The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1923-06-16
GARvEY ATTEMPTS
TO PLACE BLAME
ON ASSOCIATES
Tells Jury That Secretary and
Treasurer of Company
Got Money .~
TRIAL CLOSED THURSDAY
Judge Warns Lawyer-President
That Patience of the Court
Is Exhausted
(Crusader Service)

New York, June 15.-The Federal
Government having rested its case
last Friday, Marcus Garvey opened
his defense on Monday. He addressed
himself to the jury, whom he told he
would prove to them that whatever
money investors lost in the Black Star
Line he didn't get any of it, and that
if anybody got it, it was E. Smith
Green, secretary, and George Tobias,
treasurer, of the defunct Black Star
Line.
Money came pouring into the Gar
vey Office, Miss Ledeatt, secretary OF
the Universal Negro Improvement
association, and at the time the Black
Star Line was organized, a steno-
grapher in Garvey's Office. When the
project was announced, Miss Ledeatt
testified, and even before stock sub
scription started, enthusiastic sub
scribers" rushed in to deposit their
money with the Garvey Office.
Asked About $500 Check
When it came to cross examination
Maxwell S. Mattuck, Federal prose-
cutor, was most anxious to learn if
Miss Leadett knew for what purpose
a check for $500 to the order of Gar
vey was drawn on the steamship line
on December "a, 1919.
The records Of the Black Star Line
identified by the witness, showed that
the check was drawn for the emer-
gency expenses of Garvey. Mr.. Mat
tuck brought out that few days af-
ter the check was drawn, Garvey and
his wife left on their honeymoon trip
to Canada.
Miss Davis Trapped
Lady Henrietta Vinton Davis, Lady
Commander of the Sublime Order of
the Nile, and Lady of the Distin-
guished Service Order of ETHIOPIA was
called by Marcus in his defense.
Stock was sold for $4,000 on trip
to Panama in 1920, Miss Davis testi-
ed. Expenses of the trip, $4,000
were paid, Miss Davis said, out of the
money from the sale of the stock.
"Whe1 the boat reached Colon we
were in need of money and / thought
that, as second vice president, when
the ship needed money in foreign
port, why, could spend it," she de-
clared.
"You told these people who bought
stock that you would spend the money
for new ships, didn't you?" asked
Mr.. Mattuck.
"I object" screamed Mr.. Garvey
"That's a leading question"
Judge Mack smiled rather wearily
"Of course, Mr.. Garvey, but it j:
perfectly all right to lead on cross
examination" he said, and then h
added, "another little law lesson tol
you, Mr.. Garvey."
Miss Davis denied she had heart
anything about the ghost ship "Phyl
lis Wheatley" until in 1922, but wa
forced on cross-examination to ad
NIT that she had heard of it as earl!
as 1919.
Miss Davis was caught anothe
time when after having emphaticall!
denied that she was ever on the pay
roll of the Black Star Line or eve
received cent of compensation iron
that concern she was confronted witt
a number of checks endorsed by he
as the prosecutor flashed check afte
check that she had endorsed on he
asking her if she recognized her sig
nature on "this check, and this, an
this and this" until some fort
checks had been flashed on the amaze
lady who then admitted that thes
checks represented amounts paid ne
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