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drawn against anyone's account.
The examiner further stated tha
| if the cash had been balanced up
would have shown $500 deficit t.
offset these two checks.
He then showed how a check from
the Lancaster Mercantile company o
March IL, 1921, took up these tW
checks of December %, 1920. He sal
that, therefore, there was an actua
shortage in the banks cash of $3.50
between these two dates.
Mr.. Schechter said that he inter
viewed Mr.. Jones after he had mad
the examination and found thes
checks; but said that Mr.. Jones CAV
him no satisfactory explanation o
them.
Gross Examination.
Upon cross examination Mr. Sap
asked the witness why he had come al
the way down here to try to convic
Mr.. Jones, and the witness said tn
comptroller of the currency had in
s;-rcted him that 1t was his duty t
come here.
Mr.. Sapp grew somewhat vitriolic II
his attacks on the witness and the wit
ness replied in kind. Several hot word
passed and the court instructed then
that they would have to control them
selves better ~
What business have you got dowl
here anyway" queried the attorney.
1T is my business as a fedora
bank examiner to safeguard the peo
pie Of this community in their banl
deposits" replied the witness.
Fr1N. aa1-r n
questions to show that Mr.. Schechte
had been unusually close to Lero!
Springs for some months and when tn
witness stated that he had been II
conference with Mr.. Springs even be
fore defense counsel knew Of 1t, MI
Sapp asked in somewhat agitatet
tones:
"Something Further Back"
20, there is something further bacl
than we thought?"
You bet there is" shouted back th
bank examiner.
After some argument as to what th
bank examiner had to do with the Ian
caster Mercantile company, the attor
ney asked him what he meant by goint
into the mercantile's affairs. He replies
that he only went into the mercantile'
affairs as far as those affairs entere'
into the transactions Of the bank.
The attorney asked him about tril
that Leroy Springs made to Washing
ton and the witness told Of this trip.
Affidavits were then produced, signet
by George Ferguson and B. Y. Funder
ourk, in which they stated that state
ments made by Mr.. Schechter in hi
report on the affairs of the First Ma
tional bank, as 1t affected them as Dor
rowers, was incorrect. Upon eXamina
ton by Mr.. Sapp, Mr.. Schechter sail
that the affldavits were not in line will
the statements those men made to hin
and as were incorporated in his report
He said the affidavits were untrue
when asked a direct question by Mr
Sapp as to which statement was true
l. o. the bank examiners report or th'
affldavits.
Meeting in Charlotte.
The bank examiner told of a meeting
in the Mecklenburg hotel in Charlotte
between Mr.. Schechter, w. H. Twitty
ii the Charlotte National bank, and Mr.
Rice, private secretary to Lero!
Springs. 1t was then brought out tha
w. II. Twitty, Bascom Heath and thu
defendant, c. D. Jones, are the eXecu
IOTS Ul lUe tSldlc VI lllS ldlC II. -
Heath, of Charlotte.
Mr. Sapp wanted to know If, as re
suit of that conference in the Mecklen
juIg hotel, a part of the funds of tn
3. D. Heath estate were not movct
crom the First National bank of Ian
caster, and Mr.. Schechter replied tina
ne said nothing about any such trans
actions. He said that if they had beer
moved they had been moved for som'
)ther reason than that conference. H
admitted talking to w. Fl. Twitty abou
the deposit in the First National banl
of Lancaster.
why were you always buddyin.
with Leroy Springs?' queried Mr.
Sapp.
More Sparring.
"If you'll admit this record, I'll SHOW
you." Mr.. Schechter threw back to him
"Yes, but I'm not going to admit It,,
said the attorney.
81 didn't think you would he re
piled. II give you credit for NOR
sense than that" was the bank cX
aminers retort.
Upon re- examination by D. w. Rob
inson. of COUNSEL for the state, MI
Schechter stated that he has been
showed that he has a right to go any
where in his district at any time ant
make any kind of examinations. eithe
public or private, that he can for tn
benefit of depositors in national banks
Following his release from the wit
ness chair the state rested it's case
after a conference in one Of the priyat
rooms, just in the rear Of the judge
stand
C. D. Jones Takes Stand.
Council for the defendant pace
their client, G. d. Jones, upon tn
stand as the first witness for the de
Tense. He remained upon the STAN
until the noon recess, upon direct eX
animation, and was grilled by tn
state during the afternoon session.
Mr.. Jones explained that his po
sition formerly was president an
general manager Of the Lancaster Mer
camille company, being made directo
February 10, 1916, and elected as a
officer November 7, 1917, and that h
was fired out" July II, 1921.
He was called .upon to explain TN
two checks upon which he stands in
dicted; one for $4,000, the other TO
$4,000. He stated that one check wa
drawn on the Lancaster Mercantil
company to cover the two checks. stat
ing that he had carried the account 1
his own name for the mercantile com
pany and declaring that there woul
have been but one check IL there ha
been a dozen separate charges agalns
the mercantile company. One checl
he said, was drawn to cover the entir
| transaction.
He stated that he had advanced So,