Abstract

Wanamaker's Latest Version

U.S. merchant John Wanamaker took the witness stand in the Keystone Bank inquiry on Friday for the second time. He had been summoned ostensibly to explain the discrepancies between his first evidence and subsequent testimony, but it was soon clear that he was present in order that he might make an immediate defense against some entirely fresh charges, which were to be produced. The new charges were in the suppressed Bardsley statement, which the editor of the journal Public Ledger had "for grave public reasons" declined to publish in his newspaper. In regard to his former testimony, Wanamaker makes very elaborate explanation. He says, of the 2625 shares of genuine stock which he neglected to mention at all in his first statement, he took them at a person's request to raise a loan, and that they never were his and he never had a penny's interest in them before or after.