, 1876-05-21
WHISKY.
Opening Of the Arguments in
the Mum Case.
Judge Bangs Makes Out a Strong
Case Against the Defendant.
Mr.. S. z. Dow Expresses His Opinion
as to Rehm's Crelibility.

as to Rehm's Credibility.
JUDGE BANGS.
TEE OPENING ARGUMENT.
Court opened at the usual hour yesterda.
morning, and Di5trict-Attorney Bangs Jed Oft il
an earnest, and at times fInpassfoned, address
to the jury He started out with reference tt
the previous good character Of the defendant
but he warned the jury that they were to bs
ruled by no mawksh sentimentality, but to take
into consideration the full evidence, aud decide
from it whether he was guilty or not. judge
Bangs argued that it was not to tho interest o1
the Government to convict an innocent man.
For himself, he should rejoice to believe Daniel
". Mum innocent, but, in the face OF the ugly
facts presented against him, he could not
honestly como to that conclusion. At t his point
Judge Bangs felt called upon to make
an apology for the Internal Revenue system,
and advocated its right to be- Probably not a
man on the jury ever had the least doubt on
this subject This vas followed by few dozen
quotations from that wonderfully y-intercsting
volume, the Revised Statutes Of the United
States. Judge Bangs said he would show TINT
Mnnn had no excuse on earth for not discovering
and exposing these frauds lie could have walked
inte The COLLECTORS office At any time, had he .us
explanation He WAS a good lawyer, man Of
sense and experinee; and this, with his powers to
investigate all persons, books, papers, accounts,
NO EXCUSE WHATEVER
for failure to unearth these frauds The idea that
man could be Supervisor for four years without
ous. Hc was found associating on terms OF the
closest intimacy. not Of antasonisu, suspicion or
objection with Irwin, Hoyt Ridges and the rest.
on the explanations made by distillers and recti-
ders. Mum was no idiot, and the conclusion WIS
inevitable that he wae neglectns his dutics, with
thief" while he had assisted the thief in his ne
furious work The evidence adduced BY RoeIle,
Jnnker = e., G9lsen >; = Eastman, r. Parker R
motives were apparent all the way through The
shipment by Golsen e. Eastman 10 Scl]ers & Co:
Xa dsn 1onght and the, Mnsa s and
Ter to the Department poorly apologized for
the transaction By saying the dIstllefs were rush
ing matters on account Of the change of ta1,-an
effect lie. In explaining the low proof OF the
goods, Munn had raised the supposition that they
had been tampesed with at Pittsburg, knowing all
crooked circumstances in the case. With brazen-
facedness and studied effort to conceal the real
facts from the Department he h;d written that
that is was all mistake Bridges was mentioned
in the letter to corroborate Mum; and well he
might be "a man who had confessed his guilt by
No hypothesis Of Innocence could explain the facts
in this transaction, and it alone was sufficient to
convict him. The payment Of 81. 600 to him By
Junkef was
ANOTHER DANSNo CIRCUMSTANCE.
Mum had made just enough of feint to show
the Government that he was honest while all the
time he vas helping the astillers to steal To op-
character sufficient to explain these matters,
and, second, that the Government witnesses were
not to be believed Judge Bangs M would not deny
lot; SO there were on the side OF the defense 1t
was not confessing too much to Say that Rehm,
Hesing Golsen and Mason Mason wsrs .'1 little so'led
Shchter and few Others And get Jake's char
acter for truth and yeracity was good. In fact nc
cording to the Judge,
was sort Of = model truth teller. Why, he had
handled finances, controlled the police, unmade
Governors, Aldermen, and sent members to Con-
Perhaps man in Chicago had gained such thorough
hatfed aa Jake Rehm, and he was at loss to COM
prehend it. When the Government had at first
he was the very quintessencc Of Diabolism. The
defense had produced no witness who impugned his
character As truth teller, but they had tried to
tel lies, and he lad done it. Why, the Govern
ment Ind his testimony written out way
The interpolated question and answer about Chica-
60 crookedness contained in the later copy which
slichter dietated to Allen, the short -hand writer
GE8QE6 lAt kAW ul1u NIlkE QUESTION
aud answer il his notebook when The two were
together writing ont the notes. The defense had
scoared the city with dne-tooth coub, and Of all
the refuse gathered up the worst OF 1t was the
CONTEafPTIBLE LITTLE VILLAIN 8LICHTER,
who had proved, as witness. to be an abortion,
liar, reptile covered with infamy and disgrace.
And be even had ths impudenee to say he had been
81 500 II he would swear differently. This story
would do to tell to the marines but It wouldn't do
t Col o1as vat h Il n0t stssr
place than the present It was m iguominious
allure on their part, while Jake came out
nents before tho Grand Jury. Why had not Col.
ngersoll fulfilled his pro1aise to show that Jake
lad blackmailed the gamblers, thieves, bunko-
Of Thousand IS pa Wtness
md the Judge wanted Col Ingersoll to make note
fit
o@bs FesPended we ,s wi III make nis a'n note 'es Of
They had atteap ptcd to contradict Rehm by
,ut he'had corroborated Rchm while displaying his
'wn infamy to the eyes Of the world, He Ind told
more against, himself than would ever have
IN samed ed, e. Hesing knew 5hat The
nd the $40, 900 transaction by which |
le took Wash nesing ct the track, as we'll Us the /
eculiar transactions with 'sBut1alo Miller, were
a Munns character, and Judge Bangs testified |
hat he never heard word against Dan Mum pre-
10u8 10 this WHISKY tf0nhle- CharaCter EF1uence !
n these times, however, proved little in the fnce
4 such facts as Ind been adduced- Men did not fail
rom grace all at once; it was through course Of /
ielding to temptation that man fell, aud charac-
or always gave way before reputation. It was 20
trough all time, from Julius Cesar down to 4. |
'asar Hesing, Belknap, Mum, md others who |
'erc under Cloud
Judge Bangs said it was evident from the tcsti-
lony that
MUM WAS CONSIDERED sALL FRIGHT"
far back 1873 or 1874, and that the object WIS
. have Ring man at Washington in the person OF !
Innn rs Commissioner Of Internal Revenue. The
estimony Of Conklin, and hts remark, according to
IT. Osgood, that Mum was too religions to avail
imtclf of the chances Conkliu had shown him to
lake money, were damning. Why had not Mum
eported Conk1in to the Department and had him !
lrued out Of oslce Looking at the whole army
facts. Judge Bangs said hc was |
lie St. Paul in one respect-What should !
say more, surrounded by this great cloud OF Wit
esscs? The jury we're not to be untuly sw1yed by !
.elings Of sympathy for the defendant Justice
as demanded In the name OF 10. 00o, 600 OF peu-
e and he believed the interests OF both sides were
.fe in the jury's hands.
The Court then took a recess until o'clock /
S. X. DOW.
AWoRD FOR THE DEFENSE
On the reassemb1ing Of the Court in the after