The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-11-14

he saw the letter containing the check for
 Si275 and also a black pocketbook; that ! Chisom picked mp a small book and put
 it in his pocket, and that Mir. Percy
 said: "Alec,w must have that, too;' that i Chisom handed the book to Mir. Percy. ] who handed it to him: that he looked
 through the book until he saw the figures
 $l0OOO0, and that then he said to Mr. ] Percy: This is the book of his daily 1 transactions" Witness said he gave the book to Mir Exum or MT. Hassinger. and
 that he kaye the poeketbook containing 1 $l500 to Mir. Hassnger
 l "l Want to Be Frank" Witness stated that Chisolm was seated l in chair at that time and that he 1 leaned back ard said: MT. Percy, l
 want to be frank with you; l got your l money;" that Chisolm then stated how he l had lost the money speculating with Gl-
 bert x Clay and Foster X Co.,; that ne | asked Chisolm if these people knew where l he got the money and that Chisolm said | he could not see how they could help
 knowing that it was the banks money. Witness then stated that he went to the l United States court and saw MT. Steele
 and swore out the warrant against Chis- l olm Witness said that Chisolm stated he paid mdney to Sims X Hayes over the l bank counter through his window; that 1 they would phone him how much was 1 needed; that he (Chisolm) paid money to Smith in the bank and to nigger DOT ter of Smiths; that he traded with Gi- l bert X Clay under the name of s. M. | Il 1 about the reserve box.
 | Counted the Cash. Witness said that he examined the 1 books of the bank on May To; that he l counted the money; that the currency
 was in bundles, the silver in bags and | the gold in bags, and that it balanced | with the books.
 Witness proceeded to explain how bank accounts are examined. and told about
 what is charged against and credited to officers and accounts and departments. Witness said that on August E he made another examination after the defalca- 1 tons were discovered that he asked | Cbisom how he had managed to conceal | the shortage, and that Chisolm told nm l it was done by a system of charge tick
 cts and deposit slips
 | The witness read out a list of sums of
 money for which Chisolm admitted he | lad made out charge tickets and which
 were given him (Cooper) when he made his examination on May 15. The follow ing is 0 list of the amounts as stated by | witness:
 l Tutwiler Coal, Coke and Iron company.
 sC729. .54; Sloss- Sheffield Steel and Iron
 company, $9s6345; Southern Steel com
 pany, $91S6 66; Pratt Consolidated Coal
 company. $lo.225; Woodward Iron com
 pany, $l6,22355. Witness said the total was
 $E2, ,225; that these charge bills were made
 on May 15, and that on May 16 deposit
 slips were made out to correspond with | the charge tickets and the amounts de- posted. The witness stated that on May b Chisolm was actually s52,255 short in his
 cash: that Chisolm said he used that means to make his books balance.
 Where the Money Went. | Witness said that his examination of
 Chisom's transactions showed that alto
 gether he had speculated to the extent ot | S233 46O that of that amount 91.525 had
 been paid to the firm of Gilbert &s Clay, l Foster x Co.,; that the biggest amount
 he was ever q loser on his speculatio1s
 was sl37,OO0 and that he had reduced that
 amount to slOO,O0o.
 Captain White cross-examile1 AIr. 1 Cooper at considerable length aDcut the
 cash in the reserve box. The witness said l he counted the cash in the reserve GuX
 on May 15, but did not recolect what it l contained; that there was no shortage in | the cash; that the books showed how | state where the cash was. Witness said he did not know who opened the reserve box or how much gold or currency it contained: that Chisom and his ass.stdu. | were near him at the time in lne pay | ing tellers cage that examining books ! was an everyday business with him and he did not remember the amounts he
 counted.
 The Reserve Box. Captain White closely examined the Wit
 ness about the shortage which he sand ex- isted in Chsolms accounts. and which
 witness said, according to the books, did not exist.
 Captain White further cross-examined
 the witness on his statements before the
 grand jury with the object of showing
 that he Cooper did not tell the grand
 jury all he told that day In court.
 During the cross-examination of Cooper