The evening world., 1889-09-13
IVES'S FIGHT.
The Young NapolsOn's Counsel
Adopts BulIdOzing Tactics,
BOOkkOepef Short Put Through a
HaraSSins Cross Examination.
Scenes To-Day in the Great Trial
Before Recorder Smyth.
Trying to Prove that c. n. and
D. Officials Influenced the
Witness.

1t was a splendid joke last week. when Ives
was enjoying all the delicacies aud pleasures
which plenty of money can purchase for q
whilom resident at Ludlow Street Jail. and
Stayner. his older and less fortunate pal, was
moping ON the rigid fare furnished by the
Warden 10 common prisoners.
But cell II in the Tombs is not so cheerful,
and not even the special fare afforded by the
cuisine of the Tombs caterer, nor the dis
tinction Of occupying the bed lately vacated
by James f.. Bedell, the forger Of a quarter of
n million, can buoy the spirits Of Henry s.
Ives up to their natural point of oXuberance
to-day.
Not yet beyond that glorious point in life
when the joyousness of youth aud vigor are
still at their food; at that age when the col
lege graduate is strutting under his sheep
skin honOrs. his education finished. himself
just emerged into the world of reality, the
cggshell of dependence upon parents and
tutors cracked, and he, n ttedgling. looking
with wondering aud inexperienced eyes upon
choose; tho leading strings of tutelage cast
OF and his yet unaccuStOnIed legs compelled
10 Independent action.
At twenty-five. Just when most boys emerge
from college or ar just receiving their legal
or medical diplomas and with them discover
how little they know, now wenk they are.
this boy. Henry s. Ives. messenger bow,
clerk. small bookkeeper aud penniicss, con
ceived the idea of one Of the most stu
pendous frauds which ever startled the
Western world.
In electric sugar fraud? The Dis Debar?
Bedelrs gigantic operations? Ferdinand
Ward?
Yes, all great frauds. But electric sugar
was the scheme Of n scientist i'll q realm of
which the world knew nothing; Dis Debar
cheated au old man by an appeal to his ten
dcrest, most cornlnendable feelings: .Bedell
had led a long life of honesty, and had at
tanned an unimpt achable character for pro-
llty, while Ferdinand Ward. without the
backing of some of the most honUred names
in America. could have done nothing.
But this STRIPPING, with Il capital stock cou.
sisting of infinite cheek. push, energy and
an active brain. after being driven out of this
Office and that because of tue exposure Of some
crooked act, OF Leaf. in the Spring of 1896.
while lie is yot struggling with a downy fuZz
on his snllow checks. achieves the feat OF
buying n railroad for nothing at al. and in
the course of n few months the railroad is
ruined, the stripling and and his older com
panions fail for S15. 900, 900. and the whole
scheme of fraud is revealed. the plOtters are
arrested. indicted and brought TO the Bar of
Justice.
Ives's old-young face was 1 III of confident
smiles when the trial begun. lie listened to
the testimony of the man of three-score yenTs
whom he pereMptorily discharged from the
place which he had held with honor AMI
credit since ten years before the wrecker was
born.
OBJECTIONS AT EVERY TURN.
The, testimony was objected to at every
turn by Ives able legal defender, Charles
Brooke, and as the objections were over
turned and set at naught by that personifica-
ton of the law and justice, Recorder Smyth.
in short. comprehensive, understanding
sentences, the smile of confidence faded
slowly from the face of the middle. aged
BOY defendant. and this morning, when he
came down to Warden's Osborne's Office from
his Tombs cell. he forgot to greet Deputy
Sherifs O'Donnell and Whalen with tine
lightsome, boyish air of yesterday.
IVES cAME IN A CAB.
He ook his seat in the cab. rode to the
brown- stone temple Of justice. alighted and
nscended to the scene OF his trial without n
word.
For half an hour he waited the coming of
the able lawyers who are striving with all the
lecal lore which a lifetime's practice at the
bar has accumulated
There was n pensiveness in the posture of
Ives as he sat in meditation. his thin, white,
long hands lying l~istlesslJ on the table before
him.
Every time the swinging doors made that
peculiar - sis.s-h," deuoting that they had
been opened and permitted to close again,
Ives started apprehensively, raised his bowed
head aud glanced that way.
Are there any alterations in the entries
in the book 7" Assistant District Attorney
Parker had asked OF the white haired old
Secretary OF the Cincinnati, Hamilton and
DAYTON road.
II object They are not gt,mane to this
action, which is ngninst Henry s. Ives Tor
doing q specific thing on a specific day.
namely the fraudulent issuing OF $500, 600
worth of stock on q day certain"
ALTERATIONS IN THE BOOKS.
Mr.. Brooke was interposinR a stumbling
block IN the way of the prosecution. but the
soft voiced Recorder swept 1t out of sight,
and then Frederick H.. Short replied firmly
''There are alterations of nearly every figure
On ten Iages. aud the alterations are in the
hand of Henry s. Ives.
The grimaSe. not pleasant 10 see, but all
that the middle-Oged hoy defendant has TO
serve him for a smile. quite departed, and is
did not return again TO day.
At last, after half an hour of waiting by
Ives, the three lawyers came They walked
briSkly in aud laid big bundles Of documents
done mp in red taps ON the table. Then they
conferred with their client, and the bald,
high forehead of Brooke and the fine silver
gray poll Of ex-Judge Fullerton met the soft.
curly head Of Ives, while the boy railroad
wrecker whispered TO these old men. hon
ored in their profession.
Tho minute hand had travelled hall way
aroun the dial OF the big courtroom clock
from IL % IL when. other business having
been disposed OF, tho trial of Ives was r0-
sumed aud tho venerable Secre,ary resumed
his seat in the witness chair. for Mr.. Brooke
had not completed his badgering in cross
examination when Court adjourned yesterday.
~BooKKEEPER SHORT UNDER FIRE.
Mr.. Short. " began Mr., Brooke severely
and with q smiling glance at the jury rs II TO
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