Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1928-10-25

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ulated cash in your office until you
got Whist you say is in the neighbor-
hood of forty-fve thousand dollars,
that is so, isn't it?
A. Yes, getting currency from the
banks extends back as long as | vas
in the office. Q. That is . fact, isn't
it? A. Sure it is . fact
Q. Then, your books here likewise
shows that the amount Of actually
cash which you drew out of the banks
going back to that item of August
l2sth when you had only $227.83, and
coming on down to the 29th or Both
day of November, don't they? A. 1t
shows the amount Of cash on hand,
yes.
@. Substantially all of the money
which you claim vas taken out of
Safe No. 2, was money which you
had heretofore taken out of the bank
and accumulated and put in that
chest, isn't that so? A. No. not all
of it. @. The greater portion of it.
A. No.
@. Have you any way of telling me
whether my figures that you took in
of cash on the Both day of Novem-
Der, 1926. are correct, that is the
Three Thousand Seven Hundred
T~wenty-three dollars and som odd
cents.
A. If you will give me the daily
statement book there. @. Is this
it, Exhibit 81 for the defendants?
A. Yes, What dates do you refer
to? Q. | refer to the 30th of No
vember, 1926. A. S0th day Of No
vember. Q. Yes, that is the date
you say the burglary occurred or rob-
berry occurred. A. What was the
other date you gave me there?
@. The only date / an asking you
about now is November 80, 1926, and
| am asking you if it is not a fact
that my figures showing $~3,723,-is
all the money you took in, if they are
correct. A. Approximately correct.
@. Approximately correct; so that
whatever money was in that chest on
the 3Oth of November has largely
been accumulated and put in there by
withdrawing moneys from the banks
on your checks, hasn't it? A. Partly.
@. Well, partly does not explain.
What have you got to say about accu-
rately? You have your book. A.
Well, the records will show.
Q. All right, turn to any record
which will show and tell the jury
about it; they are interested in this
matter and want to get down to a
certainty. A. There was some
moneys drawn from banks that way
and Also
@. Just a minute please. | want
to be perfectly courteous now and
move to strike the answer as not re-
sponsive and ask that the question
be read to him. Question Read.)
A. Approximately half of that
money was withdrawn from the
banks.
@. Let's not be approximate
about it. You know or you don't
know. You have a way of determin-
ing it and we haven't. What | am
asking him now is, having started
with $227.83 in August, he acknow-
lodged he got all of this money, he
says he had on hand on November
Both, into his chest, then he answered
me that about approximately half of
it had been taken out of the banks.
I want him to give me definite fig
ures about it so that the jury will
have something
The Court: You mean from the
Goth of August on down to the 30th
Of November.
Mr.. Hurd: Yes, Your Honor.
The Court: Very well. Do you I'M
derstand?
WITNESS Continuing): | will have
to go to the records. The check
books will show how much / ttok out
of the banks. | can get that for you
tonight and will have it here when I
come back to Court in the morning.
Safe No. 2 had a time lock on it,
and that time lock was set for the
safe to open some period during the
day. On November 29th, IL I remem-
Der right, the ~timepiece on the safe
was set to open about three or four
o'clock in the afternoon. I can't re-
member exactly which. / didn't have
any regular practice aboat it; set it
for different times for different days.
There was no fixed rule in my office
as to when this time clock safe
should be opened by the apparatus
which opens it. Whenever the safe
was closed on a certain day it was
set to be open the next day at some
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