The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1910-06-09
Called to Stand This Time BY
Defence
SHOWS HOW HE ALTERED
Accounts on Books No Wrong Suspect
ed by Cashier Farl--Didn't Know
Bank Could Not Continue Until
February %.


Boston june q William J. lBig Billy
Keliher charged with aiding md abet
ting George Wy. Coleman in the misappli
cation Of the funds Of The National City
bank 81 Cambridge, was expected 70
take the witness stand ia bis own de-.
Tense yesterday, when tis trial was "a,
sumed il tie United states district
court
Coleman who IS under a l5year SEN.
tence WINS also summoned a. witness
for tha defense The FIRST part of the
court session was occupied BY Harvey H.
Pratt attorney for Reliner coHelriing
bis opening argument begun Friday.
Mr. Pratt completed his opening in
the FIRST bdfh hour during which he took
occasion 70 say that the defense would
show that there was real John r.
Marshall, who hired tie room 81 State
street mentioned drring the trial and
WHO sent money to Coleman at Kansas
city
Mr. Pratt said that The defense would
also show that Coleman went to Keliher
voluntarily aud asked for 100000 tnat
be might give it 70 Miss Mamie High.
tower ard other women.
Coleman was called A. the first wit
ness to explain more in detail bis meth-
DDS Of abstraeting money from tha bank
.in way that deceived even rhe bank exe
amlners with tle aid 81 tbe books Of
The bank. Coleman showed numerous
erasures ana substtufions end also bow
I've obtame1 $4,000 last December from
tne account 81 Pre- iaent Dresser
Attorney Pratt made no effort 20 iearu
from Coleman what De dii with an
the money he had tolen He dd bring
ont tle fact that there were only l2 ac,
counts ID tie hank from which the dis
honest bookkeeper could obtain $1,000
Continuing hs examination into the
banks affairs Mr Pratt called cashier
n q. Earl from whom he learned that
that oibaial asa not know 81 tie baula
failure untH The morning Of the day It
was closed SIR Earl admitted that he
know fom months before faat the de-
posts of the bank were falling oil and
that President Dresser was putting ID
money to keep them mp
After much questioning the cashier
fnallg said that Ia made 40 effort "a
learn what depoators were Withdrawing
their accounts. although this could read
ily hayo been asceu sined 81 4 Compact
Son Of the clearing house statements
with the individual accounts
TIE showed the jury that IN 10 days
last December $4,000 was abstncted
from tie account 81 President Dresser.
Cashier Earl gave his explanation for
the shrinkage d tae funds Il the bank
70 begin with" h. said, we never
suspected that there was any Irregular.
ity inside IF tie institution we did
not Zee how one clerk could default
without The help Of the others. and al
though We knew that the deposits were
falling Of we thought that they were
going to some other hank
Walter G Coleman, father Of George
w Coleman, next took the stand lie
testified that since TIE trial commenced
he had told one Of the depositors Her
bert J Lombard that George had said
to him recently that three weeks before
the doors Of the bank were closed he
had told The directors that the books
were not straight Mr. Lombard was
then called and testified that he had
talksa with cashier Earl concerning
Coleman's actions Ii November. 1909.