The sun., 1905-10-13
Juror Number Nine got a chance here

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sDidn't you notice lie began that the
statement was wrongly headed when you
got i. and that Judson's name shouldn't
! NO" answered Letter. Il did not
| didn't pay any attention to II then.
| 'Ah, said Number Nine, obviously
But" broke in Number Eight. why
name was there when It shouldn't have
been?'
Never thought about it at all said
Letter, wearily.
Mr.. Mooney harked back to the letting in
pool, on Deoember M ii, looi. S ,Judson I iS'a got
| third, $500 shares. by agreeing to make
up his share Of the loss to date. 49,.
And what ,eonsideration did you get for
None. at all; we just let him take his
.But those 2.SOo shares were worth lot
Of money later-over $2S0,0oo weren't
Yes, II you could have sold them. But
when Judson tried to sell, he couldn't"
ting the sisS,ooo profit Hoadiey had told
you he had made for you, gave Hoadley
your note for 31l7oOo?'
had stolen. az Hoadley told me he had, the
stocks belonging to US.
Didn't you tell Hoadley first that that
was good story for unatic asylum or q
kindergarten, but wouldn't 60 down with
Il guess said something like that"
But nevertheless you gave him your note
instead Of demanding your money!"
yes, but I'm suing him for an account:
Phs n0w sns~e5ed Esd1 Letter. looking toward
the Ipsssy snsss that ne'afY vii be about ALL said Mr.
Mooney.
Mr.. Grahams examination Of Letter
developed the fact again that Letter had
promise OF immunity il he would testify
voluntarily and help out the plaintiffs as
against Hoadley.
@theft" came out on the re-cross-examina-
ton, when Letter said that, as he under
Judson, which Judson had hypothecated
and never made good for.
And you cali that theft, Mr.. Letter."
asked Mooney.
Number Nine got in another lick when
Mr.. Beard took up Letters examination
again. concerning certain lettes from
and that was the last letter you got
from Hoadleys said Mr., Beard. interroga-
Now don't be telling him it is the last"
said Number Nine; Just ask him. whether
Whereat Mr.. Beard subsided amid laugh
Thomas 4 Post were among the shorts
you were going to squeeze, weren't they3"
asked Mr.. Mooney Of Letter.
well, they were short, ! believe; and
We didn't wiring their neoks. They wrung
After Letter, Courtland B. Anable Of
Nicoll. Anable q Lindsay, counsel for Jud-
son. was called presumably to tell some
mani Rnt hQ ~ all0ua1 tN tactifvp
nor was his clerk, Watson.
Then Beard himself took the stand and
told OF his first meeting with Letter in Hoad.
leys, Office, He made long statement
but which showed that Judson was present
at the meeting Nothing Of moment hap
pened then, but subsequently Beard saw
Judson, WHO told him that he did not under.
stand that Letter was interested in the pool
were then engaged in.
Beard then tried to get in as a witness
another statement that he had agreed with
feet @ i%%edateiy and denisd the ss trUth Ua n Of
such q statement. After some considera-
tion Justice Amend refused to admit it,
and then Mooney asked Beard a few ques-
tions as to his, Boards, experience at the
Amend also put a stop to this line Of quee-
tions, but not before he had had to admonish
Beard several times to answer questions
properly and not to talk to the Court while
on the stand.
Letters case rested with Boards testi-
mony, and then the Hoadley defence opened
with the examination Of what Mr.. Graham
called the pivotal witness" OF the case,
Henry A. Herbert, cousin Of Judson, and
his accountant. Herbert's examination re-
lated chiefly to a dry. recital Of figures,
chiefly from memory which led the inevita-
BILE number nine TO explode again.
"Your Honor, he began, the jury would
like to have documentary evidence on all
t:iece things, II we're going to get the truth
OF the matter at ALL That's the only way
to get the truth, and we ought to have the
papers"
sMr. Juror, Justice Amend replied. athe
Court will attend to what sort OF evidence
should be admitted. We will now adjourn
until tomorrow morning.
And then the front row Juror. who has
filled q notebook With stenogrephio minutes
Of the case, folded up the book and slipped
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