Jesse Robe son. Gave envelope to P. W. O'Sulli- van. Do not know where the checks went. Told Storm that Wood bad cashed all cheeks found, when he asked: fDid he cash those we were carrying?" I told him did not know, 1 told him that after cashing these checks there was over 8, 900 missing. I do not know what became of the en- velope containing them.
 Mir. Morrison handed him an enve- Iope and asked him to examine if closely, which he did, when he said ''The figures in blue are mine, the others are Storm b" The envelope was not introduced in evidence.
 In answer to question, witness said: "McNulty came in office about o'clock or 3 30 on Saturday after noon and said that as the banks were closed he would like to get the money on it. The money was taken from the county funds and paid to him. The check was redeemed in about a week or ten days. It was counted as cash during the time it was in the office
 Was back and forth from the follow ing place on the night of election to the office of the board of supervisors a dozen times from 9 o'clock to o'clock in the morning.
 On cross examination by MT. Ross he said: 'J first heard of the Storm robbery while standing near the fountain in front of the court house. Went to office and found several people there.
 He then described the condition of the office and vault as has been related time and again and as told on direct examination, and described finding a sack of old gold in the safe, also a check for S32 on top of the stove. The check was not included in the first count. An average of $40. GOO was kept in the vault. Checks were some times cashed the day following their receipt and sometimes kept week The time lock was on and running on the morning of Novembe 9tb, but the door was open. It is usually set for seventeen hours. When 1 first saw Storm could not understand what he said. Thought he had been in a row from the marks on him and he appear ed exhausted. When l saw him in tue evening his hand was still swollen and the marks were still visible. Other checks besides those mentioned were carried during first quarter of each year, among which l can recall those of R. H. 3urmister, E. A. Kastuer, D. Levy < Co.,, T. W. Otis, J. l. Gardner, J. P. Dillon, Joe Roberts, George Ruffner, J. H. Smith, Brisley Drug Co.,, and others which l cannot recall. Some were carried to January 1st only, others as long as three months.
 When Storm took S1OOO out of the treasury he told me about it. 1 told Storm it was customary for the treas urer to use money, that there was no harm in it if he put it back. At the first quarterly settlement he told me he could put it back. The Burke check was taken on my recommendas tion.
 Re-direct-These hold over checks were not counted in on the morning of November 9th. The envelope was there but the checks were missing.
 At this point a recess was taken un- til 30 p. ID.
 On the reconvening of court witness in reply to questions said: In the con- versation with Storm, October 26th, Storm reiterated his intention of talk ing up his checks and again on the 29th in a conversation he again told me, "I am going to take care of those checks right away" Storm asked me to meet him in the treasuIer's $ office on the afternoon of October 29th, but [ did not keep the engage ment.
 The McNutty check was placed with the other hold overs. McNulty came in several days after and paid the