The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-12-24

SANDS ADLYSCORE
Trial of the Counterfeiters
At Trenton Near
the End.
COUNSEL BEGIN SUMMING UP
Judge Kirkpatrick's Little Joke
At Senator Days
Expense.

SpecfnI to ths Jerseu CITY Neags.

days, most of the testimony was OF a
character very damaging to both Sands
and the Knapp woman. Both prisoners
sat all day IN the court room, with the
same self-composed aid that has mark
ed their attitude all through the trial.
Mrs. Knapp seemed quite gay at times,
and would whisper to her white-haired
partner in crime, as if to urge him to
keep up. She was nattily attired in a
black satin gown n kept her face COW
cred with a black veil. The case will be
wound up this morning.
Owen Owens, the Jersey City stenog- |
rapher, was the first witness placed on
the stand yesterday. He continued read
ing the confession made by Mrs. Knapp
to Agent Bagg while she was in the
Hudson County Jail. The document,
which was very lengthy, contained many
statements concerning the production and
disposal of counterfeit coin. In one por-
ton of the confession Mrs. Knapp said
that Sands, after making the money in
Chicago, offered to throw it away, fear
ing it might get them in trouble, but she
induced him not to do so by assuring him
that she was not afraid to dispose of
it. During the reading of the confession
Sands was somewhat nervous, but Mrs.
Knapp retained the same statue-like
pose she has affected ever since the trial
began. In the confession she told of how
she met Sands through an advertisement
in a Buffalo paper. Her throat was dis
eased and within a short time he relieved
the pain to such an extent that she felt
grateful and went with him to Chicago.
There he told her of his past career as
a counterfeiter and later he deserted his
wife to compa Mrs. Knapp to the
South.
Agent Esquirell of the New York di-
vision of the secret service was the next
witness. He told how he had Swallowed
Sands in New York and the part he took
in the arrest. His testimony corroborat-
| ed tha of Agent Bagg, who also assist
ed in the arrest.
The next witness was Edward Griffith,
| who formerly kept a boarding house in
Albany. The defendants, he said, BOARD
ed at his place a week during the past
| summer the man being known to his as
"Dr." Clark.
James c. Near of Troy followed Crit
fifth on the stand, but failed to identify
Mrs. Knapp as the woman who had given
him counterfeit money last summer.
Mrs. Emma B. Williams of Chicago
was recalled by the Government to show
that materials used by counterfeiters
were found in the room occupied by the
defendants while they boarded with her.
The evidence was objected to by Judge
Hoffman, on the ground that testimony
as to their having counterfeit money in
New Jersey could not be corroborated by
testimony that they had counterfeits in
| another State.
n;etriot Atfornav Rica contandad that
the defendants could be tried in New Jer-
sey, even If they We're indicted in Chi
cago. Senator Daily here made the point
that the proposition of the District At
torney was unconstitutional. He said
that the alleging of a crime continuendo
had come to Mr.. Rice since he was made
District Attorney.
MI. Rice then called Senate Days att
tention to the fact that the statute on
which he based his claim has been on the
books since 1918 and Judge Kirkpatrick or
fed that the defendants had rented a
room in her house last summer and that
she had found plaster paris, quicksilver
and tin in the room after the defendants
moved way. The stove had white met
al over it that had been melted upon il
Charles Koege, a Hoboken florist, tes-
titled that he had received a bad dollar
He identified the defendant after the
court had ordered her to remove her
veil. David Stroeber, a Hoboken grocer,
l SA4fft LAAoA - pP q v ui3ll
a spurious dollar In payment for tea.
The most important witness of the
day, Charles E. Barber, was then placed
the past Is years been chief engraver of
the mint of the United States in Philadel-
phia. Everything that the government
silver is produced by him. He ex-
planned the process of manufacturing
coin. Some Of the presses, he said,
could stamp out 100. dollars a minute,
4 and each one receives ar iTnnraeSsnp of
$50 tons, When asked to explain how
counterfeit coin was made, the witness
suggested that it would mot be wise to do
SO before so premiscuous an audience. He
was told to go ahead, and gave an in
teresting description of several methods
Of coun ss,rfd IN - He aassess,nd good
ana spurious coin passed by Mrs. Knapp,
and found accidental marks showing that
the counterfeit had been made from dies
counterfeits, he said, were almost wholly
of tin.
Mr.. Barber was on the stand for more
than an hour. He detected marks in all
the counterfeits offered in evidence as
similar to marks on the genuine money
found on Sands.
Recess was taken. and on the resump-
tion of court Mr.. Barber was cross-exam-
ined by Judge Hoffman. He said IT was
not possible for a die used by the gov
marks on the coins in evidence had
doubtless come there by accident. He did
not believe It possible that there might
be other silver dollars which bear the
same imperfection, although between
three and four hundred millions of them
had been coined since 1892, the date OF
the Sands dollars.
Captain Tanning Of the Hoboken Police
DEPARTMENT identified coin taken from
Mrs Knapp. and Mrs. Marcus Of Hoboken
testified that she had been called upon
black bag already offered In evidence, as
we'll as Its contents. AZ she was leaving