Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-10-04
BRADY IN COURT.
Accompanied by a Strong Array
Of Counsel.
A Notion to Quash the "Clatter'
Against Him.
And a Plea For a Very Light Bail.
Defendants Turned Loose on
Their Personal RecOgnizance.

WASHINGTON, October 4.-0wing
to rumor that the counsel for the
Star Route cases would this morning
make a motion to quash the informa-
ton fled against Brady and others,
there was a large number Of lawyers
and others present in the Criminal
Court room. The Court having been
called to order, General Brady and
Messrs. French, Turner and Brown
entered accompanied by their counsels,
Robert S. Ingersoll, Jeremiah Wilson
and Enoch Totten. The government
was represented by District
Attorney Corkhill and William A.
Cook, Special Assistant. The pro-
ceedings were opened by Totten, who
said he had found that paper called
an information had been recently filed
against General Brady and others and
he wished to enter motion to quash
that paper. He asked leave of the
Court to file that motion and desired
that a day be fixed for its argument.
Cook objected to the filing Of the mo-
ton at present, for when the informa-
tion had been filed it had been
accompanied with the order Of
the Court for the appearance of
the parties until they did appear and
give security to answer, they had no
legal standing.
Totten replied that the parties we're
all present in the court, and ready to
ask that their bonds be fixed.
Judge Cox inquired whether the
counsel had any suggestions to offer as
to the amount of bail.
Cook said that according to the
information, the amount of which
it was assumed the government had
been defrauded was stated at $3.50, 900
According to an act of Congress, bail
in case of conspiracy to defraud the
government was fixed at $4,000. He
would suggest, however, that in order
to cover the possible costs, the bail
should not be less than $4,000.
Mr.. Wilson suggested that in fixing
the amount, the Criminal Court ought
to examine the pretended information,
in order to learn the character of the
allegation against the defendants. He
instanced the averments against Turner
and French, which consisted simply
on a charge of conspiracy and Of
making some calculations, and said
that upon such averments a bail Of
$4,000 or 5000, or $4,000, was lit
tie more than the court ought to
grant. What applied to these two
gentlemen applied to all defendants.
The whole gravamen of the case
against Gen. Brady was that he
did not exercise sound and
judicial discretion in .he discharge
Of his duties as Second Assistant
Postmaster General. There was
nothing in the information that he
could see that would warrant the
court in fixing a hight amount of bail.
Ingersoll, who appears for Brown,
cOntended that the court should only
fix the bail at high enough amount as
to secure the appearance of the de-
PENDANTS. Cook said that the question
of the character of the information
was not now before the court, but that
when it came to the question
of evidence the government ex-
expected to produce adequate
proof to sustain the information.
Judge Cox did not think it was case
which would require any large amount
of bail. lie would examine the infor-
nation tonight and fix the bail to-
morrow. When the bail was fixed he
would determine upon a day to hear
the argument on the motion to quash
the information. 1t would probably
be some time Rext week. Totten's
motion was then filed, and the defend
ants were discharged on their personal
racognizanoa