Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-06-17
FOURTH WEEK OF TRIAL
en-Doremus Case May Go
to Jury Friday.
LONG DRAWN-OUT CONTEST
Honors About Even Under Rulings of
the Court.
EACH SIDE SCORES POINTS
Stubborn Fight From the Beginning
Concluding Chapter of Inves-
tigation Begun in 1908.

With the prosecution rounded out and the
defense outlined, the trial of George E.
Green before Justice Gould in Criminal
Court No L, under consolidated indictments
charging bribery and conspiracy growing
out of the Post Office irregularities. Will
enter tomorrow upon it's fourth week and
last stage. 1t is expected that two days will
be consumed in the presentation of evi-
dence for the defense The final argu-
ments will also require about two days,
and the case will probably go to the jury
Friday. The verdict, in the event that the
jury reaches agreement, will bring to
completion one of the most protracted and
most vigorously contested cases arising
from the Post Office Department investiga-
ton three years ago.
Though the progress has been slow and
the proceedings at times monotonous, the
trial has furnished a strenuous and occa
sionally spirited conflict between the legal
representatives of the government and of
the defense. No point of even minor i'm
portance to either side has been neglected.
and every vantage ground has been fought
for with tireless energy and determination.
Stubborn conflicts have been waged by
counsel over the more weighty questions
that have developed.
Judged In the light of the rulings of the
court, both sides have attained successes,
with honors about even. Early in the trial
Justice Gould sustained the contention of
the defense for the right to conduct the
cross-examination of Consul General Robert
J. Wynne of London, with the view of
showing bias and prejudice the part of
the witness against the defendant Green.
This point won after a hard struggle
on the part of United States Attorney Baker
to prevent 1t. Under the ruling tile de-
tense was enabled to show by the evidence
of Mr. Wynne that he had been intsru-
oil in, I'M
to plead guilty in the case then about to
be tried, in which Green and Beavers were
joint defendants. under promise of inn
munity from prosecution on other indict-
ments pending against him. and that Beav-
ers was given to understand that in order
to have the benefit of the promised i'm
munity he must plead guilty in that partfc-
ular case and in no other. Attorney A. 5.
Worthington made the leading argument
for the defense on this contention.
The Government Scores
The government scored in the fight over
the admissibility of evidence tending to show
prior relations between George E. Green and
George w. Beavers as early 1897, sew
eral years before the period covered by the
indictments. 1t was contended by counsel
for the defense that to extend the scope OF
the case back to that date would be to open
up ground that had already been covered
I'm the recent conspiracy trial In which Mr.
Green was acquitted and that therefore
the defendant would be virtually tried twice
on the same charges. The presentation for
the government was made by Assistant
United States Attorney Stuart Mcnamara.
who contended that the prior relations of
Green and Beavers should be inquired into
in the present trial. not to show criminality
In the antecedent transactions, but to reveal
fixed and definite designs leading up to the
fraudulent acts alleged In the indictments.
1t was for this purpose that the court adj
mitted the evidence
Counsel for the government later In the
trial made a fight against the admissibility
of a paper purporting to contain a state
ment made by Willard D. Doremus TO post
office inspectors in reference to the relations
of the Doremus Machine Company and his
personal relations with the Post Office De-
partment. The fact that such paper eX-
listed brought out subsequent to the
testimony of Herbert J. Truesdell, who
stated that when he examined by post
office inspectors at Rush. Pa, he had been
shown paper purporting to be a signed
statement of Mr. Doremus. The paper Of
fered in evidence contained no signature.
Argument in favor of it's admission was
made by Attorney John NJ. Thurston, coun-
sci for Doremus.
The court ruled in favor of the govern