Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1898-05-19

At 10. 90 o'clock, Levi c. Bird began
the defence'e closing address to the
jury. lie said: Boggs. like all crimi
nails. haH come back 10 wash his guilt
away, has come bRck loaded with sin.
has CONS back to have innocent hands
steeDed with his in crime.
After referring to the Indictment az
"a pleasant summer days reading,
Mr.. Bird said: The defendant has not
denied, ON the contrary he published
in the newspapers of the State before
the grand jury took any action. that
be gave the checks. Did the district
attorney suppose that the checks would
be put on the tail of kite? What did
the district attorney think would have
become of the checks il they would not
be put in the First National Bank of
Dover? Take Bo0gs out, take Cooper's
admission out, will that prove the in
tent? do the receipts of Il. d. Cuth-
bert e. Co. show tho intent? Where
did the district attorney expect the
checks to 90 il not to Dover? They
were given to be paid. Cooper beloved
that they would be paid nut Of Boggs'
funds You need not have taken seven
days to have found this out; you could
have fuund it out in eight houra.
Continuing, Mr.. Biri said: John II.
Rateman, who was cushier Of the First
National Bank, was not put ON the
Witness stand and uekod whether
Cashier Morris OF the Farmers Bank
had inquired in his presence il
Cnoper's checks were good. i5ateman,
like Cooper, believed that Boggs had
money to meet the checks. 10 you
believe that Morrs supposed that the
banks funds wers being used 10 pay
tho checks. IL Morris believed that
the hanks funds were being used, he
is as had a criminal as Bngga.
Reviewing some Of Boggs' gambling
transactions, MIR. Bird said that l'oggs
was in crime up to his elbows.
Mr.. Bird compared Coopsr's stock
transactions with those Of Gen. Grant,
aud asked whether anybody had ever
! thought that Gen. Grant aided and
abetteh Ward and others WIN were sent
to Jail for victimizing people in stock
speculations
After abiding to Boggs' doings, Mr..
Bird sarcastically declared that l3oggs
il too good to live and eat with crimi-
mails, ami that hs lives in private quar-
tiers anu eats 10 the sheriff's parlor.
Continuing, Mr.. Bird said: Before
you can convict Cooper, you must be-
leve that before he signed ths checks
he thought Boggs would pay them oui
of the banks funds. My friend, the
district attorney, seemed astonished
that we brought gamblers here to prove
that BoggH gamblsd Did he suppose
that we would bring Sunday schnu
teachers? Did he suppose that we
would bring members of the Whining
ton Conference? daughter. Presiding
Elder Watt, the Revs. Il. h. White, s..
Il. Maxwell, George Hall and c. l..
Wolfe and other ministers we're present,
and they joined in the laugh.
To emphasize the claim OF the de
fence that it was generally known ia
Dover that Boggs was heavy winner,
Mr.. Bird said that John +. Salisbury
had testified that Boggs told him thai
he had made s23, 600. You know Mr.
Salisbury, smilingly commented Mr.
Bird, and you know that he could no
keen that information secret even il hl
had been told not to reveal it. Cam
you hear Mr.. Salisbury sny when hl
met a crowd: Just think boys. Bogg
tells me that he has won S23, 600!
daughter. ....@
Next Mr.. Bird alluded to Vansant'
testimony and Vansaut's admission tina
no owes Boggs money. Commenting
thereon, Mr.. Bird said that he sup
posed that BoggH had skinned Vansan
from his shoes to his paper collar
daughter. Boggs joined in the laugh
Continuing, Mr.. Bird said: Bogg
was IN a faeter boat than Bay Stat
Gas stock. lie was marking horses AM
playing cards, playing cards on Sun
day. every Sunday, with his hand
rseking with the mUney of that hank
while the church bells vera ringing
Boggs will go to prison. The question
before you III whether he wants TO tax
companion with him. The defendan
il charged with having aided aut
abetted Boggs in embezzling S23, 600 O
the SLOT, ZOO. The difference hetwee
those amounts is SS4, 600. Nothing ha
been said about this sum. The cour
may say TO you that you have nothin
to do with the SS4, 900, but il | wer
! on the jury / would do some thinking
If Cooper is convicted, will never for
give myself for not having gotten
written agreement regarding Senate
} Keuney's going on the stand as ], be
fore heaven, understood he would b
permitted to go on.
IN COnCludiUH, iuEt blfil bIlOhC vi III
great friendship which had existed be
} tween him and the defendant. Th
allusion caused Cooper 10 brush tear
: from his eyes.
, Mr.. Bird finished at 1873 o'cloc
this afternoon, after having consume
two hours and 10 minutes
[ Immediately afterwards. District Al
| torney Vandsgrift began his clusin
address. He said II great learnin
r and elouuence can save man in to
face Of evidence they will save in thi
case. | have listened to discover on
flaw in the evidence of the prosecution
and have not found it, Ths cvidenC
8 nuts Cooper beyond all reasonsbs dout
+ as guilty. l do not say that Coopt
s thought that he was taking the mons
. out OF the hanks till in tho sense ths
4 he knew he would not put it back, hl
{ that he was hoping that be would PIT
t it back.
Mr.. Vandegrift continued until
3 o'clock, when the jury was discharge
t until $50.
The argument in the trial WI
: finished ON Friday afternoon wit
s tho address OF District attorney Var
1 degrift, who renewed his plea for II
0 prosecution at 240 o'clock and col
n cluhad at 8. 90.
r Mr. Vaudogrift said; This case
g fillod with wrecks OF young lives, yonl
s men whose usefulness is destroyer
r Tho law says that if man oifends /
) must he punished. Why? For the goc
, Of the rest of the world. could, if
' were proper in this case, GO back to
8 point in the town nf Dover when, if
g crime had been punished, this ca
n uouId mt have occllrFeu A commur II