H. K. White Statement - Part 2

I would have made an explanation; but as he would come in probably in these instances he came in and "probably he would"[scribbled out] ordered me to draw checks for drafts 353 & 354.

Q No, those are the number of your checks

A These were gold drafts.

Q You drew gold checks for them? A Yes.

Q The stub merely says that they are cash for the R M C & I Co. Now as I say. Why did you make an entry so that nobody from you entry could find out what it meant? In such case as that. Why not put who the drafts were going to, who they were bought for. And what was it be done with them? Why was such information as that withheld?

A I cannot say.

Q Why did you make blind entries like that?

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A They were made, of course under orders from him, and if he did not see fit to explain to me any further, as I said before —

Q Do you mean to say when he gave you the particulars that you entered them just as he gave them to you?

A Yes sir just exactly.

Q And if he wanted them entered in that way you entered them?

A I entered them that way.

Q You entered them to suit his views?

A Yes sir to suit him, without asking any questions.

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Q D 52 David D. Colton Bills in Hinton suit $146.25. Can you see why these were paid? Were not those amounts included in the $146.25 a part of the cash tags which Beerman had kept at the mine, and which were all subsequently included in the

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draft for $5040.80 which Beeman drew in favor of Colton in June 1874?

A I cannot say. These items here I cannot explain them because Gen Colton was at the mine during the Hinton suit, and of course I look the memoranda just as he gave it to me, and put them on the books. I do not know what they were.

Q You entered them just because he gave them to you in that form.

A Yes Sir.

Q You know nothing about it?

A No sir, only as he gave them to me

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Q D 53 Oct. 9. John C. Cremony $50. A My recolletion of that is that John C. Cremony came into the office and went into the General's private office and came out and the General told me to draw a check for $50, and I think he took Cremony's

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note, but I am not sure about that.

Q Here is a pencil note in Colton's handwriting H. K. White please let Col Cremony have $50 and take his memorandum to be paid in 15 days." Do you remember about that?

A I think I took his memorandum note and a few days after that he says "Charge up that $50 you gave Cremony in the Coal Co." He has been writing some articles, in the Commercial Herald for the benefit of the Company that is about the explanation he gave in regard to the matter.

Q He had been writing some articles?

A In regard to coal yes.

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Q D 54 December 10. 1874 $15 H. C. Bloomer.

A I recollect about buying that and his telling me to charge it to the Coal Co that was $15.

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Q It appears that what they object to it that the bill was made out at $15. and was subsequently altered for $10 and the question is why it was charged at $15?

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A My recollection is now that I paid Bloomer myself $10 for the cryptograph & put the other $5 back in the drawer, forgetting to change the entry.

Q It is endorsed by you Paid $15 but the receipted bill shows $10. The question is why the bill was charged $10 and $15 paid?

A I cannot say. I cannot explain it further.

D 55 [left margin] Used for Coal Co. — itself

Q Ex. D 55, October 3. 1874. F. Tillman one safe and moving the same $400, no such safe has been found in the possession of the R M C & I Co. There is a charge in the cashbook on February 13. 1872 Paid Tillman for a safe $350, and he was paid for it on that date February 13. 1872 $350. There is also a charge in

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