Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1899-04-20
QUAY JURORS VERY TIRED
They Requested the Court to
Extend the Sessions, So as
to Hurry the Trial.
BUT JUDGE BIDDLE DECLINED
Further Testimony About the
Mannerin Which the States
Money in the Peoples
Bank Was Loaned to
Various Parties.
Associated Press Dispatch BY Special wires.

Associated Press Dispatch by Special Wires.
Philadelphia, Pa, April 10. The
ninth day in the trial of eX-United
States Senator Quay began this morn
ing with q request from the jury to
Judge Biddle that he extend the hour
of adjournment each day beyond 3
o'clock. in order to hasten the proceed
ings. With the exception of brief
outing last Saturday and Sunday. under
the espionage of court officers, the jury
is being strictly confined to the jury
rooms on the sixth floor of the City
Hall, adjoining the court in which the
clined to grant the request. He SYM
forced absence from their homes and
business, but said the issues of the
case were of the gravest Importance
and there should be no undue haste.
After adjournment of the court at 3
o'clock, he said, counsel in the case
begin the hardest part of their labors
and to curtail the time devoted to this
work would be too much of a strain
upon them.
Meyer Goldsmith, the expert account
ant for the Commonwealth, was called
to the stand and his cross-examination
was continued by Mr.. Shields. Before
| any questions were asked, the district
attorney said the defence had agreed to
admit as true certain formal evidence
as to the terms of office of State treas
urers. This was done to permit wit
nesses summoned from different parts
of the State to go home and to shorten
the trial to some extent.
Mr.. Shields, referring to the allega-
tion of the witness that in August, 1896,
500, 900 of State money was deposited
in the Peoples Bank, on which interest
was paid, asked if there was any entry
to show such payment. Mr.. Goldsmith
said there was no single entry. The
question was not pressed any further.
| The loans of State money alleged by
| the witness to have been made to more
than 80 persons, and on which interest
was paid, was then gone into. The
questions covered wide line of in
| quiry and resulted in some legal spar
ring. Mr.. Shields drew from the wit
ness that the entries of these loans did
not contain any names of persons, but
| simply initials.
The witness admitted that he had
guessed in some instances for whom
these initials stood, and learned of the
others from information received. 1t
was shown that in more than one in
stance borrowers paid more interest
than appeared on the books, one man
paying 81, 163. "a interest, whereas his
account was credited with the payment
of only S525 and the balance not ac-
counted for. -nN~
This ended the discrimination and
the redirect examination began.
The district attorney took I'D the
question of relation between Senator
Quay's deposit account and the trans
actions in stock on his order.
The witness stated there was little if
any connection.
Goldsmith was asked to state what
the books showed Senator Quay's bal
ance ON deposit was at various times
between April Both, 1896, and October
3lst, 1897.
He replied that the balance ranged
from so cents to $4,000. so. Witness
then explained the relation between the
figures in the red book and the
regular books OF the bank, and eluci-
dated the figures entered on the page
devoted to the State deposit for the six
months ending October 3lst, 1897, which
apparently show the use of 5000, 600 OF
the deposit by Senator Quay and the
payment of interest on the balance.
Turning to the page devoted TO what
is apparently Hopkins memoranda of
his private account with Senator Quay,
the witness explained its relations to
certain entries and omissions in the
regular bank books.
At this point the district attorney
offered new piece of documentary
evidence, in the shape Of sheet Of
foolscap paper, containing figures in
Hopkins handwriting. Tho offer was
objected to by the defence.
The district attorney declared that it
was in furtherance of proof of the con
spiracy, and stated that it contained
entries of amounts loaned to call loan
borrowers and calculations of the inter-
est collected in these loans, 1t shows,
he argued, the scheme adopted by Hop
kins to cover up the conspiracy to loan
State money for the benefit of the de-
PENDANT.
The defence argued that the paper
contained only figures and there was
nothing to. indicate that it was not 10
or 90 years old, as it is not dated. The
district attorney offered to put living
witnesses on the stand, the call loan
borrowers, who would corroborate the
figures.
MIR. Watson argued the legal points
calculated to exclude the paper.
Judge Biddle decided that the paper
is evidence against Hopkins, and there
fore admissible as tending to provo the
alleged conspiracy between Hopkins
and Quay.
Witness Goldsmith stated that the
figures on the paper, which was found
in Hopkins private desk, aided him in
arriving at his conclusions regarding
the whereabouts of certain sums OF
money.
The district attorney read the paper
to the jury, promising to explain later
the figures entered thereon.
William A. Barrett, call loan Dor
rover from the bank testified to having
paid $4,000 interest on or about Octo-
Der 3lst, 1897, on call loan made by
the bank. A long list of other witnesses
testified similarly. Ex-State Treasurer
and present Director of the Mint, Henry
X. Boyer testified to paying 5000
The examination of witness who had
paid interest ON call loans was still in
progress when n recess was taken.