New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1919-03-19

ment of their wheat cases for more than
$500. These checks we're made out to
Grimes and Wiedenmann Crimes in
1 dorsed them for the firm of Grimes and
Wiedenmann, Wiedenmann refusing to
/ have anything to do with them.
! Checks made out to the farm bureau
were also cashed.
We don't know who Endorsed them, 2
said MIR. Bane of the farm bureau, but
checks made out to the bureau were
indorsed and cashed. No officer Of the
4 bureau Endorsed them.
Mr.. Bane estimated that $3.50 had
been obtained on these checks made
out to the farm bureau and cashed in
this way.
1 Grimes explained this phase OF the
transaction by saying that Webb had
cashed these checks made out to the
bureau. The deputy investigator said
that $3.50 in checks of farmers, taken
] in the settlement of the wheat cases
had been turned in on an automobile
/ trade between himself and Webb, the
! former county agent.
siSonle OF the money went Tor that
car or for other things said Mr. Bane.
eve haven't been able to trace that
definitely, but we do know that checks
from the farmers were cashed. Some
body has to pay for that car. Only one
| check. so far as we have found, was
made out to WYE That check was Tor So.
:sWe have found two cases where
leash was paid.
We used Webb's car for two or three
weeks, when Webb objected because OF
the hard use given the car. Then on
July Fl, WYE and Grimes went to New
Ulm and bought new Dodge car, pay
ST, $50 for it with check Grimes signed,
s.Wiedenrnann and Grimes" This car
was traded to Webb for the car mlsused.
We continued to use the old car.
.'They had been using Webb,s car
and had made out the checks OF the
farmers payable to the name oil our
firm said Mr.. Wiedenmann. The
first thing that I knew OF this was Two
days before the new car was purchased.
/ Webb came into my place with tins
bunch of checks made out to our 1lrm,
and said, There, you keep these until l
/ find out who owns this car, you or me.
81 told him / didn't want those checks.
And then in a day or two came the pur-
chase of this new car by Crimes. ! told
Grimes toput up 81, co at thebanktor the
. new car, and keep the old car pers onally
! if he wanted to trade with WEBB.
( 81 asked him what he meant by
having those checks made out to our
firm. He said he had thought, all along
about getting new car and trading.
81 never knew of the making OF the
checks until Webb brought them over
/ here, and a day or two later when they
4 wanted to trade them in on a new car
| I refused to have anything to do with
/ them, and Grimes and l. dissolved
partnership
| Grimes indorsed the checks for the
1 firm, and they were csshed. Grimes
and William Brust, cashier Of the Farmers
and Merchants bank, admitted this had
been done, though Wiedenmann had
| told tie bank he had nothing to do with
the matter and refused to have any pa t
! in it,
When wye jumped on Emil Golnicke
of Lafayette township for wheat hoard
ing, he struck a Tartar. Emil W .sn't
very friendly to the proposition and let
| WYE know it. WYE, however, insisted
that Gclnick market his wheat, between
25 and 40 bushels, which he didr~but
he did not turn over the wheat tickets
to the Red Cross as WYE had directed
should be done. This necessitated a
trip to Golnick's place. They had
the first set-to in Sleepy Eye. WE
ins sted on having the wheat ticke, S
and Golnick asked him to step into
the house. WYE then suggested that
ibis understudy, Cutting, go In with
| GoIrick, but Golnick insisted that he
| he would do business only with WYE
Himself. WYE then condescended to
| come into the house and when Emil
got thru talking with him WYE was
as meek as lamb. Mrs. Golnick
drought the wheat tickets at the request
of her husband but when Golnick re-
fused to endorse them. WYE left them
and told him to take them in to Chas.
A. Stolz. After the wheat business
was settled, Golnick turned to WYE
ana asked him whether there was any
thing he wanted to examine into. He
told him to make a thoro search for
boarded flour and sugar, and when
WYE refused to do so, Golnick told him
that if he ever dared to come back on
the place again when he was not at
home and scare his family, he would
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