The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 20, 1917, Page 3

> { on = is al a re i 4 » , A > THURSDAY, DEC. 20, 1917. BISMARCK EVENING TRIBUNE yn ae NO.PROMISE OF IMMUNITY ‘SAYS WALLA (Continued. From Page One.) Tat amount and took what I had in the cash drawer and from day to day came in and got more, which was charged against this check until the full amount had been taken out. “Hall. told me it was costing him} a lot of money to do some lobbying ; for an insurance bill for a company | for which he was state agent, and he was kicking because they didn’t gome across.” | Walla got “Leary.” Later in 1917 the secretary of state came in and collected all his slips and checks from Walla and informed him he was going to borrow some money and take them up. Time dragged along and the money didn't come in, and, said Walla: “I got ‘leary’ about the checks and slips and ‘went into Hall’s private office one day when no- body was about and made a list of all that I found lying in his safe.” This list was in evidence. It totaled $2,036.75, and did not include all of the slips and checks which Walla had turned over to Hall, and which Walla later saw destroyed by Mr. Hall when the latter turned over currency in the amount of $300 for them. Two trips made by Hall to Minne- apolis in March, 1917, were financed from the automobile registration funds, said Walla. One trip cost $45 and the other $50. During the last leg- islative session Hall got about all the currency that came into the depart- ment in amounts ranging from $20 to $60 a day. i Examination Begins. “October 15 Hall told me an exam- ination was being made of the offices about the building and- wondered if we couldn’t stall it off in our depart- ment till he had time to get money in-! to the till in exchange for his checks. The same day I saw Eric Thorberg! and suggested that we go hunting. Hall was stalling things along while trying to get money from Stutsman and from the Guaranty Life Assurance Co., for which he was agent.” Walla told of having endorsed for Hall checks made out to employes and run through the department “because it looked better” to make them out to the state treasurer. be tators, Waters Good Witness. | Major Jim Walters, Beach horse-! day the best all-around witness who | has taken the stand in the Burleigh| district court in many a year. The! major was called by ‘the state, but) after W. H. Stutsman had finished the | cross examination for the defense Mr. } Waters had said fully as much’ which | was a favor to Mr. Hall as he had| testified to the discredit of the sec-| retary of state. | The testimony of the state bank ex- aminer was practically the same as_ on the preliminary examination. He, stated that he had counselled. moder- | ation all along the line; had agreed | with the secretary of state that the matter could be kept out of the lime-! light without serious damage to the state, while at the same time saving two families and all their connections the shame and sorrow which would re- sult from the arrest and prosecution of Hall and Walla. Waters testified that he had urged Langer to accede to Hall's request that the whole matter be laid before Governor Frazier before the state be committed to the prosecution of a prominent member of the administra- tion, and that Langer had chosen to ignore the governor in the matter, stating as his reason: ‘He’s too big- hearted; just like you are, Jim.” The 'bank examiner told of the third degree applied to Tom Hall in a room in the Grand Pacific hotel the night of October 30 when warrants already were out for the secretary of state’s arrest and a representative of a strong of Townley newspaperé was waiting in the lobby below for a re- lease of his “story,” which blazoned to the world the following morning another Langer coup. Hall Pleads For Walla Hall's original pleas for seemed to have concerhed Walla al mercy were poor, but honest and proud,” said Not a Surprise. The state‘s calling to the stand a} man whom it plans to prosecute on! the same offense charged against Hall} occasioned littlee surprise this morn- ing. The state made several efforts, to call Walla in the preliminary exam- | ination ef Hall, but was frustrated by} the illness of Walla, which was de-; termined to be real after the attor-| ney, general and two physicians had | accompanied Judge E. T. Burke, coun- ; sel for Walla, to the Walla residence. | After Hall had been bound: over, it} was stipulated that the same testi- mony apply in the case of Walla and the latter was held to district court; without any preliminary examination. | Hjs appearance today, therefore, is the first in which he has actually been in-| jected into the case, and his testimony was~ heard with, evident interest by the roomful of spectators. : Youmans on Stand. The state‘s first witness this morn. | ing was Grant S. Youmans, who sued | Secretary of State Hall, Governor; Hanna and other members of a former state barking board for $225,000 dam-| ages on charges growing out of the closing of a Minot bank in which You-| mans was interested several years | ngo. More recent bad blood between Hall and Youmans was created when | Hall, as a member of the North Da- | kota blue sky commission, declined to vote in favor of a Youmans’ bank- ing enterprise in which a large} amount of stock was to be sold, pref: ; erably to farmers in the northern part of the state. Youmans testified that Hall about Cct. 29, had written him a letter ask- ing that Youmans call the secretary | of state by long distance ’phone and intimating that things had occurred which gave him (Hall) a clearer light on certain matters of interest to You- | mans. Youmans after a conversation | with Hall mailed the latter a cashier's | check for $500, which was returned | the same day, Hall advising that he found he had no need for this money. ‘prosecutor Brennan made an effort | to bring out in Youmans’ testimony) the alleged ill feeling existing be- tween him and Hall pricr to Hallis re- quest for a quick loan, and after sev-' eral such attempts Judge Coffey call-| ed a halt. | ‘we are not trying everybody's bus: iness here,” said the court. “It is ev dent from your questions that this! matter has nothing to do with this! case.” State Treasurer John Steen on Wed-! nesday evening declined to be made a i i} Waters, in telling of Hall's first con- ference with Langer. ‘Langer said too many people knew about it, mentioning Steen especially, and that he didn’t see how the thing could be hushed up.” “Hall said he could fix Steen; he} and John were old friends. I don’t think’ he was using the expression, ‘Fix Steen’, with any idea of buying him or bribing him. “Langer said: ‘You may be able to fix Steen, but you can’t fix me.” Stutsman: “Did Bill swell up and look important when he said that?” The witness couldn't say that the attorney general expressed anything more than a conviction of self-right- eousness. Change of Front. “Weil, if Langer couldn’t be fixed and was‘so anxious to prosecute, why did he refuse to have anything to do with counting the cash? Why did he first refuse to let Brennan go? Wasn't Hall with you when both of you ask- ed Langer to go down and see the cash counted? Hadn't you (Waters) refused to open the safe unless Lang- he had had with a former clerk in the same department and that he had conferred with Hanna and the matter} had been hushed up after the shortage was made good. Hall wanted Frazier | brought into a conference on this bus- | iness. He told me he was going right | over and see the governor and have aj good talk with him about it, but the) governor wasn’t in town. i “1 told Langer I wouldn’t arrest) Hall, and asked him if he (Langer) ; had seen the governor about it. Bill| said: | ““The governor's too big-hearted—| he’s just like you.” | Apparently the governor wasn’t con- | ted, and things went forward to a| before the governor) quick climax could return to the city. Didn't Like Business. | The whole business was distasteful to Waters, as a man, he testified on) close examination. He didn't care to be present when Hall was arrested, | peg upon which the state might hang | pyt Langer asked him to go out with| its prosecution of Secretary of State) him and look for Hall, and when Hall | Thomas Hall. The state in its opening argument | ing right along.” | had referred to a complaint made by) the state treasurer as one of the ac-) with Brennan and Waters in a private tuating factors in the prosecution of Hall. Similar references had been made by other witnesses or had been interjected by counsel. Called to the stand Wednesday af- ternoon to verify these statements, Mr. Steen was asked: “Did you file a complaint of a short- age in the secretary of state’s office with the attorney general?” “] did not,” replied Mr. Steen, rath- er, emphatically. “Did you have a conversation with the attorney general prior to the ar- rest of Mr. Hall?” “T did.” There the state excused its witness- es. The nature of Mr. Steen's conver- sation with the attorney general re- mains undiscovered. ; More on Finances. The state devoted a large part of Monday afternoon to further probing of Mr. Hall's financial affairs, putting on the stand bankers from several Bismarck institutions and from San- ger. Deputy State Examiners Thor- residing near Baldwin, told of trans- | finally was found Waters “was trail-| After Langer got Hall by himself, jroom in the Grand Pacific he inform-) ed the secretary of state he was to! | be arrested. “Langer advised Hall to! |get as good a lawyer as he could: | find; he said Tom had better get two! lawyers. Hall said he didn’t need a} lawyer.” i | When Waters finally escaped from, ; the conference, which had stretched! lover several hours, he found waiting | ‘in the Icbby a reporter representing | | Towney’s newspapers. | The latter wanted to know whether \“the story had broken yet.” | Asked For Mercy. | To begin with, said Waters, Hall, | pleaded for Walla, and asked Langer | |not to arrest Walla for the sake of; ‘he wife and little children. Hall felt that the shortage having been made up, the siate did not need a victim. | Hall also feared for the administra- ‘tion. SAN JUAN EDITOR | most entirely. Apparently, the secre- tary of state could not believe until Langer himself broke the news at the Grand Pacific the night of October 30, that he, (Hall) was to be arrested, although the secretary of state had earlier shown some anxiety on this | point. “Hall said he wanted to avoid pub- licity for the sake of his family and his parents. He feared the news would kill the old people, who he saia berg and Edwards were recalled to} 7 the stand. Frank Garnier, a simer | IN FOR SEDITION. actions he had had with Hall relating} pea Seo | to the purchase by the latter of some | San Juan. Dec. 20.—Vincente Bal- livestock. | bas, editor of Refista De Las Antillas, Sixteen witnesses already have been, who was found guilty recently by a subpoenaed by the defense. A major-| jury in the United States district ity of these are from the capital, but! court on four out of five charges in a number come from Stutsman county, | connection with articles appearing in| former home of the secretary of state.| his newspaper, was sentenced today ‘ 7 Bat The court room was filled with spec-|to eight years’ imprisonment and a! FOR SALE—Peauti jfine of $4,000. G man and banker, and North Dakota | % Forgot,” at the Bismarck Theatre state examiner, again proved yester-| onight. 2 20 1t er or someone from his office was there?” r Waters on cross-examination admit- LY ted that this was true, and that} that Langer had finally reluctantly | said that if “Dan (Brennan) wanted | to go, it wa’s ‘up to him’.” The state examiner tetsified that none of Hall's personal checks and no slips bearing Hall's “I. O. U.” were| found in the safe when it was opéned {and the cash counted. | | Frazier Too Easy. 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