H. K. White Statement - Part 2

and should not have been credited to Gen Colton. What can you say about that?

A I cannot explain it any further than I can the items above.

Q The reading of the entry on your cashbook shows the payment to be of an expense of D D Colton. Can you say what that expense was?

A I do not know. I have no knowledge of it any further than that: it is one of those items that he drew currency for, but who Fred Fox is I cannot say.

Q Was not he a hitcher?

A I cannot say. Indeed I do not know that I ever heard the name before or ever saw it. It has passed my memory.

Q In the stub of the currency checkbook on the National Gold Bank, it is filled in in pencil in your hand writing $165.27, but there is

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no name in the stub at all. Does that bring it to your recollection?

A No Sir.

Q. You do not know what it was for?

A. No sir I do not.

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Q D 35. November 27. 1871. I. W. C. Isaac W Colton $368.65 The charge here is that this was not for payment of a debt of the Company, and not justly credited to Colton. Who was Isaac W Colton?

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A His father.

Q The father of D. D. Colton?

A Yes. He resided in N.Y.

Q. There was a check drawn on the currency account of London & S. F. bank signed David D Colton pay Isaac W Colton $365.65. The stub book shows nothing more. Was not that used to buy a draft on the East to be sent to Mr Colton's father?

A Yes Sir. My recollection of his explanation to me was

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that he had borrowed some money of his father to pay some little incidental expenses in New York. That is all the explanation he ever gave me about it.

Q Incidental expenses incurred by himself while he was in New York?

A Yes Sir.

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Q D 36 The next is "Settlement H. J. Rogers in US. currency $2500. Was not that money used in payment of stock bought by Colton of Rogers?

[left margin note:] Nothing found by last check There is a green currency check for $6300 form of Rogers — but there is no $2500 check W,G,F, Feb 20/84 6500 check Roger 1250 in Henry

A Well. That is another transaction of Gen Colton's in which he gave me no information. I cannot say what it was. I recollect when he himself and Mr Rogers and Henry came into the office one afternoon, he told me to draw a check for $6500 to the order of H. J. Rogers.

Q In your cashbook under the head of November 27.1871.

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[left margin note:] I have never seen this receipt book W,G,F, Feb 20/84

you put it by amount para our settlement with H. J. Rogers $2500; that is on the currency side of the cash book? A. Yes. I drew the check, and there was an old printed receipt book that had been sent down from the mine by Deuel, and in that I think Gen Colton took Rogers' receipt for the $2500, and he gave me no explanation of the matter, whatever. He did not say it was for stock or anything else.

Q. Didn't you understand that was a settlement of the stock matters between Colton and Rogers? You knew they had dealings in stocks?

A. I had an idea that ie was some stock settlement.

Q. That was your idea about it at the time was it?

A. Yes Sir, that is it, but not from any information that he gave me at all.

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I supposed it was some stock transaction or account of stock.

Q. Why did you charge it as settlement with H. J. Rogers when it was a stock transaction and should not have been charged to the Company?

A. It was by his direction.

Q. You did it by Colton's direction?

A. Yes sir. As a settlement with H. J. Rogers. He gave me no explanation of it himself in regard to the matter at all.

Q. In the minutes of the R M C & I Co is a meeting of the directors called November 25th 1871, present Colton, Gray, Henry, Harrison, & Rogers. On motion of Col Gray the settlement of all matters between the company and H. J. Rogers as made by the president is this day ratified. The resignation of H. J. Rogers as trustee was accepted &

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