Victor Etiott said that he owed a Japanese named Fukishma Mex. post-dated que, on Which he igned his own He tore this from his other's cheque book, When the cheque fell due, he went to the bank and saw Me, Hiatt and asked him to hold the cheque when it was presented so that he could pay cash stead. This Mr. Hiatt promised to 19 buf, when witness called agamy hho found that the cheque had already been cashed, Me promised to repay. the money in the afternoon but "id not do so and, on the following, mornin, he was told that, if he did not get' the money, his" mother's gecaint would be debited. On look ing through her account, it was dise covered thut it was below the figure so witness forged a slip in her name for her gold savings account foe G.8200. Me repaid $200 to the bane and asked for the return of the cheque he signed in his own name, but was told that this could not be done as it had been put into his mother's monthly envelope. He filled in the slip at the Palace Motel and pre= sented it to the bunk, Mx. Hiatt, she O.KJd the signatures, took it from him. He was positive that was nor given the cheque back. The latter had been made payable to. the Japanese.
In cross-examination, witness said that he had a key to the drawer where his mother kept her barile hooks and that he hail taken moneys from me before, Me had been sentenced for forgery and for steal-Ing a diamond ring, and had pre= viously testified regarding the ches que. He had no account in the banke signed his own name, Ma, Hintt cashed the cheque. He lust saw the cheque at the bank, Witness ade mitted forging the withdrawal slips He did not know that his mother brought action against the bank for a large sum of money for which, she alleged; he hud forged on the withdrawal slips as he was in San Francisco ab the time. Witness said that he had: seen the cheque after it had been: cashed, and then identified the withdrawal slip which he admitted: forging.
The Mother's Testimony Plaintif? was then called and said she had withdrawn her accounts with; the bank on February 15, 1925 and: identified certain exhibits which wera signed in hor name but not by her, Witness admitted under cross-ox-amination that she always kept her bank bocks in a drawer in her desk,, under lock and key, and it was some: months later that she discovered that a cheque was missing. She suspected her son of stealing it. This was some time in October, 1927, when: her son Drought back from America, and afterwards he served a prison sentence. She had never overdrawn hier account, and counsel introduced an exhibit showing that there once had been an overdraft of $9.25, Witness continued by saying: that she had an account with: the. bank for eight years or more, Re-examined, witness said she ale sways received regular monthly states ments. "Her suspicions were aroused? waen she did not receive them for February, March and April, 1025, and she thought that something was, wrong. She then went ty the banke to investigate and saw Me. Hiatt, who informed her that he had had some trouble with her son Dut that everything had been fixed up.
this juncture, the Court ade Journed the hearing.
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