Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-10-31

PAID se,447.74 UNDER THREAT
This Sum He is Now Seeking to Re-
cover in tho District Court-Dr. Cam
tonwine on the Witness Stand All
Day-His Case Rests Temporarily
Evidence Continued Today.

| Two questions, involving the in
Individual, in which the firm is pitted
against the Individual, are to be solved
by Judge Bradshaw in the case of Dr.
e. A. Cantonwine VS.. Bosch Bros, from
Vancleve. One side is endeavoring to
| prove that Bosch Bros, deliberately
held up and robbed DIR. Cantonwine OF
| $6,165.74. The other side is attempt
| ing to prove that DR.. CantonWine stole
from Bosch Bros. even a greater sum
than this, the total being estimated at
ls7,s3s.
\ The case was opened in the district
court Wednesday morning, and will
probably not be concluded before the
! last Of the week, or perhaps the first
! Of next
| DR.. Cantonwine. claiming that he
was forced to give up the large sum
under threats Of criminal prosecution,
| is now seeking to recover. In defense
| Bosch Bros. are setting up the claim
| that Dr. Cantonwine tapped the tilr'
| frequently and took in the aggregate
a large sum.
cantonwine on the Stand.
Dr. Cantonwine was the first wit
ness placed on the stand, and his ex-
animation took almost all OF the day.
Late in the afternoon Mrs. CantonWine
was sworn, but her examination was
rather brief. According to DR.. Canton
wine modern business methods We're
practically unknown in the Bosch
store. He and all the other clerks had
access to the money drawer and safe,
and visited both whenever they had
| occasion to. Each clerk made his own
change paid himself from the money
drawer, cashed his own checks, and
those of others. On the principal points
of this part of his testimony there is
no contest, as the chief facts are
| acknowledged by Bosch Bros. The bus
mess had been so conducted for prac-
tically all of the two and one-half
years Bosch Bros. had been in business
and altllo the firm had done q business
of approximately $4,000 year, 1t had
| been done at a loss.
Suspected cantonwine.
An accounting of the affairs Of the
! firm was made and it was found that
an apparent shortage .,of 1895 exist
ed, and the firm was in Strengthened
| financial circumstances. This was
early last spring. On the morning of
| April g. the brothers called Cantonwine
into the machinery department of the
store, where they told him that they
| had been missing money and they
knew that he had taken it; that they
| had watched him and had seen him
take it, and they had marked bills and
had got them from him again in
change.
| Cantonwine testified that Peter
Bosch said to him that if he
would pay them they would drop the
matter. Threats of prosecution and
imprisonment were made, Cantonwine
testified, and the fear Of these threats
preyed upon his mind that later in the
day, at his home, Cantonwine turned
over to Peter Bosch certificates of de-
posts and notes to the amount Of
1s6,447.71. Twenty-eight hundred dol
| lars of this amount was in notes
Bosch Bros. and an individual member
of the firm had given Cantonwine as
security loans.
Cantonwine testified his fright Of
prosecution did not leave him until the
following Saturday, it being Monday
when the money was paid over. Short
1 ly afterwards he demanded the re-
4 turn Of the money he had paid over,
but it was not returned.
Denied Any Thefts.
On cross examination DR.. Canton
wine denied that he had ever stolen
money from the firm. He admitted
| that he had cashed checks for the
firm out of his own money, and later
had taken the amount he had paid out
A from the cash drawer, and left the
check.
Il Mrs. Cantonwine Testifies.
4 Mrs. Cantonwine, who showed not a
little spirit while on the stand, testi-
Il fed that when her husband returned
from the interview with the Bosch
Bros, In the machinery department,
on the morning Of April 8, he acted,
she said, like a man in trance
While Peter Bosch and her husband
were in the house, at the time the
money was paid over, she testified
that she heard Bosch say, "you will
either pay or go to the PEN" At the
close Of Mrs. Cantonwine's cross ex-
animation the plaintiffa case rested
temporarily.
i Bosch Bros case was opened just
before court adjourned. George
Greenfield was the first witness called.
He testified to seeing Cantonwine, one
day last fall take money from the cash
drawer and put it in his pocket.
4! The examination Of Bosch Bros
witnesses was recommended this morn
! ing and continued turnout the day. 1t
is expected that DR.. CantonWine's at
i torneys will have much additional evil
dence to introduce when the other side
has rested.