Evening star., 1954-12-15
Bank Cashier Says
Warning Developed
Likinefor S1,OOOBiIIs
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taxes the Government said
Warning owed then.
Mr.. Donohue declared:
II recall, sometime during the
year 1889. I was participating as
counsel for Mr.. Warning in a
tax evasion case in the District
Of Columbia, in which his broth
ers Cleo Paul and Charles Rich
ard Rags" Warring) were CO.
defendants.
There came q time. shortly
after the trial began. when ne
gotiations were begun by repre-
sentatives Of the Department Of
Justice and the Treasury Depart
ment with me as counsel for Mr..
Warning and Mr.. Oeo A. Rover.
who was counsel for the other
defendants"
Mr.. Donohue said q figure Of
$4,000 was agreed upon. but
that he could not recall from
whom the suggestion first came.
MY client was in custody"
he said. II can recall only going
in an automobile with a niece
of Emmitt Warning, whose name
was Mrs. Hawkins, q young
woman. and possibly with one.
or both Of his brothers to a.
house, which I think likely Is
the house which was just under
discussion 1895 Massachusetts,
avenue N.W.).
II recall. at that house meet
ing, Mrs. Cady and a man identi-
fled as her husband (William P.
Cady). I recall being taken into
q living room, I recall Mrs. Cady
and her husband being present.
I recall the niece of Emmitt
Warning, Mrs. Hawkins, being
present. think either one or
both Of Emmitt's brothers, Leo
andNp Charley. was there.
Some one in that group
opened q safe in a wall and took
from that safe my recollec-
ton is ten $1,000 bills. I took
the $4,000 and went down.
town"
Mr.. Donohue said he went to
MIR. Rover's office with the money
and that both went to the Lib
erty National Bank, where Mr..
Rover obtained a cashiers check,
which subsequently was handed
over to the Government.
WAS there any money left in
the safe after the $4,000 was
taken out?" Mr.. Ford asked dur
ing his cross examination.
More than ! had ever seen."
Mr.. Donohue replied. "In num-
bers," he added. But couldn't
identify the denominations"
Mr.. Donohue's testimony later
led Judge w. Calvin Chestnut
to remark:
II don't know whether he's a
banker or a poor lawyer"
And still later, during a recess,
Warning jokingly asked Mr.. Dom
ohue: ....
did you get your witness fee
YETI" =. ,.,s.-S
During his cirSc,sss-exAniination,
Mr.. Ford brought out that the
$4,000 was iri settlement of a
tax case involving all three War
ring brothers, gand pointed out
strongly that the money was not
picked up at WAtring Y home, or
Office.
Mr.. Ford also disputed 4 state
nent by Francis X. Keeian of
the Internal Revenue Service in.
connection with; amounts paid
by Warning in taxes during l945.
After Mr.. Keelan read from
records that Warning had paid
the Government $5,372.03 that
year. Mr.. Ford produced receipts
showing Warning had paid
$6,948.87. Mr.. Keelan said the
only explanation he could offer
was that he had not received all
the official records from Wash
ington. y
Mr.. Ford did not dispute the
figures showing taxes paid in
1887, $l,700; 1888. $1,111.73; in
1889, $10,l6S.13; in 1910, $41.51.
IN 1941, 1912 and 1858, nothing;
in 1914, $9,619.72; in 1946, So.
465.5S, and in 1947, $13,265 .83.
Harry j. Kane, jr.. of 5012
Lowell street NV, told the jury
OF nine men and three women
that Warning made the original
approach to him on deal in
volving the Massachusetts, avenue
residence. handing over $13 ,619. .35
IN cash. The contract, however.
he said, was made out with Mrs.
Cady.
Hugh L. Buckingham, of 9407
Hale street, Silver Spring. Md,
representing a Washi n g ton
mortgage broker, testified about
the balance of $4,000 assumed
in mortgage notes by Mrs. Cady
toward purchase of the home.
United States Attorney George
Cochran Doub said he expected
to show that even though the
Massachusetts avenue home was
listed to Mrs. Cady. 1t actually
was owned by Warning. Mr..
Ford interposed that sit might
have been q gift"
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