New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1864-11-21
THE GREAT FORGERY CASE.
The r risonev~, Counsel Move Tor their Dts'
vbarxe-The Motion IL Des'sd and inc
prise.srs arc CemnisieA fov Tyiss
Ni(hes,t Rail.

Ths examination in the case o. W dlter Iat.ei'
con ,ufbse, OBren and Ira Garadier. alas Garside'
tho principals In the great forgery case th' particular
Of wheh have been published in The TRIBUNE, was re-
son,o ON Saturday morning before Justice Downing 81
the Tombs.
. g sueuccr. esd, counsel FOR Pattcrsor moved 'o'
fs discharge on the ground that there hid peeh no
testimony produced by the prosecution connecting MN
with the foreeIes except the evidence OF an ccompoe'
who had not been corroborated In any importnt pareu
lar Mr. Spencer made an elaborate aIgumeh u
Of the posoa be- took at the CONCLUSION oi when ~
JudQe Stuart associate counsel for PaferDn ana the
thor hnfendap.s cited several rules Of lar governing
tho case and argued ut Considerable iogih on .ns
danger OF holding Patterson for trial on the unsupported
testimony Of an aceompi,ce. - y,,.-t, ..,o-r.x
He was followed by Assistant Distrif attorney
stewart mo said II unnecessary for hin 10 re'e"
tho evidence elected during the exsmihh'id, anu eo'
tended that II the magistrate iound there "ss
csuse "a, sspec the prisoners to be guilty the crime
s charged II would De his duty TO hold then ioi inuct
ment by the Grand July aud subsequent ri": i
Stewart further argued that the only question ior .no
magistrate 10 pass upon the probable case 10 gus
meet that a crime had been committed 6nd So ny tue
prisoners, il was bis bounden duty to commit them ~
await the action Of the Grand jury, c,
The District Attorney said that the Witmss, Conen'
lin had been corIohoraied in all tho natelal poin'f'
that the fact of all the parties meeting at aDard 80
loon in Fourthaye and there writing ietsr tnat the
subsequent forging Of a check AT the Cohhs no,e'
we're corrorating circumstances entitled consider
atom with the Court. Nr. stewart did not hlnk tnele
was any one who bad listened 10 tue proceedings pu'
what believed the prisoners 10 De enity the iins
charged against them, ana closed WIN pWeiiw ~
PEAL 10 the magistrate to bold Patterson loriIIais
Mr.. Spencer replss1 that the principal witness hee
not been corroborated according To the requirements u
law and nrged that II would DO establishing danger
ous precedent TO commit Patterson on the iery snsh
evidence brought forward by the prosecution. MT
Spencer said it must first be shown That crime 40.
been committed the letter aud check sho" tist es -
do the gentlemen who came forward 70 tesy 70 ths
forgery but SAVE the COUNSEL the testimony does po
connect Patterson with The loreei!' hiei thr ntu
Inents had closed Justice Bowling at once denied ts
motion 10 discharge Patterson IL was stat IN cour
that urged his counsel not ~ ask or his ds
charge lest he should be resrrested and akn "a Phis
delphis. OF elsewhere. ~ answer other CHARGES
ITT DEFENSE.
John & Young chief of the detective force Of this
city, was the irst witness called for tho deeuse be
lcsscd 10 knowing the boy. james Mclaughlin; thh
he called at his office and made abatement, vhlch ~
described The defendants, Guradier and OBflcn we
lad however did not give good description oi lDe w.
rrsoncrs The obicci of tls testimony. oftoursc wa
10 show that Mclaughlin mistaken IN The idenii.
VI Garadier and UIirien
Gilbert r. HAYS oi the bank police. TO whom me tcy
described Garsdier and OBrien, was also called an.
gave testimony similar Ia that Of Chei onrs Iho dc
scriptons as taken by Messrs. Young and Hays wer'
offered in evidence and attached ~ tie papers.
Mr. spencer remarked that be did not intend
attach The integrity of the boy but insisted that he wa
mistaken The counsel said they had other Witnesses
but had concluded not TO call them now and theretor'
would rest the in the confident belief Of being abb
to establish the Innocence vi ali their clients on tria
before Jury.
The magistrate then ordered the prisoners TO be com
mitted the TonbG without ball. 10 await the actoI
OF the Grand jury. by order OF Justice bowling, t'
principal witnesses, George r. Coughliu and the boy
James Mclaughlin. were committed 10 the House
Detention without bail.