The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1876-02-21
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RAB'S TRIAL.
The Argument Commenced.
Synopsis Of the Remarks of
Messrs. Broadhead
and Storrs.

ST. EoUIs, February l9.-The closing
arguments in Babcocks trial were com
menced this forenoon in the United
States Circuit Court by James y. Broad
head, Of special counsel for the
Government. After speaking of the
attention which the jury had
gwen during the ten days Of
the trial preceding, and his belief that
the Jurors meant to do their duty, Col.
Broadhead said, the government | rep
resent is not Congress, the President or
the Judiciary, but is the law of the land.
The strict enforcement of the law is vital
to national existence. 1t is for you sim
ply to inquire If the law has been viola
ted by this defendant, and If 1t has 1t Is
for you ~ take cognIzance of it, and the
punishment is in your hands. The grand
Jury found an indictment against this
man, but you are to pass on evidence
submitted to you, and II you
believe the defendant is guilty, you are
not to be Influenced by his former good
character. Men as good as he have
fallen before temptation. a conspiracy
may exist by solemn agreement or by a
tacit understanding, and one who con-
nives at the purpose of guilty combl-
nation, or he who shields it, Is himself
guilty in the eye Of the law.
Col. Broadhead then reviewed at great
length the evidence, not confEing him
self to the testimony for the Govern
ment, but using, rs he went along, the
letters, kilograms and witnesses OF the de.
fense. l will show you before 1 get
through, gentlemen, he said, that their
tracks all lead in the same direction,
every one of them. There Is
not single one turned the
other way 1t any point. The Pre-
dents deposition was quoted, and the
construction put upon it which comes
out of the theory of the prosecution.
After reading the kilograms between
joyce and Babcock about successor to
Ford in 1873, Col. Brosdhead said, it
seems from the Presidents deposition
that Babcock came to him to see what he
could do for Joyce rs candidate for
the vacancy. The President said no,
let the bondsmen of Ford recommend
somebody. Babcock telegrsphs Joyce:
See that Ford's bondsmen recommend
you.r Joyce understood that when
he sent back the message, ian
expression from the past will secure
eyerythlng'-Joyce knew that Babcock
understood it. What could have been
meant other than that this conspiracy
was to 60 on, and then Joyce sent the
message recommending Mcguire, and
with it one to BabCock, in which he uses
the word "mum." The defense say that
this meant that BabcocK was not to
mention that Joyce had been cand-
date. This "muln" means that there was
something hidden and secret understood
between Joyce and this defendant, which
thsv did not wish to have known. They
have introduced at this point in their de-
tense long series of letters
which passed between Joyce and
Babcock, commencing formally and
then growing familiar with such addresses
as MY Dear Colonel "My Dear Joyce y
But these letters stop i'll 1873. Why
don't they produce letters in 1874 or
1875. when the distilleries were running
out the crooked whisky at their fullest
capacity. These letters commence in
1870 and run down through 1871 ard
1872. but in 1873 there is only one and
after that not one. Where are the others
of "A and 10?
Col. Broadhead then passed to the tel
egrams of March, "a when Joyce WAS
ordered to California and Avery notified
him that agents were going to 81. Louis.
Avery furnished the information but ne
could not stop the agents, so Joyce sent
the telegram to Babcock to make Doug
las, call Of his scandal hounds Thst
means something. The scandal hounds
were called of, and Douglass remembers
that Babcock saw him about this time
and asked him about this mater, and he
told him no charges against Ford were
being Investigated. Col. Brosdhead
then sketched the dispatches through
the fall Of 1874, when efforts were being
made to get up raid in st. Louis. He
noted the various delays for the cleo
tiuns. and Systematically said those rcve
nues were political machines; the cleo
tions Of distinguished individuals were
OF more consequence than the detection
of frauds in the revenue. These delays
dated down to the fourteenth OF Deem
Der, when Brooks, with his men waiting
in Philadelphia, WAS notified that the
the raid WAS OFF. IL was on
the thirteenth Of December that
Babcock having seen the Com
missioner, telegraPhed to Mcdonald
ThcSyIph Dispatch,
Il succeeded. they will not go. The
ring knew OF the defeat a day before
the raiding party did ard when Rogers
told Mcdonald on the Slh Of December
that the agents were not gone, that did
satisfy Mcdonald and make him feel so
good that he sent this telegram 20 Joyce.
Dead dog. The goose hangs sltitpdinum.
The sun shines so Mcdonald had pat
something else, IN motion snd in which
be learned q letter from Brook. had been
stolen from Roger; desk and wrong
contraction had been Put up.
on the letter and i had
been 1lL IN Dhb-DNh : Lhl4'As - ~ Uf@s' y
the 18th OF December a Douglas testified,
showed this TO Douglas aud gave it Il
black mailing construction. Why should
Bsbcock with all the msEifoii duties
which be i ere, it d With, have busted
h n i in this cret and dden manner,
binding Doug l4s not 10 Ie.I Rogers VINO
had SHOWN him the letter.
Babcock worked for FIVE days in 8
manner which would have been remark
ably disinteresting had he been an limo
cent man in behalf OF the ring, appealing
not onlyt Douglass, but 70 the President,
aud telling the latter be had told Doug
lass that the officers out here ought not TO
be trested as thieves Now wIs there
ANYTHING in this letter 70 warrant the s..
sert;on that the officers were being
treated as spies? Mos, sssurediy not, and
Babcoek did not speak By that letter, but
BY knowledge independent of it. Taking
] up the revocation order Of the President