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VOSS CASE MAY CLOSE TONIGHT
Arguments of Lawyers to Jury Got Under Way This Morning.
(Evening Tribune-News Special) Sac City, Ia., June 3.-Taking of testimony in the C. L. Voss forgery case came to a sudden end this morning when the prosecution and the defense unexpectedly rested and the attorneys began arguments to the jury. County Attorney William Bell opened the argument and will be followed by Floyd E. Page for the defendant. James Parsons of Des Moines will conclude for Voss and Robert Healy will make the closing argument for the state Jacob Sims, who was taken ill here Sunday and was unable to attend the trial yesterday or today, was taken to his home in Denison this morning and will not be able to make an argument before the jury
Ready for Jury It is thought that the case will go to the jury late tonight. Ira C. Gillmor was the closing witness this forenoon. He testified that he owed the Bank of Denison, all told. about $6,000 Voss claims he owes it $60,000 The bank receiver sued him for that amount when the bank In his argument to the jury County Attorney Bell stressed the assertion that Voss admitted he swore falsely to a notarial seal that he sent letter to R. Gill- farmer, which was not true: that he kept for twenty months the $43,000 the Des Moines Joint Stock Land bank had specifically ordered him to forward to the Peters Trust company of Omaha to pay off two Prudential loans on the Gillmor farm at Denison that checks presented as evidence by the state had been falsely indorsed in his bank at Denison by one of his employes; that dates on notes had been changed, etc.
Voss' Last Appearance.
Voss in his concluding testimony declared that the reason he had not paid off the Prudential loan with the proceeds of the loan negotiated for Gillmor with the Des Moines Joint Stock Land bank was that Gillmor had failed to pay $9 000 interest on the Pru dential loan which the Bank of Denison had paid for him. The state produced letter from Voss to the Peters company through which the Prudential loan was in process of settlement in which he reported to the company that Gillmor had paid the This supported Voss's former that he was acting the best interest of Gillmor in all the transactions and by representing that Gillmor had paid the interest on the loans helped Gillmor to further time to liquidate.
University May Lose.
It developed in the testimony of Voss that Iowa university memorial had 000 in the Bank of Denison when it failed mortgage was made covering this with Gillmor land security but the money was never taken from the credit of the memorial. Voss testified am of the opinion E. M. Dutcher of the Union said "that the Union will not lose anything in the end as we can establish legitimate claim to the Gillmor property even though the claim will not be first lien.
