Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-05-05
Tyner- Barrett Trial Attracts
Little Public Interest.
PROCEEDINGS TODAY
HAZE MORGAN AGAIN IN THE
WITNESS BOX.
Few Incidents to Relieve Monotony OF
Hearing-Gen. Tyner Comes to
Court After Noon.

The trial of James ". Tyner and Harrison
j. Barrett indicted for conspiring to de-
fraud the United States in connection win
the Post Office Department scandals. drag
ged YEARLY along today. Gen. Tyner o'o
rot arrive in court until 100 O'CLOCK
and there was but small au-
dience in Criminal Court No. ]. The ven
cradle and sorely afflicted former assist
ant attorney general for the Post Office De-
partment. whose good name Is in Jeopardy,
was kept at home. as the strain OF trans
porting him to and from the city hall and
In and out of the court room is severe
ore.
The defendant. Barrett, however was at
his post at the counsel table, actively as
sisting his legal representatives. Messrs.
A. s. Worthington and O. F. Hershey. In
the conduct of the defense. Mrs. Barrett
and three other ladies occupied chairs
nearby.
One individual connected with the case
remarked this afternoon that In bis oT,in-
ion. based the progress made up TO
this date, the trial would not reacn an
end until the Fourth of July. Seriously
however, 1t Is predicted that the govern
ment will require the time until the end
of next week to present its testimony in
chief.
From the viewpoint of a person seated
in the audience and having no direct CON
nection with the cause, the hearing Is tedi-
ously dry. Sensational features, such as
those that figured so prominently in the
Observation-Disclosures trial few weeks ago.
are wholly hacking. The array OF attor-
neys Is not now so numerous as at the
first Of the post Office trials. and. all in all,
the case Is of an entirely different type.
1t seems to be more in the nature of a
civil proceeding than the trial of a criminal
charge. The introduction of documentary
evidence. the reading of letters, circulars
and reports and explanations OF how ousi-
ness was transacted at the Post Office De-
partment and elsewhere by officials of the
department constitutes, for the most part,
what is going on. To the non-expert it is
difficult under the circumstances to fol-
low the case to the extent of grasping the
value of what is being proved.
Spirited Colloquy.
There were a few incidents out of the or
binary in the proceedings today in connec-
ton with which Attorney Worthington and
| Major Conrad figured. During the cross
| examination of one of the witnesses pro-
| duced by the government differences were
| being stated. This inspired Major Conrad
to softly remark that the witness was a
| better repository Of knowledge for the de-
| Tense than for the government.
Attorney WOrthingtOn charged that the
remark was not proper one to be made
| in the presence of the jury, and spirited
colloQuy followed
Haze Morgan, who was on the witness
stand at the hour of adjournment yester-
day, was under cross mination through
out the morning session today. The de-
| Tense devoted considerable time to empha
| sizing that 1t was a practice of the office
| of the assistant attorney general for the
! Post Office Department, prior to the time
! that Gen. Tyner took charge, and contin
ues to be at the present time, to permit
| bond investment concerns that had agreed
| to change its plans in order to comply witt
the law, to use the mails for the purpose
of closing up their old business
| Assistant Attorney General Robb was q
visitor In court during the session this
afternoon. He conferred with United
States Attorney Beach and with Maj. Con-
rad