The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-10-24

engagement diamond, the other two
were sold in endeavoring to put up
enough money to save the family, she |
stated.
Now tell us about this expensive
Victrola," McKeever continued.
A secondhand Vietrola had been
obtained by Clark from a second hand
furniture store in which he was inter
ested. Finally, she decided she wanted
a new one and made arrangements to
trade the old one in and. make SIS pay
ments until the new one had been paid
for. she told the jury.
The payments were made with
money 1 earned myself out of paint
ing china" she said.
Her knowledge of Shortage.
McKeever then delved into her
knowledge of shortages in the bank.
1t first came to her on February 6.
she stated, when Clark told her that
they claimed they had found short
ages in his books at the bank. The
| shortage was discovered by Ed, Clark,
told her, she stated. Clark denied his
guilt, she told the jury.
1.-The next day l called for Mr.
| Southwick and asked him to come
over to the house. He did come. and
showed me that itemized statement of
| Clark's alleged shortages and told me
they were Clark's figures. I didn't
know then that they were figures OBJ
tanned from the books by Ed Gresser.
HE told me that Clark faced the
! penitentiary and wanted to know if
| we had any money to cover up the
! shortages. 1 was frantic. 1 didn't
| believe Clark had taken the money
but felt that it was best to do every
thing to quiet the affair, protect
Clark's crippled mother, save the pub
licity and humiliation of it all.
don't care as much for dollar as
some people do l understood if we
! hunted up some money and paid it
over that there would be no prosecu-
/ ton. 1 began that very night to sell
our household furniture"
Deposit slips of the Citizens State
bank in Mrs. Gresser's name, some
signed by Southwick. others by Ed
| Gresser, totalling about $4,000, were.
shown 70 the jury They were mark
ed Ito apply on Indebtedness The
money was revenue derived from their
| furniture, from her two diamonds and
| the automobile she affirmed.
7 never thought Clark did it and he
| told me that he believed it was Ed"
! she said. I knew about Eds crook
edness and believed it, too
Mrs. Gresser then told of the night
| of the arrest of Clark Gresser. She
| had just returned from Salina where
! she had obtained work. she stated.
On cross eXamina ton she Vehemently
| denied that she had left Clark fol-
! lowing the arrest, declaring that she
SaIina
T have washed my hands of it
! ALL was the only thing that Ed Ores
i ser would say following Clark's ar
! Clark went to his home.
Ed, 1 said, cant you see what
TINS Will do, the noteriety and trouble
4 it will make for us alI?''
~ GU can lay this at your door.
4 Ed Gresser told me- she testified
fsY ou'Ve snubbed us and ignored US ;"
II On cross examination Mrs Gresser
Il stated that Ed dresser was dogmatic
/ WIN Clark and she made it a point
that he shouldn't be with her
Isl he refused to sign Clark's bond -
9eoIftinued Mrs. dresser, land / teIe-
j phpned to Mr.. Southwick"
I can't sign his bond, said Mr.
I Southwick, I've sworn to the com
plant If his own brother won't sign
4 1t, why should 1, a stranger?''
FINALLY, she admitted, Ed dresser
4 did suggest that they go to the office
.fF6a Iohn O., Schenck. attorney for the
tSIresser drove away in the sheriff's
automobile to talk to Schenck. She
Isremained at the Ed dresser home,
4eaaIone. Ed and his family going out
tior an automobile ride, she testified
IL Carver began his cross examination
NOW, Mrs. dresser, you say that
I you believed Ed dresser was crooked
mat you believe in your husbands in
Is Yes" she replied.
q ct you sold your household fur
s. n1ture, your diamonds and sacrificed
81 your nome to save Ed Gresser and not
4 your husband ?' nv
IL Did So to Avoid Publicity.
Il I did it to avoid the publicity and
4 tfoubie 1t would cause us all A dol
II lar doesn't mean so much 70 mo &c -
other people, '' ~
f. While you believed in your hus,
p pan innocence, yet you didn't ask
MN to go over the books and checl-
up for himself the shortages he
himseIf?''
II didn't know anything about the
s Dozens of questions along these
nnes We're shot at Mrs dresser by
FejafVer. She would start to answer
them and Carver would interrupt.
1T lou gu re towards, you're afraid to
let her answer Them" said McKeever
Don't you know Mrs. dresser that
Clark dresser drove that automobiIe
$1,000 miles? Carver asked
I don't know it"
was s2,500?" '---
don know anything about that"
carver then added up expenses he
declared Clark Gresser would have TO
meet on an SIS month salary Mrs.
EGresser didn't know whether the
amounts were correct. AS Carver To-
tEtalled them they amounted to from
500 to $50 a month. leaving about $50.
Alleged confessions obtained from
nClark Gresser We're introduced late
Tuesday afternoon by the prosecution.
EThese confessions We're made to S. s
OFT an uncle, and S. T Morrisev. a
representative of the bonding com
pany. the two witnesses affirmed.
McKeever in outlining the ca Sc
tsstated that she defense would show
that the embellishments with which
the de endant is charged are tracea BILE
to erasures and alterations which
kcouId only have been made. after the
Ehooks had been made up for the dav.
It will be shown, he said, that Clark
Gresser never was at the bank at
night