The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-03-07
FAMOUS CASE
 IS ON TRIAL
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 turned against Mrs. Chadwick charg- ing her with conspiracy to commit an offense against the United States and further addressed the jury at consider able length that if such conspiracy Is formed and one or more of the con- spirators take any action toward car rying into effect the purpose of the conspiracy, all of the conspirators are guilty before the law.
 The evidence to be submitted in the case, said MT. Sullivan, will show that Mrs. Chadwick was associated with Spear and Beckwith, the officials of the Citizens National Bank of Oberlin. in business. They had many transactions together, ir the course of which eight different checks amounting in all to $S6,000, were certified by Spear and Beckwith. The evidence will show that when these checks were certified no money was in the bank in the name of Mrs. Chadwick and no entries to her credit were on the books of the bank" l"
 T would suggest, MT. Sullivan" said Judge Taylor, that you explain to the jury the exact nature of certified check"
 This was done and the attorney then declared that the evidence of the di- rectors of the Citizens National Bank of Oberlin would be to the eff feet that none of them knew anything about the deals between Spear, Beck with and Mrs. Chadwick until the day before the suspension of the bank. He then read several counts of the indict- ment to the jury in one of which Mrs. Chadwick was mentioned as alias Mad anne de We're. Mrs. Chadwick at this point kept her eyes on Attorney Sul- livan's face and never moved a muscle.
 DawIey's Statement.
 J. P. Dawley, leading counsel for Mrs Chadwick, said on rising to make his statement to the jury: The de- fendant has pleaded not guilty to all the charges contained in the indictment and that Is all that she, at this time, is prepared to say. I will supplement that. however, by brief statement, as we prefer to allow the Government to prove its case. I am not prepared at this time to say just what the evidence will show. I believe, however, that 1t will fail to show that any action taken by the officials of the bank was by pro- curement or at the request of Mrs. Chadwick. If they did or did not make entries in their books that is their af- fair and not one with which Mrs. Chad wick had anything to do. She had no control over them, was not present when they did their work and knew nothing of their transactions.
 We expect that the evidence will fail to show that there was any con- spiracy between Spear, Beckwith and the defendant. What Beckwith did he did as the president of the bank and without any fraudulent connivance with Mrs. Chadwick. What Spear did was under the direction of Mir. Beck with and was done by him in good faith. He believed that Mrs. Chadwick was wealthy. was worthy of credit to the amount of the certified check"
 MT. Dawley then alluded to the aliases mentioned in the indictment, saying that he had no knowledge of why they were inserted there unless it was for the purpose of creating a prejudice against his client.
 The list of witnesses for the State. twenty-eight in all. was then read and they were sworn in body.
 The first witness for the State, Ebe- nezer Southell. assistant chief of the organizing division in the office of the comptroller of the currency was call ed. He had barely taken the stand when n Judge Wing for Mrs, Chadwick, ob- jected tc any testimony being received under the indictment. He claimed that when two persons were charged with conspiracy y and one of them was acquit- ted. the other was. under the law. ac- quilted without trial. The indictment did not >dharge Beckwith and Spear with cohspiracY, but charged Mrs.