Putnam patriot., 1926-03-05
JURY DISBELIEVES
 "POT OF GOLD" STORY

said .hat taey were given Co him by taa defendant and that they had never been paid.
 GIparr.e- o1= cross examination ad- mHttea that at .se time the loan ssz n Was dafsulter He denied that he sent for Mrs Levine in th. hopes that Ha could get her tB accept tha gf61o7a. sa teHr down the aidi .iaH GiIHssrHe sal that the money he laaed Mrs Levine was his own money and that be passed it out Co her ia fifty and one hundred dollar bills The witness said he took the money from the bank He didn't know hos he reim burse tHa bank He had an income of kis own and f was his own money that he loaned
 On two of the notes the place for the rayee was left blank. Gilpatric said that he must have forgotten to fill them in or that possibly he thought that he would make them payable to the bank
 Gilpatric denied that Mrs Levine had q posted 100 twenty dollar bills with him 70 bc dealt out to her when called for Asked why he didn't take the mortgage he said was to be given to him he replied There were lots Of things l should have done that didn do. With the conclusion of this fifteen minutes of testimony counsel for plaintiff rested.
 Mrs Uevins's Story
 Mrs Levine said that she started Co baild the addition to her house in 1929 She mad it about half done and ran short of money The neighbors objected Co the addition. She said she went t8 the bank in 1924 to cash cheek and Gilpatrie called her into his private office. He told her the neigh bofs were willing to buy her off if she would tear down the addition. She refused and said she had the money to complete if and asked him t0 take S2.- GOO and keep it for her He said he was t8a busy Co do things like that but that he wouldn't refuse her.
 Mrs Levine told of working in the mil and keeping roomers and boarders as means of getting money. She finally amassed S400. and when she went to work in the mill she buried the money iH d eriseo can in her gar den. Saving every penny she could, she testified. she constantly added Co the garden bank until she had the sum of s2 000 in twenty dollar bills This maneV. she said. she turned over to Giipatric She said that she did not - any receipt from Gilpatric. as she trusted him and considered him an honorable man.
 Signed Blank Paper
 Mrs Levine testified further that Gileatric wanted something t0 show HHeH r. pad her money and she sign d HaHar which she though #ere
 THra was nothing 0r the aa hoF signature. she aid She Hsd 6hat she aker had sl0ea re
 aHr fme 8s evidenced f#Ha bHf said th8t he received faHF Has#aHt- 8f SHH0 total of s2 uHg
 Nrs LezHs zalI she ealld Hut =aa# EHa h hHH ceald read figures. She admitted that she hadn't paid her tax es regularly when she claimed she had money m the garden saying that she Waz -asiHg the amount hidden for the addition and would n6i touch C
 Mrs Levine was cross examined at length by Attorney Lawrence Howard for the plaintiff and stuck to her story of hoafdiug money iH the can in her yard and 5f turning II over ta Gilpat- ric.
 Several witnesses were introduced IH rrhuttul who testified that Mrs. Le- vine had tried to borrow money from them t6 finish her house The town and city tax collectors were also put on to show that Mrs Levine had paid her taxes iH '.driblets as Attorney Morse, former town tax collector, eN- pressed it.
 The arguments in che ease began at 380 and were not concluded until just befer, court adjourned Judge Dick euseu consumed fifteen minutes in his charge Wednesday morning and the iuN retired at II o'clock