The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1899-10-18
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hewitt Case viii Soon Be
Given to the Jury,
A MOST SEVERE ARRAIGNMENT.

Accused To Judas ISCariot. NV no
Had tho Good sense TO Go out aud
Hang Hlmselr"
Philadelphia. Oct 1s.-The notable
trial Of Ellery p lngham and Harvey
| X hewitt is near its end The de-
PENDANTS have had their opportunity
TO submit evidence to disprove that
they were In a conspiracy 10 protect
the JaCohs-Kendig cOuuterfeiting EauE
by bribiug an agent OF the United
States secret service. and the govern
ment had every jot Of its evidence In
when the United States district court
was opened yesterday morning
The defendants declared on the wit
ness stand that they were entrapped
They affirmed that Jacobs and Kendig
the Lancaster tobacco manufacturers.
who confessed to being principals in
the counterfeiting of thousands OF dol
lars worth of internal revenue stamps,
had retained them as counsel. The
defendants swore that Jacobs and Ken
dig had said to them that they We're
the possible victims OF a conspiracy
Of business competitors, who were
striving to get evidence that would
induce the government to seize their
factory. to ferret out the conspiracy
and prevent them from being sold out
Ingham and hewitt said they accord
iugly hired William j. MCManus, secret
service operative. and paid him s 600
to do private detective work They
averred that McManus and other secret
service men laid a trap for them. They
sought to break down the testimony C,
William l.. Kendig, who told that he
paid nearly $4,000 to Ingham to pur-
chase protection for him in his coun-
terfeiting scheme and avowed that
Ingham had played him false, pay
ing out only $1,000 of the money given
and leading him to believe that a uni
ted States official was serving as
go-between with McManus.
District Attorney Beck, in opening
the argument for the prosecution de
manding a conviction, spoke nearly
two hours and a half. His speech was
voted one Of the greatest he ever made.
His denunciatory speeches sent thrill
throughout the court room.
Dwelling upon the motives for the
testimony by the government witness
es, Mr.. Beck said Mr.. Shields attributed
revenge to prompt Kendig to testify
as he did.
"That is inconsistent" he argued
Ordinarily there is honor among
thieves, but there was none shown by
Ingham and hewitt in their dealing
with Kendig and Jacobs. They took
$1,000 of their clients money under
false pretense and then betrayed their
interests They did not use the money
as they promised A paltry thousand
dollars was paid out where SO 600 was
intended to go, and when Kendig
learned of this he saw no reason why
he should not expose them"
Precedents were then cited where
eminent men had fallen and betrayed
their fellowmen for money. Men OF
highest character commit the grayest
crimes" said the district attorney, as
he recalled how Benedict Arnold had
won a brilliant reputation before he
yielded to traitorous instinct, and how
Lord Bacon had confessed to bribery
to the house OF lords in England. He
then awed the court jury and specta-
tors by declaring:
Judas lscariOt had high charac-
ter. He would have been the last to
be accused of betraying Jesus Christ.
At that last supper the Lord said.
There is one among you who will be-
tray me this night, and they all an
swered by asking, Is it l. my LoTd?'
For 80 pieces of silver Judas Iscariot
did that awful thing, but he brought
back the money, dashed it on the
temple floor and then had the good
sense to go out and hang himself"
When the district attorney had fin
ished the smile profound stiffness per-
Yaded the court room. All eyes We're
ccntered upon him. and the defendants
were spellbound by the terrible com
parison. After again warning the jury
to beware of his opponents brilliant
rhetoric and eXtravagant illusions, Mr
Beck closed his argument by simply
saying to the talesmen
DO your duty as l have tried to do
mine"
In presenting the case of the de-
fense to the jury Attorney Shields re
hearsed the testimony adduced on both
sides and announced that he was will
ing to meet the prosecution on the is
sue of the credibility of witnesses. He
asserted that, with one or two eXCep-
tions, every witness called by the gov
ernment had practically convicted
himself of perjury and was conse-
Quently unworthy of belief. He scored
the secret service operatives unmer-
cifully, and spoke of the testimony
against lngham and hewitt as having
emanated from blacldegs and confess
ed criminals.
He said there could be no doubt bur
that his clients were the victims of q
conspiracy, and had been caught in
a trap instigated by Operative Burns
With regard 70 William L. Kendig, one
of the defendants, who has confessed
to counterfelting, Mr.. Shields declared
that he had hypnoti2ed Mr. Ingham in
to believing a falsehood, and it was his
opinion that Kendig had also hypno-
tized District Attorney Beck. Sustain
ing the contention of the defense that
Ingham aud hewitt were the victims
of a conspiracy, counsel asserted that
the motive was ambition, and that
Chic Wilkie, as we'll as his subordin-
aJes lad yielded to the impulse which
some mes stirs a man to gain fame
and distinction.
T wards the conclusion of his ar
gument Mr.. Shields made an appeal To
the jury for sympathy by referring in
broken voice to Mr. Ingham's little
child and Mr.. Newitt's aged mother
District Attorney Beck objected on the
ground that it was irrelevant, and it,
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