, 1874-04-22
SCHOEPPE.
Application for q Habeas Cor
pus.
Testimony Relative to Ills Inclination
TO Forgery.
A Decision To-Day.

schocppo alias ]. D. sohulenberR, for D haboas
corpus. Tho faots aro too recent to need q do
tailed restatoncnt.
THE COUNSEL DIFFER
aa to the points on which tho caHo Tili turn.
Mr. Jusson insista that 1t Ia on tho question Of
Jurisdiction, and It matters not whether Judge
williams was docoivod by tho representations on
which he granted susponRton Of sentence last o.
tober; vhilo, on tho othor hand, 1t is contendcd
that If the suspension WAS grant under mBrop-
,oaontatons 1t is utterly void and thoroforoit is
allowable for tho Judge to reinstato tho case and
pass sentence. Much talking waA indulgod in,
and the isnuoa In tho case woro often neglected
to attack tho motives Of Horwitz and others
who had boon instrumental In bringing schoeppe
back here.
MAX uoNw1Tz,
tho first witness, snid ho Ind procured the re-
quistfon; ho did not go to Springfield, but aont
q apriyato lotser accompanying tho request.
LITTLE INTERRUPTION.
Mr. Jusaen thon asked to Introduce some mum
bers Of the Staats- Zcitung containing articles
writtcn by Horwitz, with the Wow, as counsel
claimol, OF croatng reputation for sohooppo.
80 thnt Mr.. Reed would fool compelled to do
something in tho natter. N1r. Juesen thought
that tho machinery Of tho 1aw Ind beon Bl,amo-
fully abuaed for private purposes. George
Schneider was also abused ut tie game timo
as k,ohoeppe. The articles also Infatuated that
Bchoopro had aeduced tho ,Yifo OF a prominent
man once connected with tho Chicago i North
western Railroad Company; TINT tho. rarty had
obtatned divorce on ellch ground, when tho
papers In tho caso would show that tho "lfe had
procured divorce for cruel treatment.
Judge Williams aaid ho would allow oil; owl
donce possible but tho Court would not try q
libol suit. II schooppe had boon damaged no
had Ills remedy aRainst Horwttz, but elnnderous
would hayc nnth:us 70 do with this case. But 1t
would bo proper to show that HorHitz or other
partios, had brought schooppe here for private
endB.
THE WITNESS CONTINUES.
Nr. Horwitz thon went on with his testimony.
Ho said he went to 1T. Louis for tho purpose Of
getting af1da7its respecting schoeppe, md thoHo
saldAviss were @ published ;d IN IN his ths paros.
paper. pap 'Ap'1Sits Witness '' Bald he had written
about forty columns on that man. 10 did not
know whether Rehm had telographed to Dalti-
more except for information. He did not know
man named Weck, who aont telegrams from
Baltimore.
NEWSPAPER ARTICLES. .
COL JuBaon then nskcd to Introduce m article
from tho Stats Zeitung for March 10. He WISH
ed to know whether tho article was true. The
opinion, that because an article "as published IN
a newspaper 1t Was true. II an said about
himself was truo he ought to DO indicted. NJ"
Horwitz, howeyor, statod TINT tho article was
true, and it WAS intended.
GOOD CHARACTER. .-
h1r. JuBBon then road tho affidavit OF Y. 3.
Asrabor, M Assistant Postmaster at st. Louis,
10 show tho good character Of sohoeppe while in
his employ. Tho af1idavit OF Z. H. Mack, editor
Of the 81. Louis Courier, waa also offered to the
same effect.
The Rev. Mr.. Ernst Guutrun, pastor Of a Lu-
tharhn church, waa next called to show when
1aff oifS h$fSn i113a< ont ~
the time.
Counsel for schoeppn thon rested.
DETECTIVE DIXON.
sohooppo haa sai forged the of otEer pares
Judge was cheated in supporting that the check
mentioned in tho indictment to which ho pleaded
guilty was tho only forged, check he had ever
made. 11r. JuBsen objected, on tho ground that
the checks wero made previous to his sentence,
and TINT he did not intond to isaue thom. There
was nothing to show that Bchoeppe had forged
any ohecks since tile suspension OF bis aontence.
The Judge, however. allowed tho testimony to
20 in, holding it competent aa tending to show
that gchoeppe Wns D worse man than Ac repre-
sented himself to be., Dixon identified about
which he had takon from the prisoners baggage.
schoeppe claimed that he had not attempted
to get any money on them. .qud that 1t was caro-
loss to keep them n,sSos 50 l91sD; 4
Mr.. Reed then called MI. 1untruu,, who testified
TINT scl,ooppo was introduced to him by the
name Of Schuienberg. He had given Schooppe
check, and schooppo had forged others like It..
These wero paid by Schoeppo's father, at the Ma
Witness lad known schooppo'a father for sew
eral years, having been intrdduced to him BY
Pastor Hartmann. Wttness had taken an un-
e ssssf n IN sfhoe e oeps sa aas so
family, and the cause OF his trouble must have
been on account Of an injury suffered by him on
the cars few months previous. He had nodoubt
9f Pastor soh93opPos word q reproscn.atons
witness was influenced by the verdict Of tho jury
in the stcinecko case. Thsxwitaaea said he
HeS Toad ID have beer influenced ag1}n I prisoner
y indignant at the repeated doceptious prac.
ticed on him by sohoeppe and hlB fatllor.
Mr. Vocke, in defense OF Horwitz, who had
been attacked by counsel, then ofrorod an alii-
davit to show 6choeppo's previous bad character.
GEORGE SCHNEIDER
forged cheok OF Gohoeppe's. He testified ,ha.
they had all been giyon up to Biroth. In an
swor to the question question Of the the excusability
remarked that there was greater
prejudice against 1t among Germans than Ameri-
cans, and tlat 1t was a frequent occurrence CON.
paratlvoly for man to oha92ge his name on com
slider it necessarily stain on mans character
until haff-past |. .T-1--- &s'
After the intermisaion Klr. Keller WAS chilled tt
testify to schoeppe'a character before he lofi
Germany. He testified that he WINS witness in
case IN which 8choeppo waa accused Of for
gery Of check for $500. He had neyor seer
6choeppe since, period OF twolyo years, but ht
would reaolleot him. Ho was positive In hit
recollection, because ho had become very familiar
with his faoo IN Bix weekR' trial.
COUNSEL, ron TILE DEFENBE
md }hof hpif mn fo,3