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Show I OFFICER OF WHOLESALE COMPANY GIVEN GRUELLING EXAMINATION ' - BY CHIEF COUNSEL FOR HAMPTON With I N. Btraup of Palt I,ake. farmer Justice of the tupremt court of Ulah. na rhlrf counsel for the de-fenee. de-fenee. a bitter battle is being watol In Judge A E. Pratt a dl laion of the district court to clear WgdteT M Hampton, former bookkeeper of th 3oIden Rule store of a chare of forgery forg-ery and embeIxlemen, I lamptOfl 1 enlarged In the complaint with having fU'ed In two two company ihfki for Mpountt totalling $20n' and to have deposited them In a local bank undn hi own nam ' An unusual numhr ( spectators nrr -tending the court sessions and apparently ap-parently great Intrres' u tieing taken in the eaj II -l sin MK.Ss Tenae attuatlona came this morning when H. Carllele Stevene. aecretnry of th Golden Rule Mercantile company and for the Johnion Siun panv. waa subjected t.. gruelling e-m e-m aminatlon by Judge Ptrmip The firet intimation that the uausl rontin of the trial wn to be dlsrea-nrdad for th-time th-time being, came when Judge Htm up suddenly lo his feet and aaked Mr Stevens If If were not true that he had signalled and shaken hie he.i While Hdward M Tower, manager of the Ooiden Rule afore, waa being ueatlonrd on the atand vrsterd.i'. aft- H trnoon. Mr. Stevene answered that H ha haa a peculiar habit of shaking hi H head when thlr.ga trained his lnti H and h may have signalled uncon- ecious.y. B hen tatu i frown at iager Toner when he refuaed to answer a quagtlon, Intimating that he had tatter niwcr. Mr Bteveni glared lr tiad not don.- it purpOswl and added that 'Mr Tower la not Mr. Steen waa H a to his activities In preparing for H the prosecution Hampton H Mr. Steven waa also aaked If ho I H had any arrangement with Hampton H when the defendant went t- Halt Ijike H and wrote out a check for $ 1 2.000 j H on an Ogdan hank after (ItfrfftlMtll H few hundred dollars In caelj there H Thla waa done, la alleged, on 'he H dy that Hampton In the two I H company checka Mr Steven 1enled I H any knowledge of Hampton'a action n Salt Lake "Were you not to make n deposit H in the Ogden bank to meet thta heck B drawn In Bait l.ke by Hampton" hr j waa J Absolutely not." answered Mr. 8te-vena 8te-vena After the check was drawn, didn't you get cold feet and fail t0 make .the deposit." enapped Judge Straup It la not true," answered the witness. wit-ness. "I know nothing about u and ha 1 no reeponsiblllty In the matter" A few minutes latrr Mr eens. In answer an-swer to question, declared he had inexer seen the 112. oon check alleged to he been drawn by Hampton in Salt Ijike Mr. Stevens. In answer o tiueetlon. jexpiutned the relatione of the Golden Itule atore fo the Johnson "ver.a company and anld the general offices jof the Golden Mule are in 'h.- Jhn-aon-Hteena building. He agid thit I H.impton waa emioed Ipgd IheCgni'l ber as bookkeeper for the Goldn Hl-accounts Hl-accounts UKMU BOOM OF! M l The w linear declared that Hampton! had no authority to fill In checks. with fh- ecer,nnn o' the payroll cherka which were unsigned. Mr. 8te-vrna 8te-vrna admitted having kept the ac- I rounm i. . fore Hampton wa empioyi J U h n asked if the books were not off balance in an amount appox Imr'ei v J I when Hampton was hired he eraj emphatl; In d mlal- II r Rtevena was quea'loned as to whether he was aaked by Hampton for a loan of mr.nev and deelnra1 he I was not approached for loans He sild he knew little of the personal if fairs of H tmplnn hut hi: l-een told hy him that he was to be married In June and was planning to either rent or buy a home. Manager Tower of the Golden Rule ton wa on the stand thla morning and waa questioned In regard to the Ch OCg book and che"cka of ihe stor-II. stor-II. w-,r followed hy A. D. Shaw, nr-slslant nr-slslant manager of the stare who tea-tlflod tea-tlflod he had given Hampton the ator-Cherk ator-Cherk hook a few days before Hampton's Hamp-ton's arrest. DO roth Mi Uratney. bookkeeper for the Johris n -Stevens company, aild she saw the check book on Hampton's I desk nnd explained the system In the I cancellation of checks that were not used. It was brought out in her cross-examination cross-examination that she did not make the I marks of cancellation on the stubs of the two checks which Hampton is alleged to have filled out and cashed I The Jur rs In the Hampton case nre Thomas J. lllakeley. John W. Gibson. Jr.. Alma Ijtnglot. Albert Powell, j Thomas K. Turr. W. H. Ix)os, Lester, J Folk man and Joaeph W'noda |
