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Show ou FORMER CASHIER TELLS 0F FRAUD PORTLAND, Ore.. Jan. 29. W Cooper Morris, former cashier of tho defunct Oregon Trust and Savings bank, testified hore today In tho trial ' of Louis J. Wilde, a San Diego banker, that ho and Wilde conspired to get for themselves $90,000 by tho aale of a block of $500,000 telo'phone bonds to the bank. The $90,000. he said, was the difference dif-ference botween what tho ownors of tho bonds supposed thoy had boon sold far Rnd tho par value winch, ho said, tho bank paid for them. Wlldo Is charfjod whh embezzlement, Tho formor cashier, already sorv-ing sorv-ing a sentence for embezzlement In connection with tho failuro of tho bank, before going on tho wltncsa stand today, pleaded guilty to tho charge of ombezzloment In connection connec-tion with tho alleged calo of bonds, ho having been Indicted jointly with Wilde. |