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# THE TYLER BANK CASES.
Overdraft of the Car and Lumber Company Were Testified To.
WERE SHOWN IN THE STATEMENTS
Made to the Comptroller, Said the Book-keeper-Secretary of Lumber Company on the Stand.
Tyler, Texas, February 2.-The cross-examination of the defense of the witness McGehee, who made all the entries in the individual ledger of the Tyler National bank with reference to the account of the Tyler Car and Lumber company was concluded this morning. The evidence given by the witness was merely a matter of record.
At the date of the first check mentioned in the indictment the account of the Tyler Car and Lumber company was overdrawn $51,000, while, at the date of the last check mentioned in the indictment the overdraft was $50,000; that afterwards $50,000 of the notes of the Tyler Car and Lumber company were deposited in the bank to the credit of the Tyler Car and Lumber company. Shortly afterwards the bank sold three notes of the Tyler Car and Lumber company, aggregating $30,000, for their face value, which reduced the note indebtedness to the bank $30,000.
McGehee was also questioned as to deposits and withdrawal during the period covered by the indictment. March 5 to September 1, and during this period the deposits exceeded the withdrawals by something like $1000 and at the suspension of the bank the overdraft of the Tyler Car and Lumber company had been reduced to approximately $15.000.
H. H. Haden was the next witness placed on the stand by the government. He testified that he was the head bookkeeper of the bank at the time of its inspection and with reference to the charges on the hooks of the bank of the checks mentioned in the indictment. He was also interrogated as to the reports made to the comptroller of the currency and stated that the overdrafts of the Tyler Car and Lumber company, as well as others in excess of 10 per cent of the capital stock of the bank, were properly entered in these statements. The attorneys for the defense asked for the production of the original reports made to the comptroller of the currency which were in evidence at the previous trial. Mr. Moxey, expert bank examiner and chief prosecuting witness, then stated that these reports were returned to Washington, and were in possession of the comptroller.
Upon being pressed he retired, searched through his papers and returned with part of the reports, but among them, instead of the originals, as asked for, were copies which had never been in the possession of the bank and were not the originals asked for.
Both witnesses, McGehee and Haden stated that the account of the Tyler Car and Lumber company with the bank was kept exactly as all other accounts with customers, and McGehee also stated that such accounts were handled in the same manner by other banks with which he had been connected, naming quite a number.
The last witness this afternoon was S. A. Fain, who was secretary of the Tyler Car and Lumber company. His testimony so far has only been in reference to the entries in the books.
