H. K. White Statement - Part 2

Q. You do not know what he did with it?

A. No sir I do not.

Q. If you gave him the proceeds of the check, and it was received at the mine you do not know what use was made of it?

A. No sir. I do not know anything about it.

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Q. D 28 May 15. 1874 $1000 currency — said to be sent to the Mine. The entry in your cashbook is May 15. 1874 President currency taken by him to the mine $1000. $90.20; Equal to #902.. The check is signed David D Colton. The stub reads "Currency taken to the Mine by the president $1000 to pay draft to Park & Brothers $100 currency, cust. 90.20. There is an entry on the San Francisco cashbook of May 15, 1874 Paid draft Park Brothers $106 currency at 90.20 Equal to $95.97. There is no letter of advice of this

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being sent, and no credit in the mine books to correspond.

A. I have no knowledge of it. It must be the $1000 that I obtained.

Q. Then you do not know what he did with it?

A. No I do not.

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Q. Here is an account under the head of "credits made and no vouchers" D 29. Currency purchased $30.13. The charge here is that this was made a credit to Colton when it should have been a debtor entry. It should have been charged to him. In all these matters of entries that Colton read in the books, at the time when he read them there did he ever complain of the manner in which you had entered them? Did he ever complain of the manner in which you were keeping the books?

A. No sir, not at all: Never

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called my attention to any thing in regard to it. As I said before when I made him out statements of trans cript of the cashbook. He would sometimes call for the book and compared them.

Q. He sometimes called for the cashbook and compared them?

A. Yes Sir.

Q And previous to the time that you made out the transcript when he was examining the books, then, did you add up you cash account at the end of each month in early days?

A. Yes sir.

Q. So as to that what amount of money was on hand?

A. Yes sir.

Q. Then the balance showed him what he owed the company each month?

A. Yes sir: a balance on the credit side of the cash book.

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Q. He had a chance to compare it with his bank book and seeing whether it was correct or not?

A. Yes sir.

Q. So that if you over credited him as in the case of the $2600 he had a chance right then by comparison of finding it out, didn't he?

A. Yes sir.

Q. In this matter D 29 it appears that he was credited for an amount of $30 currency when it should have been debited to him; in other words he was chargeable: You credited him with $30.12 and he should have been chargeable with $60.13 to make that up. Can you say why that credit was given to him instead of being charged to him?

A. No sir I cannot, unless there is some explanation in the check for which it was given, if a check was given

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for the amount.

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Cannot claim

Q. D 30 Under date Apl 30 1871 "Discount on currency sold and sundry bills paid $807.11." Why was such an entry as that made in that way? The expert here says that this entry appears to have been made to balance a shortage in the cash account. What do you think about that?

A. It is possible that was at the time when I discontinues keeping a currency cash account. If it was so there might have been currency on had that I sold or transferred. I either sold it at his order or transferred it to the gold cash account, at the regular rate. That is the only explanation.

Q. Was there any achrat deficit in your accounts?

A. No Sir I think not.

Q. Did you keep money on hand or merely checks?

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