The San Francisco call., 1895-12-03

terfeit transactions. Citing two witnesses
he told the court that the defense had de-
tectives shadowing witnesses. One man
had been followed and treated to free
meals in an attempt TO gain his confidence
and the substance of what he intended to
swear to. Another witness had been SO
carefully cultivated that the man en-
ployed by the defense had slept IN the
same room with him.
But Knights denunciation of such
methods did not pass unnoticed by the de-
fense. Campbell was on his feet before
the attorney for the Government was
seated. Il say" he began, that is as big
bluff as was ever perpetrated around a
card-tabIe. l did employ detective to
find out who was here and what was going
to be their testimony. No honest man
need fear his evidence. | see nothing
wrong in guarding ourselves against sur
prise being sprung on us. No one can say
that there has been any attempt to lnf1u-
ence any testimony.
They have detective. John Court
ney is out there in the hall now, and 1t is
well known that he is in the Government
employ in this case.
The talk about threatening to roast
some witnesses if they should appear on
the stand was founded only on my re-
mark in this court"
Judge Morrow evidently took some stock
in the complaint, for be ordered the Gov
ernment witnesses to be brought in and
sworn. Twenty of them responded to the
rollcall, but nearly as many more were not
in the immediate vicinity of the court
room at the time. The court read from
written instructions his admonition to re-
frain from discussing the case or their tes-
timony among themselves or with other
persons, and concluded with the warning
that any violation would make the indi-
vidual liable for contempt of court.
Marsh, the member of the counIerfeiting
gang who turned States evidence to OBJ
tain immunity from punishment, was put
on the stand under cross-examlnation by
Campbell. 1t was not long before he be-
came speechlessly involved in the con-
fusion of his present testimony with that
given at the earlier trial two years ago,
and the attorney for the defense kept per-
slsting until the witness exclaimed: 81
! do not know how l could have said that at
| that trial unless it was that you had me so
| ratified | did not know what | was saying
| you had me nearly scared to death at that
time"
| The conflict was as to whether or not
certain order for spurious money had
come from Howell or from Murray, and
| the witness had said MURRAY at the earlier
trial He explained that he must have
had the orders confused, as he used to be
| receiving orders every day. In five
months, be said, he had launched upon
the market between $4,000 and 5000 in spu-
rious money.
| Harris, the secret service agent Of the
| United States treasury, was put on the
| stand in the afternoon. Explaining how
the captures were made, he said that one
afternoon, as he was watching place on
| Fourth street. he saw Marsh come out
| with small box under his arm. Direct
ing man to follow him, the secret service
agent walked up to Market street and
| boarded downtown car and got off at
New Montgomery street in time to be on
hand at Wells, Fargo & Co. s office when,
few moments later, Marsh appeared and
deposited his package. which was directed
| to M. D. Howell, real. estate agent, Main
street, Stockton.
AS soon as Marsh had gone Harris OBJ
tanned possession of the box, and, making
hasty examination in back room, found
it contained counterfeit money. He then
| carried it to his Office in the Appraisers
building, and, examining its contents more
carefully, counted forty one-dollar pieces,
| 1S0 half-dollar pieces and twenty quarter
dollar pieces. Assisted by two men he
marked all the coins in the letter in the
word Of in United States of America. But
when he had completed the penknife
| markings he found that the express office
was closed, so he took the package to his
home. where his son and companion
helped him put additional marks on the
| dollars on the star between the words one
and United, and on the little star near the
| flag on the halves and quarters.
| The next morning he sent the money
off to it's original destination, carefully
wrapped up and placed in the cigar-box
as it was when he received it. He himself
reached the Stockton express office little
in advance of the consignment of bright,
new coin and permitted it to be placed on
the delivery wagon. Some of the money
was exhibited in court, and the jurors were
scanning the tarnished CONS eagerly in
search of the teltale marks when court
adjourned and put a stop to the story that
will probably be continued this morning.