New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-08-06
CHIRLES FISHER CONVICTED.

AN EX-UNITED STATES ASSISTANT DISTmCT-AT
ToRNEY POUND GUILTY OF PASSING A FORGED
CuECK-IHE PRISONERS DEFENCE.
The trial of Charles Fisher ex- United States
Assistant Dlstrct-Attorney Washington. ndict
ment charging hm with obtaining .uoney under false
prctencs attracted considerable attention In the Court
OF General Sessions yesterday. Counsellor Price was
signed 10 assist the prisoner IN his defence prose
cution put on the witness stand George g. Adams
agcr Of the Metropolitan HOTEL who testified 10 receiv
ing tie check signed Entwistle Co., aud giving the
change for 1t. Edward Entwstle Wa3 called and test
fed that the check forgery. The spelling Of the
signature was incorrect. The fra had been out OF
ience for year George W. Davis, bookkecper OF
tao west side Bank. which the check was drawn
swore that Entwlse Co. had account ia the ins-
tuition. OTIS ~ Keith. the cashier OF the Metropolitan,
HOTEL testified to the cashing Of the check Tns all
tht evidence for the prosecution.
Counselor Puce asked that tne case be withdrawn
from thejurya no evidence bad been produced toshow
that the prisoner aware that the cneck bad
when lie passed 1t. rho motion was den ed.
Fisher then put on tho stand In MS own defence
Metropolitan Hotel. He obtained t IN paymeut of
old account fTUm Colonel l. $. J. Boyd While at the
meet MIN tbs AstOr House ON pril IS, At 23O y
He went down 10 the Actor n use and mel Boyd They
walked across tne road TO The Herald office, aud while
on the steps OF that Office lie handed tue check by
BOYD. ,. NJ. ,.
Bell he stated tLat time lieutenant Of
Battery | OF the Artillery. From 1869 10 1873 aud
"a
DstrIct-AItOrney at Washington; MS tHther was tue
ID stric Attorney: father stu alive but he had
not him ltue prlsoncTl bad no desire tn
80. hun while he occupied his present position. On April
4 prisoner win AVS mother came TO this city his
,noner went to n friends mouse aud no pa up at the
Mctrop,i tan Hotel. On meeng BOYD the latter sad
me ex-, @ Ell settlement wi Entwstle & Co., for
whom I4d written certain panpucts for circulation
among ffultgrOWer- ana mat n he got 10 he would
uay Il sher he had borrowed from him In 1877.
Sub equentiy BOYD handed HIN tine check, then
noticed thaI IL made pay able 10 his order Boyd
explained this Dy sa lax that as 1t after banking
hours he had had 10 drawn In order that he
mich haud &C 20 MIN without delay. The check
vas 80 moro than than tue debt, aud t1s
Fisher gave Boyd. After getting the cneck he rode
ma 10 the Metropolitan Hotel In Broadway stage and
paid II Ia settlement FOR his board bill. he had
known BOYD for several Years; he published directory
iu Washington 1869; hiIa the Centennial
ia 1876 and n November 81 tue year he met im
with two friends IN Delaware where be was shooting;
al that he called on n ~ his house In 1877 he
met aud lent hl IN ,ney 10 assist hn IN preparing
an prcle Tor The Herald the Delaware peach crop.
rot seen Boyd and dld not know where hr was. syl
yc,ter :. Wilson testified tnar the letter which
F,.tf had received at the Metropolitan Hotel was III
m handwriting of BOYD. on examiuatiOn he said
that be "a publisher, aud tbat recently he was
ger the Ladies' A hletIc Association OF this city. He
had had difficulty with come of the monbers OF the
aoeiatOu He had been arrested IN Cincinnati for pun
fishing paper IA the interest OF the laborins CLASSES.
Counsel tuen summed up aud Judge GildersleeVe
the jury The jury, alter nalf an hours ABB
sence, returned verdict of guilty.
Tue prisoners counsel asked that sentence BIO deferred
until Friday In OrCer that he might move Tor new
tIia. He expressed his Intention OF doing on the
glunnd that Tho verdict not N accordance with the
weight Of evidence. The prisoner was Temanded until
| Friday.