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Show SIEGEL-VOOEL i TRIAL POSTPONED i j, I Attorneys Ask for More Time to Prepare Answer to New j Indictments. m; NEW LOANS ARE MADE l Large Sums Drawn From Bank j for Personal Use Family j Expenses Enormous. r i New York, N, Y., April 1. The ar- j I rajgnraent of Henry Siegol and Frank I E. Vogel, on charges of grand larceny I j aud violations of the state banking laws, growing out of the failure of tho I Slegel enterprises, was again post- '. ponod today, this time until Wednes- ' day next. i ' Attorneys for Slegel and Vogel said : 1 that it was commonly understood that . now indictments had been found ; , against their clients and they wished time to prepare an answer. 6 Vogel, showing effects of his serl ous illness, and speaking little abov6 ,, . a whisper, testified today In the bank-ruptcy bank-ruptcy hearlntr before the United ruptcy hearing before the United States commissioner. He declared -. that outside of loans to Henry Sie- r gel, he knew of new large personal ': loans made by Slegel & Co. He said that $50,000 he had loaned to the ; Fourteenth Street store had never been repaid. When the banking I ' house of Henry Slegel & Co. was organized, or-ganized, Vogel said, $5,000,000 was put into the concern. These assets consisted of stock In the Simpson i Crawford and Fourteenth Street stores in New York and of Siegol, : Cooper & Co., of Chicago. In 1910 this , stock was exchanged for J5.00O.O0O ot i the Siegol Stores corporation. J Vogel said that his proportion of j ' this stock was $700,000 and that S.e-gel S.e-gel owned tho rest. At varloi" I times, he testified, Slegel drew frr i i , th,e bank sums aggregating 5150,0 j i for his personal use, depositing ra security stock of the Slegel Stores J corporation. i The witness said that his Incon I from the various Slogel enterpfiBt s 5; i was $26,000 a year. This sum, Ha added, did not meet his family expen- ' ses and he had to' borrow to make up jj the deficit.. ; -M I :V I 't |