Norwich bulletin., 1921-08-11
ATTY GEARx TELLS OF PAYING
 BILLS FOR MRS. BENTLEY

All GEAhY TELLS OF PAYING
 BILLS FOR MRS. BENTLEY
 hen the hearing in the Bentley appeal case was resumed before Judge Milton A. Shumway in the superior court room in New London Wednesday, Attorney John c. Geary who acted as attorney an,, confidential agent for Mrs. Bentley, ad- ministratrix of the estate of her hus- band, Andrew J. Bentley, former New London mayor, took the stanI. Jujge Shumway is hearing the case tn the ca pacity of special committee appointed by superior court order.
 Attorney Geary. testified as to noney transactions between himself and the Bentley estate.
 Mir. Geary read from check book stubs amounts varying from a few dol lars to several hundred, which ha had loaned from the estate from time to time, especially during the operation of the lumber yard of Mir. Bentley by Mrs Bentley after her husbands death.
 Mir Geary went on the stand Tuesday afternoon and was questioned on direct examina ton by Judge Charles B. Waller, his counsel. Mir. Geary began his tes- thnony by reading from the check book books he kept; the stubs showed deposits and disbursements, but no account of re- payments to him by the estate.
 Tho witness was questioned at some length regarding an item of $4,0o0 in the account paid to MT. Geory and he testi- fled that this was the balance due him on loans which he had made the estate between the years 1896 and 1907. When the hearing was resumed at | 1e.So Wednesday morning Attorney H. A. Hull, one of the counsel for the appel %r ! the introduction of the check book stubs as evidence on the ground that they did not show anything" he moved that all | testimony of this nature be stricken out. | The motion was denied by Judge Shuln- l way.
 Mir. Geary was recalled to the stand and read amounts of payments which he had made for the Bentley estate from 1896 to 1902. Among the items were the following: Arthur Keefe, 1000 W. C. Moves $1,5eS.o1; Charles L. Fuller ! $362.e5; Julia c. Bentley, administra- trix, discount not, Murrey, S490; Julia C. Bentley, admiaistratrix, loan, $10O | Julia c. Bentley. adninistratrix, loan
 S1 ,0oo; Julia c. Bentley, adninistra- trix, loan, $150 Frank T. Brown; $2oo Dexter Hunter. s1ooo Central Vernon Railway Go, .S53757; E. H, English Go. l s1o0 H. T. stebbins Lumber O., $500 | National Bank of Commerce, $350; J. J Melvin, S280 Chicago Lumber & Goa Co.,, g John c. Geary, loan, $1oe; H B. Stebbins Lumber C., $1oo; John J SIcElvin, S1Ss.e6; Julia c. Bentley, ad ministratr $40 H. B. Stebbins Lurnbe
 Go, S1ee; J. J. Melvin, S443.14; Juli; C. Bentley, administrative, s2.ooo; Bos
 ton Lumber So., loan George B. Presi
 SsS3.15, for Dexter Hunter; E. M
 Sweeney, loan, Bentley estate, $65o; F
 H. English Go. s1eo; John J. McElvir
 $4774e.; W. H. Richards, water rent
 $35.42.
 MT. Geary was able to recall the cir
 c1rrstances regarding some of the pay
 ments and what they were for, while cor
 corning others he saId ne oIn not recci
 lect. The payment of S1,ooo to Arthu l Keefe was for money advanced for UT loading a lumber cargo from a vesse When the vessel arrived the com1an had no money with which to pay tli charges and the money was adv1rce , by MT. Keefe while MT. Geary was or of town and the next morning the la ter reimbursed the former and charge l it to the Bentley estate.
 I The payment of $1,5s3.01 to Judg , Moves was in Ssttlement of a suit again. the estate.
 , The $2,0o0 for the Boston LIrnht
 Co. was to take up two notes whtcl M z Geary had endorsed. He said that whe the notes came due, the company ha no money and he called up the bank ar
 had it pay the notes and charge t I his account. MT. Geary said that wnI r he did not see the charges entered
 his account in the books of the Bentit
 O., he knew that the entries were mad
 He explained that the reason he kne
 that later MT. Oliver, bookkeeper for ti s company, sent him statement of his q f count which was incorrect and that ] n went to see him about it and at that tin s he saw the items entered on his accour / MT. Geary said that he had in his Do V session the correct and incorrect stat e n1ent which he received at that time.
 The payment of $S8sn5 in favor of NJ A Prest for Mir. Hunter, was for materia
 bought from the latter who was a wEoi
 sale lumber dealer.
 Mir. Geary had no recollection of tl circumstances regarding the discount - the Murrey note and he had no recolI=
 stubs regarding several loans to Nil
 Bentley except that they were made b cause of the financial stringency of tl . company on the dates of the checks. t The Central Vermont Railway : item was for the payment of a freig U bill; the item to the National Bank
 Commerce, MT. Geary thought, was f
 payment or part payment of a not
 other payments to various lumber cor F panies were for bills due and undispu ed, which the estate was not able to p; v and for which he advanced the money.