Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1904-12-14
SOME DAMAGING TESTIMONY IN
 STORM TRIAL GIVEN YESTERDAY
Storms Deputy on the Stand for About Three Hours Tells How Funds Were Juggled
 to Cover Irregularities.

was practically the same as that o
 Treasurer Wood in so far as tho
 amount of money that was shown tC
 be on hand. With MT. GoIdwater were
 other citizens and taxpayers, and all
 of these performed a similar duty or
 the invitation of MT. Wright.
 Ed s. Wright former deputy treas, urer took the stand and the following ] question was asked him:
 "Now Mir. Wright will you proceed and tell us what you found, if any thing, in the treasurer's office and in the books of the treasurer's office or in the cash in the fourth quarter of the year 1902 that was not correct?'
 MT. Herndon objected to the ques- tion stating that it was asking for a conclusion of this witness and is not right. We don't urge the objection i on that ground. but we urge the ob-
 ection on the grounds we have before stated; it is going back beyond the time alleged in the indictment. It is calling for testimony after the money was all in the treasurer's office and accounted for.
 The objection was overruled by the court and the witness directed to ans- wer the question.
 The witness replied: "1 did not discover that MT. Storm had taken s1OOO.
 He was then asked to tell just what he did discover and he testified that MT. Storm had made a check for S1. 900 and had paid some taxes; that he had taken ont s1, 900 in money, the money that was there in the safe, county money that was in his custody. He applied part of it for taxes. He paid S218 and something, 1 don't know the cents, and some interest, to Jesse Robeson. A tax receipt was made out and he took it; it was for S2lS be lieve. 1 endorsed on the envelop that it contained the check, the check he Put in in place of the money. He said he had put his check in there for it, the check for S1, GOO. He told me what money tfat was; that it was the money he was getting to pay this tax and the interest with. 1t came out of the moneys in the office, the county mon- ey. 1 could not say right now how much on the principal he was to pay, believe it was S72O and the differ ence, some S19 or S20 he took in cash, think he took that and put it in his pocket MT. Storm took it but I didn't actually see him take it. He said he would take whatever in cash would be the difference, or words to that effect 1 discovered this by him telling me of it. He told me he need ed it and made his check for it and performance or my duty as deputy discover this in any other way, nor do the books of the treasurer show it. The books of the treasurer show the transactions on paper but would not show whether the money had gone out of the cash or not. This was taken out of the cash. There was no entry made on the books of the treasurer about this S1, GOO transaction. The check was placed in large envelope and kept in the safe 1 think 1 put on the envelope myself the memorandum of what it was for.
 MT. Storm did not say anything fur ther about that 1,OOO check to me only that he would put it back pretty soon. 1 would not say what the date of the check was, it Was in December, 1902. There was nothing done with that check up to the first of January, 1903, it was kept in the treasurer's office with other checks. 1t was car ried over into the next year and made up the amount of the check out of taxes unaccounted for after the December report was made up so that there was 5l, 900 of county money used to cover the shortage of S1,OOO of county moneys.
 Mr. Storm knew about it, he knew about this transaction. 1 told him 1 would carry it over in that way if he could attend to it the next month. That check was carried along to July, 1904.
 During the first quarter of 1903 l don't believe 1 discovered anything wrong. In April he used another thousand and put hls check there for