The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-26
ACQUITs H|APGOOD
OF LIBEL CHARGED
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threatened to make public the family
skeletons of society people unless given

threatened to make public the family
skeletons of society people unless given
The district attorney asserted that
Judge Deuel. did not violate the statute
which forbade him to practice law in
my opinion he violated the statute In
carrying on business. 1t cannot be said
that in carrying on business he neg
lected his judicial duties. AS a Justice,
l will say for him that he conducted his
judicial duties honestly, fairly and well.
Mr.. Shepard has admitted that great
iurist did violate the statute, but
Deuel. was not drawing a salary Of $17,-
500 year. One rules a banking house
from the supreme court bench as others
have from the bench. y
Growing gray and with his back to
the wall, DEUEL. violates the city char
ter in an endeavor to provide for him
self in his old age. He does what a
q trust company, did, before him.
Don't say that he is a vampire or
biackmailer because he violates the city
charter. This is not scintilla Of evil
dence to show that Justice Deuel. knew
about the borrowing of thousands Of
dollars by Colonel Mann.
Ryan Is Hardened.
"There is not scintilla Of evidence
to show that E. Clearance Jones was
blackmailed. He made a loan on col
lateral; =, If you gentlemen happen to
tha y Thomas mas, :. Ryan, I don't believe
ress could be made with him along the
lines Of blackmail. He has been abused
and .villif1ed in the papers for years,
and he is not very sensitive. He has
dealt with commercial guerillas and
would not be shaken down by Colonel
Mann. =. III. :, y" :, I ~
m,This old man had been power In
railroad affairs and had been driven
to the wall. His money had been taken
from him and he was, forced to make
his living in this way. 1t is reason
able to suppose that these great fnan-
cciers had q soft spot in their heart
for a man driven to the wall, and that
1t was not very hard for them to give
him an accommodation. r.
80. Il. P. Belmont did not say on
the witness stand that he was black
after he refused to loan to Mann, ano
yet ne gave to Colonel Mann, the man
W.? ske mp PeT as lf Bslmon: This
rising son got. stuck. on the horizon
You would think that Mr.. Osborn
thought Perry was shaken down. Was
he's He got shares Of Carbon Steel.
? james R. Keene is a rough-and
tumble fighter in the field Of finance
and yet we are told that $4,000 was
taken taken from ni him by : Colonel Mann over
to be arrested as soon as he. left The
stand. Think Of Keene being plum
dered over night. What really hap
pened, Colonel Mann tells you, is thai
he gave securities on properties for this
loan. g.. ..... ~
"Irving approached Burden, but { he
did not blackmail. Wooster, Wayne
and Irving went beyond their authority,
Wooster took blood money. They. al
not to use the influence Of Town Topics
with reference to "Fads and Fancies.'
49,, If there is q man on God IS footstool
who carries fiercer eye than j. Pier
pont Morgan, I dom know him. Colonel
Mann may be a brave man and war.
rior who would face the cannon''
mouth, but facing a lannon's mouth
eye Of Mr.. Morgan. Think Of Colonel
gan! And if he was blackmailed, why
was he not called at this trial9 Why
blackmail anybody when there are sc
many easy markss &-t II
At Last, a Modest Man. +
"Until Harry Lehr appeared said
the district attorney, IT had not sup
posed there was man in the country
so modest as not to go into that mon
umental production, 'Fads and Fan
cies. -
Here e. M. Shepard, counsel for the
defense, suggested that he take up the
Baker case. Mr.. Jerome said:
HThe Spanish war comes and Baker
owner of big steamship line, filled
with patriotism, rushes down to Pain
Beach to tender his vessels to Genera
Alger, member Of a lumber company
and hero of another war, the civil war
Because of his patriotism, Mr.. Bake
sacrificed his line Of steamships for thu
perfection Of the country and $4,000,
900. -~r. 81. ...al
"The defendant in this case is al
old-time friend of mine. Only the bes
Of motives could have actuated in writ
ing these articles, from information OBJ
tained in talk with me. In a measure
was the expurgated author. I talked tx
him honestly and told him what
thought of Town Topics. But he di(
not Violate my confidence His action
thruout this whole proceeding have in
Dictated fnesse of professional honor
He did not even reveal to his coun
sci the talks that he had with me unit
I suggested it to them. If people hat
the Courage to come into court, thi
scandalous paper would have bee1
wiped off the earth long ago.
ct think, in your deliberations, th
question you will turn on is of justif
cation, and whether Hapgood wrote tn
article with good intentions. The gis
Of that will be, was there REASONABLE
ground for .arraigning judge as
blackmailer.
Justice Fitzgerald then charged tn
jury.
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