The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-01-06
TO LIBERATE POLITZ IF MAE
SHALL COULD BE CONVICT
ED OF CONTEMPLATING.
DETECTIVE PERRY SAID TO HAVE
MADE POLITE SUCH A PROMISE
Numerous Witnesses Swear That POLITE Had
Repeatedly Declared Before and After His
Confession That Marshall Had no Con-
nection With the Crime or Know
ledge That Counterfeiting
Was Going On.

Yesterday was undeniably A. J. Mar
shall's day III the Federal court. From
the first few minutes of the session.
when George Rountree, of counsel for the
defense, forced young Darkley, the pros
ecution's star witness, to admit that he
had once said he knew nothing against
Marshall or about the case, because
he was not on oath and did not want to
talk about it." through the long series
of witnesses who swore, time after time
to the same story. viz: that Perry. the
detective, had promised Pohtz, the self
confessed counterfeiter. to secure his
pardon if he would implicate Marshall
and give testimony to secure his con-
yiction, and that Poltz before and aftel
his confession had repeatedly stated, with
profane emphasis, that Marshall was not
an accomplice in the crime and did not
even know that the counterfeiting was
going ON, the scores Were all for Mar
shall
The testimony yesterday clearly SET
out the lime of defense, and, if it was
| credible, established the following facts
l. A. j. Marshall was the attorney for
| PolitZ, Il Greek who was in business III
Wilmington and who by reason of his
| ignorance of the English language was
| compelled to have his attorney transact
for him a great deal of the mere routine
of business, correspondence, &c. which
| the ordinary business man tranSa cted fol
himself.
,. That i'll observance of this necessity
Marshall had at the request of POlitz or
dered from a Philadelphia firm at var
iouS times quantities of metal which Were
shipped by express c.. o. ID. to Marshall
This metal was turned over to Politz and
paid for by him.
3. Politz was at that time and had
been for sometime previously engaged
in making counterfeit silver dollars and
half dollars; that he had repeatedly pass
ed and attempted to pass them ON bust
ness men in Wilmington.
4. That after Politz was arrested and
lodged in Jail on a charge of counterfeit
ing he had repeatedly declared that he
had been told that if he would give testi-
mony duplicating Marshall that it would
go lighter with him." and that he would
probably even be acquitted; that he had
as often declared that Marshall was en-
tirely innocent and that his (Politz's 81
conscience would not allow HIM to testi
fy that Marshall was guilty.
). That Perry, the detective, went to
see Politz nearly every day while he was
in jail and urged upon him the personal
advantage he would derive from impli-
eating Marshall and that even after
Politz had confessed and had been sent
to the States PRISON. the pressure ON him
to testify against Marshall had been kept
up and he had been promised a pardon if
Marshall could be convicted.
6. That while in the States prison
Politz had voluntarily declared to Capt
w. H. Day. superintendent of the pris-
on, and to Chas. S. d. Hawkins, am i'm
mate, that Marshall was not an accom-
plice in the counterfeiting, but that pres
sure was being brought to bear on him
to swear Marshall was guilty.
Z. That Politz had at various times de-
clared that while Marshall had ordered
the metal which was used in making the
spurious coin that he did not know that
the metal was so used and that ordering
the metal was the extent of his connec-
ton with it.
8. That there was a we'll defined com
spiracy between Darkley, POlitz and Per
ry TO secure Marshalls conviction of the
crime and Politz's liberation as the price
of his part in the conspiracy.