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Show OBTAINED CASH WITH MUCH EASE Evidence Presented Showing the Methods Employed by "Barney" "Bar-ney" O'Neil to ftaise Cash. COEUR D'ALENE, Ida., Xov. J5. Testimony offered today in the trial of Bernard F. O'Neil, former president of the defunct State Bank of Commerce at Wiillnce, Ida., tended to Ehow the grrcat case with which O'Xeil ftoc money when he wanted It. When, according to the testimony. lie owed the bank 570,000, evidence today showed that ho borrowed $25,000 more from Edward T. Cowan, president of the Exchango National hank of Spokane, on a written statement showing1 assets amounting1 to over 5700,000. Harry Allen of Wallace testified that an overdraft ho made for ."5329S, and his note covering1 U, never were recorded in tho hank, but the state showed 'that such a. note had been put on the books and "paid" by O'Nell's charging It to his own account. Tho prosecution announced that it would show O'Neil augmented his account by crediting it with other notes, introduced intro-duced today, which the state contenda were forgeries, and that he realized -3ome 540,000 this way. |