Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-06-27
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Washington, ID. c., June u.
DIR. George E. Lorenz, formerly pest
master OF Toledo, Ohio, who was tried
Tor conspiracy with August w. Macben
and the Croft brothers several months
ago and sentenced to the Moundsville
penitentiary for two years vas brought
into court this morning and formally com
mitted to that institution. Machen and
the Grofs were sent up Immediately
after receiving their sentence, but Lorenz,
at first on account Of i'll health and sub
sequently because his presence was re-
required in Washington for testimony
in other postofIice trials, was allowed to
retain his liberty He will be taken to
Moundsville the latter part of the week.
The third days trial of Andrew A.
Lipscomb. a prominent Washington
lawyer, charged with the embezzlement
of about SIG, 900 from the funds of the
Washington Beneficial Endowment As
ISOLATION Of which he was co-Teceiver,
started this morning with w. II. Saun-
ders, real estate agent and banker, on
the stand. Mr.. Saunders told Of the
business relations existing between the
defendant and himself in 1901 which
consisted of certain trustee fund. He
said that he had paid LipscOmb 81, 900
for a Miss Henry, TO whom LipscOmb
was indebted, and which was secured
by good collateral. The purpose of
the prosecution was to show the abstrac-
ton of money from the Washington
Loan and Trust Company, where
the funds of the Washington Bene-
fetal Endowment Association were
kept, at or about the time that certain
money was borrowed from the witness.
He stated that when the 81, 900 was
paid to him, some time later, he was CO.
trustee with Lipscomb and did not be-
leve that the money came from the
trust fund at the Washington Loan ~
Trust Company. The next witness
called was David II. Meade. He testi-
fed he went to the Washington Loan
& Trust Company with Thomas NJ.
Fields. then cO-trustee with LipscOmb
in the Washington Beneficial Endow-
ment Association, for the purpose of hav-
ing Il 81, 900 check cashed. He accom-
panied Mr.. Fields to the office of
Andrew A. Lipscomb and saw the de-
iendant receive the money IRON Fields
Mr.. w. Oscar ROOme, President Of the
Washington Savings Bank, was the next
witness called. The books of the in
stitution relating to the accounts Lips
com and Fields were offered in evidence
and examined by Mr.. ROOme. Deposits
and Withdrawals in 1899 were shown to
have been made by Lipscomb and Fields.
The bulk of Mr.. ROOme's testimony was
objected to by the defence on the ground
of the uncertain knowledge in the ex-
animation of checks and deposits, Of the
witness, who stated that he had never
seen The books and that he could only
testify as to their correctness from a
bookkeeper's standpoint.
in the absence from the city Of Secre-
tary Taft and the President, officials
here decline to discuss the report that
Chief Engineer Wallace, Of the Panama
Canal Commission, has resigned. The
belief is quite general, however, that
he handed his resignation to the SeCre-
tary on Sunday when the two met in
New York. 1t is known that Mr..
Wallace has received an offer Of a 500,
900 a year position from large con-
tracing concern in the United States,
and that it was on this account that he
recently left the isthmus. Secretary
Taft had received no intimatiOn, how
ever, that the Chief Engineer intended
resigning when he gave him the neces-
sary permission to come to the United
States
Private Secretary Babcock this after
noon received a Telegram from Mrs. Hay
at Lake Sunapee stating that the Secre-
tary passed a most comfortable night and
was improving hourly and expected TO
be up in a few days.
Chief Statistcian John Hyde. of the De-
partment of Agriculture. is in charge Of the
bureau at present and is now preparing for the
publication of the next cotton crop report due
at noon next Monday. The investigation be-
lug conducted by the secret service agents
will not interfere with the regular statistical
work. Associate Statistician Holiness place
has been taken by Mr.. Hyde during the
formers suspension pending the outcome Of
the inves, igatioD, and despite Mr.. Hyde's alb
Sence abroad during recent months, he is
thoroughly familiar with the job.
Messages were received at the Potofiice De-
partment today announcing that the postof-
fires at Helenville, Wis, and Eldon, Mo,
were robbed last night Postmaster Reul, at
lost $40 in stamps and money
and Postmaster Hart, at Eldon, reported a
loss of $40