The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1898-05-13
ARGUMENT
TO THE JURY.
The Court Will Charge the
Cooper Jury this
Afternoon.

When the United States Court conya n
cd this morning District Attorney Vande-
grft announced that he Withdrew the
conspiracy count and relied upon the al
{ t acting count.
Mr.. Bird addressed the jury and relied
to the argument Of his colleague,
Senator Gray. He reviewed the CHARGED
made a year ago when the people wero
shocked and amazed that q bank was
robbed Of $1,000 mo % than It's capital. it,
teller was u fugi i've from Justice An alb
sconder with everything except the real
estate OF tie institution. He Is induced to
re. urn from some unfrequented cline. He
met II lawyer from Philadelphia, a depu-
tized officer OF tho law, in Chicago. To-
gether they returned. He tolls not only
his story but seeks to unload on the
shoulders Of citizens Of our state his sins
Of five years.
He comes back loaded down with sir.
From 1898 to May 1887 he had his hant
stepped in every crime known to tho law.
Upon his testimony the Grand jury re-
turned true bill There it is. A volume
thirteen counts, upon this the seventh ono
have been withdrawn. Mhis defendant
Is charged with crime upon the testimony
of that criminal. The District Attorney
said he can convict the defendant on other
evidence. Cooper gave these checks and
SO published 1t in the paper What could
have become OF this chocksp Tie them 70
the tail of kite or sond them back to the
First National Bank at Dover.
Now then take Boggs out Of the case.
Take all tho books and their entries and
where is the intent shown. Does 1t show
any thing else Il al what we admit The
checks wero lodged in Philadelphia.
Where is the intent in that? They came 10
Dover. Where is the intent In that Day
after day Walter Morris goes across Dover
green and to the teller of the First Nation. |
al Bank. He asks ia Sc Il. Cooper's check !
good for $4,000 "Yes". Morris never told |
Harry A. Richardson Of the large number |
of checks He believed the money was there
And yet Cooper must have known that |
funds of the bank according to the theory |
of my learned friend the District Attor-
hey.
No sane man can reconcile 1t, and you,
Mr. District Attorney are sane man God
bless you. Before you can convict Ezekiel ,
Il. Cooper you must believe that every
time he signed check he said 'Boggs put
your hand into the money drawer of tho
bank and pay this check" He had every
reason to believe that the money came
from Boggs. Remember gentleman, from
1893 to 1896. every month in '0i, 49, .Tanu.
airy, February, March and April in 1895,
that man Boggs admitted running a faro
bank, betting on horse races and all kinds
of gambling crime up his elbows. False
to tho officers of the bank, his sureties,
false to his friends ana false to his God.
Now. l say, so back. Had Cooper the
right to believe Boggs had :tIe money.
Here Mr. Bird drew attention to General
Grant and the Fish and Ward bank trans.
actions.
You have got the whole story. You:e,
that man sitting under the guard of the
United States Marshal aud that man at
the bar of Justice Choose between them.
There is no reasonable doubt in this case
Men ask you in the name Of truth not to
send this man to fill pelitentiary cell
District Attorney Vandegrft paid IL high
compliment to the counsel for the defense,
iherels only en-, thing that compels me to
be in this case and ask for tho conviction
of this man-Iy duty on my oath.
Here we have Presidents of banks In our
own city specializing bliIding q town in
In day. Buying building lots at $40 an
acre and selling at SIS foot If a poor lit
tic negro steals pair of shoei he isconvict
ed, piiloricd and becomes IL felon. He can't '
vote. He is a thief. Whom high toned
gentleman makes away with more M oney
than the capital of the bank comes back
he is to good to associate with prisoners
but lives in the shertfS residence he can
not be dubbed as thiof Take the stories,
gentlemen, of Boggs and Colonel Il Il.
Cooper, and decide this case. There is no
middle ground either Cooper is the worst
perjurer on earth or Boggs is.
The attitude oi....the defense was to al-
init lhese books to the jury and to the
court lodge obj cotton after objection. The Q
men were on the stand to:close up the
door Of tn Jail in front Of Cooper to
kept closed against themselves 1t is
of the ability of tho counsel for
the defense to say that Morris knew and
Cooper did not know or suspect BOggs.
Ii the books were all II hit what was the
necessity to send telegram to B,gys
about the bank exa miner