New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1908-10-17

on the same day he had $1,000 to ms creo''
Meantime he had been credited with Sloe.Vo" oH
t5e bank from the sale to the bank OF 'he '"0
thousand shares Of ice stock. and from inc P'V
ceeds Of the $4,000 demand loan. and had pau
over 10 the bank 100000 in settlement OF tle
final Whiting loan
Mr.. oIcott. iii cross-exanining Brown ana
whitney brought out the fact that. neither
Morse nor Curtis had ever asked either OF them
30 sign the alleged dummy" notes Brown
thought that Edward b Wire. the oahh
cashier had probably asked him. but he Was not
sure Whiting said that his employers. John >
Primrose and Arthur Braun, had told nm 10 go
down TO the bank and sign the notes ana that
he had done as he was told Brown SAID ne
once told his employers that he didn't want ms
name to stay on the big notes in the bank too
Yong"
Mr. Stin1son caused some n1erriment when ne
had Brown testify that he could not have paid
note for 5000 at the time he made himself
legally liable for hundreds of thousands One
check OF the National Bank Of North America
drawn TO the order of Brown had been Endorsed
by Primrose & Braun and paid by the hank
without Browns own Endorsement appearing
thereon Mr.. Olcott described this as a ''trihing
trregularty" Of no Importance.
PROCEEDS TO MORSE ACCOUNT.
II was also brought cut by the prosecution
that the proceeds OF most of the Brown and
Whiting loans had apparently gone into the per
eonal account of Morse This point. however,
was not made entirely clear Another point
brought out by the Pre- --cution was that Whit
ing was under age when he signed most Of the
notes. whiting testified, however. that neither
his employers nor any Of the officials Of the
bank knew this fact Whiting told Mr. Stimson
that he couldn't have paid note for $1,000.
On REORGANIZATION Mr. Wire the bank
cashier testified that he did not know of Curtis
ever making penny out of the National Bank
Of North America. except his salary as president
Wire also testified that the reports 10 the Con-
troller Of the Currency We're prepared by him
and were signed by Morse and Curtis as q mat
ter Of routine
Considerab bic interest was aroused when Mr.
Stimson introduced in evidence two checks
signed by Mrs. Katherine 7. Gelshenen. widow
Of ". H. Gelshenen, formerly president of the
Garfield National Bank. one Of the Morse chain
Of banks. Mrs. Gelshenen was wanted as a Wit
ness in the Morse Dodge divorce trial. but went
to Europe She was married in June. 1907, TO
Henry ]. Braker. who died on September l last
Among those in the courtroom yesterday was
John 2 Carroll who seemed to take lively in
terest in the proceedings. Mrs. Curtis there,
as usual and never left her husbands side. The
jurors did not formally protest against the en-
forced confinement ordered by Judge Hough, as
# was reported they would. The court sat until
3 o'clock and the trial viii go on to-day at 10
o'clock It is almost unprecedented for a fed
eral judge to sit on Saturday.
Mr.. Morse said last night that he believed the
prosecution had about exhausted its ammuni-
ton. and he and his counsel felt confident that
nothing criminal could be proved, against either
himself or Nj. Curtis