The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-09-22

been sent in. and 1t did not absolutely follow
that tlis expedition was fra :dulent. If the
jury could rec Jncile it with any theory of in
nocence they must do it. A Congre ssman of
influence, Mr.. Bennett, hal asked for it,
and that must be considered. Soon aft r
every postmas er on the route unit ID in
protest to the department saying the
time was impractIcable. and asked to have the
o fouI teen hour schedule restored, and Ben.
nett indOrse IN 8 protest, and was mt to
Bra Just at this point this member IF
Congress seemed to have lost his influence,
for he was inform d It could not be done.
After read NJ the law rel tive TO productive
ness Ju1g. Wylie inquir d whit the pro-
duCdvn IS had been in this instance. Read
ing FRI m the ecord, he said tn r one year
ii ID been $2,iI He had called attentiD IN to
this route because it had been asserted that
m, NIB rs of Congress were respons, bl, for ex-
petition. Yet IN this Sc, when it had been
expedited at the request Uf a member of n
gr 50, its reduction had been refused to that
same memb T.
Central Henk!e interrupted at this point 10
remind the court that Fren b had made the
order in question, but Judge Wyiie ga posi-
lively tn French had made the order by
BradyS DIR elton.
Here. he C. ntinued, was an increase made
ly dec cas- hg. If the jury could reconcile
that W tn a 2. Oper exc else of discreet on. let
them do it. 1t could not have be done
through ignorance. Ma iifestly, it was pur-
pOScly uOuc. 1uC III NY W utClucu was
whether ii was done through mistaken exer-
else of dis retion, or purpOsely and through
wrong motives. he history of other routes
was to b. nsidered.
concerning tine false papers, said he, II had
been argued that il tn resulted IN good to
Il. pubic, tn n no criminal act had 4, e N done
In making ord rs upon them. Tbs was
no corr ct view of the law. He had b.
fore rrferred to tho cas- of Lord BIZ
con, and wished now to read to the jury
letter to another Lord while he was in pris-
on. Judge Wylie then read the letter, and
commented upon its fallacies. The proof OF
conspiracy m ght be made out from pr of
Of consequences following the cOnsp a.
cy, said Judge Wylie, taking up another
branch of the subject, and he read from an
English authority support OF his prOposi-
ton, reciting the circumstances OF tie opera
tons of what are known as 1.-THE three-card
monte n n" IN tn city. He slid tn o the only
way in VIII Oh their C nspiracy could be made
out was by circumstances following the actual
swindling operation.
There vas one further topic he wished to re-
fer to. Among the prayers was On3 to the
effect that IL it app AIRED that g nuine papers
appea ed among the fraud iient papers fiied in
connection with q route, tn n an order for ex-
petition or increase must be q tributed t. the
influence of the genuine pap; RS. Such doc
trine coud not be tolerated. The bad could
n u be sIved by good. and rice pers1. Parties
committing frauds ofte found 1t to their ad-
vantsg to use some truth in tn .ir operations.
Lies wer of SO impish nature that tneywarred
among thems lives rs well as b,ing inconsistent,
with the truth. Frau was not always false
hood. for he had seen fraud Of Q most abom-