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Show fees on the stand iposits of Machen Figure in jL "Letter Box" Case. ACHING OF WITNESSES r itrnoys Squabble Ovar M-I M-I mission ef Tostlmony. fcncss Unable to Identify Initials "A. W. M." as Having Been, Jf Written by Machen. shjnston, Jan. 20. In the postal today the. Government gave ;c evidence to show the relations Tin? between Machen, the GrofC triers and air. and Mrs. Lorenz con- i niftK the sale of letter box fasteners he Government. ?vcral witnesses from Cleveland and "eSo having certain connection with iliing institutions, testified to various rfoslls by the Lorenzes of checks of (SirGroff for large amounts and to tain debits made against their ln-IHual ln-IHual accounts. japt. II- Baumgardner, Machen's ithcr-ln-law, secretary of the De-jjt De-jjt Trust company of Westminster, alio testified as to Machen's dells de-lls with that company. COACHING OF WITNESSES, fife' subject of the coaching ofwlt-ces" ofwlt-ces" by Pcstofllce Inspector Mayer kin came up. and Douglas for the Jense said he would Include PostofTice peter Gregory In the charge. The Uxor finally was passed over on the jiement of Mr. Kumler, counsel for ' flLorenzcs, that he would procure davits to support the charges. He tfsd to produce one such affidavit toft to-ft hut District Attorney Beach ob-ted. ob-ted. tenrv C. Lockwood, chief clerk of the i,i delivery of the New York city JeOfllee, unsvvering a question by Mr. , gart, raid that by a letter dated t Tuarv l. 1S0G, he was notified that JfGro'ff fasteners were ordered sup-' sup-' !'4iLto his office without any rcqulsi- ifffiret having been made therefor. Insel for the defense objected. 0. Taggart staled thnt his object , gtto show Machen was specially luetic in distributing these fasten-, fasten-, ;j Justice Pritchard announced that , rwould admit ns competent any evi-' evi-' ice tending to show facts in ccmnec- rifwith the furtherance or the allega- js of the indictment. He had, he anticipated this very question ilfhad gicn it much thought. The Bess thr-n continued, explaining .rlous initials on the letter by iy-Mth$y iy-Mth$y represented those of officials ffihe' New York postofllce through Jose hands the letters passed. 1 M MORE ABOUT INITIALS. developed from further questioning ;tthe initials "A. W. M." were also Blotter On cross-examination wil- Isaid he never eaw Maclien sign initials, and therefore did not whether they were put there by en or one of Machen's clerks, alii al-ii his familiarity with communi-is communi-is from the department led him ieve it came from Machen's office, nsel then became involved in an-legal an-legal argument, after Mr. Doug- 1 md again objected to the admis-)f admis-)f the letter because there was no nee to show that Machen ever saw m ever dictated It. hp court hold that as the Govern- I ti't-was trying to Identify the initials I ;jW. M. as having been made by Chop, and the witness was not able positively do so. he would require j initials to be proved before this ticular testimony would be admitted. ! itliout such proof," the court said, ;K emphasize, "there Is no evidence Rtever against this defendant chen. We will proceed according to :' The witness was excused, to be fs-examincd later. |