The New York herald., 1876-02-22
BABC0CK'S PLEA.
Mr.. Storrs Harangues the
Jury All Day.
A DOZEN OF STOICS.
The Secret Correspondence with
Mcdonald Ignored.
Grants Deposition and the Sermon on
the Mount.
THE "SYLPH" DESPATCH.
A Moving Spectacle During the
Peroration.
HE "SYLPH" DESPATCH.
ST. LOUIS. No. Feb. q. 1915.

pathetic that IL would certainly have drawn tears 10
the eyes ofthe jury for the amentaoe lack
OF handKerchiefs heretofore alluded to- Storrs is
little trim, compaotly built man, with Q willy, foxy
face, the lower part OF which hidden beneath rizzy
auburn beard and mustache, with short nose that
seems to have stopped short in quzzical way before
It finished growing, large, prominent keen eyes, with
which he fixed every individual juror and pierced him
through and through, low retreating forehead and
smooth short dark hair. For 30 small man his head
is very long and his voice unusually hard and loud
He must have been constructed on somo new patent
wire spring, for his head and upper body bobbng
forward incessanty while he talking 10 tho
jury and sometimes SO much SO that IL
looked II his frisky figure were about To
collapse His nat outstretched palm swung up
\ and down before the jury while he emphasized his
words, and every now and then he would turn CON-
petey round 10 flourish his before Colonel Dyer
and Judge Dillon while in his raptures tho ap-
preaching triumph of innocence. If williams opoRng
address was aowery, storrs speech was
| BOTANICAL GARDEN.
He called the Presidents confidence in Ford "a green
spot in the desert of this case and contrsed with
the lugubrious exhibition Of the want of all human
feelings shown by tho "conspirators He trans
planted the jurors to their bedrooms, 'when in tho
still hours OF the night they would call up the past
sec their children around hem and find peaceful
| in the glorious consciousness Of having acquitted
| the defendant" ''The jurors" he said were
asked by the prosecution Ito suppress every
prompting Of their consciences and every throbbng Of
their hearts, which could only prompt throb in
direction" When, in glowing language, he showed how
v was Hoge and not Babcock who furnished informa-
tion to the Ring, he exclaimed enthusiastically, Joy
to all mankindl We discovered the leak at last;
but It has discovered the OF unspeakable
anguish OF fortune Tho witnesses for the pros
ecution he said, would swear the out Of the sky
and the water out Of the whose infinite flowing
he thon described with much poetical feeling High
ly melodramatic his description Of how Everest
had to "damn his soul" and to the two let
ters he mailed "Wth the pententiary yawnng before
him and with his wife waiting trembling at home"
Everest would have that he saw Joyce put the
money into the second letter. but The eternal form of
Justice up before him and he couldn't do it"
The great God that watched fathers watched
this young man.; and to Everest's testimony,
| he thus summed up his opinions upon t. "Buried
deeper than the pummet sounded let this lie in It's
dishonored grave"
| DANTEsoUE PICTURE
After highly extoing Magill he pictured in truly
Dantesque style scene when Fitzroy of his
co-consprators would knock the gate heaven for
admission and behind him would be Magin and the
eternal gatekeeper would say, 'Come In, Magill get
he funny and called forth laughter of the
audience by his highly favored character dclineations
The conspiracy he called 'This boxed up mussiness Of
scoundrelism," Everest "the great leaker" &c In
fact the whole speech both In its serious humor-
GUS parts, like performance in comedy, and
the broad gns of the spectators at Storrs turgd and
tropical metaphors conrasted strangely with the grim
faces OF the jury but few of them could scarcely
suppress a smile.
THB JURY TOUCHED
II was only in conclusion when Mr. Storrs with adrot
tenderness dwelt upon tho terrible anxiety OF Bah
cocks children and his wife, and imporsd the jury to
lift up these children and this wife, that the audience
was really moved evidently approaching their harrow
ing position, and here spectacle really touching pre-
sented ITSELF The defendant whose handsome, norid
face wreathed in smiling confidence all day. could
overcome his feelings he heard Mr. Storrs pic
turing his children praying on their knees for his
release, and imperceptbly and evidently against his
will his eyes slowly filed with He hard to
suppress them but did not before few OF the
jurors had wistfuy gazed at his moist eyes
The speech profusey interlardcd with the
most extravagant compliments to the jury and
never probably in the entire history OF Jurisprudence
had jury been the recipient Of SO much soft SOAP
or had ''soft solder" been skifuly applied. They
are certainly remarkably stocal men, II they can with
stand all Mr. Storrs' honeyed words and convict the
defendant II Is considered remarkable that during
! Mr. storrs' gushing speech, which lasted SIX hours
against Broadhead's two, he wholly overlooked tho
secret correspondence between Babcock Mcdonald
under cover TO MAJOR Grimes, and and lightly
| passed over the 'syph" despatch, which he himself
| called the 'scorner stone OF the prosecution. 4"
ARGUMENT DBYEEcE CONTINUED
MT Storrs resumed his speech as folows:-
At the close Of this discussion Saturday afternoon
had finished, as supposed, the dispatches between
Joyce and Babcock relative to the successor OF w.
Ford II seemed 10 mo that had demonstrated that
Magures appointment the result Of the hon.
orable motive From The highest principles justice
the President consulted the wishes OF Ford's bonds
men, who were bound 70 the extent Of thousands OF
dollars for, the conduct OF that ocer All this corre
spondcnce passed In October 1873 From that time
down TO March, 1874 there was period OF dead silence
between General Babcock and Joyce ana Mcdonald
come the next despatch In order Of time, from
Joyce to Babcock in March, 1874.
iStart for San Francisco to morrow night Make d.
call on his scandal hounds that only backen che mem
ory of Ford aud friends BUSINESS" F"
| Douglass himself tells you in his testimony that
there was direct suspicion against Joyce bat the
revenue agents sent out here from time TO timo
brought back such stories Of excessive hospitality that
the Commissioner felt the necessity OF transferring
him the time being 10 another and sphere OF
usefulness Joyce attempted 70 visit Washington when
| he received the order, but he thwnrtcd. Had
Babcock then been q member OF The conspiracy his
Offices would have been called IN 10 prevent the
sired visit 70 Wsshinston Genera Rsbccck vas NO,
appealed and thai s the best proof Of Innocence
and ignorance Of any Ring at this time. Referring
directly 10 the scandal hound" despatch Mr. Storrs
asked who was Ford, and in reply quoted
the Presidents deposition, in which tho latter
refers TO hts lifelong friendship for Ford,
and says that for years before Ford's death
he was lntrusted with tho Of the Presidents In
terests here, and the recipient Of hundreds and
thousands OF dollars which he dsbursed and OF which,
Implicit tho confidence that the President kept
no account Said Mr. Storrs tne tooth OF scandal may
have bitten Ford through and through but the Prcs
dent still maintained t6e same confidence in his old
/ friend which existed In New York State twenty-five
II absolutely delightful tho desoTt Of
thts In the great void OF truth and honesty n nnd
green spot like thia Knowing the relations oetween
Ford and the President Joyce sent his despatch,
Make D. call on his scandal hounde that ony
blacken the memory OF poor Ford Is u any
wonder that the private secretary or the Presl-
dent receiving this despatch, went 70 douglass
touching Fordf Mr. storrs then read me letter
Of March II from Babcock 10 Joyce, IN which ne says
Douglass informs him that no charges nave pcen maze
! concerning Ford or any other 80 Louis onhciA, and
then tells Joyce he don't know why Douglass sends