The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-06-17
ARMSTRONG IN
TEARS; JURY MAY
GET CASE TONIGHT
Former Judge Breaks Down as
Letters to Receivers
Are Read.
BOOKS DESTROYED AFTER
INDICTMENT, SAYS WITNESS
Defendant Denies Embedding
Funds of the State Mutual
B. and L.
lsnecinl % lhe Evsnlne Sal

Especial to the Evening start
CAMDEN. June I.-Former Judge e.
Amber Armstrong will go IN the wit
ness stand. it is said, to tell the jury In
the Criminal Court today what he re-
members oil the stocK deal on which
the State OF New Jersey bases its
charge that he embezzled funds be-
longing to the state Mutual Building
and Loan Association
During the presentation of the prose-
cuffon-s evidence Armstrong several
times broke Gown and yept. HnmoVed
hy allegations that he had defrauded
the state Mutual Building and Loan
Association he lost control of his emo
tons when letters that he had written
to the receivers promising to aid them
In their investigation were read.
Il am willing to do anything in my
power to aid you, he wrote on Feb
ruary IS, 1909.
L. W. smith, New Jersey agent of
the Electric Company of America, pro-
dueed the minutes of the corporation
TO show that on April II, 1909, soon
after Armstrong was indicted, a reso-
luton was adopted. authorizing the
officers OF the company to destroy the
minute books Of the Pennsylvania
Electric Company showing an alleged
merger. The statement was ordered
stricken from the records.
Martin Maloney, of Spring Lake and
Philadelphia, papal marquis and father
Of Helen Maloney, whose sensational
eiopsment nearly two years ago gained
much publicity, was one of the wit
nesses for the State. He intimated
that the Pennsylvania Manufacturing,
Light, Heat and Power Company, said
TO be a subsidiary of the United Gas
Improvement Company. had dealings
with Armstrong which had some effect,
even if indirectly, oil the State Mutual
tan=le.
More h any sum of money that
may be involved, | have my good name.
My honor is at stake
AS these words were cad to the jury
by Charles Wolverton, assistant prose-
cutor, tears flowed down the defend
ants cheeks.
The nature of Armstrong; defense
was indicated in his counsers methods
of cross-examination at the opening
session of the trial yesterday. It is'be-
lieved that the defendant will declare
that he does not remember all of the
details of the sale of sixty-hve shares
of the Atlantic City Electric Light and
Power Company, a transaction that
took place nine years ago, but that
the check for Sc, 500 which he SUISSE
quently paid to the association was to
reimburse it for the sale.
More Than $4,000 Owing Him.
This check. the prosecution alleges,
Armstrong directed at the time to be
entered to the credit of his own per-
sanal cou That the association
owed him between $10,0 600 and s12, 900
will also be contended by the defend
ant.
The trial was resumed at 10 o'clock
today, with only "a few witnesses for the
State yet to be heard. Among them
were state Senator Robbins, of the re-
ceivers. and several employees of the
defunct association. II was expected
that the prosecution would finish its
side Of the case this afternoon, and the
assertion Of former Acknowledgement
Robert Fl. McCarter. chief counsel for
Armstrong, that he had few witnesses
10 present, thuiCdlcu mat tt ii"l
would come to an end today. 1t Is be-
l;eve5 that the case win be in the iury's
hands tonight or tomorrow.
Nothing Criminal, Friends Say.
As the states evidence approached its
conclusion. the accused man appeared
more confident than ever Of aequittal.
His friends declare that while the mass
of testimony introduced establishes the
fact that he did get the Electric Light
Company stock from the association
and perhaps did sell it along with other
securities which his Office as agent of
the company entitled him to do, yet
nothing criminal in the transaction has
been proved.