Evening journal., 1898-05-14
CHARGING THE JURY.
Attorney Levi c. Birds Ad-
dress to the Jurors.
JURY MAY PROBABLY DISAGREE
COUNSEL FOR DEFENDANT
HOLD THAT COOPER CAN BE
CONVICTED ONLY ON TWO
POGNTS-VANDEGRGFT SURE OF
CONVICTION.

CONVICTION.
Judge Bradford is delivering the
charge to THE jury in the famous
Cooper case in the United States Court |
this afternoon, and probably by to- |
might the verdict Will be known. The |
jurors, however, were infoumld by the |
court that they could bring in a ver-
dict ON Sunday.
Mr. Vandtgrift closed his address
about 3.15 yesterday afternoon, and the !
court announced that, owing to the
Importance of the case and the vC.umi- |
nous testimony, that it would not be
doing Justice to charge the jury ait that
time. Ths jury was then discharged
until to-day.
Mr. Birds speech to the jury was ais
follows:
"A little over a year ago the peOQie
OF this State were shocked to hear OF
THE tlheft OF over 100000 from a bank
of a town of overs 900 people Itstd,cr, a
fugitive from Justice, was induced to
return from some unfrequented clime.
What the inducements WAS no one
knows, but we are told chat one oran-
els skunk Brown, lawyIer and the
counsellor Of the bank alt Dover. may
know. Boggs met him in Chicago and
| confessed. Now he seeks TO unload
his crime on the shoulders OF citizens
whom you an know. Like an crimi-
nails, he comes to wash his sins away
| He comes back TO tell THAT he had HIS
| hand steeped in every crime OF the
| law and now he seeks to steep others
/ hands i'm crime. On his testimony the
| grand jury returned q true bill. Thir-
teen counts in tina bll, on this last
| day have been Withdrawn, and this
| criminal unburdened all his crime ON
| the defendant. Why, gentlemen, THAT
| defendant does net deny THAT he gave
| BOggs checks. He has published 10 in
| his newspaper. What did the disdmci
| attorney think we would do with tht
checks? Did he think THAT WE would
put them on the tail end Of a kite? No
If he had asked us before the triad WI
would have told him that Cooper did
give BOggs checks. He said that IN
| could convict Cooper without the testi
mony Of Boggs. What does tlhs bOOl
| OF Cuthbert & co. show? II SHOW.
THAT Cooper gave BOggs a check bu
| does not SHOW with what intent. j
shows that Cooper gave BOggs receipt
for hfs checks. 1t was then transfer
/
PhMadelphia. and then Ito the Farmers
Bank OF Dover. Where did the distrlc
ATTORNEY expect the checks to go
BOggs .gct the check and made it goo.
for what 1T was worth. For year
Walter Morris. cashier of THE Farmers
Bank went to the First National Banl
4 Of Dover, with the checks, and asked
| Ccoper's checks, especially one for $40
5 600. were good. He was told THAT
b was and Boggs made lit good. Bate
| man knew it, but Bateman was ITO
nut on the stand. DO you believe tina
p, Norris knew that the First Nations
= Bask's funds were being taken Out d
3 BOggs? If he did, he is as big a GRIND
- nal as Boggs.
"And yet, my friends, THAT Coope
must have known IT. No sanl3 mai
{ could correct Cooper with such trans
ACTION. Id is Inconsistent. 1t does MO
fit in. and to convict him you hav
got to say on your oaths THAT Coope
told BCbgs to put his hands IN tn
money drawer and take out the mOney
Is There IA man on that jury that be
Tievels THAT Cooper is guilty? He
] hzre. indeed, being tried for his lifJ
Better il HE we're being tried fer nun
der
Remember, men, from 1898 dow
to May, 1896, every month in '94, 81
SO. Boggs said that ne robbed th
bank. He told you that HE was bacl
ing faro bank and THAT he was gam
bling on everything Crime up 10 h
elbows. every conceivable kind (
crime; false to his friends, False
his God and false to his sursies. WIKI
became of the other $4,000 While
B0ggs stole? We would have prove
d. but we were not allowed
mo go back. Had Cooper the rigl
10 believe that BOggs wa3 robbing U
bank Look al thatmanwhOwa was enee
| tained by all the pOtentates OF the o
~ World "a man who has had mOn'
70 ments raised to his name; a man WI
" has led your armies to victory
S, mean General Grant He linked hiI
nc self with Cne firm of Fish & War
New York Stockholders, and he p
$4,000 in that concern. In eig'
months he drew out s172 900. In ty
er or three wears that firm robbed Ouhe
II OF s11 900 900. Did Grant aid and alb
he the robbing Of that bank? No.
o. "Right here in cur own town we m
to a bank PRESIDENT who spdculated d
n same way. That is the same case th
in | Cooper is dn When BOggs was On {
st streets Of Dover people bowed tins
of heads to him as the invincible Y
ed | had but to touch the hem Of his e.
ed merit and money would be yours.
he YOU convict this man There will COZ
i'll a day afterwards, and it may col
'ol when You least think when knoC
ne ing win come at your heal1ts, Will
will say, was THAT man guilty? WI
is truth? 1t does not require exp
nation.
3D. 'Either Cooper is perJurer'
e., Boggs is. Cooper could not have n
ar the ability to make up lie to ca
lth him on this charge. Did you not
THAT AL agreed THAT Cooper todd
. truth? And did you Notice that
district attorney did not cross exam
49, Cooper?
ge. ''Boggs did not have the heart to
'et. TO Colonel Cooper that he was II
. bling the bank He told him, howey
THAT he would meet the checks. W
= does not like speculation? Have J
ave Thought of that day, when six days
the of the week BOggs put his hantis in
and | o.,,-b drai1-er. and tCiolx Ollt 80 600