The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1843-08-19
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PhenIx Bank Trials.

On Thursday morning. says Boston paper at the open
meuced his closing argument the part of the govern
ment 1t occupied the whole day.
In allusion to call upon him from the other side to
show, il Wyman had the missing money of the Bank.
where was he said that he was SURPRISED at such call
but had prepared one or two items which would show
where some OF had gone Among them one thousand
dollars paid to Of the eminent counsel and thou
sand dollars to another counsel. At this Mr. Webster
WINGED perceptiby and interrupted with the exclama.
tion This is vulgar, very pugar" "vulgar vul-
gar" said Mr. Huntington, am prepared TO prove that
out of the plumber Of the Bank Webster and Dexter
writhed beneath this The former exclaimed, This,
this is too vulgar and will not submit to IT," Dexter
will not submit to sit here and be abused in this
will submit to it without the direction of the court"
Judge Allen nterered and said he did not notice the
tcular expression objected to- but he thought such
marks counsel uncaed for He said something further
about the right of the accused to employ such counsel
they chose and concluded by that he did not
to the district attorney he did not pay par
tcular attention to his remarks.
Mr.. HUNILNGroN then resumed his argument and pre-
sented the various facts to the attention OF the jury The
specous arguments urged by the opposite sde that the
acts OF Wyman did not amount to embezzlement because
there evidence that he received direct benefit
from the money, reuted by the District Attorney,
who presented the consideration that the strong interest
he felt in the standing and Of stanley Reed Co..
his relationship to members OF the firm, his motive to
screen himself from h ruin BY further th, advances to
vorabe turn all showed such wilful, Intentional and
known to be unlawful taking for his benefit as to
amount to an embeZZlement in the obv ous, common
sense meaning of the word
The Court was to charge the Jury Thursday morn
ing
Court for the Correction OF Errors.
AUGUST l7.-Present-The Lieut.. Governor. the Chief
Justice, Senators Bartlitt, Bsckee, 0eyo, Dennson,
Dickinson, Ely, Foster, Franklin Lott, Mitchell, Plat,
Porter, Putnam, Rhoades, Root, Scott, Scov Varian,
Varney, Works-22
Absent--Jusiice Bronson, Justice COwen, Senators
Chamberlain, Corning, Dixon Faulkner. Hard, Hopkins,
Hunter, Lawrence. Sherwood Strength
No g. Thaddeus Joy and others appellants aud respond
ents vs. Jonathan Chiljs appellant and respondent
Mr.. 4. Darwin Smith continued his argument for j.
Childs and closed
Mr.. NJ. T. Reynolds commenced his argument for 7.
Joy and others.
HoUsAToNIC RAIL RoAD.-We learn that the sub
scrplions for the stock in this road amount to
less than half the sum required and that the Direc-
tors of the COMPANY have come 10 the conclusion
that the road must be seld, in conformity to law.
This is greatly to be regretted, the road il Sold
at forced SALE will probably 60 for barely sufficient
to redeem the Company's certified PAPER Some
doubt whether it will bring enough for even that
In such the bonds OF the Company i'll be good
for nothing. The stockholders, OF course, lose the
whole of their investment. The city OF Bridgeport
owns $I50,OOO of the stock. Near or quite that
amount is owned by individual citizens The two
together make great loss for such place as Bridge
port, whose populationis less than 5,OO0.-Brdge-
port Farmer.