The Mena weekly star., 1917-05-03

defense was made by J. s. Lake, stating that it would be shown by Mr. Parker that he had nothing to do with the reissuance of the war rants in question, that the work was done by the clerical force in his office. that he never saw or handled any of the said warrants, only as he might have seen some of them in going thru the portfolio in which county warrants were kept; that when w. l.. Parker assumed the of flee Of Circuit Clerk he did not own any county warrants, and that the warrants which he presented in his settlement with the County Treas urer, came into his possession in the regular work of the office of Circuit Clerk, and that only in a few in- stances did he know from whom he received said warrants.
 The first witness on the part of the state was County Clerk Will Alexander, by whom it was shown from the records in his office the reissuance of certain warrants on December 9, 1915, aggregating S260S0, identifying the warrants alleged to have been embedded as part of said reissue, and showing that said war rants had not been receipted for on the stubs of said warrants. Also, that none of the reissue of Decem- Der 9, 1915, ever came into his pos session as successor to w. l.. Parker, and that warrants aggregating ap- proximately S3O had been receipted for on the stubs.
 w. k. Anderson, county treasurer, as the second witness was used to show by his record the redemption of the warrants i'll question, as well as others of the December reissued in an amount aggregating approx imately $99, that said warrants were received from W, l.. Parker on April 6. 1917.
 Owen Parker, as deputy County Clerk under his father, was third witness, establishing by him that he performed the clerical work in the reissuance of the warrants on the County Court order made December I9, 1915. that said warrants were numbered 1872 to iSS6 inclusive, 1 that 1t had been the general prac- tice to issue county warrants inn mediately after the County Court had made the order of allowance It was also shown by this witness that after warrants were written they were taken from the warrant book and placed in portfolio in alphabetic order, and that this port folio was kept in locker in the vault, to which there were two keys one carried by himself and the other by his father. It was admitted by the witness on cross examination that he had sometimes left the office and vault unlocked, and had left the key in the locker, and sometimes had left the portfolio and warrants temporarily out of the locker. 1 Bud German, R. T. Harrison, J. c Hoheimer, W. w. Townsend, Oscar Afford, J. II. Harrison. Joe finders | Travis Hunsaker, J. B. Lilies, Marion Holder, F. w. Snow and Fred Gray the persons in whose favor the war rants were drawn, were introduced to establish that the particular piece of scrip drawn in favor of each had never been received by them from the county clerk OF any one in his employ and that no order had been given by either of them for the war rantsg Most of the witnesses ad- mitted that they were not aware that warrant had been allowed for them, and some did not recall what services they had rendered. With the introduction of this testimony the State rested
 On behalf or the defense, w. E. Anderson, County Treasurer, testi- fled that he had received S2i.50 worth of scrip of the issue of De- cember 1915, from Collector H. w Finger.
 II. w. Finger, sheriif-collector, testified that he had received and | turned into the county treasury warrants of the reissue of December g. 1915, but that he did not know from whom they were received, and that he had not received any war ranls this year from W. l.. Parker in payment of his taxes.
 R. Golf, on behalf of the defense, testified that he had received coun- ty warrants from County Clerk w. l.. Parker and that when lie once called for warrants he was permit ted to look thru a package of war rants and found one warrant for himself and one for Goff & Gamble. Owen Parker, recalled to ascertain if he did go down town and leave the office open and the retainer for the county warrants unlocked, did so recall.
 w. l. Parker. on his own behalf, testified as to the reissue of the