The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-03-30

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money was to go to the National Manu-
featuring Company.
do you know Mr.. Browns signature?
questioned Ketcham.
Il think do" was the answer.
rs this not Mr. Browns signature on
these notes?'
1T looks like it; yes SIR
BROWNS 80. X" WAS GIVEN.
AS a REORGANIZATION Mr.. Healing asked
the witness to tell what conversation he
had with Brown when he signed the notes
Collins answered that Brown had told him
he would be secure in signing them.
Mr.. Collins" Numbered Healing. when
you testified before the grand jury didn't
you say that Mr.. Brown said he had al
ready borrowed more than the law allowed
and that that was way of getting around
the law"
Il don't remember of saying that. might
have said had that impression.
During the examination of Wilson Roose
Healing asked what conversation he had
had with Brown about his personal debts
and the debts of his companies to the bank,
the former in the position of receiver of the
bank.
Roose replied: ST wrote Mr.. Brown not
long after / took charge of the affairs of
the bank to come over to the bank and
meet me- | told him when he met me that
i had failed to ask Mr.. Bosworth, the form
er receiver, about the payments of his
debts. Mr.. Brown told me that 1 ought to
know that everything he had was tied up
in the National Manufacturing Company.
He said that the Diamond type foundry
was out of existence and its assets had
been merged into the National l then
called his attention to the notes of the
Diamond type foundry and he replied that
the National assumed all the debts of that
company.
What did he say about his personal
debts to the bank?" asked Healing.
He said," the witness replied that he
could not do anything with them since
the National Manufacturing Company"
BOSwORTH TELLS STORY.
Healing asked him if, as receiver he had
tional Manufacturing Company and the
other concerns indebted to the bank. He
replied that he had not.
C. II. Bosworth, United States bank ex-
aminer. of Chicago. was the first witness
called to the stand yesterday. He was
questioned throughout the morning and
greater part of the afternoon. The prose-
cution sought to show by his testimony
the general condition of the bank and it's
relations with the outside firms to which
1t made such large loans. 1t was while
Healing was asking about indebtedness of
firms with which Brown had connec-
ton that attorneys of the defense took a
logged stand against the prosecution in
Producing evidence not directly bearing on
the acts of the defendant. Brown, they
held was not a stakeholder of these out
side firms and their Indebtedness should not
reflect upon him.
After long argument on the point, Judge
Anderson overruled the objection on the
ground that it first rested upon the prose-
cution to prove Brodricks criminal in
tentions and bad faith to defraud the bank
and t.en to prove Browns association in
the crime by pointing out specific instances.
Bosworth testified that the bank books
showed at the time of the failure the in
debtedness to the bank of the National
Manufacturing Company, one of Brown S
industries. to be SSS.51672 An additional
Indebtedness of s199S4.S5 was on indorse-
ments. He testified that the Consolidated
Paper and Bag Company, which Brown
also managed, was directly indebted to the
bank at it's failure in the sum Of sos. All,
while Browns personal indebtedness, ac-
cording to the books Of the bank. was
s7,063S7 consisting Of notes of $1,000 and
$5,0l6 an overdraft Of $40 and s7.S7 in cash.