East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-02-02

| lor's administration and never stole a
dollar Of William Blakley's.
Then they got up and told it was
Mr.. Funk who stole it. Then the safe
was left open and the keys were left
| in II. Who was the man who left
the keys there? C. P. Davis. Would
not that mean, designing man If he
had suspected there was a shortage In
the sheriff's office, would he not have
locked that safe up tight? Why did
he leave the doors open? Because he
knew that the men working in that
office were honest men, and he knew
that he was perfectly safe in leaving
the safe doors open, If he did leave
them open.
Davis Severely Arraigned.
But he failed in the trust imposed
upon him He keeps it up until the
experts come, and he brings his at
torneys up to the office and gets
, ready to defend himself against the
thing that he knows must come. No
body else ran after lawyer. Nobody
else got scared but C. P. Davis. He
did just exactly what any guilty man
would have done. T. d. Taylor knew
nothing about it, nobody else knew
anything about it. If he was honest
all he had to do was to make an ex-
PLANTATION. Till Taylor is not a mean
man. and If this man is honest all he
had to do was to tell the facts and no
man in the institution would have
jumped on him. But If he is guilty
and we believe that the evidence
shows that he is, 1t is absolutely nee
essary in our minds, that you find
him guilty. This man is even worse
than an ordinary embezzler. He vio-
lated the confidence imposed in him
by these men who employed him,
made them pay large sums of money,
violated his duty as father to his
young son and, added to that, charges
an innocent man with the wrong that
he had done himself; grossly wrongs
that man, charges him with what he
knows there is no evidence of, and,
gentlemen of the jury, have no doubt
that when you have taken into con-
sideraton all the evidence that you
will bring in verdict of guilty
against the defendant"
Judge Fee for Defense.
Following Mr.. McCourt's conclusion
Judge Fee took the floor and said:
Gentlemen of the jury: l request
your attention for a few minutes to
one of the books that l now hold in
my hand. This is one of the books
that have been introduced in evidence
and is acknowledged by Funk to be
in his handwriting.
"It shows a systematic course of al
terations and erasures which has
been pursued by Funk there. I say
that by this book as kept by Funk.
that some time during his employ
ment by Platzoeder that he took ST.
200. Look at this book and see the
10 and look at them. Look at page
90, and at page %, and at page %
and 35. Look at the balances upon
page 43 and see where the book is out
of balance $3.50.
Il say that by his testimony when
he was upon this witness stand that
he was not an honest man. 1t will
take more than the word of John Nc
Court to convince me that he is.
He has shown by his testimony
that when the sums were taken that
have spoken of, he took trip TO
Kansas City. When / mentioned TINS
affair with Platzoeder when he was
on the stand his eyes protruded out
and he was seized with jockyaw.
There is something in this mans past
that bobs up before him every time
that he goes upon the witness stand
and he is afraid.
Gentlemen of the jury, mere are
the bank records showing that ne
never did have $1,000 in gold, but only
had $500 in gold as the deposit sip