The Detroit times., 1909-06-09
ut TACHM EhT N
ISSUED FOR H.na
| lEDyARO
Similar Action In Case q r.
Bourke, Neither Answering ~
penas to Appear in Cameron Cur
RE Conspiracy Hearings.
Examination Of Defendants Co.
tinued This Afternoon--Curri
Story on Stand Frees DoIsen. \

At the request OF Attorney Edw1n
HENDERSON. Justice Jenries. ON tnol
opening OF court, Wednesday aftoss'
noon. In the conspiracy case againn<
Louis II. Case and six former en-
ployes OF Cameron Currie & Co., Or
dered an attachment issued for Heury
b. Ledyard and Michael j. Bourko.<
two witnesses who failed to appohf'
In answer to subpenas issued By the:
defense.
Mr.. Ledyard. II Is understood, II III
New York. and Mr.. Bourke v reported
to be seriously Ill. Attorney Henders'
son explained that he simply desire6
to protect his rights and perfect thu
record. Justice Jeffries will send ~
doctor with the ofiicer who serves the,
attachment on Mr.. Bourke.
The examination OF Case ana
the others was scheduled to ~
resumed at / o'clock, but Assist
ant Prosecutor Aldrich was late ana
1t was 1:15 when Justice Je1lrioo
finally assembled the bench. Then e
was discovered that Robert l.. Ed.
wards, one of the defendants. waa
missing. which meant another long
delay. Efforts to reach Mr.. Edwards
by telephone were unavailing.
Cameron Currie was on hand early
with his attorney, Allan II. Frazer.
and sat alone in q secluded corne. OF
the court room.
Edwards Finally Arrives.
Mr.. Edwards finally appeared e
1850 and the examination proceeded.
John j. Pontius, In whose name Ed
wards Is alleged to have traded, waS
the first witness. He testified that he
had never had any dealings with Cam
eron Currie a. Co. He learned through
the newspapers after the failure that
his name had been used In connection
with brokerage operations, and Ed
wards himself had called attention to
the fact In a testing way. He said
he had known Edwards about seven
years and that Edwards had been 8
frequent visitor to the billiard rOonor
OF which he Is the proprietor.
Asked what conversation he had
had with Edwards lately. Pontius re-.
piled:
I'VE didn't talk very much together.
believe he said TO me That Ed. Hen
derson was a good attorney"
F. w. Mette. whose name Ernest
W. Kraetke Is alleged to have used,
testified that he knew Case and Cur
rie and Kraetkc and had had some
dealings with the firm. He told Of q
conversation with Kraetke In which,
he claimed, Kraetke admitted that he
had carried on business in Metto's
name under a special account without
Mettes knowledge.
HE told me Case knew all about
it," the witness added.
DoIsen 10 Freed.
Admissions forced from Cameron
Currie, Tuesday afternoon, materially
weakened the prosecutors case. A.
result OF these admissions, one OF
the defendants. Frederick Dolsen. .
telegraph operator. was discharged By
Justice Jeffries. The attorneys for
the other defendants are hopeful thaS
their clients will be similarly freed.
The examination will be resumed q
o'clock and Will probably be fnishi
/ ed before evening.
Attorney Henderson's cross-examin-
alton was even more gruelling than 10
had been In the morning. He was
Obliged to admit that he was a. ~
sponsible as any one else for $731.000'
OF bad accounts, and Acknowledges
that, IL these accounts had been made
good there would have been no fail
| ure. ~
1T is ridiculous to charge thee
young men with wrecking the frrns
isn't II" asked Henderson.
"Yes," was Currie's reply.
The examination shed considerable
light on the inside workings Of the
brokerage business. all OF which
proved very edifying to the layman.
Among other customers Of the fnstitu-
tion whose names were dragged into
the mess was Judge Donovan, OF the
circuit court, who, Currie said. dealt
under another name, as did many
others. Mr.. Currie was unable to say
just when Judge Donovan started deal
Ing with the Arm. He denied that IL
was at his direction that the Judge
placed his account under q fictitious
name.
But you knew all about IT,"
II don't remember, but II wasn't q
surprising thing"
Other Partners Fall.
Attorney Henderson brought out
that the first partnership Currie was
in ended In the failure OF his partner,
James V. Campbell. And Currie was
also forced to admit his second part
ner. Osborne, quit the firm consider
ably in the hole.
Curr;es dealings with Frank G. An
drews. who, even after the City bank
failure, continued TO trade under the
name of A. G. Frank, and the familiar
story OF the 100000 certified check
was gone over again. Andrews deal
ings, he said. were on short sales and
Andrews had nothing TO lose. He also
admitted that he himself was really
the one who carried on the dealings
| In the name OF "A. c. Frank for his
own protection.
With reference to the M. p. Bourke
account. Currie said that he ceased
trading with Bourke in January, 1907.
! tContinued ON Pare six.)