Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-18
CALLS BARTNETT
"ADIRTY Doc"
]. DALZELL BROWN GETS HOT
UNDER COLLAR
SAN FRANCISCO TRIAL ENLlv-
ENED BY PROSECUTION
Attorneys for Defense Attempt to
Show That Brown Was Solely 20
Blame for Sale of Cotton
Securities
Rv Associated Press.

BY Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO, juno 27.-In the
middle of a severe cross examination
by Attorney Geary for the defense, j.
Dalzell Brown, principal witness for
the prosecution in the trial of Walter
j. Bartnett, today heatedly referred
to Bartnett as "a dirty dog"
Testimony had just been wrung from
Brown to the effect that 1t was on In
formation furnished by Allan Griffith,
brother-in-law of Bartnett, and by
Bartnett himself, that the indictments
were brought against Brown which re-
suited IN his plea Of guilty TO the en-
bezzlement of securities held in trust
by the California Safe Deposit and
Trust company and his sentence OF
eighteen months in the penitentiary.
All of the morning session Brown had
undergone this cross examination by
Attorney Geary. divulging secrets of
the conduct of the bank in it's latter
days, when 1t was slowly but surely
going to the wall.
Receipts were placed in evidence by
the defense given by Brown TO Bartnett
for the Cotton Securities which Bart
nett Is accused of embezzling, and then
the witness was made to testify that
at the time he receipted for the securi-
ties to Bartnett they were not in the
possession of the bank but had beer.
sent to New York to be hypothecated
on loans made by the bank.
Would Blame Brown
Bartnett's attorneys were attempting
to show that Brown was solely respon-
sible for the sale of the Cotton securi-
ties which We're placed in the bank in
trust by Bartnett, the administrator of
the estate of Ellen M. Cotton, to which
the securities belonged.
Brown refused to admit he told Re-
ceiver LeBreton Of the defunct bank
that he himself sold the securities and
that Bartnett did not know of their
sale until he returned here from New
York.
1t was at this point and after Brown
had testified to having pleaded guilty
and of now being an inmate of San
Quentin penitentiary that he said Bart
nett was a dirty dog" He said he
had given the false receipt to help a
false friend"
From Brown the admission was
gained that the bank sold a number of
Western Pacific bonds, belonging to
various persons and placed in the bank
for safe keeping.
During the redirect examination of
Brown at the afternoon session an at
tempt was made by the prosecution to
establish the fact that Bartnett had
-
it's failure, although he was in New
York at the time and for months be-
fore.
Letters Ruled Out
Letters and kilograms to prove this
were, however, ruled out by the court.
Brown testified that no living person
except Bartnett directed him in the
affairs of the bank, giving the impress
sion that the spirits of Jay Gould,
Coils P. Huntington and Ellen M. Col
ton had something to do with his
direction.
Sums ranging into the hundreds of
thousands, and even millions, were
lightly spoken of by attorneys and the
witness while he was testifying as to
the manipulation of the books and the
loan accounts of the bank. just previous
to the failure.
Jorn c. Lynch. one of the state bank
commissioners, testified as to a meeting
in his official capacity with Bartnett
and Brown, when he was told by both
of them that the Cotton securities were,
some of them, burned in the big fire
and the balance sent to New York and
placed in g. safe deposit box.
Previous testimony had brought out
the fact that the securities had already
been sold when this meeting took place