Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-04-16
Evidence in the Walter
Mills Case Concluded.
Defendant Takes Stand ID
Testify in Own Behalf.
Entire Day Thursday DEVOTED to
Addresses al Boston.

Thursday in the trial of Walter Mills.
accused Of using the mails to defraud,
| in the United States district court, was
devoted to addresses. The case Will go
C the Jury tomorrow. The evidence
was concluded just at adjournment
yesterday.
Boston. Apf1l 15.-The last word of
| evidence in the case of Walter Mills
| was given just at the adjournment of
the United States district court yester-
lay. At the opening of the court the
defendant was under cross-exarrina-
ton by Assistant District Attorney Sui
Ivan, and testified in part: THE firm
| Mills & Co.. in 1913, consisted of
myself and Baker & CO. of Liverpool;
we had a joint account arrangement
and used the name for convenience.
Told Inspector Mcleod that I ship
ned all my apples to England, because
the Baltimore shipment slipped my
mind. MY letter to r. N. Fogg, saying
that his apples had arrived on the other
side and were being held for better
market. was mistake, because they
had not then been shipped. 1t was
circular letter and not personal. l also
sent an account under date of Man
chester. Dee ?. 1907 to Mr.. Buck, al
though his a. barrels of apples were
sold in Baltimore"
1.-THE man 1 borrowed the $500 from in
1907 was a Mr.. Ashworth. bookkeeper for
my father I sent him back, at his re-
west, $500 in bills from Ontario. and a
| like amount, also in bills, on two subse-
quent occasions. $500 in all. He has ac-
knowledged the receipt of the money l
So mt $50 to Mr.. Buck in an express order"
/ Redirect: THE reason I did not fulfill
my guaranty to Arthur Jackson was this:
| The guarantee was made very early in the
season. When his first shipment came
the apples were small and poor. and l
| notified him that I could not continue
the guaranty. He told me to go ahead
| anG do the best could
Describing his visit to Livermore Falls
| in 1907. witness said he had half-a-dozen
agents within radius of % miles in that
| section, and he went to visit them. In
previous years he had received from D 900
| to $1,000 barrels of apples from that vicin-
| ity. and that the farmers there generally
held their goods until after Christmas.
He hoped to pay all he owned them and
to do business with them many years to
come.
II was obliged to suspend payments in
March, $685. he said, because I was
practically insolvent, and l closed my
Boston office in April. c. T.. Dimock' S
| apples, my last consignment, We're ship
ped April L."
George r. Libby. who has done defend
ants printing for years. testified that the
blank forms of accounts of sales" con-
corning which there has been much us
cussion, were printed in large quantity
in 1904. and that none had been made
since
Francis Irwin, bookkeeper for Mills in
1867. testified as to lie system and ex-
tent of the business.
This closed the evidence for the refenc
and was followed by the rebuttal for the
government.
{. f.. Dimock of Limington, Me. testi-
fed that he made three shipments to de-
PENDANT in January. February and March;
that he had received $500 in payment O.
the first two, but that Mills owed him
for the last whatever he chooses to
pay. as there was no agreed price"
Edward Shattuck. Jr, testified that he
was an agent for Western railroad in
1906 and wrote to Mills with the purpose
of getting Missouri apple growers to ship
apples. Mills owed him $1,000 for com
missions
Sidney Marden. in the apple business in
Williamsburg, Mass. was sworn, but
upon the question of Mills Indebtedness
to him being introduced. all evidence by
him was excluded
Walter Webbing. a commission apple
merchant of boston, testified as to de-
PENDANTS reputation
George c. Jillson a Boston lawyer tes-
titled that he had occasion to look for
Mills March II. 1903. and continued to do
so without success until he was located
by others.
Mr.. Sullivan repeated his request made
ON Tuesday. for the production of de-
PENDANTS books This was refused by Mr..
Cunningham. counsel for the defence.
whereupon Mr.. Sullivan introduced as an
exhibit in the case an abstract of ac-
counts which had been made from the
books by Edward J. Woodwork.
This closed the evidence of both sides
in the case.