Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1895-12-21
ORATORICAL BATTERIES PLAY
JONES RIDDLES THE POTATO
PATCH DEFENSE AND
ROASTS HENEY.
Coffin Holds That Hirsch Harris
and Bill PickIer Made the
Gogus Melt.
WOODBURY. WANTS HIS CLIENT PRO
TECTED FROM PAID DETECTIVES
AND INFAMOUS SCOuNOREIs.

telegram came from Folsom or Sacra-
mentO.
Price testified relative to the pichl.A
hars, but could not swear positively
that they had been picked.
Harris testimony was about the
same.
All the evidence being in. both sides
rested, and US Attorney Jones ad-
dressed the jury on behalf Of the Gov
eminent, He called attention II the
numerous opportunities Henev had
for sealing gold. How he wore wool
en- clothes that would not be affected
by sulphuric acid and was Frequently
there before the working hours in the
cnpel room. The rehuttal of Hpney's
testimony regarding the dispatch
which Wae never received hele. was
dWeIt upon. and the fact that he adj
mi,ted to Beck and Clark that it was
suIphuric acid, gold 995 fine. was made
a strong poirt.
The counsel made a strong arru-
ment on the payment of money to
Lan2evin, and dweIt upon the fact
mat Will" Cir.e was charged with nav
ing money 10 Langevin. the defense
dId no pat him on the stand and they
did no dare produce the letter as il
contained additional proof. The 70
tato patch defense was hrl up AMI
riidled and ridicdled INT here wa.
nothing left Of it.. Di4 anyone make
that bogus melt to ,ovor r2 lossestbat
went to A,hHrton's potato patch. IT,
compared Prof. Price who cot sp,l
big assays from the fields and sewers
10 the aIchemist Of old who cot gold
from nothing. The fact that Coffin
ordered the sewers flushed immediate
~ afterwards and ten days before the
regular trial, was fully treated He
traced the wanderiDgs Of the defend
ant IN search Of health, the man who
led before he was accused and who
mad such complications of ailmt nts
mat he was obliged to change his To-
cation and climate every day in order
10 get his throat in shape. He ad-
vanced a startling theory that the
drunken man hat Heney picked ND
In his midnight ride TO Reno was the
confederate who assisted in makino
the bogus melt. He also reviewed the
discrepancies in the defendants testi-
mony in full, and paid his .ompli-
mentS to Frank divers testimony
who swore be could tell the fiueness Of
bars in the dark Of the vaults. after
ne had only been in the Mint a wear
while Morgan, the cOiner Of the Phil
adelphia Mint, said it was impossihle
and Mason, alter IS years in the Mint
service. sWore he could not fell the
hneness in the t2st light. The speak
er accounted for the ex ra0i dinarv
Of Oliver by the fact that he
had been a year studying law in COT
fins office. He closed by a scathinp
pronunciation Of the methods OF the
defense in cOrrupting and coaching
witnesses, and trying to outr4 ge truth
IN the very temple Of justice and in
5ultlng a jury of intelligent men by
he testimony they had produced.
COFFIN's ARGUMENT.
Coffin followed stating that 10 the
trial a great howl was raised that
Heney did not tell where he cot the
5"ld, n now that he had gone on
he Stand and told, they we're hovlinp
again which show-i how hard some
men were to please,
He laid special stress on the fact
a Stag rose on the top of the
when it was melted which he
leld showed that the gold did not
ome from the Carson Mint. A green
ian Francisco school girl might not
Ne able to tell peas from beans. but
n ola ~prospector who had wintered
nd summered on beans could not be
ooled. Somebody must be convicted
, satisfy the detectives. who We're
.ounding him about the country
here was no shortage prior to the
Harris came into the Mint and
ecause old Mason found one spur
DIS melt, imagineS hat the air is
I'LL OF spurious melts. This is merely
he idea OF a stubborn, garrulous. old
who rides hobbies, turn him over
'ok at him and See if he is worthy
( belief.
The oars had gone through two set
ements and therefore we're all tight.
was absurd to believe that there was
shortage prior to Harris coming in.
ould a band Of ranchers branding
ny horses overlook a white mule K
'ar after year fr