Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-12-16
DRAWS SALARY IN JAIL.
Barton Paid by Company for
Promised Services.
ADMITS FACT ON STAND
Brought Out by Defense in Patent
Conspiracy Trial.
EFFORTS TO CLEAR EVERDING
Counsel Will Undertake to Prove
That He Rejected the Former
Examiners Proposals.

All the time that Ned Barton is in the
United States Jail to which he was SEN
fenced two weeks ago for fraud in con-
nection with patents. he will be receiving
d good salary from the American Lamp
Company when snapped up Barton's serv-
ices soon after he was discharged from
the patent office and this salary will be
paid to the former assistant examiner OF
the patent office because he proposes to
give the corporation an improved electric
lamp.
Barton said so on the stand today when
under hot cross examination by At
torney Cuttings. counsel for Henry f..
Everding in the patent fraud trial. The
purpose of the defenses course or cross
examination this morning was to dlspel
all idea that conspiracy existed so far as
Everdng and Heany were concerned, and
throw the whole burden of wrong on Bar
ton. who, if the defense is correct, dam
aged the papers in the patent office solely
for his own good: put out Of sight the
original specifications in a valuable cleo
trio light patent application so he could
take the knowledge TO some company
other than Heany's company and be able
to sell his knowledge for high price.
Didn't you go to Everding and in
private room say, Look here. d you,
I've destroyed the file of the Heany pat
ent, and IL you don't make out another
specification the way I tell you to, II
resign from the patent office and take
with me to another company all inc Sc
crets / have learned from you.
This question was fired at Barton oy
Mr.. Cuttings after long string Of denials
and Il don't recalls Barton denied the
allegation absolutely and was firm in his
position that he was not alone in the
changing of the papers
His Memory Not Clear.
Other questions put to the witness were
to bring out that Barton had his eye on
the general managership of the Teeter-
Heany company. and wanted 10 SHOW
that the company's patent lawyer, Ever
ding, was incompetent to handle the bust
ness The defense wanted to show that
Barton had some scheme to doctor the
patent papers in some way so as 10 WORK
to his own advantage. But Barton was
a reluctant witness this morning. and 90
per cent of his answers were of the
Don't remember variety.
However Everding. who SO far seems TO
have borne the brunt of the government 5
testimony, declared through his coun-
sells crosS-eXanination this morning that
Barton approached him relative to fraud
uent changes in the patent papers reiat-
ing to the Heany patents on electric
lamps and that Everding rejected the
proposal absolutely.
After that all the changes were made by
Barton without consulting Heany or
Everding. according to the defense ana
he proposed to make capital for himself
by killing the patents, destroying the pa
pers and substituting others, thereby TAX
ing TO himself valuable secrets Then,
after he was discovered and removed from
the patent office Barton was employed by
the Teeter-Heany Company and then by
the American Lamp Company and was
with them at the time of his arrest.
Barton admitted those facts and then
was asked the questions concerning his
contract with the lamp concern The
questioning caused battle between the
defense and the district attorney.
Mr. Cuttings outlined the case as far as
he was concerned by addressing the court.
Promises to Show Motive.
81 propose to show that Barton's motive
in making his confession to the district
attorney was to SO entangle the patent
papers that Heany's patent would be use
less and that civil suits against Heany
would be successful. / propose to show
that Barton was urged to confess by the
officers of the American Lamp Company
so as to discredit the Heany patent: so
that they could use the secrets Barton
brought to them, taken from the Heany
that all the time Barton is in jail he is
receiving "A salary from the American
Lamp Company. and that they expect him
to give them an electric lamp which he
will be able to make from the secrets he
got from the destroyed Heany patent
After the cross-examination District At
tornev Baker took up the effort to connect
Heany with the alleged conspiracy, but
Barton was not replete with recolections.
Mr. Baker put many questions that
Heany's counsel objected to and not much
progress was made in that direction.
One of the characteristic answers by
Barton related to sum of 81 800 paid to
him by Everding. Mr.. Baker wanted to
know if Barton knew why he was getting
that money. Barton said he had a dim
idea that he was being paid for some