The Washington times., 1914-06-12
QUESTION BOND MAN
IN WRIGHT HEARING
7. J. OeIaShmutt Is Asked About
Alleged Shortage in AC-
j counts of Ambrose.
Continued from First Page.)


what | have heard. l did not have any
hing 10 do with the settlement. of tie
ase.' That is not in line with my duty
with the company. Mr.. Brady talked
with two other representatives of the
company. They were talking about get
ting in shape certain slow assets Mr..
Ambrose would make over to US
think some of these were fees, others
notes, ETC.
Did you hear anything about any
body having certain fees in the build
ing and loan case that they were re-
mitting TO help out Ambrose?'
4 understood that Mr.. Easby-Smith
was going to do that"
Did Easby-SmIth make any per-
sonal contribution"
Il didn't hear
Did you hear of other amounts con-
tributed TO Ambrose?"
Il heard of one of 5000 from Mr..
Peyser, a loan | think il was called.
l do not say it was a contribution.
| also heard of a 5000 loan or con-
tribution from Mr.. Darlington. l can
not remember of other amounts.
heard that Easby-Smith would remit his
attorneys fees"
Did your company put up $4,000 for
Ambrose in addition to- these loans7
Put Up $4,000.
Our company put up about $4,000. 4"
Was that the total amount of the
shortage, did you hear?"
/ do not know that / aeard exact
ly. / saw in the paper something about
Ambrose filing report of SSS, 500 on
hand. l imagine we must have thought
We had to put up s34, 900 or we would
not have done IL. The shortage must
have been somewhere about $4,000
And whatever was secured from
other sources was in addition to that %
a ranr hnUr
Chairman Mccoy asked the witness a
number of questions about how he kept
track of persons bonded, and received
responses that he sent over a state
ment about once a year to the home
office as to reports filed by receivers.
He said Ambrose had not filed a report
with the court. and he had mentioned II
10 Ambrose once or twice, a year or
20 ago.
Did Ambrose himself ever tell you
he was short?'
How much did he say he was short?"
Il talked very little with him about
H. He didn't say"
The company did not put up any
more than il had to-
No ] guess not
Are these contributions coming to
your company"
Il don't know.
When did this shortage of Ambrose
Congressman Nelson.
About a month OF two ago"
How
Asked If He Heard of 1t.
Someone on the street asked me il
had heard of il. They said there
WAS liable to be warrant / advised
my company in Baltimore to look into
the matter and they sent adjusters to
Ambrose"
Did the adjusters report whether
you were correct
Yes. they said there was some
trouble about Ambrose"
What caused the trouble"
Fast living"
How -
Every way, 1 suppose. Fast living
covers about everything"
Had there been speculation"
I heard nothing about speculation"
Yes"
Did you hear whether Ambrose spent
any of this money on Judge Wright ~
Judge Wright never got a dollar of it.
Did he say he had spent anything
entertaining Judge Wright
He inferred he might have spent
some running around with Justice
Wright, just as he ran around with
others know nothing except what |
saw IN the newspapers about hunting
From what you heard you judge that
Ambrose Wes free in entertaining his
Yes. But / asked him especially II
Judge Wright got any of the mnoey.
and he said not dollar"
What caused You to ask him that"
y had heard intimations'
chairman Mccoy developed that the