, 1877-10-06
Third Days Proceedings In the
Trial Of the County
Ring.
1nterminable Arguments Over the Ad.
mission Of Forsythe's
Books.
The Court Holds the Testimony
Incompetent ut tho
Present,
Beardsley Introduced to Prove
Their Correctness.

The trial Of McCafEreY, johnson, md the
other Indicted members Of tic alleged Cnuuty
Ring lrags It's slow length along. and sccms
to be interminable. All DAY yesterday was nc-
cupted In arguments, and the few spectators
present looked sleepy and Tired. perioFat
yawned carly In The morning session, and
dozcd once or twice. McCaifrcY ran in and out
Ut Court, having no taste evidently tor law.
Carroll, johnson, Sweetzcs, and Carpenter kept
their eyes opened, but didn't seem at all i1l-
tcrcstel. Afr. Reed had tie neuralgia md With
o'Briep, who hah nothing to SAT. kept quiet
Mr.. swcst and aidney Smith did all the talking
for the defense. Mir. ". F. Fcddrick Ia now
associated With thc prosecution, and renders
valuable aid In the way Of hunting up authori-
tics.
Upon tho opening OF court, the question
Of the admissitiIfty Of the ledger Of Forsythe t.
Co., which contains the "K" account, was
taken up, the defense having objected to It's in-
PRODUCTION Thursday.
Mr. swct. spoke of the pcculiartttcs Of the
Ease on triai,-tbe statua Of tho witucss Ktmber-
1y,-clalming that Il waA one In which the rules
as To tic admlssbltty Of evidence should be
applied strictly. The very naturo Of the con-
spiracy hetwcen PerIolat and Kimberly. as
Kimberly sworc, was such that It was perfect
without the Intervention Of any Of the County
Commissioners. The Court should remember
ttas It was dealing With a seif.periufcl witness,
with state Of facts complete between Kim
bcriy and Forsythe e. Co. TIC defendants
wcrc outside the "Ring." II was claimed that
they knew of tho arrangement, and as
sonted TO It, and agreed to pass bills
knowing them to be such, and did pass them.
The ruc that conspiracy must be proven BY
circumstances did not apply In this case, be-
cnuse tue conspiracy WIS 10 "oIus' me pa3ty
who made It was before tho Court, but no did
not pretend that thu defendants were part Of
tho conspfracy. The acts aud declarations OF
tors1thn 4. ~ ucr. sought IN ha tntrodurod ~
Iolsysne ~ ~ ~ "e'' ''usA' ~ " 'o'''ou'oa tof
the purpose Of
EsFABLtsnfNo THE CONSPIRACY,
when II could not be established by the
vcrv man WIN nndc IL. In or,yer ~ make
,f.,. .... .nJ d..1or,,to,. ho., ,,,o., .hn An.
.nese mte ."u uesla,aesons ouat upoh n .l's ue.
PENDANTS and imp!'case them, 1t must hrst be
shown that they themselves asaented to these
acta, (1ne man could not bc proycp guilty by
nrov,no that anntbcr man wa. rn,ftv. The
p'u'''s ...@. a ..a''..s W. Nv
p1oeecut'on ""' Nv. "''.''p''as w P.oNo
conspiracy. but 10 prove TINT
Forsythe j. Co. kept thc!r books In way that
reflect ed upon johnson. Ill. answer was that
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