The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 20, 1897, Page 14

14 THE ' SAN FRANCISCO CALL; WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 20, 4 1897. SOME DEFECTISE PR INTING AS A FAIR CASE BOGIE MAN A Blurred “0” in a Legal Blank Is the Keynote to the Charges Against Notary Coo ney. OPENING OF THE CASE IN COURT. The Heirs of the Millionaire Spring Their Promised Sensation. A STATIONERY CLERK TELLS HIS STORY. Legal Blanks Printed by H. S. Crocker | & C>. as Evidence Famous Suit. in the A defective impression of the letter *‘0” in the certificate of acknowledgmenton the famous pencil deeds and some twenty-five microscopic evidences of a battered or faulty impression in the printing of the documents is the mainspring in the trap by which the Fair children would convict Notary James J. Cooney of perjury. A batch of 5000 of these invisible defects passed through the presses of H. S. Crocker & Co. a year ago. Captain Lees and the bonanza representative's detec- tives say these same evidences of bpoor printing are visible in the forms Cooney used to certify to the making of the Craven deeds by James G. Fair. The millions of the dead man began the work of springi trap yesterday. By way of they put W. k Stanford, cle ment, on the stand to recall that he at- tended to the printing of 10,000 copies of the nota certificates on January 8, 1896. To-day the foreman and stereotyper will be called to testify thatin one-half of the lot, in the I ing the work, a > defective sed. The pro- a cesperate effort hat under the defects in the t is known e brought a record along in the way of a ledger to prove his statements at the request of Captain Lees. Unuer cross-examination he got rather mixed in his answers. He K ad and so seemed the vers for u he was relieved from two broiler under the curiosity of ed the opaning of what is between Mrs. ate, and of course est; 5 drawing card. The day began evenifally. for admittance to reminiscent of the opposing forces w The pressure the “courtroom Durrant case. The e lined up in front of Cook, for sometimes r matfers a_judge has aly of an immediae tion from one sort cf official dignity to another. So it was ss magis- at Carrol! Cook heard the opening dence. If ne finds Cooney gu.lty why the case will then be heard ige Cook. g that fi'led the courtroom and morbidly curious. It wriggled its neck a thousand times in an- ticipation of somethin: 1n the way climax. Only once was its hopes realizad. That was when Stephen Roberts puiled from his pockets the famons pencil deeds. Then there was a wrenc| made work for the The public wanted to see the deeds. They are valua- 3 and Roberts, since they have ated exhibition by attorneys, ewspaper reporters, not feel like letting them £o on a pro- tour among the spectators. n when he gave them to Barnes for mspection at the advice of Attorney Reddy, he kept his eyes sharply on the big throng in the rear. In this con- test for the za mitlions mutual dis- trust and ave grown among the The trust wiil of & was stolen from the almost as soon as it was 5! the dead millional Recorder’s office of the legal blank depart- ! was | | emough guarding against such a fate for the deeds, for the Fair people have cov- | eted their possession ever since the cele- | brated lawsuit began. There was an army of lawyers present. Captain Lees, District Attorney Barnes and detectives were conspicuous person- alities in the ranks of theestate. Reuben Lloyd and George A. Knight, represent- ing the children of the dead millionaire, and W. R. Goodfellow, fighting for the rights of the trust will against the beirs, made common cause with the prose- cution. i Across the room was Cooney sitting by his attorney, Patrick W. Reddy. His father was in' the rear. Mrs. Craven, con- fined to her home since her recent visit to Sacramento with a slignt illness, was present by proxy in the persons of Attor- neys W. W. Foote and ex-Judge Denson. There were others, but there name is le- ion. s 1t took a long time for the District At- torney to get the real show going. The preliminaries consisted of !med wrangling among the lawyers. Reddy and Barnes paid an almost continuous string of compliments to each other in the way of vigorous “‘objecting.” When there was a hiatus in the uproar Foote took an opportunity to emphasize some point. Barnes exhausred the entire morning in getting Cooney’s depositions, upon which the charge of perjury was based, officially tefore Magistrate Cook. They lay on a table in front of the eves of all—volumin- ous heaps of books and papers—but they could not be seen legally by the court until they had been properly introduced, as attorneys say. Deputy County Clerk Piper was first called as a witness to tell the court thut An cc bour was consumed in reading the tentsof thedocuments. Then Captain Lees unbosomed himseif of some heavy | cardboard packages, a batch of photo- graphic copies of the pencil deeds. These the District Attorney proceeded mext to get introduced to the court. Stephen Roberts was the instrument used to bring about this result. Roberts had the original deeds in his pocket—he said so—and Barnes wanted to impress the court with the fact thatthe card- board copies were genuine fac-similes. To do this it was first necessary to get Rob- erts to make the comparison. Barnes suggested that the mining broker | produce the documents for public inspec- tion. cution with a vigorous knock. As attor- ney for Mrs. Craven, he did not see why her papers, representing big pieces of City property in a civil suit, shouid be | brousht into the case intended merely as | a criminal prosecution. Barnes argued that Cooney’s signature was on the deed, and that signature was in reality the whole fabric of the perjury charge azainst the young notary. Foote remonstrated. He saw those papers going court possession as exkibits or else, and they were too valu- able to entrust to even anybody just now in view that their validity was to be tested in a civil court in a few days. “We won’t have them impounded in anybody’s possession,” said the attorney. “There have been so many intimations that Mrs. Craven never will produce them in the trial of her claims that somebody might endeavor to effect their disappear- ance.” He threw an insizuating glance to the Fair side of the house, and the air began to sizzle when Magistrate Cook said he would not take possession of them if ha could ayoid it. - “Imight lock them up in a safe-deposit vault—" Foote shook his head, and it was finally sgresd that Roberts shounld keep the papers himself, he agreeing to Lave them in court whenever necessary. The work of effecting the comparison then proceeded without opposition. Then idge Slack was led to certifv tnat Cooney had really sworn_to the deposi- tion before him, and the Fair people, Po- lice Department and District Attorney proceeded to open their case by narrating the history of the way the legal blank de- partment of H. S. Crocker is conducted. Stanford told the attorney be lived at 632 Haves street, and_had been in prac- tical charge of the Crocker legal blank business for a number of years. He is young, curly-haired, biue-eyed and an un- easy witness. He began his story by say- ing that on January 8, 1896, he had or- dered printed 10,000 copies of **blank 132, | which is the certiticate notary publics use | to add to their acknowledgment to deeds and such like. | Usually be ordered these printed in | batches of 5000, but as this was a hurried nled. The Craven people are naturally | order he had marked the word “‘rusi'’ on NEW TO-DAY. RO quired for use. T day but fail the next. 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He did not know exactly how long this particular brand of biank hsd been in the stock of the firm, but for a long time. ““When were you first approached about this matter by anybody ?” “About two weeks ago,” was the reply. g 1 |JUDGE COOK Sitting as Magistrate in the Prelimin the papers had been filed in his office. | D} ary Exam ination of Ex-Notary Cooney. | | “By whom?” asked Reidy, curiously. The reply was that Attorney W. M. Pierson, one of the executors of the trust will, was his visitor on_tbat mission at that time in company with Manager For- | syth of the house. | "“How long have you been keeping a | Tecord of tis business,” queried Reddy, | beginning to critically examine the ledger | | Stanford had produced for the inspection i of the uttorr The stationery clerk said i that he had been with his job since 1892, | The record of the printing of ‘b.ank | { 132" since John H. Dickinson drafted it for the Crocker people some years ago | showed that iz was customary to order it | in lots of 5000. Only on January 8, 1896, | | had the order been doubled. Stanford. said the extra batch was called for in aste because there was not a solitary | otarial certificate in the house at the ot a single one but this?” asked | Reddy, holding up the slip of paper. “Not one other,” was the reply. | Wuen Pierson called on his detective | sion Stanford gave him all that was in the house with the defective **0.”" “How did it come that only half this lot of 10,000 were so marked ?’ “They were printed in two lots of 5000 | each.” | “Who told you to come here to-day?” | “1 was subpenaed.” | “Yes, but who toid you to bring this | book here?”’ -Mr. Crocker, I think.” “Haven’t you some other records similar “Well, why didn’t you bring them along?"”’ | “Well, I think they are in Crocker’s | possession.” i Stanford was again asked to reiate the |incidents of Pierson’s visit. The lawyer | was introduced to him by his manager, | and a few minutes later Captain Lees | arrived. He got out his magnitying glass, | The party zuthered all the old stock of | | this particular issue of blanks together | and took them away. “Did anybody 1nstruct you to let nobody look through vour records or examine any of these blanks?” | “About five days ago I received in- | structions to refer all inquirers to Mr. ! Crocker.’’ “Did Captain Lees give you such in- | structions?” | Reddy took up the ledger again and scrutinized the entries made by Stanford. They were generally in pencil. - Under the entry for the 10,000 order there was a peculisr blue pencil mark., “Who put that there?"’ *I don't know.” “‘Did you ever see it before?” | “No,” replied Stanford, after a pause. | . Reday found that the leaf of the book | bore evidences of baving been rubbed and | rouchened directly under the word | “10,000.” He put Stanford through an- | other course of sprouts. First the station- ery clerk admitied there were evidences of erasion, but through the magnifying- | Elass t. e paper scemed in its proper con- { dition to his eye. | Barnes took him in hand once more to get the statement irom him, at Atiorney Knight's hurried appeal, that he had written the order, and the writing as it appeared was his. lo-day Superintendent Wade of the printing department and H. 8. Crocker will be the principal witnesses to give the details of the defective printing. S e THOSE CALDWELL LETTERS Young Fair Has a Poor Memory for Detalls. Young Fair was not in attendance in court, but instead ' was explaining, with the assistance of his attorney, Charles J. Heggerty, betore a notary public, why he had failed to return a number of letters to Jerome Caldwell of Los Angeles. ‘The letters were written by the elder Fair to Caldwell, and refer to a variety of events. Their chief bearing on the pres- ent case is that nobody denies their genu- | ineness regarding the handwriting. They feil into Fair's hands during the | progress of the pencil will contest, and he refused to return them. Caldwell was compelled to sue for their possesion. Fair claimed he had paid Caldwell $100 for them through C. J. Stilwell, the de- tective. Attorney D. M. Delmas had the young millionaire on the rack. Fair was asked by what right he claimed the letters. This he would not answer. “Did you purchase them from Cald- well 2" “Well, I understood so.” “Whatdid you pay for them?" “One hundred dollars. I paid ttie money to C. J. Stilwell.” Delmas insquired if he had a_receipt from Caldwell tor his money. Fair re- plied in the negative. He tiad a letter from Caldwell on the subject, but could not remember where it was. “‘Are you quite sure of that?"” ©Oh, yes.” “Relating to these letters in contro- versv?’ “¥en.” “*And will you produce them ?" “Yes; as soon as I find them.”’ Then Delmas got off_on the payment of the $100 1o Stilwell. He wanted to know if a bill had been presented by the detec- tive. Fair replied in the affirmative, say- ing he had the receipted bill at home. “Will you produce it?” inquired Del- mas, curiously. But Fairs attorneys would allow noreply. The notary was re- | gerty promptly forbid his client, and an probe after mere details. He wanted a | distinct affirmative in the matter of that | $50—Was it paid for the letters?—but Fair | shifted and equivocated. “What is the date of the Stilwell re- ceipt?” “Idon’t know.” Fair, continuing, said that Stilwell told him he had paid $50 to Caldwell with a promise of a similar sum. *Did Stilwell say he had paid that §50 to Caldwell on account of these letters?”’ +I understand it was such.” 1 “Did Stilwell tell you that?” I think he dia.” “Does the bill say s0?" But again the young millionaire took refuge under his astorney’s wing. Delmas came back by inguiring the date of Stilwell’s bill. Fair promised to look that detail up. Then the attorney desired to know if Fair had ary evidence in the way of a bill of sale of the letters from Caldwell, Fair could not answer unt1l he had made a de- tailed search of his effects. It was fast becoming uncomfortable for Fair. Delmas asked him if the $50 paid | Caldwell was not as compensation for as- | sistin - the detectives in obtaining in- | formation of the dead millionaire’s doings and habits in Southern California. Heg- adjournment for a couple of days was taken. TURNED ON THE GAS Charles Poterson, an Old Soldler, At- tempts to Commit Suicide. | Charles Feterson, an old soldier, at-| tempted to commit suicide in his room, | 405 Kearny street, last night by gas. The proprietor, A. Combatalade, found | Lim sitting unconscious on a chair with a tube in his mouth, the tube being at- | tached to the gas jet, which was turned on. ; Combitalade summoned Policeman J. C. | Hall, who in turn notitied the Coroner’s | office. Strange 1o say, neither the pro- | | has ‘BISHOP GRAVES 10 COME HERE |His Charge the Jurisdiction of Northern Cali- fornia. He Will Act for Bishop Wing- field, Who Is Incapacitated by Broken Health. The Right Rev. Leonard Has Been Acting Because Bishop Graves Was Unable to Get Away. Owing to the prolonged illness of Bishop Wingfield of the Northera Californian dio- cese, the Right Rev. Bishop Nichols has decided to give him some assistance, and appointed Bishop A. R. Graves bishop coadjutor to Bishop Winfield. Bishop Leonard has been acting until the appointment should be decided. Fol- lowing is a short sketch of the new Bishop —the Right Rev. Anson Rodgers Graves: Anson Rodge: the first missionary bishop of “Tie Platte” (a jurisdiction created BISHOP GRAVES. prietor nor the policeman turned off the gas or took the tube out of Peterson’s mouth, as they thought he was dead, and it was not till the Coroner's deputies, J. L. McCormick and J. E. O’Brien, ar- rived that this was attended to. It was then seen that the man was alive. He was carried into another room and the Coroner’s deputies set to work to re- susciiate him. A few minutes of artificial respiration served the purpose and Peter- son revived sufficiently to be sent to the Receiving Hospital. - He will probably recover. ———————— Special Sale Days. L. Lebenbaum & Co., the well-known Sutter-street grocery firm, bas inaugurated a day for special sales, and hereafter on Tuesday of each week there will be some special hine of articles offered by this big establishment that will, no doubt, eclipse anything in the way of special sales here- tofore offered in the grocery business in San Francisco. 1. Lebenbaum & Co. carry one of the largest and most varied lines of groceries on this coast, and the reputation of the firm for their high class of groceries is too well and favorably known to require commendation. It will be the object of this establishment to offer some special line of goods at-cost price on Tuesdavs, and the advertising colums of the daily journals will no doubt_be scanned by careful housewives each Monday for the special bargains of the big yrocery-house of L. Lebenbaum & Co., 326 Satter street. — An 01d Man’s Suicide. John Matthew Voorhamme, sged 61 years, committed sulcide by drinking cyanide of potassium, at his residence, 111 Trenton street, yesterday morning. He had been a quested to issue the usual subpena calling for the bill and the attorney continued to heavy drinker, and was once & Prosperous car- venter. in 1889, comprising ali that portion of the State of Nebraska lying west of the 98th meridian), vas born in Weils, Vt, on the 131h day of April, A. D. 1842, He graduated at Hobart College, Geneva, N. Y., and at the gengral theological semi- nary. J > Ordained deacon in the Church of the Trans- figurxtion, New York, on the 2d day oi July. A. D. 1870, by the Right Rev. Horatio Potter, LD, LLD, Ordaied priest in Holy Trinity Church, Brookiyn, on the 4th day of June, A, D. 1871, by the Rignt Rey. Abram Newkirk Littlejohn, D.D., he began his work as the assistant min- ister at Grace Cauren, Brooklyn, under the rectorship of the Rev. 8. H. Paddock, D.D., subsequently the Bishop of Massachusetis. In 1872 he became the rector of St. Luke's Church, Plattsmouth, Nebr., and in 1873 he removed to Minneapolis, where he was the as- sistant of the Rev. Dr. Knickerbocker, who be- came the Bishop of Indiana. Leaving Minue- apolis he was_successively roctor of All Saints’ Churen, Northfield, Minn.: All Saints’ Cliurch, Littleton, N. H.; St. Peter's Church, Benning: ton, Vi, and 'the Church of Gethsemane, Minneapolis, to which he returned as rector aiter the consecration of Dr. Knickerbocker, where he remained until his elevation to the Episcopate. Cousecrated Missionary B stop of the Platte in Gethsemane Church, Miuneapo- Iis, on the Feast of the Circumcision, Januar 1,A.D. 1890, by the Right Rev. Daniel Syl vester Tattle, 8.T.D., nssisted by the R. R. Wil- liam Hobart Hare, $T.D., the K. R. A exander Burgess, S.T.D., the R. R. David Buel Knicker- bocker, the R. R. Mahim Norris Gibert, D.D., and the I R. Cyrus Frederick Knight, D.D.) More Chinese Social Clubs. Three more Chinese social clubs were incor- porated yesterday, named as follows: Califor- nia Union Club, Look Ya Goey Society, Quong Hing Kee Society. About 100 of these clubs are now in existence in Chinatown. The po- lice authorities say that the majority of these societiss are organized by highbinders for the purpose of protecting as faras possible gem- ling dens and opium joints run for the benefit or amusement of the members. —— : WIIEWELRY store, 5 to 7 Third street, removed to 803 Kearny street. N T UM, NEW TO-DAY—DRY GOODS. 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