Show PECULIAR BOOKKEEPING IN LEWIS CONCERNS ST 81 I roUIS March farch IS With a a. 15 IS p per percent ir cent ent dividend nd amounting to tobe to tob tobe be be- paid on the stock of oC the thc l LewIs Publishing Pub Pub- S s' s lishing company compan and with only on cm the surplus account E. E G G. G Lewis a added dC d dan an aim h of 10 to the tile surplus us a ac account ac- ac coun count t as Ui reas d val value us on his various l' publications according to the tile testimony of or it A. A E E. who I IK is an expert accountant for foi the United States department nt of or j JOn JOn- R. R tlc tice- tice was a a. witness yesterday In J Lewis Lewis' trial on a charge e. e of or using the malls mails to defraud The entry said ald did tild not nol represent am anything thine received bv by the com coin pan pam On Only I a 8 21 a per ncr cent dividend dl actu- actu all all was T paid Francis Francl V. V Putnam form former r treasurer of the Lewis companies testified d that fully ull one halt the revenue of the American Amen Ameri can can Womans Woman's league ue passed Into th the treasury of the lie then's Lewis s n Publishing com corn He lIe told lold the Jurors that when nhen the tho capital stock of the publishing company was TOS 11 increased from to OO Leu Lewis Is gave ave two t notes for lor each ach Ho He said It was owal aIwa avs h s 's un understood that Lewis LewiN was WIlS not liable for the notes to tho the company th that t It was not an nn actual subscription but bul merely a formal matter |