The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1876-02-17

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officers could get to the places everything
would be running straight and no gooo
could be accomplished, as far as detecting
frauds that were already COM
mitted, that it might prevent
frauds in the future, but could
not discover those already committed. l
stated better and certain way OF get
| ting at the frauds was TO send some good
! man or men who were reliable and who
had good knowledge of what could be
done, to these points secretely, and sueh
mon would be able to detect these people
in the act of fraud. In this way the
proof could be gathered for the seizure,
then if they had not confidence
in the local officers they might
transfer supervisors to those places TO
make these secure. and push the punish
nent and forfeituresi said If this order
was revoked, it would throw the dlstil-
lers off their guard again, and the oppor-
tunity would be good one to send on
detectives secretly; l told him | had said
to the Secretary of the Treasury that l
believed Mr.. Brooks would be a good
man, aud that if he could be sent
out there without the parties knowing
he was going he would be able to get at
the bottom of the frauds. The President
said the more information he received
the better he was satisfied this order
would not accomplish the purpose in
tended, and he said that he would sus-
pend the order that day; this was done
that day, the 3rd of February, l think
went to Baltimore the next day, where
had good deal OF business.
On cross examination witness said: i
saw Gen. Babcock while in Washingtoni
he never said anything about pressure
being brought to have the order sus-
pended; did not have talking nc
auaintance with Gen. Babcock; then
when / suggested Brooks as good man
to come out west to ferret out the frauds
the President did not say the plan OF
sending Brooks out here had been al
tempted; know several arrangements
here had been fustrated; l did not know
that they had tried TO get Brooks here
before until the secretary told me II Wouid
be useless to try to send him here as when
that an attempt had been made lntor-
nation that he was coming had reached
here; l did not tell the President thlsi
| did not know that on several occasions
they had tried to get revenue agents
out here.
Mr.. Vitas, cashier of the Fifth Ave
nue. Hotel New York, testified TO Bah
cock being at that hotel from Tuesday,
October %, 1879, to the following Fri
day, the 3lst.
The defence then offered package OF
Eleven Letters,
said to be from Revenue Agent Hoge
to one of the Bingham brothers, showing
when Hoge was seduced into the service
of the ring.
The defense claimed that he became
corrupted several months before the pre-
sumptions of the testimony showed that
it occurred, and they proposed to prove
it by these letters.
The District-Attorney objected on the
ground that there was no proof that
bingham ever received them, or that
they had ever been in the mail. They
had been identified as IN Hoge'. hand
writing, bnt that was not enough. we
think they should show where they came
FROM who sent them and who received
them.
The Court-lf we held you
to that in your letters and kilograms,
YOU wouldn't have liked it.
The clerks IN the postotiice were then
put on the stand ard identified the post
marks of eight OF the lett.rs as being the
same as those they were accustomed to
receive on the letters from Cincinnati
Xenia, Ohio, and indianapolis. These
eight letters were then admitted, but the
other three, which had no envelopes,
were debarred until further proof should
be offered. The letters submitted showed
some Of the operations OF the ring.
Babcock Probably 10 be Acquitted.
WAsuINGToN, February l6.-Coiolel
Cook, one OF Babcock's counsel, stated
to-day that he had received telegram
from st. Louis announcing that the gen.
eral opinion WAS that the government
case was Il failure, and that the evidence
was not sufficient TO convict Col Cook
was at the White House to-day, and IN
formed the President OF the contents ot
the telegram.
Horrible Murder.