The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-10-08

Interview with Col. George Bliss in n Y.
Times
"How soon can the government be ready
for the trial."
eve can probably be ready by the first
week in November. Indeed, if these gen
tlemen are very anxious TO be tried, think
we could accommodate them by the middle
of this month. At the same time, if we
went TO trial with the case SO early, the final
work of preparation would delay us in the
work ofgetting indictments against these
people. There is no person of great impOr
lance in the case except Brady. 1t is not
our strongest case, by any means, but il is
more easily prepared, and rested more on
the records Of the department than most Of
the others, and SO We began with it. Now,
if we go TO trial with this case the
first week in November, the Dorsey case
will have to be left almost entirely alone,
so far as counsel are concerned, until the
trial is over, My own judgment is in favor
Of going on and procuring indictments
against three or four of the contractors be-
fore we go to trial with any of them. The
statute of limitations, you must rcmem-
her il running all the time, and it covers
only three years. The frauds were commit
ted under the mail letting OF 1877, but they
began in 1873. The statute will run out
very soon, you sec, so far as acts committed
under the letting of 1877 are concerned
The Dorsey case is substantially ready for
counsel now. There is no more lay work to
be done, unless it should appear, when we
come to draw the papers, that some little
thing has been overlooked. have brought
home with me an abstract of the evidence
upon which we rely, comprising lbs pages
ofmanuScript, and from that the indlct-
ment must be drawn, The case involves
the bringing of witnesses from almost all
over tho northwest, rs far away as Oregon.
They will have to be brought to Washing
ton to testify before the grand jury, and
either kept or brought back again when the
trial is had"
"GOu intend then, to procure an lndict-
ment in the Dorsey case, instead OF filing an
information as in the Brady Casc?"
Nothing has been definitely decided
on that point yet. Filing an information
has been al unusual course Of procedure in
criminal courts Of late years, but it is rather
unusual in such big case as this. We
pursued it to bear the operation Of the stat
ute of limitations. The moment
you get your papers filed in the
court the statute stops running. 1t
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