The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-04-20
Unexpectedly, Prosecution Closes Its
Case Against Him.
DEFENSE OPENS TODAY
TESTIMONY HAS ALL BEEN OF
AN EXPERT NATURE.
Commonwealth Depends Largely
For Conviction Upon the Evidence
Given By Meyer Goldsnith-Yes-
terday's Proceedings Were Devoid
of Sensational Features.

Philadelphia, April 19.-Unexpectedly
to almost every person interested, the
prosecution in the trial of ex-United
States Senator Quay for conspiracy, to-
day closed its case, after nine days of
clashes of counsel and testimony, large
ly of an expert nature.
The general expression of opinion had
been that the trial would be run
through many more days, and when
District Attorney Rothernel announced
that he concluded, there were express
sions of surprise from all parts of the
courtroom.
The END came at . o'clock. just one
hour before the usual time of adjourn
ment and after a brief consultation
among the counsel for the defense and
Judge Biddle, the latter adjourned
court until tomorrow, in order that Mr..
Quay's lawyers might have time to con-
slider what steps they shall take with
respect to the presentation of their
side.
1t was stated that the question of en-
tering demurrers to the prosecutions
evidence or proceeding with the taking
of testimony viii be decided by the de-
fense's counsel tonight.
Depends Upon Expert.
From the evidence presented, it is evil
dent that the commonwealth depends
largely for conviction upon the testl-
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, and upon the jury
opinion of the books, papers, letters,
kilograms and checks offered in evil
dence
AS to what extent the testimony of
the defense's expert, should he be call
ed may offset Mr.. GoldSmith's testl-
mony. remains TO be seen. The conten-
ton of the defense in argument and
cross-eXamination has been that the
calculations 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 what
ever loans he received We're made IN
the customary manner and backed by
sufficient collateral.
Today'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-
ed and 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
deficient by the omission of certain
customary to designate call loans by
initials instead of names. Upon the
question of Mr.. Quay's interest deposit
account from May, 1896, to October, 1897,
Mr.. Goldsmith said:
Quay's Account With Bank.
in 1896. on June 2S. the balance was
S256: on Nov. q, $2,777.66; on Nov. %,
again 81. Sc; in 1897, on Jan. Z, so cents;
on Oct. &C. $1O,OOO.5O. and on Oct. p, 30
cents, at which it remained until the
end of the month. These are all the va
riations from April so, 1896, to Oct. 81,
1897"
Director of the Mint Henry X. Boyer
was on the stand and, after testifying
to paying interest in October, 1897, on
d call loan, asked permission to make a
statement in reply to the district attor-
neys allegations, in the course of tes-
timony that he received interest on
state money while state treasurer from
May, 1889, to May, 1891. His request
was not allowed, but the court stated
that all records of replies to those Ques-
lions We're stricken out under the rul-
inc Of tbe cOl1rt