New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-25
'ersing about Mr. Kloblein's brothers

versing about Mr.. Kloblein's brothers
sickness.
Q.-They were at least talking about
tnat, were they not? Al think they
were.
Kahn then told how he, with Nc
Manus and Klohlein, rode up in his cal
to Forty ninth Street, where McManus
left them, ard the two wen to Kahn's
Office. Kahn then made out a check fol
$6,25O for kloblein in payment for the
stands
Payment Price Is Reduced
Mr.. Wallstein here asked Kahn, "But
you had agreed to pay him $4,000
hadn't YOU" A. Yes, sir.
2. Did he willingly accent the S625O
A. NO, sir. told him that the stand:
cost me a great deal more to fix VI
than | first expected they were to cosi
and told him l am paying him en-
tlrely too much for these aeAnds, and
first originally offered him $1,000, which
would be more than sufficient. and we
battled for about half an hour, anc
he couldn't get no more out of me thar
S6,250.
Q.-How did you come to give him
, only $3.50? A.-Because I thought !
paid him too much the way it was.
Q.-You told me before that it was
because he didn't have any agreement
in writing. Is that right? Ale
wouldn't give me no agreement in
writing.
Q.--It was because he had no writ
ten agreement over your written sig
nature to pay him $4,000 that you were
able to give $3.50. Isn't that right
A.-Thats right
Q.-Now, you had already had the
permit then, hadn't you? Ayes. sir
Q.-But you also knew that he would
have to take the $3.50 or get nothing
because you had the permit then. A -
Maybe.
Kahn then admitted that another
check had been drawn the same day
for $500, which he said his bookkeeper
did at his direction. The check had
been drawn at first to the order of
Thomas McManus, said Kahn
That check wa> destroyed after
ward, wasn't % Mr.. Wallstein asked.
II reconsidered, and | wouldn't use
that check,' the witness replied.
Q.-You destroycc That check; is that
right? Al don't know if it was de-
stroyed or not
Dwell, you replaced it by another
check. Ayes, sir.
y. And you then drew check to the
order of "Bearer'; is that right. A.
Yes, sir.
o. show you a check dated April
II, 1921, to the order of "Bearer' in
the sum of $500, purporting to be
that check? A-Yes, sir.
Q.-Now, this check for $500. under
stood you to say that you used that
to make a bet with. Ayes, sir
Q. And you gave it to bookmaker
by the name of Henry Jones?. Ayes,
STA.
Q;-That you made a bet in April,
1921, on the Dempsey Carpenter fight;
is that right? Ayes, sir.
Milton Mas, Kahn's bookkecper. ad-
mitted on the stand having eradicated
McManus's name from the check and
placing the word "Bcarer" in its place
He said he did it at "nobody's orders
just because he wanted to-"
Mas was then confronted with sew
eral pages of the account book in which
the So 900 entry and the $500 entry had
been obliterated from one page and
another. From his testimony and that
of Albert S. Osborne. an authority on
que stlonable documents" it appeared
that page so of kahn's account book
had been devoted to the subject of "In :
vestment Market Stand" under which
heading originally appeared the fol-
lowing items: $4,000, $500, S6,25O, as
the payment price to Kloblein, and ST.
100 and $1,000, as costs for the install
lation Of new ice boxes.
Enteries Erased by Chemical
The first three items had all been
dated April II. the day Kahn visited
OMalley with McManus and paid
$3.50 to Kloblein. The page when
presented yesterday appeared abso-
lutely blank, the chemical with which
the obliterated writing had been made
visible having faded. A photograph,
however, was produced to show what