1 "Who la responsible?" he wan askc<1
4<jonsult the books." he snapped
fltgrily. "I'm no bookkeeper!"
[Details of the transfer of the business
rjf Charles A. Stoneham to Dler & Co..
4'! Dler'a trip to the Klondike, his form
?|i#r the partnership with Col. Hughes
(ltd the falling off of business just before
failure were recounted by Dier with
ij.nny lapses of memory Interspersed
Jt'ong the answer*. He told how he
ll-4d to put up $50,000 and his friend*
liberal hundred thouaand more to atari
tM firm of Hughe* * Dler. but said that
Iftighee hadn't "put up a single red
Artt."
j IDIer testified that up to Juat before
tjir failure he had between $300,000 and
J.j?o0,000 in bonds belonging to him in a
yfex In hia office*. Questioned a* to
??fcere he got these from, he said that
had bought them wtlh money he had
/Wgd'' on other deal* Iri the mining
?Mme" Several hundred thousand dol
were "given to him a* a present,"
If said, by a man named Jacob Nolde, a
raillery manufacturer of Heading. IV.
tfio hai> since died.
