The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1882-06-08


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~ fhlladelphla regularly equipped count
T, ieit money iaCiory with machlnerH, ,
ji nlllllng cages oi INC com dles, cruclbl
metal and large quantity oic0mpleted a.
. partially finished gold and silver com, pr
:, clpally silver. Some counterfeit notes we
also captured. The countcrieiters beloi
!. in Philadelphia and Baltimore, whore the
!. THE sTAR.RoUTE CASES.
| Attorney Bliss resumed ana complete
; lhe opening argument for the goyernmei
in the siar-rnute cases to-day. ATTORNEY
, General Brewster appeared in court to-da
; for the first time, but tool, no pal
/ in the proceedings as Bliss occu
pied the entire day. TO-mofrO'
the defense will open. lmthe course Of hi
speech to-day Bliss classified the defend
ants as fellows; ex-Assistant Postmaster
General Brady was a higher public officer
and was regarded as the most guilty of tn
defendants; Stephen w. Dorsey was United
States senator and at one time chairman o
the senate committee on post.otlices
his brother, John w. Dorsey, was an agen
of some mechanical concern in Il smal
| New England town; Peck was a brOther-in
| health, suffering from Consumption: Minor
was friend of Dorsey, living in Sandusky
| Ohio; Reidell came originally from Arkan
sas, figured in a certain Investigation in
no enyiable light: was afterwards post
Office clerk. and finally clerk and
general hcuchman to Stephen w. Dorsey,
whom Bliss charcc cierlzed as the leading
spirit and guide of the conspiracy: Vaile
was the only reguIar contractor in the com
bination, the only one of them who ever
carried mails. Boone was brought in
becanse he lad brains n thorough Rnowl-
edge of the business Of the nost.ofice de-
nor,ment and was fartiIa in aYnedients for
fhe evasion of nenoIties for non norform.
onces of contracts Dorsey mirht have
brought his men, might have set up his
dummies. but Brodv conId have overturned
eyerything and his assistance was indis-
pensable. Sneakino of Peck Rliss said he
snnnosed him 10 he dead bnt from the
fact that the money due to him had been
regularly drawn since This ALLEGED
death beconse The nowers Of ottornev
wb;cI are ren5ereG voii NV deatb are stiff
haine nsed in Pect, ,s mama there was r. n.
sonahle donbt Rliss discussed n large
nnmher of snecifcations mon which these
snits are bosad Amnn@ cases taken
ot rondom fron, hi. citations orn
tSa foIIowinr On % nno rn,1ie terminatiny at
Lake Civ CoIorado the mail carried
in ono I,ecr' onoounteS 10 two c;rcnlar~ two
naUSno,,or, I've ofSoio1 lottors anJ one or.
hr iotta 'mu f ttis Sor,,;oa tbo
ar,rlont itU ,a;J 500 i9i y ,,oor hnimnS DIV
Coiorado NU H,as directiv n, rn,,ie. tie
Stooa oao,od T% %9, t,,a vor,; ,oor Of tIn nost.
ofioo pat t,'o oconnno,oot;on for +an rppilas
;nrSad a. SiS u,aS aiIownS ror stonninS
.o ~ e;n,ao Wt,y ""' In bis confasesinn5
po;rdali bod toId tbem ot a
no,,to nr,a " docondart,S liSt"
~ n,hio,, m ,o sory;oo had hoon nerforp,eJ
u,os VI, "tn .ha nay,o my " of rhnn,oo Edword Hi
was one ,Ia W. Cono, ~ Citm THE S"nfIen,an
posIilas'eI S mus tl at ;y tL Gnsi t;n,n
tau ; stGi i tl.ay tr;o1 s.a ia III tha oiha
Sriue t;i,a o,,s ",a of ~ orso,s VIE
Sid,,,t 49, io ;va 1.;fb;,, thousandS Of miIes
usuh I'VE Ma.iiiii @ enouSamuI ui motitinnS it,eo
VI Slo iuu.e' ,1Iod nUi i .Nn ,rondnr o,ItUn
lni1eISEs ;5 pi;s WIZ a,,gmeu s,o,, disUIa' of
saru nradr 1,aI ,'''f, ;nosts tbst op orJi
Ll.liliIGsnce ptaus INSISTS titnv a. thni
nary siiot'ai Vi JusI,ce oa,,iiVS m a. mn .maI
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aliu a Sei!ate. e.t.Ion9 la. maL tuii oF
ihe eu III nonos Ume and t%o bIonl,s nnfiIled