, 1876-06-04
A Postponement OF Sentence"Day
Secured.
Wadsworth's and Wards Attorneys
Object to Their Witnesses Being
Sent Down,
And After a Struggle Succeed in
Carrying Their Point.
It Is Not Settled Whose Case Will Come
Up for Trial Tuesday.

taken the day before IN regard to the sentenc-
ing of the whisky-men. While the latter arc
| fully aware that the day Of doom must come
| some time or another, they had some very
| decided complaints to make yesterday morning
| after reading TIE TRIBUNE article and recciv-
! ing, as a supplemental dose, notifications
| through their attorneys, TINT the District
Attorney would expect some Of them to be
around Tuesday, and some Wednesday, to hear
| the opinion Of the Court US to their deserts.
There was indignation in every breast, and the
cause OF it was simple. They had very great
objections to being singled out and sentenced
before any OF their brethren, and the idea Of
Jake Rehm and dozen others escaping for tho
present, and perhaps altogether, was too much
for them when it came to be fully realized.
There was
ANOTHER AND GRAvER CAUSE FOR DEMURR1SG.
Some of the second batch are witnesses in the
Wadsworth and Ward cases for the defense.
Now, the idea OF sending them up md closing
their mouths, while Jake and the rest had un-
limited opportunities for occupying the stand,
unjust, and their indignation would seem to be
in great part Of the righteous sort. Yet it
! may be said that the Governments prosecuting
and net engaged in defending the whisky-mcn.
tenccd at once they could have walked into
court Tuesday or Wednesday and asked for
postponement OF sentence. This they
hid perfect right to to dc DO. T., 1t othn:l was
a done in cf the Mckee ec1seS and N possa eaain
that Judge Blodgett would have turned deaf
ear Or, even If they were sentenced and con-
Quoted to Joliet, they could be brought to Chi
cago on writ OF habeas corpus, and, as the
crime for which they would be sent down is
not q felony, their testimony could be accepted.
Neither the District Attorney and his able US
sistants nor the distilleTs themselves saw this.
The former do not seem to have worried them
selves to seek out any defense for their action,
and the latter were too much excited to ponder
over anything but the disgrace Of learning
trade at tho Penitentiary or serving out a base
and ignoble existence In the County Jail. And
yet, despite. all this violent displeasure on the
one another, and with an audience largely
composed Of reporters as to the probable dis
position they would make Of themselves at
Joliet, and what particular branch of industry
each man would pursue, While the merry joke
went round, however, their wrath was being
nursed to keep it warm, and after some consid-
cradle discussion it was determined to deputize
somebody to wait on the Government attorneys
and speak the corporate mind Of the batch.
M. sToRRs WAS SELECTED
to interviews Judge Bangs and his legal brethren,
and as Storr's is Wadsworth's counsel, there
was considerable propriety in the decision. He,
too, was indignant that some Of his witnesses
were to be virtually intiuidatcd as be called it,
lost no time in visiting the Government build
iust jus Ad what h7' he thought ~ Of = such pro, pro.
ceedings on the part OF the Government.
urged the injustice Of the scheme, and Judge
Bangs told story to Illustrate the folly ofdclay-
ing till some indefinite time what could just as
well be done Tuesday or Wednesday The peo-
been enough dilly-dallying, aud the Government
meant to get down to business. Delays were
no longer IL order. And then Mr. StoFrs went
ct it again, in even more vigorous Style
In short, the conference resulted in q partial
back-down on the part Of the aforesaid Govern
mcnt attorneys, who told Mr.. Storrs that they
would see him later. The hour OF 2 o'clock In
the afternoon was sett0r
ANOTHER CONFERENCE,
at which time Judge Bangs would give an
terim the conferences were renewed on the out
side. The favoEite lunch places were again re-
sorted to, and the injustice of the whole busi-
ness discussed amidst copious potatfons Of sour-
mash. At O'Clock Mr.: storrs was true to his
engagement at the Govtrnmcnt building. The
DistFict-Attorney had just finished an elaborate |
dissertation on Herbert Spencer and the au- |
thenticfty Of the Scriptures to his brother at |
torncys, and had got to the words "quod erat |
demonstrandum y when Storrs, putting and |
blowing, entered the inner sanctuary. The topic |
of conversation was suddenly changed. The |
party got down to business. The whole ground !
ernment representatives simply made one de-
fc nsc,-that this thing Ind beon delayed
long enough already. AIr. Storrs grew eloquent
as he commented on what he considered the
outrageous injustice Of the proposed plan of |
shipping those who were OF no use to the Gov
er1iment, but of considerable use to him and |
his clients. In short, the distillers triumphcd, |
and the Government took the bcck-track. The !
result Of this second conference was that 3lr. |
Storrs received assurances that such witnesses |
DC ba1 fnJf IN IA nj
till after he had done With them. Those distillers
who cannot be Of any possible use to either side |
will be sent down. It remains to be seen just |
who they are Ot course the news OF the r.
spite WAS received with good deal OF suppressed |
JOY, and each man in turn ordered the drinks all |
around. |
TUESDAY. |
A TRIBUNE reporter saw Judge Bangs yestcT- |
day afternoon, and, besides learning the above |
facts, was told that the witnesses III the Wads-
worth and Ward cases would be expected to be |
on hand Tuesday morning. II no sentences t
were pronounced on such OF the whisky men rs
the day with the trial OF somebody. Whether |
it would be Wadsworth or not he could not tell. /
He remarked that it might be Hildrcth, whose |
attorneys had been around during the morning |
present Tuesday morning to be tried, if he did
not plead guilty. And as to the latter condition |
Judge Bangs could only sur1nisc. He really |
did not know whether Hildreth wanted to |
absolutely certain, and that was that Hildreth |
had not sQucalcd on anybody up to date. It |
was current yesterday, however, that he intend !
ed to squeal on somebody mo matter if the vic
tim WAS his grandmother or snow-bird. Even !
the revenue men distrust the eloquent yet un-
grammatical Alderman, and openly say he would |
squeal on anybody if there WIS the least pros |
pect of saving himself. That he has not yet !
squcaled On Ballent1ne and Lawrence, and |
others, is pretty fair prcsumptivc evidence that
hfe hoo hat hort n 11r