The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-04-20
STATE CASE is CLOSED
Unexpectedly Finished in the
Quay Trial.
NO NEW FACTS DEVELOPED
The Prosecution Depends Upon the Tes-
timony OF It's Expert to Convict.
Defense Will Try to Prove
Quay's Loans Legitimate.

Philadelphia, April 19.-Unexpectedlv
to almost every person interested, the
prosecution in the trial of ex-United
States Senator Quay for conspiracy
closed its case to-day after nine days of
clashes of counsel and testimony large
ly of an expert nature. The general
expression of opinion has been that the
trial would run through many more
days, and when District Attorney Roth
ermel announced that he concluded
there were expressions of surprise from
all parts OF the court room. The end
came at O'clock, just one hour before
the usual hour of adjournment. and af-
ter a brief consultation among the
counsel for the defense and Judge Bid
die the latter adjourned court until to-
morrow, in order that Mr. 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-
1nurrers to the prosecutions evidence
or proceeding with the taking of testi-
mony will be decided by the defense's
counsel tonight
From the evidence presented it is evil
dent that the commonwealth depends
largely for conviction upon the testi-
mony of its expert Meyer Goldsmith.
to his interpretations of the accounts
in the red book" and other books Of
the Peoples bank and upon the jury's
opinion of the books papers, letters, tel
egrams and checks offered in evidence
AS TO what extent the testimony of the
defense's expert should he be called
may offset Mr.. Goldsmith's testimony
remains to be seen. The contention of
the defense in argument and cross-ex-
animation has been that the calcula
tions of Mr.. Goldsmith are not borne
out by the books. but on the other hand
show that. Mr.. Quay did not use the
state money. or that whatever loans he
received were made in the customary
manner and backed by sufficient colat-
eral.
To-day's proceedings were devoid of
sensational features. The dry routine
OF involved explanations of accounts
TOOK up most of the time. Mr.. Gold
smiths CROSS eXamination was conclud-
eo ana another examination was begun
by Mr.. Rothermel. The points brought
out by him were that the cash accounts
and interest accounts of the bank were
deficit by the admission of certain sums
received as interest that it was Gus
tomary to designate call loans by in
itials instead of names. Upon the cues
fion of Mr.. Quay's interest deposit ac-
count from May. 1886, to October, 1897
Mr.. Goldsmith said:
In 1896, on June %, the balance was
s2ob; on November ~. $2.177.66: on
November %. again S2.56: in 1897. on
January I. so cents; on October 26 SO
ooO.5d, and on October q. 80 cents; at
which it remained until the end of the
month"; THESE are all the variations
from April so, 1896, to October 81 1897
Director of Mint Henry X. Boyer was
on the stand, and after testifying to
paying interest in October, 1897, on a
call loan. asked permission to make a
statement in reply to the district attor-
neys allegations, in the course of ,testi-
mony, that he received interest on state
money while treasurer from Nav. 1889
to May. 1891 His request was not al
lowed, but the court stated that all
records of replies to those questions
We're stricken out under the courts rul-
ing.
This morning Goldsmith, expert ac-
countant for the commonwealth was
called to the stand and the cross-ex-
animation by Mr.. Shields continued.
Shields. referring to the allegation of
witness that in August, 1896 500 600
or state money was deposited in the
Peoples bank, on which interest was
paid. asked if there was any entry to
show such payment. Goldsmith said
there was no single entry loans of the
state money alleged by witness to have
been made.
The questions covered wide line of
inquiry and resulted in some legal SPAR
ring. Shields drew from the witness
that entries of these loans did not con-
tain names, but only initials, and that
in some instances the witness had
guessed for whom the initials stood
On redirect examination the district
attorney took up the question of the |