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es»—Midre-eennedart-STATE SPEEDSCASE AGAINST3.—D.wasionPosedght•gh.ofentReading Of Testimony Of Previous Trials Shortens Hearing; Defense Now Goes To Bat«thejanlicelimbeofleders3d.lneid-ionmdthenon eas i lid em wn a ate to oititi-sediatedmsghlidis-ri-Ite•e-thR-tlOllsitsayinofgelisitBY ROBEKT W. HOISTO*.ANAMOSA, April 13.—The state prepared to close its case against G. E. Huckins in district court this afternoon after a day and a half of testimony. The trial is being shortened considerably because of the reading of the testimony of a number of witnesses given during the previous two attempts to send to prison this operator of a financial scheme which the state claims amounted to obtaining money by false pretenses.Transcript testimony of Charles Negus, former business partner of Huckins in a Cedar Rapids cigar store, Mrs. Negus, and Verne Marshall, managing editor of The Gazette-Republican, was read into the records this morning. All were unable to be present. The Neguses declared that Huckins once said he might have to wear stripes for his get-rich-quick scheme but he would come out with a “sockful.”Defense Makes Objection.The state brought a protest from the defense when it read the testimony of Mr. Marshall as given at the first Huckins trial. Huckins' lawyers wanted the testimony of the second trial used and they indicated they would read the cross-examination of Mr. Marshall at the second trial later. Huckins in August, 1929. told the newspaper man in the presence of Earl Coughlin, sports editor on the same paper, that he was not in the cigar business. The state values this testimony to prove the falsity of Huckins’ claims to his investors that he was handling cigar seconds. Mr. Coughlin was the last witness for the state. C. S. Ogilvie, Des Moines cigar man. said he had never heard of Huckins being in the wholesale cigar business.Carl Hendrickson, prosecuting attorney, planned to formally rest his case this afternoon after the appearance on the stand of Mrs. Florence Gouldin. court reporter for Judge F. O. Ellison, who heard thePccrI(VKaUtiP8wbFd.ti0!tlolp:NsiolCl01fcfctlrrtittvlt;ocRdcsbHidastiveinNlt;heprevious Huckins trials. The de- igesgbeofaleic,th,tsidesur?det?dasH.l-ise-itg,iU;r5-irf;risi-mgy)foianof55,14.tJo:peibawran20,iovi111:galreiintoon!1pul a iagfapulthicin£thepostense this afternoon insisted on reading of sections of the Negus and Marshal! testimony not introduced by the state.How George Huckins told them he was “too smart to keep books” was narrated by Mr. and Mrs. Elwood Royster. 214 Fourth street NW. Cedar Rapids, in their appearance on the witness stand yesterday afternoon. The Roysters also said Huckins told them in the summer of 1929 that if the government “got” his father, Elmer Huckins, he'd take care of the business and they'd get their money just the same.Claimed Exclusive Rights.The Roysters also testified that Elmer Huckins claimed to have exclusive rights to sell all cigars in four states, that no dealer could buy cigars except from him. Earlier in the day, Emil Levsen of Springville. former Cleveland baseball player and complaining witness, had described how George Huckins bragged of having a $30,000 000 business in 1928, and Bill Speas of Toledo, O.. former Cedar Rapids baseball player, * recounted how the Huckinses took all their available currency and bonds, some $250,000. out of Cedar Rapids, under the pretense of paying the “squawkers in Wisconsin.Just before court adjourned yesterday. the prosecution succeeded in introducing the testimony of Winifred Delaney, former private secretary to Huckins, who had testified in the first trial of the speculator in March. 1930. It was obtained over the vigorous objection of defense counsel, who were considerably piqued when the court failed to rule in their favor.Nothing About Cigars.Miss Delaney had testified to the fact that although she handled all the correspondence, mail, checks and bank accounts of Huckins over a period of two years and nine months ending late in 1929, she remembered nothing pertainftag to the wholesale cigar business in which Huckins was alleged to have been engaged.She also had testified that appar-* j ently the only accounts Huckins kept of the business were in a small black book six inches square, where notations were made in code as to amounts invested. She said she {o*1® went to Huckins' residence once a r?ct month and Huckins dictated the no- Uve tat ions from correspondence he re- ec?Jderived from his father. JtThe jurors entered court in high} 1spirits today, not at all disgruntled wee t at having been segregated last night ) within the four walls of Bailiff 2-f George W. Johnson's two story white Pay-f I frame house at 201 North Williams street. Quite the contrary, they whiled away the evening at various Pi games, and with the radio. All had (INI retired at 11 p.m. After a substant- 84, 1 j iai hotel breakfast, they repaired time rj cheerily to the court house a block era and a half away. i todas.AVTh.todJoeecobymei.VPresimtemweesigrproofeT
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The Evening Gazette and Republican
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, US
Wed, Apr 13, 1932
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