The Washington herald., 1915-07-01
SAYS HENRY,S ALLEGED
ACT ANTEDA TED THE LAW
Attorney Wright Declares larceny After Tms. Charged
Indictment, Not Made Crime Until 19l3-Juy
Probably Will Get Case Today

hall because Newhall had given evil
! dence which might be Of much i'm
portance in the case, but what the
evidence was he did not say. Attorney
Wright charged:
This man NewhaIl told a lie that
might have put Henry in the penitentia-
| ry. This lie was not due to Newhall's
marble callousness Of moral sense, be.
cause Newhall Is so unfortunate he has
| no moral sense. This misfortune is due
! to his ancestry. When we get in the
presence Of a man who is descendent
| Of famous ancestor we try to afford
him that Difference which the ancestor
deserves. and this man Is descended
from very famous ancestor.
Called Descendant of Ananias.
''NewhaH, gentlemen of the jury, is a
lineal descendent of Ananias, and here
and now change his name to G. Steven
son Ananias Newhall. He is not a col
lateral relation of Ananias, but comes
straight down" Attorney Wright then
declared:
Mr.. Henry is accused sof embezzling
81 900 from Mrs. Isabel Barklie, but Mrs.
Barklie has never complained that
Henry stole any money from her, &C
neither has her husband. None Of
Henry's three partners in the firm OF
Lewis. johnson & Co.. have been called
to this stand to testify that Henry did
wrong, yet each Of the three partners
has been under subpoena by the gov
eminent since the trial began.
But G. Stevenson Newhall, treasurer
of the Pennsylvania Company for Insu-
rance on Lives and Granting Annuities.
wanted to put Henry in prison. When
you men on this jury want to get war;
in WASHINGTON
have to go to Ralph Given and swear to
a warrant and sign your name to it, but
this NewhaIl, of Philadelphia, comes
down here and goes straight to the grand
jury room from the offices of the at
torneys of the Pennsylvania Railroad
without even stopping of at the office
of the United States attorney.
Attack on NewhalI.
when Newhall leaves the grand
jury room he has an indictment
against Henry. Mrs. Barklie didn't
go in the grand jury room. Neither
did her husband, Archie Barklie. But
Newhall does. Gentlemen, what sub
terranean influences permit such a.
thing as this. I ask you? Newhall
didn't want to collect $4,000 which
Henry is accused of embezzling from
Mrs Barklie. But Newhall did want
to collect for the Pennsylvania COM
pany that 500 shares of Mexican Pc
troleum stock bought by Mr.. Henry
for Mrs. Barklie. Then the company
intended to hold that stock to force
Mrs. Barklie to pay the company the
SAC, 900 the company had advanced her
so that she might take flier on the
stock market. There is the whole
thing in a nutshell.
How did New! all go about this
fine business? w he slipped into
Wayne. Pa. not far from Mrs. Bark
lies home, Inver House. and in
Wayne hotel Newhall dictated let
ter for Mrs. Barklie to sign, so
worded that it authorized Newhall to
receive the 500 shares of stock from
Henry. not for Mrs. Barklie. mind you,
but for the Pennsylvania company
Then, with this letter. Newhall
slipped into Dyer House when Mr..
Barklie was fay, and he got Mrs.
Barklie to Ign that letter without
her husband knowing anything about
IT.
Now you see through this strange
prosecution. You see Newhall inau-
gurating ii and you see his motives
for inaugurating IT, and you see that
Mrs. Barklie, the woman supposed to
have been swindled, has never spoken
a word of complaint"