Show MOTOR VEHICLE FUNDS TRACED IN SMITH TRIAL State Brings Record Cards Into District Court vl Slowly marked by occasional bitter bitter bit bit- ter clashes between counsel the state sought Thursday in district court to weave a web of documentary documentary documentary tary evidence around Clarence E. E ELSmith Smith 42 in an attempt to prove its charge that Smith embezzled o of state funds while employed employed em em- Juno 23 1933 in the secre secretary tary of ot states state's office orfice As examination of Milton Millon H H. Welling Velling secretary of or state and first prosecution witness to be called was concluded soon after court convened convened con con- convened he hurried from Judge James Jamesr W. W McKinneys McKinney's courtroom and the state called George H. H Seamon chief chiet deputy in the office Through exhibits District new Calvin W. W Rawlings traced operations o of the motor vehicle de department dee dc- where it is S alleged certain receipts were unreported The department de do- has subsequently been removed from the secretary of or states state's supervision and placed under control of the state tax commission Uses Record Cards Card Showing the witness several truck capacity record cards the prosecuting prosecuting prosecuting prose prose- attorney drew an objection from the defense when he asked if any o of the notations on the cards were made by the witness The answer answer an nn- was negative When the objection was pressed and defense counsel admitted his previous question was not intended as an intimation that Mr Seamon had written on the cards the matter matter matter mat mat- ter was vas dropped by both sides Driving hard on the cross examination examination exam exam- Defense Counsel George P. P Parker asked the witness Did you have the combination to the vault vault and and and when Mr Seamon Seamon Seamon Sea Sea- said he did not Yet riot Yet mon you arc are the chief deputy The Tho witness laughed I was a deputy deput Asks About Veto eto Did you find your instructions to 10 frequently vetoed b borders orders directly opposite the wit kwit witness ness was asked by Mr Parker Mr Welling Velling had the final say but I never knew of him giving any instructions on truck capacity rec rec- Reverting to the vault combination tion question Mr Mr Seamon was asked ed who had the combination and replied that to his knowledge Mr Welling Miss Verl Carlin cashIer cashier cash cash- ier and John Welling Velling son o of the secretary of state had it Was Vas John Welling Velling an of the office at that time asked Mr Parker Mr Rawlings Rawlings' objection came like a shot Yes argued Mr rr Parker but money we are accused of or lakin taking Iwas was in that vault and scattered about labout the office which John Welling had lad access to I expected that speech from counsel said Mr Rawlings and andI I 1 submit that it is unfair Bickering Stops That chat Judge McKinney re referred ye- ye erred to as bickering between counsel ceased when Mr Rawlings said that Mr Seamon might answer 1 if he ever saw John Welling Velling enter the safe Inside the vault No said the witness The defense switched to letters Jetters said said to have accompanied sums of ot money received from the Santa Clara checking station of ot the state road commission and asked Mr Seamon if iC he know w what became of ot them After I learned letters of transmittal transmittal trans trans- were going into the waste wastebasket wastebasket wastebasket basket I 1 gave instructions to have them preserved testified the wit wit- ness nass Mr Rawlings again objected to the line o of questioning Well Vell produce the man from Santa Clara who wrote the tho letters said the prosecutor Patrolman on Stand But he was not In the office oIce when the letters Jetters arrived added Mr Parl Parker cr and If those letters letter's had been preserved much of ot this trouble could have b been en avoided Marion Snow state highway patrolman patrolman patrolman pa pa- and checker at the Santa Clara station was on the witness stand when noon recess was called Members o of the jury are William Villiam Mitchell 1209 West Seventh South street R R. S. S Johns Joins Ninth East and Twenty-ninth Twenty South streets F. F G. G Lake street A. A G. G Berrett Ber I rett HO Tenth East street Mrs L. L 1348 Princeton avenue David P. P Sugden Euclid Euelid ave aye avenue avenue nue Charles M. M Bolton Twentieth Twentieth Twentieth East street and Thomas Yan- Yan coy cey Murray |