The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1909-06-15
AGAINST
LOUIS /. CASE
SEEMS WEAK
Hearing on First Count on ~
element Indictment Goes Over
Week After Part Of the Testi-
mony Is In.
Harvey Miller Says He Paid $1,2l1
For Stock Never Delivered, but
Receiver May Have Money

| Inc emDeZZlement charges aga1ull
Louis II. Case, former partner Of Can
eron Currie. were taken up by Justico
Jeffries, Tuesday morning as schedut
ed, in a practically deserted cOuK>
room. Cameron Currie was preseu1
with his attorney, Allan II. Frazer. n
answer to a subpoena issued by the d.
tense. but was not called.
The scene presented was -
rather marked contrast 10 the consptre
.acy hearing last week, when Cas4
and six former employees OF the de-
funct brokerage house, with their
counsel. formed an imposing arro15
about the tables. or this array therQ
remained. Tuesday, only Mr.. Case, ht1.
counsel, Edwin Henderson and Perez
Grose, and Assistant Prosecutor AID
rich.
Cameron Currie CHANGED to take a
seat beside Louis Case in the court
room and for the first time since thu.
issuance OF the warrants and the trial
OF the cases the two were seen In con-
versation. IL any il-feeling existed
there was no outward evidence of It.
Assistant Prosecutor Aldrich elect
ed to take up the Harvey Miller case
first and Mr.. Miller. who is a manufac.:
turer and lives at No. 269 Iroquoiess
ave, was called as the first witness.
Miller said that early in january
1908. he gave Cameron Currie~ & CO..
through Mr. Case, an order for 100
shares OF Superior a. Pittsburg Cop.
per stock. giving in payment a check
for $l.212.50 on the National Bank o.
Commerce. He asked Case. he said
10 get the shares for him and haYGa
trxx- 10 In, L.
and turn it over To him. He was sur
prised, he said, when Case told him
it would take three weeks to get the
certificate. He had had stock dealings
with other concerns, he said, and had
never heard of II taking so long.
In the next few weeks Miller ha0
seen-Case- several times about DIV
stock, and each time was told that the
certificate was not ready. He had n0k
received Ii at the time of the failuro
and has never received 1t, he testified.
On cross-examination by Mr.. Her
derson, Miller was unable to say that.
Case personally got the money on the
check and would make no such claim.
He handed the check to Case and the.
latter. in his presence. had turned t.
over TO the cashier, but as far as he
knew the money was received by the
firm.
DO you understand why Cameron
Currie was not prosecutor"
No" n u
Amy interest in having him go
free?"
No.
Anyone talked to you in his be-
half?"
mo"
For all you know the stock was In
their hands a the time OF the failure ?"
Yes"
Miller expressed the belief that the
stock haa been in the firms posses,
sion, but had been turned over to Hay
den, Stone & Co. before the failure.
IF the stock was ever bought by
Cameron Currie & Co. 1t was used
by them, wasn't it," asked Mr.. Aid
rich on redirect examination.
Yes. sir, it must have been," re-
turned Miller.
Mr.. Henderson put this question to
the witness.
If your stock was held by Hayden.
Stone AZ Co and was later sold by
the receiver for Cameron Currie &
Co, and he got the proceeds, mani
testify the, stock was not transferred
&c Hayden, Stone & Co. for any ether
purpose. was it?"
Adrich strenuously objected TO the
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