The record-union., 1899-04-20
The Prosecution Announces to the Court
the Close Of. Its Casa.
The Court Then Adjourned Until
To-Day in Order That quay
Counsel May Have Time to Con-
slider What Steps They Shall
Take With Respect to the Pre-
sentation Of Their Side.

PHILADELPHIA April 19. - Unex-
pectedly to almost every person inter-
ested, the prosecution in the trial Oh eA-
United States Senator Quay Tor con-
spiracy closed it's case to-day, after
nine days of clashes of counsel ana
testimony largely of an expert nature.
The general expression of opinion had
been that the trial would run through
many more days, and when District AT
torney Rothermel announced that he
had concluded there were expressions
of surprise from all parts Of the court
room.
The end came at 2 o'clock, just one
hour before the hour of adjournment,
and after a brief consultation among
the counsel for the defense and Judge
Biddie the latter adjourned court until
tomorrow, in order that Quay's law
yers might have time to consider what
steps they shall take with respect to
the presentation of their side. 1t was
stated that the question of entering de-
murrers to the prosecutions evidence
or proceeding with the taking of testi-
mony will be decided by the defense's S
counsel tonight.
From the evidence presented it is ev-
ident that the Commonwealth depends
largely for conviction upon the testi-
mony of it's expert, Meyer Goldsmith,
as to his interpretations of the accounts
in the red book and other books of the
Peoples Bank had upon the jury's opin-
ion of the books, papers, letters, tele-
grams and checks offered in evidence.
AS to what extent the testimony of the
defense's expert, should he be called,
may offset Goldsmith's testimony, re-
mains to be seen.
The contention has been that the cal
culations of Goldsmith are not borne
out by the books, but on the other hand,
show that Quay did not use the State
money, or that whatever loans he re-
ceived were made in the customary
manner and backed by sufficient collat-
eral.
To-day's proceedings We're devoid of
sensational features. The routine of in
volved explanations of accounts took up
most of the time. Goldsmith's cross
examination was concluded, and an
other examination was begun by Mr..
Rothermel The points brought out by
him were that the cash accounts and
the interest accounts of the bank were
deficient by the omission of certain
sums received as interest; that it was
customary to designate call loans by
initials instead Of names.
Upon the question of Quay's inter
est in the deposit account from May,
1896, to October, 1897, Goldsmith said:
In 1896, on June 23d, the balance was
S2.56; on November 9th, S2,I7766; on
November 2Sth, again S2.56; in 1897, on
January 7th. so cents; on October 26th,
S10,00050, and on october 9th, 30
cents at which it remained until the
end of the month. These are all the
variations from April 30, 1896, to Oc-
tober 81 1897
Director of the Mint Henry K. Boyer
was placed on the stand, and after tes-
tifying to paying interest in October,
1897, on a call loan, asked permission
to make a statement in reply to the Dis
triet Attorneys allegations, in the
course of testimony, that he received
interest on State money while State
Treasurer from May, 1889, to May,