New Britain herald., 1929-04-16
EGAN TESTIFlES
 HE HAD NO PART
 IN MAKING NOTE
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 stand at the conclusion of his grillina by Mir. Alcorn and he smiled broad. ly to many in the court room. Mos' of his testimony today had . bear. ing upon tho t:00.00O note.
 MT. Healy's testimony was quietl, given and threw little light on the complications in either the Egan ol the Watkins case. When he had completed. Judge Wolfe. addressing both A1corn and Healy. said. You two have exonerated yourselves"
 The defense was twice supported by the court in objections to the line of questioning by MT. Alcorn and in each instance the cross examina ton had been as to Egan's trip tc Europe and his call at a trust com pany in Picadilly. London. One on. Jection sustained. the defense claim ed, was over questions which aimed it was asserted, 10 show that Egan made deposits of money on the other side.
 Egan Changes Testimony
 Court was . little late in getting under way and Egan on taking the stand for further cross examination asked Judge Wolfe for permission to change some of his testimony given on Friday bearing upon the 3.0o.000 note. Egan said he was greatly confused and very tired when questioned as to who conceiv- ed the idca Of making the note. The court allowed him to make the changes. Egan said he wished to clear Frank Healy and Bank Com- missioner shippee of any inference that they had knowledge Of the note. He said that if any such inference was given. it was wrong.
 Did mt Prepare Note
 Egan said that he received call from Watkins in relation to this note in the latter part of November. 1927, asking him to come to Wat kins' office on Lewis street, which he did. Watkins told him that the bank commiss' oner had made an ex- animation of the books. Watkins asked advice if the note would make the books look more substantial. Egan said that he might have said it would but he had nothing to do with the preparation of the note it, self. Watkins handled that entire- ly. Egan said that when he testi- fled on Friday thaa he had knowl- edge of the note he was tired and weary of mind and thought MT. AL corn was talking about endorsement of the note. He said he did not think Alcorn was referring to the actual drawing up of the note.
 Questioned Concerning Fees
 Mir. Alcorn asked him about the secret accounts from which he. Egan. got money for his legal fees. For fully ten minutes Mir. Alcorn tried to have the witness make a positive statement as to whether he though taking fees in this way was legally wrong
 Egan said finally he could not see that it was legally wrong" but might be morally wrong" He said that if a client paid him money. 1t was none of his, Egan's business where the client got it. If fees were paid 1t was none of his business where the money came from.
 Egan said he couldn't recall talk ing with the bank commissioner in regard to the financial statement which Watkins prepared. He said he had nothing to do with making it up. He said he may have said some- thing to the effect that it could be shown that Watkins was good for the 3200.000 note. but he added he had nothing to do about the note nor did he suggest the making of any financial statement. Egan said he knew the bank commissioner would want proof that Watkins could pay that note. To Mir. Alcorn's questions he again denied prepara- ton of the note and said that his recollection of the note was differ ent today than from which he had Friday.
 Denies Destroying Books
 AS to the financial statement turn- ed over to the bank commissioner he knew nothing of it until 1t was ready to be turned over. He said no mention was made in the minutes of the N. 4. l.. or the Gregory Co. of the $200.0h0 note. These min- utes were given to him for correc- ton and he never included any ref. erence to the note.
 Egan was questioned as to the black bag he brought from Santa Fe to Hartford and denied taking any thing out of it or destroying books or anything else that was in it. MT. Aicorn tried to have him recall tell- ing the court he had received $6l.- 600 from the Watkins interests but he could not nor could he recall that he had said he received Sso.- 900 during Watkins trial. He could not explain words in letter writ ten to Watkins from Cuba in which he said that Watkins was "too wor- ried." Egan said he was not of the opinion at any time that there was . partnership in the N. A. l.
 Advised Barber to Leave
 He said he told Louis Bouet that he thought he might be involved in the trouble if he testified before the grand jury and Esan acknowl- edged he told C. H. Barber, who came from Seattle to Hartford to help Watkins. that he might be in jeopardy because of his interests in the case and advised him to leave town. Egan said he told Barber that he might be found guilty of aiding and abetting a criminal.
 MT. Alcorn said: You didn't do as much as Barber when you gave him &1.000 did you"
 Egan replied: That il . different comparison
 MT. Alcorn started questioning