The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-06-07
RESIDENT OF
TOWN never
HEARD OF IT
Doctor Testifies He Has
Lived in Village
At Years.

Waukegan, Ill, June 7.-CBy the
Associated Press Roy Streator-
a director of the Grant Park Trust
&; Savings bank. and DR.. T. W. Van
Horne, a physician and druggist
who has lived in Grant Park for 81
years, on the stand today in the
trial of Governor Len Small, were
asked by the state about the exist
/ ence of a Grant Park bank and
both said they personally had no
knowledge of its existence in recent
years.
Questioning of the witness pro-
voked frequent clashes between the
attorneys. DR.. Van Horne de
scribed Grant Park as a village of
500 people with II business houses
and about one hundred homes. He
never saw a sign of Grant Park
bank in the town, he said.
James a Kirby and w. W. Par
rish, officials of banks at M0mence,
| Ill. six miles from Grant Park,
were called by the state in the aft
ernoon and testified their banks
had had no business with, and they
did not know of the existence Of "a
bank called the Grant Park bank"
GulIette TestifieS.
Noah Gullette, an attorney of
! Springfield, testified he had been
sent to Kankakee county on Janu-
airy IT, 1921, by Edward E. Miller,
state treasurer, to investigate and
find out whether there was
Grant Park bank. The defense OBJ
jected when Edward Pree, assistant
I ISFo TO- aff of
ty, asked whether the witness
found any record of the bank on
the books of the Kankakee county
court, and the court sustained the
objection, holding the courts rec
ords show for themselves.
0. G. CIapstOck of Grant Park.
a former stockholder in the Grant
: Park Trust & Savings bank. who
described himself as a "lOafer.'
testified he had never heard of the
Grant Park bank during the years
of the alleged conspiracy.
The trial was interrupted twice
this morning. once while Judge
Claire c. edwards heard a petition
for change of name and again while
he heard two divorce cases.
Seek Lost Certificates.
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Grant Park Trust & Savings hank.
testified that the banks record of
demand certificates of deposit,
which is being sought by the prose
cution, disappeared about eighteen
months ago, and has not been, Sasn
since.
Several months ago in a prelim
mary hearing Mr.. Griffin testified
a janitor burned some OF the banks
records in the furnace early last
year.
The original certificates of deposit
)! disa ppeared about the same time as
the record book, he said today in
answer to questions OF James II
WiIkerson, assistant attorney
general.
Part of the examination of Mr..
Griffin follows, the questions being
by Mr. Wilkerson:
WilkersOn QuizZeS Griffin.
@. Did you produce the book
which contained the record Of the
demand certificates Of deposit?
@ Where is that?
@. Where that?
A. l don't know where it is. I
haven't in my possession that book
and l don't know where it is.
@. When did you last see it?
A. | don't know. | couldn't say
l haven't seen it for some time. II
would just be an estimate, but ]
would say possibly year and
half ago
@. Have you issued any demand
certificates of deposit in the last
year and half?
A. Not since possibly a year and
a half ago.
/ Q. Do you remember having seen
that demand certificate deposit
book?
A Yes.
| Q. Where did you see it?
A Previous to the year and
half ago it was in the bank.
O. Have all the certificates Of
deposit represented by the entries
in that book been carried forward
Through entries in some other books
in the bank?
A. No, sir.
O. How were you able to con
duct the business of the bank with
out any demand certificate deposit
book?
A Because there are no demand
certificates in existence.
Can't Produce Certificates.
Q. Are you able to produce the
original certificates of deposit
which represent the interest in
this account?
A No. sir.
Q. Are you able to produce any
) of them?
A No. sir.
Q. What was done with those
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