District Attorney Francis V. Galloway was called on the witness stand in the circuit court room this morning by Barnett Goldstein, attorney for the defense, in an effort to find out what, if any attempt had been made by Wasco county authorities to apprehend Charlie Foote in connection with the robbery of the Mosier Valley bank last November, in which Ted Mandronas is accused of being the third of a gang of bandits.

Goldstein asked Galloway if it was not a fact that the district attorney’s office had received a letter from Goldstein, purporting to have been written by Charlie Foote, in which the latter is alleged to have cleared Ted Mandronas of the charge, by confessing that he, Foote, was the third man.