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Show EXPECTS TO PROVE WHY SIEGEL STOLE GENT'S EO, X. V., Nov. 11. The trial of Henry Siorod, former merchant and banker, on a charge of trraud la r-cc'jv, r-cc'jv, was well under way when court adjourn-d this afternoon.., Arthur C. Train, assistant district attorney of New York county, completed the. rep-resentat rep-resentat ion of the people 's ease and lato in the afternoon 11. K. Unwell, vice president of the Natioiuil Bank of Commerce Com-merce in New York, was called as the first witness. In elosinjf the outline of the case that tho people will trv to prove against Siepel, Nt. Train declared that the Sie-zel Sie-zel chain of stores, chief of which was the Fourteenth street sdoro iu New York, was noiny behind financiallv , from !'Ji,()Ui to .oU0,t0tl a year and thai the principals know it, but would; neither rlosa out their business nor take j refuse in ba nkruptcy, be-r.usc " t he i ,iuffgliii'r of the books ami financial at'- I 'fairs nt the concern thou would be laid j bare. ' ' I Vice President Howell V testimony ' wrs intended to show that the money j advanced to the 8ieel ecu corn was ' Ion ned on Siege t 's writ ten statement. Tho iutoritv of these statements, it as said, will be attackod later. |