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Show ib mm i cofflPT mini 0 Arguments to Be Made in Case of Beebe and Counsel Coun-sel Next Saturday. Iff-irir-t; wai ronc!ud(-d ;. f-sttrday before Jud-;.; Ilar-ld J. t'-pii'jns of the Thh'd I : r r i . l . ..i:rf In tl.e of O. C. 1 :he. f Zion's Having; Jiaiik & Tiust roi;i,;iiiv, a:,-l A 1 1' jrfi-ya I). II. Thon.as ami Anly Srn.w, rit.-rj into uourt to shw a'lsf; why !::' .should nut be adjud'd i:i ( '-iii- Mifa fur r r' j .i i r i - to comply with a -oii! l order v i -: oponim? "f a sa;ty Imx In j-.-an'ii uf as-sn that miht i: fiubjf-t In li:-- judKinent had by the '-si Civ'o. Huar company against Lo-I'L-uzu X. Htoiil and J. A- Hendrickson for 4 :).. ',. A r.uineats will be heard by the court m-t, Saturday afternoon, . b;i,'Iu-nln b;i,'Iu-nln at '1 o'--lo' k. On the witness stand yesterday. Attorney At-torney Thomas denkd he had referred to t h.1 court on let fur opunlnK Mr. Stohl'a safety deposit box an a "damnHl Kol oid' r," ih reported by V. K. h.-hoppe, ch'rf ib-aitv of the sio-riffs office. All tlin-f. ilrf. M.tants d-'iu.-d ,lr. d)oppe bii.l prefnl'- ! bis order for the opening of t.ie box or tiiat he liad r .. I the order to t iiem. Mr. Snow U:st if ied lie was called in the Lank bv Mi", lite be with the ex-Piaiiatjori ex-Piaiiatjori that a deputy sheriff was there and u.-mnndhiK access to Mr. Lord's box. Mr. iicel.n tcatKi.d he did not remember beii,' served the afternoon before by b'eputy Sheriff Victor Christopherson with a cov of the order. Depoiv Chilstopherson was Bworn and tcKilf ed to having served the order, f ur-niHhini; ur-niHhini; Mr. Heebe with a copy and of bavin- talked with him for ten or fifteen minutes nbout the Older on the afternoon lief ore 'the morning when Air. Sehoppe a ppeared a nd made formal demand for access to the box. Deputy Sehoppe was recalled to the stand and reiterater his testimony t hat lit; had presented the original order and had read the pertinent pa i a ma pi i of It at the time of ma king tonnal demand for the opening of the box. Mr. ISeobe said lie was unacquainted with the method of opening the boxes by drilling the lock, as told by Jack Flower, safe ami lock expert, thouffh he admitted be a ft c-r ward learned of its having been in practice in the hank's vault for a year past. He said that previously It had always al-ways been necessary to saw the hinges of the box or drive In the keyhole, breaking the lock. Stephen Honrs, custodian of the bank's vault, wns called and testified that two other persons had ricjht of access to Mr. P-lohl's box. Rn order given bv Mr. Stohl on September ij, ILHS. giving the ri.erht to Ada Ralph and a suhpenuent letter to the custodian from Mr. Stohl establishing the rivht of access for K. P. Ralph. Attornev Snow Insisted he never was advised of the existence of a court order for i peninq; the box and said if he had known of It he would have been in a 'dilemma 'di-lemma ns to the bank's custody, the court's right to order the box onened by the bank and infringement of the rights of the leasers of the box by the bank if it complied with the court order. He volunteered volun-teered the opinion that a simple execution, execu-tion, without a court order, should have been sufficient to cot access to the box if it were known that assets belonging to Mr. Stohl were hidden there. M r. Snow denied that he knt vv of an accessible kev to the box at the time of Mr. Sehoppe' s visit to the bank or that he had anv knowledge of its beine: opened sunso'iuent to .Mr. senoppe s can and ne-fore ne-fore the deputy sealed it later in the day. Mr. -Heche admitted endeavoring to i?et Mr. Stohl on the telephone while Mr. Sehonpe was -in tbe bank and said lie afterward learned Mr. Stohl had gone to New York. Vnder examination as to what part Mr. Snow had taken in the discussion dis-cussion with Mr. Sehoppe relative to opening, the box. Mr. Heebe said Mr. Snow had been siting in a window of the bank during the time that the officer will making formal demand. "YVhnt did he s;iv ?'' asked counsel. "Well, he seemed mostly to be interested inter-ested in himself at the time," answered the witness. "I did not hear him say anything." Oeputv Sehoppe had testified that Attornev- Snow had said, "We won't do it; we won't open the box." At the conelus'on of the hear'ng. Attorney Attor-ney Frank 10. Hoi man. who has prosecuted prose-cuted the case under the court's order, asked that arguments be made at once that tbe entire, matter might be concluded. conclud-ed. Attornev I). X. Straun of counsel for 1 the defendant" asked for time and a continuance con-tinuance was finally ordered until Saturday Satur-day afternoon. |