New-York tribune., 1914-11-23
Stanchheld Says He VIII
Not Decide Until
Last Minute.
BUT EXPECTS HE
WON'T CALL BANKER
LAWYERS Grow Tired in Spend
ing Sunday in Preparation
Of Address to Jury.
r,on star Correspondent Of Tho rriOuns

Geneseo. n. Y. Nov 22. The Siegel
defence will not make definite state
ment whether or not Siegel will tes-
tify until the last witness for the
prosecution is through. This last wit
ness will be Joseph +. Pridday, VINO
was Office manager in the Siegei bos-
.on ytor. and will identify books OF
that store.
I'VE will wait until the prosecution
closes" John B Stanchheld, SiegeFs =
counsel. said to-risat. before we will
saw he VIII not 20 on the stand. Some
thing might be brought out the las,
minute we might want 20 deny az any
cost. We don't expect 10 nat hlm on.
II was divulgcd late tonight that the
defence is making more elaborate plans
to combat the prosecution than they
hnve admitted before. I'm imitation OF
the prosecution, they have prepared
elaborate tabulation charts OF SiegePs
financial transactions.
These. together with photographs,
will be placed before the jury. while
II. B. Fernald. Of LOomis, Sufern &
Fernald, public accountants. lag Broad
way, New York. will interpret them 10
ft i'm with the defence's Interpretation
o. Siegel's acts, and oppose the inter
pretation placed OH them by John
Flint. the prosecutions expert
These defence charts explain the
mysterious sounds Of carpentering
which have been issuing from Charles
b. Newton's Offices for two or three
days.
Sidney Solomon. formerly merchan-
disc manager of the Fourteenth street
Store and now holding a similar posi-
.ion IN the Siegel Cooper store. Chi
cago. will testify for the defence that
Sege's time was taken up with mer-
chandising while Nogel had full charge
of the financial end There will be
Two or ,hree others to give similar evi'
Ceuce and then the oratorv will begin.
Not even the church bells this morn
ing were able TO pry the lawyers Tor
and against Siegel away from their
work. The day Of rest was a day or
dnremitting labor for them all.
The Siegel lawyers in celebrating
heir argument and furnishing up their
oratory worked themselves by tonight
into a state of fretful ill-humor.
Arthur Train. the prosecutor. took
matters a little more easily, and was
in the best of humor To him, all
that remains TO be done IL to clarity
the facts and drive home the points
that have been developed in the testi-
mOry.
n his summing up. which may come
GcfCrc the adjournment Of court to-
r.c~row. he viii dwell upon twenty
one distinct alleged wrongful acts
which he considers il has been estao-
ii,hed conclusively Siegel committed
In connection with his department
store enterprises. his private bank and
ms dealings with other banas.
There will be two particular Eigh
lights in his analysis OF the evidence.
One comes from the testimony given
by Oscar A. Prall, Siegels former con-
fidential man. He testified that in
1910, while Vogel was sick in the hos
pital, he took Vogel's desk, and for tlve
months sat in the same office with Sic
gel, discussing daily the condition OF
the stores.
One of tne frequent topics of con-
yersation was that the Fourteenth
Street Store was 100000 loser and the
Boston store $1,500,000. Yet despite
this credit statements were sent to the
banks on behalf of these stores, he
said, representing that they were IN a
PROSPEROUS condition. Mr.. Train will
argue that nothing else is needed 70
prove Siegel's guilty knowledge of the
state of affairs.
Another main point he will make is
that. granting Prali was an accomplice
in the conspiracy charged. and that