New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-12
HE|NzE ARGUMENTS NEXT
Evidence All I'm and Summing Up
Will Begin To-day.
DEFENCE RESTS SUDDENLY
Wise Tries Hard to Shake Mine
Experts Called to Stand by
Stanchfield.

Stanchfleld.
More testimony was given yesterday ="
TIE trial of F. Augustus Heinze IN 'iie
Criminal Branch of the United STATES III
cult Court to show that the delehudh'
securities put up for the Soo'1o loah on
October Il. 1861. were of great value anu
then. to the surprise Of the court ana 'he
,rose~,,tion the defence rested John B.
stanchfield. of counsel for Heinze, VIII sum
up for the copper man to-day. and Henry A
Wise. United States Attorney, VIII follo"
with a presentation of the governments
case to the jury
II was said last evening that this talking
would take up the whole court day ana
that Judge Hough would wait until to-
morrow morning before he would charge
tn, twelve men who have been sitting
-a-ientlv listening to the involved tes-
timony.
MIR. Wise started the day with further
cross-examination of Albert Frank, the
Heinze mining engineer and the prosecutor
had mining expert at his elbow 10 prompt
him Chester Glass a former director OF
the United Copper Company and now presi-
dent OF the New York and Pittsburg Coal
Company, was the next witness for the
defence He gave testimony of the value
of Heinze coal properties; Professor John
II. Bangs, a mineralogist, told about coal
values also: Patrick A. O'Farrell, presi-
dent OF the British Columbia Copper Com
panv, gave evidence Of the value of the
land in that company's possessions.
Bank Had 100000 Security.
Emil Klein, cashier of the Mercantile
National Bank. was recalled to tell more
--1I
/, check of s1asepo from F. A Heinze in
part payment on October 10, 1907, which
was the day after the money was Dor
roUed. and on October Is Charles ". Morse
sent a check for $4,000 to apply TO the
same loan. As Mr.. Heinze owed the bank
I'm addition to the $4,000 the sum of $4,000.
deducting that from the s1esoo0 paid on the
loan brought the total owing the bank
by Heinze down TO $4,000, against which
the bank still holds the securities valued
in 1907 at 100000.
Another witness recalled was John Pang-
born. clerk in the bank. He said that he
had told the paying teller that a credit had
been made to the Otto Heinze & Co. &C
count, and to let him. Pangborn, know
when it was exhausted. Then the defence
closed
Mr. Wise's struggles with Mr.. Frank had
70 do with definitions of drifts. levels. tun-
nels, veins shafts and the blocking out of
ore No computation was made 10 show
Row much Mr. Wise took off the millions of
dollars the Heinze properties are valued
by his drastic analysis of Mr.. Franks
testimony. prompted by the expert When
II to the estimate placed by the wit
ness on the value of the Stewart mine Mr..
Wise said. shaking bundle Of papers at
Mr. Frank:
You said that tunnel sunk in the mine
exposed large bodies of 'probe BILE ore. Is
It not true that this statement is based
on the reports of an expert. Mr.. Wilson
which was based on an examination of the
miner
Yes" said the witness
is IL not q fact that Mr.. Wilson's re-
port mentions, not probable. but possible
ore bodes?''
Mr.. Frank was a little puzzled at first,
then saw the difference Of meaning He
declared that ne had seen the mine him
self and vas also speaking from personal
knowledge
Mr.. Wise managed TO scale down the
value OF the Ohio Copper Company prop
erty little, although Mr.. Frank began to
make an explanation that threatened to be
most technical and was intended to clear
up the matter. when Mr.. Wise caught him
up sharply.
4 definition of ore blocking sub
uitted by the prosecutor as from an
authority. but the witness would not &C
cept it without ampiifcation. He admitted
the eminence Of the authority, and said:
Tine definition. however. needs TO be
ampli7ed. Assume that this room is a
cube''-
Company's Assets Put at s20,0oo,ooo.
We will assume nothing Mr. Wise
shouted and then the witness got perfervid,
snd Mr. Wise gave up the further cross
examination of Frank
Mr.. Glass told bout the value of the
nited Cc7per-s interest in Pittsburg coal
lands and how it was attained, and while
ne was restif:ins two negroes brought into
court two great boxes containing drill cores,
which had been obtained from the Pitts
burg lands. Mr.. Wise objected 10 this eE-
hibit because il was not as of 1907. and coun-
.el for Heinze pleaded 10 have II admitted,
en- the ground that IL had To be freshly
drilled the ore would show deterioration.
Judge Hough ruled the boxes of cores out
Mr. Glass said that the 1oona acres Of coal
lands, assets Of the United Copper in 1907.
we're worth about ga.ao0oa.
Professor Bangs upheld the wisdom Of
having new cores as exhibits Mr. Wise in
terposed TO say that he objected 10 all tes-