Show JAIL DOORS IAU FOR ERA TUS WIMAN 1 Can be little Doubt as to the Verdict Forthcoming Verdct k I PLAINLY VISIBLE BY I THE JUDGES EEMAEKS PROMINENT BUSINESS MEN TEST FY FOB THE DEFENDANT Dun KneTT That Winians Account Had Been Overdrawn for Several Years But He Had no Idea Ha Said That the Amount Was So Iiarge Prosecution of the Cane Was Xot Prompted By Fear of the Defendnnt Case Will Go to the Jury Today New York June HThe testimony for the defense in the case of Wiman on trial for forgery was closed this afternoon and the case ds expected togo to-go to the jury at 1h close of tomorrows tomor-rows session The defendant fcfcnself was o the stand most of the time and made many admissions under crossexamin alon of the repeated use of funds belonging be-longing to R G Dun C These wsra called overdrafts by the witness 11d he produced a letter written by himself hIm-self to Dun January 1893 in which letter let-ter Wiman explaanexl his financial condition con-dition at length and informed Dun that if he had held 25 per cM of the profits in January 1889 instead of 1 per cent the additional increase to him would have covered the overdrafts over-drafts I was January 1 18S9 that tie agreement between Dun end Wiman King and Douglass was mad in accordance ac-cordance with which Mr Wiman was to get 1 per cent of the yearly profits instead of 20 per cent as he had luBii erto received The letter was introduced to shw more clearly that Dun knew all about Wimans overdrafts Might Have Extricated Himself General Tracey tried to show that Dun by arresting Wiman prevented a financial move on Wimans part which would hfeve helped to extricate WhiC fe 1elpe trcte him from his difficulties Judge Ingraham ruled out all the questions saying that they had no the forged check in bearing on te alleged fored oeck the suit Mr Wellman then arose to crossex amine the witness He begin by getting get-ting Wiman to say that he had been the brains of R G Dam Sr Cc Witty is i ten said 11 Wellman that of all the business in whioh you have been Interested the business of R G Dun Co has been a success while the others were total wrecks Perhaps because I was betted i suited to the mercantile business than any cter Mr Wellmang questions caused Wi f Welmans queion cus i man to brace up an retort with vigor Mr Wellman referred to the statements state-ments of profits of R G Dun Co submitted sub-mitted by General Tracey earlier in the morning The statement showed that in 1885 the profits were 345780 They increased I in-creased steadily until in 1892 they were 525000 The total from 1S85 to 1802 inclusive in-clusive was 53313500 In reply to Mr Wellman the defendant A defend-ant admitted several instances in which J he had written and telegraphed to the firms agents urging quick remittances on one pretext or another and then applied i ap-plied the money to his own use J pled Thurber the well known wholesale whole-sale grocer Robert K Kimball stockbroker stock-broker F S Gannon superintendent of the Staten Island Rapid Transit 1 company J J Withrow president of the Industrial institute of Torunto f Indusrial Canada and Dennis Stafford of Staten i island testified to Mr Wimans high reputation for honesty and integrity after which General Tracey said That is our case Mr Btillinger then recalled by Mr Wellman who asked him It is true that you were in the habit of loaning 1 I loan-ing money It was not answered Mr Bullinser Did you ever lend any money to Mr Wiman Once only said he that is all That is all said Mr Wellman triumphantly tri-umphantly Dun on the Stand Mr Dun was then called to the stand to tell the circumstances of the 45000 note and the 100000 He asserted he knew nothing about these until they were called to his attention by his associates as-sociates Before this he thought Wimans overdraft amounted to only 24000 Mr Dun admitted knowing that Wiman had overdrawn his accounts for the last two or three years but never suspected that the amount involved in-volved was so large 3Ir Dun denied that the prosecution was prompted by any fear of Wiman as intimated by Mr Boardman in his opening address to the jury When the time comesto charge the jury said Justice Ingraham I shall tell them that Mr Dun would not have done his duty as a citizen had not he aided in the prosecution of Mr Wiman I At this point court was adjourned until tomorrow Judge Ingraham said he should limit each side to ninety minutes in their addresses to the jury The case must go to the jury before night |