The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-04-15
Another Victory Gained by the Prose-
 cuttOn,

| Philadelphia, April 14-Persstent
 keen and brilliant arguments between
 District Attorney Rothermel on the one
 side, Messrs. Watson, Shapley anc
 Shields upon the other on the admission
 of testimony that may go a long way tc
 establish the alleged guilt of eX-United | States Senator Quay was the feature of | to-day's trial of that distinguished de- I fendant, and it culminated in a decided | victory for the prosecution. The red book found in Cashier Hopkins desk after his suicide, and upon the admis- sion of which the commonwealth so largely rests it's case, was the shaft the district attorney aimed at the defense. To pave the way for the final effort to introduce the book itself, he succeeded after frequent clashes with opposing
 counsel sometimes bitter and personal in presenting expert testimony to prove
 that the book was necessarily a book
 of the bank as the accounts of the book
 admitted under the courts ruling would
 be made ineligible by the ''red book. |"
 Before starting his examination MT.
 Rothermel read to the court statement
 of what he intended to prove. The eX-
 pert, he said had made a thorough eX-
 amina ton of all the books in the case.
 He found that previous to April 30, 1891,
 the Peoples bank paid interest on tho
 state deposit to the state treasurer and that records of such payments kept in regular way on the books of the bank.
 After April 30, 1891, when MT. Hopkins j. @l,o was adopted. This entailed the addition of another book now known as the red book,'' to the books heretofore kept by the bank.
 Myer Goldsmith, an expert account ant, was the witness upon which the commonwealth depended to accomplish it's contention. During the whole course of the experts examination, objection after objection was made by the defense and as frequently overruled by Judge Riddle, while the district attorney in logical sequence drew from the witness his conclusions as to the book, based upon a comparison of what was writ ten on it's pages with what appeared in the other books. After it was all over, four hours of examination and cross- lIleISp6lS6u WILL dTSu- ment, this much was sworn to by the witness: Two accounts of upwards of one thousand in the regular books were incomplete and inaccurate unless ex- plained by entries in the "red book" One was an item of 1,519 entered in the individual ledger to the credit of the person who received it. The witness was not permitted to designate the per- son by name. He found this item on the stub of the cashiers check book but what it represented he could not say.
 Another item of $5,5S2.1 10 he found in the regular books dated May "A, 1894, and found the same item in the 'red book dated October 30, 1894 He stat ed there were other entries in the red book which explained transactions in the regular book, but the two instances specified were the only ones in which |, he could reach accurate conclusions 1 IS to their nature and purposes
 Mr Goldsmith said that when he first i opened the red book he did not consider ! it a book of the bank but when he l the calculations entered on ! ts pages with the transactions in the | other books he was forced to consider it | , book of the bank. He explained this ,y saying that prior to 1891 calculations such as appeared ill the "red book'