Evening times-Republican., 1920-10-07
OF FORMER BANK
ING SUPERINTENDENT RE-
vEALS NOTHING NEW.
QUIZZED REGARDING
LINDEN BANK NOTES
Banking Department. and Associated
Packing Company Shown to Have
Been Closely Related-Paekins In
terests Spring Surprise by Refusal
to Examine Messenger.

| of George Messenger in the Associ-
! ated Packing Company hetaring ended
abruptly yeterday. Attorney General
Havner finished questioning him as
| to his signature on some documents
and announced that the state rested.
The defense surprised the courtroom
and possibly upset some of the states
plans when it announced that 1t did
not wish to cross-examine the wit
ness.
This act on the part of John Gill
lespie, who is acting in Judge Quar-
toms place for the defense, will
make it impossible foi Messenger
to be returned to the stand for fur
ther questioning by Havner.
Several witnesses were Ques-
toned during the afternoon who
had testified previously in the trial
to clear up certain points that had
before been questionable. Their
being called indicates that the end
Of the trial Is very near.
Williams Testities Again.
The first Of these was George
Williams, assistant to John Cava-
nangh, receiver for the Associated
Packing Company. He told OF the
way in which he went thru the
documents of the company when
the receiver first took charge of the
office.
In cross-examination Mr.. Giles
pie asked him II he did not pick
out only such correspondence and
papers were the ones that you con-
| ment Of the company in bad light.
II only showed Mr. Cavanagh
what considered important" he
replied.
"But was It not true that those
papers were theones that you con-
sidered Important Mr.. Gillespie
continued. -
81 don't think can answer that"
he answered.
Would Weed Out Business.
When the attorney for the state
| was questioning him the second time
he was asked IL It was not his pur-
pose to weed out the rotten busi-
ness" so that the company 81 business
might be carried on right. He an
swered in the affirmative.
Gillespie was next called by Mr..
Havner.
Havner only asked him by whom
he was employed. He stated en-
phatically that he was employed by
Judge Quarton only and then was
dismissed.
Judge Quarton was then called by
the general.
Whom do you representa-" he was
asked.
why, / represent the Associated
Packing Company, the board OF di-
rectors collectively and some Of them
individually, the stockholders COM
mittee and most Of the intervenors
who signed plan No. L."
Havner asked him who those In
tervenors were, but he was unable to
tell off-hand.
The attorney general then told
the court that he was attempting to
find this out in an effort to find who
should pay the court costs in the
event this case is decided for the
state.
Except for questions to bring out
the actual relationship between the
banking department and the Acco-
ciated Packing Company, Attorney
General Havner has devhed Mes
senger's attention mostly to two cor
respondence transactions!
One of these was letter to Mes
senger from G. l.. Dennsler, cashier
of the American Savings Bank at
Marengo, in which Dennsler asked
information as to whether Associated
Packing was q good proposition.
Indorsed McDoueaI.
Messenger replied with form let
ter, in which Treasurer McDougal
was highly indorsed, and which re-
ferred the inquirer to McDougal for
further information.
The other was similar transac-
ton between Messenger and j. Dee
Loudon, former cashier of the bank
at College Springs.
Loudon's bank discounted some AS
sociated Packing notes. after Loudon
himself had become a stockholder in
the company. He wrote to Messenger
inquiring about who was financing
the stock sales notes, and expressing
the opinion that Messenger was in a
position to give him an opinion in
this matter because he was men,
Der of ''the Linden syndicate"
Messengers reply stated that he
was mot a member Of the So called
Linden syndicate" and made no
reference to the fact that Messenger
was interested in the profits derived
from the Linden banks handling of
the Associated paper.