The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1905-12-13

thc 1Auitarium company was orEanlzei-
the stock company
A. Merely from the reports Of the
papers.
Q. WAS you IN the banking business
at that timc7
a. ! think was about thrt time.
o. AZ that time wns he a borrower
IN that bank?
A. 1 am not sure when the saniiarium
organization WIS perfected. further than
what tho papers say
g. Was he June !, 1902
A. June /. 1901 he was not 4 bor-
rover In the Bank or Kingnsher.
O. How Ions prior to that date was
he?
A. am unable to state
@. Give your best Judgment
A. am unable 10 tell. To-day ne
might owe us nve or ten thousand dol
lars ana tomorrow he might be even
Today he might borrow hfteen thousand
dollars. and tomorrow he might taSc 1t
down TO Eve. and Il might go mp again
tho next div. The record OF the bank
would be the best evidence.
O. What business was he In?
A. Tho grain business.
@. do you know anything Of his prop-
erty interests ri that timer
A. The county records. / think, would
be the best evidence IN that case
A. I presume SO. but am asking
you what you know about ia.
A. j held mortgages and go forth.
covering his real estate and chattels,
etc.
O. Did you hold mortgages covering
an Of his real estate2
A. II I overlooked anything it was "a
mistake OF mine?
Q. Everything that he had at that
time was under mortgage was It?
a. I do not know.
@. You understood that 81 was. didn't
your
A. why we threw out the drag net
and turned things loose.
Q. DO YOU know anything about
Grimes ever having any stock in the
sanitarimg
a. No, sir.
Q. Did any one ever tel YOU he had?
A. No. sir; not positively. no. sir.
Q. Did Grimes ever tell that to you?
A. No, sir
@. Did Robb ever tell your
A. No, sir.
AfAh AieAt N''A AtA 2Ou NAHA At
habitat Grimes had9
A. No. sir; l think not.
Q. Are you Fure2
A. Yes. sir. What makes me pos-
tive about It. / tried TO buy some for
myself. AS | understood II, the entire
stock was taken BY Robb. Watkins.
jenkins, Flynn and Winkler; ard | do not
know. l might have overlooked some
one-oh, yes. Cottingham had some /
know that / asked for some stock and
did not get IT,
O. Where did you get your Informa
tion about these people being stock
holders?
A. was told so. am not sure. !
know that 1 wanted some stock and did
not get Il. anyway. ! win further state
in this connection that loaned Robb
some money with which he told me he
was going TO purchase soma of this
stock.
Q. Were you in the banking business
at that timer
A. l was about that time. This loan
had been running from year to year asd
year to year.
Q. Jones. How much did you loan
him7
A. For that, in connection with an
other matter, ten thousand dollars.
Q. Was that about the time OF the
organization OF the company
A. do not know when that was
Q. About the time they took hold Of
tY
A. It was about the time he said
he was going 10 buy some.
@. Did he give security2
A. The security was satisfactory to
me.
Q. Was # chattel, real estate, or per-
sonal7
a. Collateral
G, Did he have an cndo-ser?
! A. Yes. sir
@. DO you reconeot who the signers
werc-the endorsers?
A. do not at the present time.
O. You do not remember who en-
dorsed with him7
A. / took some collateral
Q. Was there one or more than one
endorser on that note?
A. l would have 10 see the hank
records to be certain, / think one or
more
@. Who are your successors in that
bank?
A. The Kinghsher National bank are
the successors to the Bank OF King
fisher.
Q. ] want to ask you If you know the
relatio, ship between Jim Robb and
wilam Grimes?
A. They are bsother-in.iaw; either
that or they married cousins.
Q. Did William Grimes frequently en-
dorse paper al your bapk for Robb?
A. He has done such things.
Q. Did he endorse this paper for .he
ten thousand dollars?
A. No sir.
O. Robb was in the grain bualness2
A. Yes. sir
O. Did ne frequently oyerdrtw and
leave his note without security?
! A. NO. 90 not know.
@. He and Mr.. Grimes both lived
there?
a understand that Grimes iivcs
here now. ne IS public official
O. lie Evcd there then?
A. Yes, sir
q. You DO remember that Grimes
| signed Robbs notes2
a. lie was not Ga the habit OF sign
ing them a. The bank. no. SIR
O. Whea ola you orgnize chat bank
A. II was ne second bank organized
IN the territory Il was the FIRST after
the MoNoai and Little bank here ihe