"Inspector Amy borrowed owes money $25; he said on my behalf when making a plan for the staircase".
Q. Would you mind reading that again?
A. "Inspector Amy borrowed owes money $28; he said on my behalf when making a plan of the staircase." Why does he put it as money borrowed? Well I just wrote it with my pen and it was put down "borrowed".
Mr. Hewett: A. Did you ever expect to get that money repaid when you put it down "borrowed"?
He has not repaid it. If he had I would have cancelled it.
His Excellency: Have you ever asked for it to be repaid?
A. I have not asked him. I asked him to make a plan.
Mr. Hewatt: When you put down the word "borrowed" in the first place did you understand that the money would be repaid, or is that merely the way you entered it in your book?
A. No, I did not think in my mind that it would be repaid.
Did you understand that you had paid $25 for a plan and that the money would not be repaid that is what I want to know?
A. Well, I was waiting until the plan should have been made and then I would have posted it in the big book.
Mr. Thomson: In that book, Mr. Ball, you said it was for bad money, otherwise for spurious coins. Why does he put down an expenditure of $25 in that book?
A. I had no other book and it was put in there for a memo temporarily.
Mr. Kay: Are there other loans entered in that book?
A. No.
Q. Well, there are as a matter of fact?
A. These are only my foki's.
Q. I know; they are loans to the fokis, advances?
A. Yes. They have been cancelled.
Q. They have been paid back. There are entries there, loans to his fokis, are there not?