, 1876-02-20
tn COURT.

IN COURT.
COL RnoAnnEAps ARGUMENT.
ST. LOUIS, Mo-, Feb. 19.-The closing srgu
ments in the Babcock trial we're commenced this
morning, in the United States Circuit Court, By
James o. Rroadhead, Of the special prosecutors
for the Government The courtroom was
crowded, and the outer doors we're kept locked
nearly all the morning.
After speaking OF the attention which the
jury had given during the ten days Of the trial
preceding, and his belief that tho jurors meant
to do their duty, Col. Broadnead said:
The Government which / represent is not the
Congress, the President or the Judiciary, but is
the law OF the land. The strict enforcement OF
the law is vital to its natural existence. It is
for you simply to inquire If the law has been
violated by this defendant, aud, il it has, it is
for you to tako coguizancs Of it, and the punigh-
ment Is in your hands. The Grand Jury found
an indictment against this man. but you are to
pssB on the evidence submitted to You and, II
you baliere the defendant is guilty, you are not
to be influenced by his former good character.
Men as good ~ he have fallen before tempta-
ton. Aconspracy may exist by solemn agreo-
ment, or By tacit understanding, and one who
connives at the purpose of guilty combination,
or it be shield it, is himself guilty in the eye of
the Law.
Col. Broslbead then reviewed, at great lepgtb,
tho evidence, not continuing himself TO the testi~
mony for the moment, but ueing, rs he vent
along, the letters aud telegrams and witnesses
of the defense. II will show you before l ret
through, gentlemen" he said, "that their tracks
ALL LEAD II THE SAME DIRECTION
every one Of them There isn't single ono
turned the other way" At nearly every point
md
construction put uIon 1t which carried out th9
theory of the prosecution. After reading the
telegrams between Joyce and Babcock, about a
successor to Ford, in 1873, Col. Dsosdhead said:
ton, that Babcock came to him to sec
what be could do for Joyce as candidate for
the vacancy. The President said: No, let the
bondsmen Of Ford recommend somebody Bah
bondsmon recommend you.' Joyce understood
that when he cent back tue message, An express
sion from tho President will secure everything
joyce knew Rabcock understood it. What could
hare been meant other than that this conspiracy
was to 60 on ? And then Joyce sent rho mes
sage recommending Mcguire, and one with it to
Babcock, in which he uses the word num- The
defense say that this meant that Dabcock was
not to mention that Joyce had been candidate.
Can any man accept this as a sensible conclu-
slon2 This mum Incans that there vaa
SOMETHING HIDDEN AND SECRET.
understood between Joyce anu this defendant.
which they did not wish to have koown. They !
have introduced, at tn1s point in their defense,
a long series Of letters which passed between !
Joyce and Dabcock, commencing formally and !
then growing familiar, With such addresses as !
= Ny Dear Colonel aud My Dear Joyce y but t
these letters stop 10 1873. Why don't they pro- !
duce letters in 1874 and 1875, when the distil- |
lenes we're running out tho crooked at their |
fullest capacity ? These letters commence in |
1870, and run down through 1871 and 1872 but !
in 1873 there ia only one, aud after that not ono.
Where are the others of 1874 and 1875 p
Col Droadhead then passed to the kilograms
II March Is, 1874: when Joyce was ordered to
and Avery notified him that the !
agents we're going to St. Louis.
AVERY FURNISHED THE 1SFoRMAT1oN,
out he could nos stop tue agent, so joyce sont
be telegram to Babcock: <31ake Douglass call
ii his scandal bounds" That menus some-
@ouglass remembcro TINT Babcock saw him
bout this time, and asked him about this mai
er. and he told him no charges against Ford
zero being investigated
Col Droadhead tben sketched the dispatches |
hrough tho fall Of 1874, when efrorta we're be-
ne made to get of D raid On st Louis. Ho
loted the various delays Cor the elections, aud
1rcasically said: ''Theeo revenue olhcia1s
fere political machines. Tho election Of these
individuals was OF more conse-
uenoe than tho detection OF frauds on the
eyepue- These delays dated down to the 14th
+ December, when Brooks, with his men, vait-
7g in Philadelphia, was notified that the raid
as of. 1t WAS on the 18Th Of December, when
abcock, having seen the Commissioner, tele-
raphed to McDouald the
tssy1PH" plspATCH:
succeeded. They will not 60" The King
new of the defeat q day before the 1aiding
a1ty did, When rogers told Mcdonald, On the ,
h Of December, that the Agents had not gone.
,as wasn't enough to satisfy Mcdonald and
lake him feel so good that be sent his tele- =
ram to Joyce: dead dog. The goose hsnes
titudelun. Tbs sun shines" So Mcdonald
sd put something else in motion, On which ne
om Rogers desk, aud wrong construction
I'd been put upon that letter, and it bad been 7
ut in Bsbcocks bands, who. before the 18th ,
December, as Douglass testihes. showed this
} Douglass. and gare it b(acamal!ing con- !
ruction. Why should Babcock, With all the I
anifold duties which he is credited with. have I
1s,ed himself about in this secret and hidden {
amer. bind Douglass not to tell Rogers who
ID shown him the letter?
Babcock worked, for five days in . manner I
hich would have been remarkably dislnterested | e
vi he been an innoceut man q
IN BEHALF or THE RESd, d
,pealing not only to Douglass, but the.Presi- i
mt, and telling the latter that he had told c
ougass that the officers out here ought not to I d
trested as thieves. Nov. Was there anything
this letter to warrant the assertion that the | n
6cers we're being treated as spies Host as =
redly not and Babcock did not speak By shat +
tier, but by knowledge independent OF it. p
Taking up the revocation order Of the Presi- b
ut, Col Broauhead said the President had de- Il
sEed that Babcock did not influence him in the j
vocation Of the order transferring Supervisors, u
d not worked elsewhere to that end. :
10 testimony shoNB that he went to Douglasa II
10 had The power to revoke tho order. It q
ows that by warning that gentleman Of the 81
,asrrous effect which this order must have on d
. prospects for prefermeut be tried to induce 81
I'm Ar f,ie f1krt II ehoN1 that 1uFco. on re- | r