The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1875-07-16

DEdINS THE ARGUMENT FOR THE Defence
The Court met at A. NJ, yesterday.
Col. Rion, after alluding to the propo-
sition he was arguing, said that tho
plaintiff had proved that Parker had re-
ceipted to Kimpton for $3.50, 900 Of cou-
pons which b1r. Cardozo swore were
never turned over to him; that Parker
had been proved to have had in his DOS
session large amount of coupons by
the uncontradicted testimony Of the
| plaintiff; that Parker hnd got y. J.P.
Owens to fund these identical coupons
for him; TINT both Scott and Thompson
saw him III possession of the funding
| bonds which Owens had received for
these very coupons: OF MI the coupons
which hnvc been funded, Owens, rs
agent, funded all but 6G3 of them. lie
then said: "With these facts before vou,
1 care not Uhat Influence has been Jrouyhi
to bear upon t,co Of you, you cannot fail
to find verdict for the plaintiff. md
face your .feliou-men. He then said, if
the jury was not too tired of that camel,
he would trot him out again; he would
| put sic.u or another track; Of al the
bonds that were then out, the $1,000
coupons of all called for $40, except the
coupons on the bonds for the relief of
the treasury, and they being Z pcr cent.
bonds, called for S35; tho jury would
suppose that Parker, when hidden in
the obscurity and secrecy of his pri-
| vatc Office, with all these bonds
and coupons before him, and no
| eye save TINT of One who will never tcs-
tify against him OH this earth, watching
him, would select those coupons of the
greatest value; these were ruby and SAP
phire stones before him, and diamonds,
also; he took some of tho rubies and
sapphires, but he took every ono of the
diamonds; tho camel took greedy bite;
he showed by taking nll of these S35
coupons-thc diamonds of the set-that
he was no fool; that in respect to sense,
Mt least, he was fit to he Treasurer of
the State of South Carolina; and the
records show TINT Owens funded them
oil. The jury could not meet this fact
with verdict for the defendant, and
meet their fellow-men face to face; there
was another track also; they say that
these coupons were fixed up, TINT they
were not honestly charged upon the
books and pnt in the boxes, in Pnrkcr's
five boxes, all of the coupons of every
class; the numbers on the outside show
q deficiency, by actual count, of S28, ,0lS;
this was big track; this was proved by
positive testimony-by actual count. To
sum up: The plaintiff has proved TINT
Parker had $3.50, 900 of coupons after he
| left the treasury; that hc could not have
got them in any other way than by un-
lawfully taking them from the treasury;
that he funded these identical coupons
through Owens, rs agent; that he after
wards had some OF the same bonds that
Owens had funded; that there had been
fraud, shown by direct an,, positive
proof; that Parker had mis-stntcd the in
| terost account in order to cover up the
S45O, 900 of coupons he had taken from
tho treasury; that Parker had manipu-
lated the boxes and Ind accidentally
pnt in Kimpton's boxes coupons
of bonds which were then due,
and one coupon which had been
put away as n voucher on the consolida-
tion issue, and had tried to pass them ns
coupons which had fallen due outside Of
the treasury, and which lnd been paid
by Kimpton and taken mp; TINT there was
a deficit of 1929, 900 of coupons in his
own boxes; that, according to the correct
statement of interest of the public debt
| made by Dunn, which fixed it mt some
thing over ST, ,0C0, these coupons left in
these boxes could not have been in exist
cnce in October, 1871, md were not
therefore, chnrecnblc as interest due bv
the State; that i'll one Of Parkcr's own
boxes there were three packages marked
in his own handwriting, containing cou-
pons Of the Sl0l 900 bonds which must
have been cut off by him, and also with
other bonds like state of facts existed
that in the boxes which he had reccipted
to Kimpton for, and which Parker had
ordered not to be cancelled, but to be
put in his private snfo, there was n de-
ticit of S15O,00 that all of the S35 cou-
pons were missing from the treasury and
had been funded by Owens. Hence, he
claimed TINT the State had proved it's
case by positive testimony and in several
Independent ways, with unwilling wit
nesses and books that experts could not
understand; with the wear of time, wash
ing for years over the track they were
trying to follow, with clues rs fine some
times as spiders web, they had proved
their case, and now asked verdict at
their hands for 1925, 900, tho amount of
coupons which had been abstracted from
the treasury. Ho thanked the jury for
their patience md attention.
MIR. Youmnns, counsel for the defence,