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Show 1 10 IT, DEARIE ' PIBEEJO CLARK Correspondence Introduced in Examination of Former For-mer Bank Head. Throughout yesterday afternoon and !at evening John Filigree, on trial on a charge of receiving deposits in the Merchants Mer-chants bank when it was insolvent, as under eros-examination by District At-; torney Wilson McCarthy. J Kvery question was of necessity ruled ' upon by Judge John K. Tobin, in whose division of the Third district court the , trial . is in progress before a jury, counsel for the defendant overlooking no opportunity oppor-tunity to object to a question or to note an exception to the ruling- of the court. Correspondence esta bhshing the business busi-ness relationships of "Mr. Pingree and H. P. Clark ot a time prior to Mr. Pingiee's becoming president of the Merchants bank and when Mr. Clark heid that position was Introduced by the st:te. One of the letters, written bv Mr. pingree from Ogden Og-den under date of April L':i. JS1H. to Mr. Clark at Salt Lake when Mr. Clark was president of the Merchants bank, reads in j part as follows: "Your letter of the 21st rc'ntive to the sale of our interest in the Miles ranch for a cash consideration of SSOOo is received. Go to it, dearie It is a splendid move, I and cash looks better to me than any kind of real estate. It will make the affairs af-fairs of the packing company look better. bet-ter. t!The only one I have In sight that T think will purchase some slock in . tho company is Adam Pat tcrsnn, but lie has been very sick and still unable to come over here." Prior to the Introduction of the letters, District Attorney McCarthy had taken exception ex-ception at what be declared was an apparent ap-parent effort on the part of the defense to saddle responsibility for the Utah Packing Pack-ing & Provision company's misfortunes upon a ny one else than Mr. Pingree. to show that lils association with the concern con-cern began after he became president of the Merchants bank and through his efforts ef-forts to save the packing company as a means of protecting the bank to which the company was heavily in debt. "It js time wc found out whose baby this is." said the district attorney; "who was tho parent of the Utah Packing & Provision company." Counsel for the state then drew from Mr. Pingree admission admis-sion of his identification with the organization organ-ization of the company and of, his having been president of the company before he was president of the bank and so in a position to use the bank's resources in rescuing the company from financial difficulties. dif-ficulties. During- the long cross-examination counsel for the state got from the witness wit-ness admission of his connection as either incorporator, director, officer or stockholder stock-holder with many concerns, mostly mining min-ing companies, which were owing money to tho bank at the time of failure of the Institution. Among such companies were the Keystone Mining company, of which Mr. Pingree was a director and treasurer; the Georgia Mining company, of which he was a director; the Copper Basin Mining company, of which he was president; the Boston Development company, of which he was treasurer; the Big Four Exploration Explora-tion company, of which lie was treasurer, and the Pioche Coalition Mines company, of which he was vice president, according to the testimony of the witness. The Big Four company, the witness admitted, ad-mitted, went into a receivership, thereby making its debt of $1000 to the bank a total loss, with the result that the amount was charged off to profit and loss on the bank's books. During the morning, under direct examination, ex-amination, Mr. Pingree arraigned the federal fed-eral bank examiner, Charles F. Stewart, as having treated him unfairly in making an examination of the bank. He said that Mr. Stewart .totally Ignored him. though he knew more than any other person about the bank's assets and liabilities. Cross-examination of Mr. Pingree will be resumed this mornihg at 10 o'clock. |