Another method of swindling was thus described by the witness Applegate when under examination by Mr. Goff:—
Q. I hand you two tin boxes; do you recognise those as belonging to McNally?
A. Yes, sir.
Q. Were those boxes used in his business?
A. Yes, sir.
Q. Here is a third one, and a fourth one; what were those four boxes used for?
A. They would put the money in one box for the man, in a box like that, and that would be a deal of from about 300 dollars to 500 dollars; they would put the money in this box and it would be in front of the victim, and in the meantime a duplicate box would be behind the partition, and in the duplicate box there would be a brick and some paper, and they would put the money in this box here on the desk and lock it up before the victim; it would be on the back of the desk like that, and then Billy Vosburgh would say, “Get that book,” and with that they would lift up the desk and that would hide the box from the victim, and then Walter McNally, who did the ringing, would open his trap door and take this box in and put the other box out; it would all be done in a second.
Q. I will now hand you this fifth box; what is that used for?
A. That was used for the bank roll.
Q. What is there—is there a false lid to that?