The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1876-03-02

had rturned \ istGst to Gen. G.
W: Sc fnh6ack. Witness was repeat
edly pressed to recollect the name oil
anybody else for whom he had taken letters
ont Of the boxes, but he could not remember
one; he carried blank receipts and had re.
ceipts with him when he, gave the letters to
Joyce, but Joyce refused to give him . re-
cslpt SAY ing that 1t was only blind.
The deposition of President Grant was read
and admitted by the court In nearly its
original form. ~ .--s VS.
The defense amounted their case closed.
TENTH DAY.
Georse Gavin. the Secretary of the st
Louis Board of Police Commissioners, was
called for the purpose Of showing the record
of Magill, the letter-carrier, who testified to
returning two letters to Joyce. The witness
did not answer, and the District Attorney an
nOunced that the Government would put in
no rebuttal testimony. Judge Porter, for the
defense, after citing authorities and prece-
dents, then asked for the acquittal of the de.
fendant at the hands OF the court.
Col Broadhead replied to Judge Porter, aft
er which the Court overruled t he motion OF
the latter. The proposition being then
made that the prosecution should open the
arguments, Judge Dillon announced that, as
matter Of justice to the defendant, he would
suspend the usual rule, and require the pros.
ecution to open, In order that the defense
might not waste time in guessing on what
portion Of the mass of testimony the prose-
cution relied.
Neither counsel being prepared to begin
their arguments, the court adjourned.
ELEVENTH DAY.
Col. Broadhead began the closing argu-
ment, reviewing the evidence at great length,
and insisting that the testimony and the tele-
grams produced in the trial all tended to con-
meet the defendant with the conspiracy to de-
fraud the revenue. he claimed that the let
ter-carrier Magill was a manufactured and
trained witness, gotten up for the purpose of
offsetting the damaging testimony given by
Everest. The counsel closed with the ad-
monition that the jury be not influenced by
the consideration of position, but that if they
found that corruption nestled within the
White House they crush it out.
Mr.. Storrs, on behalf of the defense, re-
viewed the testimony, and replied to the
summing up of Col. Broadhead. He said
nothing had been adduced to prove the de-
PENDANT guilty, but that the prosecution had
invited the jury to assume crime that had
not been proven. Mr.. Storrs was Obliged to
suspend his remarks because of sickness, and
the court adjourned.
TWELFTH DAY.
Mr.. Storrs, for the defense, resumed his ad
uress 10 the jury on the morning OF the 2lst
and spoke continuously until the session
closed for the day. period of nine hours al
together. He devoted his attention mainly
to an analysis and explanation of the tele-
grams purporting to have passed between
Gen. BabcOck and Joyce and Mcdonald, en-
deavoring to show that they were all suscep.
ti5le of an explanation compatible with the
theory of the entire innocence of the de-
fendant. Having disposed of the tele-
grams to his own satisfaction, Mr.. Storrs
took up the evidence of Everest, whom he
characterized as lying fugitive, whom the
prosecution would not trust with a gallon Of
spirits in which the Government had an in.
terest of seventy cents, but who was allowed
to swear away the character of an innocent
man. He claimed that his testimony had
been entirely answered by that of the wit
ness Magill, who was dnimpeached and un-
impeachable. Mr.. Storrs closed witch an elo-
quent peroration.