, 1862-03-18

suit Of Iorens Brentano against Frederick
Bekker and Edward Sch1ager came on. Tic
plaintiff, Brentano, is editor Of the Staats Zsi-
ting, the leading German paper Of the city;
and the defendants are publishers, and one Of
them editor, Of the Daily Union, also Ger
man newspaper. There are two rather unu-
eual circumstances connected with the case.
First, there are two Judges sitting in the case
Judges Higgins and Goodrich; and second,
the jury was selected, by agreement Of the
partics-or in other words by agreement Of
tie counse1s. Each party had an unlimited
right Of challenge, and the result is that each
juror was acceptable to both parties. As a
consequence, there is large proportion Of
our best business men on the jury. The
alleged libel consisted Of an article Of about
two columns in length, published in the Daily
Iasion in June, 1861 As nearly as VIC could
judge, from the very diffuse and peculiar pbra-
seclogy Of the translation Of the article read
to the jury, the gist Of the libel Was about
this: In 1859 BrcDtaGo WIS an attorney of the
Chicago bar, and one Jacob Trantman having
lost house by fire, insured In the Homo Iu-
suraDce. Company, employed Brentano to col
lect the insurance money. It is alleged that
Brentano wrote power Of attorney in Eng
1ish. authorizing him to collect tile money,
With blank for the sum, and afterwards
the sum Of 5000, intending to Keep al
OYER that amount that he might collect tlat
he collected and secured for himself $500 Of
the sum agreed to be paid by the company,
and actually got $l5o II cash, and that this
afterwards obliged, by fear Of exposure, to d.
vide the $50 with Traytman. We don't pre-
| tend to state the whole Of the libel, IS it is
contained III 4 very amplihed and extended ar
| ticle with several episodes to themain matter,
| and very considerable amount of metaphor,
Of c1asEIc allusion and Of some slang, as It was
said By PLAINTIFF S attorneys. 1t Is understood
that the msin purport Of the article was to &C.
cusc plaintiff of attempting to cheat Traut-
T man. There arr also some references to the
s5t R;yed = b plaintiff in the revolution Of
The casc Is conducted By John Lyle King aud
| F.HKales for the plaintiff, and BY u. F. Linder
and Thomas Hoyne for defendants. Mr. King
! opened the case to the jury By stating that
bis client had been twice Mayor Of the city of
fort Parliament Of 1915, the advocate of
Strive and Hecker in their trials for treason,
and himself called to The head Of the provis-
! ional government of Baden in 1878, and when
the revolution Was overcome hr tile Prussiau
army, became refugee, like Sigel, who was
| LIZ AGAANA VI tAG oa1aE kEtOaAtlOAt
and SO many Others, uow citizens Of our coun-
try; that plaintif had become a member Of
| the Chlcago bar, and Tas now editor Of the
!xdots Aitung- The libel rus then read ind
| occasionally commented on while being read
Mr. Linder opened for the defense, sub
as d witness, and it was expected that defend
| arts would be able to prove the truth Of the
gist ofthe article cl,a1ge rs libclous.
The rest Of the time vas occupied by the
plaintiff s putting in evidence Of subsequent
publications. Of defendants in their newspaper,
referring TO the principal libel, to show malice
in the defendants. Considerable discussion
| took place among the counsel in the case on
points Of evidence made to the court
The case will be resumed to-day, when the
evidence viii be gone into, and probably the
arguments of the counsel Will be commenced.
There seems to be considerable degree o
interest as to the case, both among parties, at
torpeys, witnesses and others.
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