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How
much
was
he
worth
at
the
time
he
first
entered
business
relations
with
the
ex-city
treasurer
?
Have
you
any
idea
?
I
can
tell
.
I
had
the
matter
looked
up
almost
a
month
ago
on
my
accession
to
office
.
Just
a
little
over
two
hundred
thousand
dollars
,
gentlemen
--
just
a
little
over
two
hundred
thousand
dollars
.
Here
is
an
abstract
from
the
files
of
Dun
&
Company
for
that
year
.
Now
you
can
see
how
rapidly
our
Caesar
has
grown
in
wealth
since
then
.
You
can
see
how
profitable
these
few
short
years
have
been
to
him
.
Was
George
W.
Stener
worth
any
such
sum
up
to
the
time
he
was
removed
from
his
office
and
indicted
for
embezzlement
?
Was
he
?
I
have
here
a
schedule
of
his
liabilities
and
assets
made
out
at
the
time
.
You
can
see
it
for
yourselves
,
gentlemen
.
Just
two
hundred
and
twenty
thousand
dollars
measured
the
sum
of
all
his
property
three
weeks
ago
;
and
it
is
an
accurate
estimate
,
as
I
have
reason
to
know
.
Why
was
it
,
do
you
suppose
,
that
Mr.
Cowperwood
grew
so
fast
in
wealth
and
Mr.
Stener
so
slowly
?
They
were
partners
in
crime
.
Mr.
Stener
was
loaning
Mr.
Cowperwood
vast
sums
of
the
city
's
money
at
two
per
cent
.
when
call-rates
for
money
in
Third
Street
were
sometimes
as
high
as
sixteen
and
seventeen
per
cent
.
Do
n't
you
suppose
that
Mr.
Cowperwood
sitting
there
knew
how
to
use
this
very
cheaply
come-by
money
to
the
very
best
advantage
?
Does
he
look
to
you
as
though
he
did
n't
?
You
have
seen
him
on
the
witness-stand
.
You
have
heard
him
testify
.
Very
suave
,
very
straightforward-seeming
,
very
innocent
,
doing
everything
as
a
favor
to
Mr.
Stener
and
his
friends
,
of
course
,
and
yet
making
a
million
in
a
little
over
six
years
and
allowing
Mr.
Stener
to
make
one
hundred
and
sixty
thousand
dollars
or
less
,
for
Mr.
Stener
had
some
little
money
at
the
time
this
partnership
was
entered
into
--
a
few
thousand
dollars
.
"
Shannon
now
came
to
the
vital
transaction
of
October
9th
,
when
Cowperwood
called
on
Stener
and
secured
the
check
for
sixty
thousand
dollars
from
Albert
Stires
.
His
scorn
for
this
(
as
he
appeared
to
think
)
subtle
and
criminal
transaction
was
unbounded
.
It
was
plain
larceny
,
stealing
,
and
Cowperwood
knew
it
when
he
asked
Stires
for
the
check
.
"
Think
of
it
!
[
Shannon
exclaimed
,
turning
and
looking
squarely
at
Cowperwood
,
who
faced
him
quite
calmly
,
undisturbed
and
unashamed
.
]
Think
of
it
!
Think
of
the
colossal
nerve
of
the
man
--
the
Machiavellian
subtlety
of
his
brain
.
He
knew
he
was
going
to
fail
.
He
knew
after
two
days
of
financial
work
--
after
two
days
of
struggle
to
offset
the
providential
disaster
which
upset
his
nefarious
schemes
--
that
he
had
exhausted
every
possible
resource
save
one
,
the
city
treasury
,
and
that
unless
he
could
compel
aid
there
he
was
going
to
fail
.
He
already
owed
the
city
treasury
five
hundred
thousand
dollars
.
He
had
already
used
the
city
treasurer
as
a
cat
's
-
paw
so
much
,
had
involved
him
so
deeply
,
that
the
latter
,
because
of
the
staggering
size
of
the
debt
,
was
becoming
frightened
.
Did
that
deter
Mr.
Cowperwood
?
Not
at
all
.
"
He
shook
his
finger
ominously
in
Cowperwood
's
face
,
and
the
latter
turned
irritably
away
.
"
He
is
showing
off
for
the
benefit
of
his
future
,
"
he
whispered
to
Steger
.
"
I
wish
you
could
tell
the
jury
that
.
"
"
I
wish
I
could
,
"
replied
Steger
,
smiling
scornfully
,
"
but
my
hour
is
over
.
"
"
Why
[
continued
Mr.
Shannon
,
turning
once
more
to
the
jury
]
,
think
of
the
colossal
,
wolfish
nerve
that
would
permit
a
man
to
say
to
Albert
Stires
that
he
had
just
purchased
sixty
thousand
dollars
'
worth
additional
of
city
loan
,
and
that
he
would
then
and
there
take
the
check
for
it
!
Had
he
actually
purchased
this
city
loan
as
he
said
he
had
?
Who
can
tell
?
Could
any
human
being
wind
through
all
the
mazes
of
the
complicated
bookkeeping
system
which
he
ran
,
and
actually
tell
?
The
best
answer
to
that
is
that
if
he
did
purchase
the
certificates
he
intended
that
it
should
make
no
difference
to
the
city
,
for
he
made
no
effort
to
put
the
certificates
in
the
sinking-fund
,
where
they
belonged
.
His
counsel
says
,
and
he
says
,
that
he
did
n't
have
to
until
the
first
of
the
month
,
although
the
law
says
that
he
must
do
it
at
once
,
and
he
knew
well
enough
that
legally
he
was
bound
to
do
it
.
His
counsel
says
,
and
he
says
,
that
he
did
n't
know
he
was
going
to
fail
.
Hence
there
was
no
need
of
worrying
about
it
.
I
wonder
if
any
of
you
gentlemen
really
believed
that
?
Had
he
ever
asked
for
a
check
like
that
so
quick
before
in
his
life
?
In
all
the
history
of
these
nefarious
transactions
was
there
another
incident
like
that
?
You
know
there
was
n't
.
He
had
never
before
,
on
any
occasion
,
asked
personally
for
a
check
for
anything
in
this
office
,
and
yet
on
this
occasion
he
did
it
.
Why
?
Why
should
he
ask
for
it
this
time
?
A
few
hours
more
,
according
to
his
own
statement
,
would
n't
have
made
any
difference
one
way
or
the
other
,
would
it
?
He
could
have
sent
a
boy
for
it
,
as
usual
.
That
was
the
way
it
had
always
been
done
before
.
Why
anything
different
now
?
I
'll
tell
you
why
!
[
Shannon
suddenly
shouted
,
varying
his
voice
tremendously
.
]
I
'll
tell
you
why
!
He
knew
that
he
was
a
ruined
man
!
He
knew
that
his
last
semi-legitimate
avenue
of
escape
--
the
favor
of
George
W.
Stener
--
had
been
closed
to
him
!
He
knew
that
honestly
,
by
open
agreement
,
he
could
not
extract
another
single
dollar
from
the
treasury
of
the
city
of
Philadelphia
.
He
knew
that
if
he
left
the
office
without
this
check
and
sent
a
boy
for
it
,
the
aroused
city
treasurer
would
have
time
to
inform
his
clerks
,
and
that
then
no
further
money
could
be
obtained
.
That
's
why
!
That
's
why
,
gentlemen
,
if
you
really
want
to
know
.
"
Now
,
gentlemen
of
the
jury
,
I
am
about
done
with
my
arraignment
of
this
fine
,
honorable
,
virtuous
citizen
whom
the
counsel
for
the
defense
,
Mr.
Steger
,
tells
you
you
can
not
possibly
convict
without
doing
a
great
injustice
.
All
I
have
to
say
is
that
you
look
to
me
like
sane
,
intelligent
men
--
just
the
sort
of
men
that
I
meet
everywhere
in
the
ordinary
walks
of
life
,
doing
an
honorable
American
business
in
an
honorable
American
way
.
Now
,
gentlemen
of
the
jury
[
he
was
very
soft-spoken
now
]
,
all
I
have
to
say
is
that
if
,
after
all
you
have
heard
and
seen
here
to-day
,
you
still
think
that
Mr.
Frank
A.
Cowperwood
is
an
honest
,
honorable
man
--
that
he
did
n't
steal
,
willfully
and
knowingly
,
sixty
thousand
dollars
from
the
Philadelphia
city
treasury
;
that
he
had
actually
bought
the
certificates
he
said
he
had
,
and
had
intended
to
put
them
in
the
sinking-fund
,
as
he
said
he
did
,
then
do
n't
you
dare
to
do
anything
except
turn
him
loose
,
and
that
speedily
,
so
that
he
can
go
on
back
to-day
into
Third
Street
,
and
start
to
straighten
out
his
much-entangled
financial
affairs
.
It
is
the
only
thing
for
honest
,
conscientious
men
to
do
--
to
turn
him
instantly
loose
into
the
heart
of
this
community
,
so
that
some
of
the
rank
injustice
that
my
opponent
,
Mr.
Steger
,
alleges
has
been
done
him
will
be
a
little
made
up
to
him
.
You
owe
him
,
if
that
is
the
way
you
feel
,
a
prompt
acknowledgment
of
his
innocence
.
Do
n't
worry
about
George
W.
Stener
.
His
guilt
is
established
by
his
own
confession
.
He
admits
he
is
guilty
.
He
will
be
sentenced
without
trial
later
on
.
But
this
man
--
he
says
he
is
an
honest
,
honorable
man
.
He
says
he
did
n't
think
he
was
going
to
fail
.
He
says
he
used
all
that
threatening
,
compelling
,
terrifying
language
,
not
because
he
was
in
danger
of
failing
,
but
because
he
did
n't
want
the
bother
of
looking
further
for
aid
.
