Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1901-06-13

Ing that u was true that all the accused
are Republicans, but that il il not dis
grace In this or any other State 70 be-
long 20 that party.
In regard 90 Abel, Mr.. Posey declar-
ed that the confession that prisoner
made in Washington duplicating Ching,
Enoch Abel and Congressman Mudd
was the result Of . nervous and fright
ened condition, IL IL were true at all
He also declared that the fact that
Ching's handwriting is found on Abelrs
returns II not in itself proof of conspi-
racy. de recounted the declaration of
Abel that he never sent the sheets 10
the Census Office, and said il was a fair
presumption that Robt. Abel sent them.
Mr.. POsey was severe in his denunci-
alton of Guyther, who confessed, calling
him traitor and perjurer. and twitted
the prosecution for not being able to
prove Guyther's signature to q state
ment excnerating Ching forgery. He
closed with q strong appeal to the jury
for acquittal, saying that the evidence
was entirely too flimsy to convict man
Of crime Of any sors.
IT. xarbury Speaks.
Mr.. Marbury laid special stress upon
the fact that the men were being tried
for conspiracy and that il was incum-
bent upon the jury to find evidence of
conspiring before the great mass Of overt
acts which the Government has proved
would be available for aconviction. He
went fully into the technical meaning of
conspiracy and explained the difference
between the counts in the indictment.
Come down to the evidence, Mr.. Mar
bury said it was impossible to conceive
OF the fictitious names being submitted
in the kope of deceiving the Census De-
partment into accepting them in further
ance of conspiracy, for the inconsist-
encies were too obvious. He declared
that he could see nothing more in
Bowlesf schedule than monstrous joke,
which view was borne out by such entries
as that Of 6-year-old boy whose occu-
patton was given as school. teacher and
a 2year-old child as day laborer with
work all the year round. Mr.. Marbury
insisted that the fact that many of the
same fictitious names were found on
both Bowles' and Abell's lists was not
an evidence of conspiracy, his reason be-
ing that both the men were well &C.
quainted with the past and present in
habitants of the county, and each would
be likely to enumerate the same people
who had died or moved away. Mr.. Mar
bury insisted at length that there was
absolutely no evidence of conspiracy
against Bowles; that the only way in
which he could be connected with Ching
was by q course of intricate deduction
not supported by an array of facts.
In regard to both Bowles and Abel,
Mr.. Marbury said their actions could be
accounted for on various other theories
than that of q conspiracy.
Mr.. Marbury dwelt upon the testimony
of Guyther, who confessed, calling him
a perjurer and other hard names. He
said that Guyther confessed and went
on the witness stand because he fell in
to the hands Of political enemies of the
prisoners, who secured the confession
for its effect on county politics. He
charged that C conspiracy had been
Matched among the politicians for that
purpose, naming States Attorney CANA
lier. OF st. Mary's county, and Mr.. Phil
lip J. Medley as the leaders in it. The
celebrated letter of Ching to Bean, tell
ing Bean to warn Guyther that the CEN
sus experts were coming, Mr.. Marbury
claimed was simply the natural desire of
friend and active politician to warn
another to be On his guard.
Mr.. Cans Argument.
Mr.. Cans began his argument by stat
ing that he did not think politics enter
ed into the case as much as Mr.. Marbury
would suppose. He continued:
81 don't agree with Mr. Posey's pic
ture of yesterday, in which Ching
was held up as being noble SON of st.
Mary's, nor do l believe that counsel
should waste rhetoric upon him, for it
has been proved that he put down "a &c.
titious names on Abell's supplementary
sheets. This case is not one Of sympathy,
! agree that we must prove conspiracy
I can prove that Ching got these farmers
into this trouble. and that. with Leon
ardtown as q center, he sat like spider
weaving the web to enmesh them.
"If the defense had claimed that the
false returns were the result of mid
summers madness, then it would have
presented q more logical case than it
has. You have seen Abel, who went
upon the stand and wriggled and lied,
but was impaled by the questions of the
District Attorney.
"Ching is a lawyer, and not good
one from the advice he gives, lieuten-
ant in Southern Maryland of Mr.. Mudd,
a an, am bar ~ tha Ranuhl;onn G.n.n r.