The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-03-02
RURLONG CASE TO JURY TO-DAY
COdkRAN CHARGES at ma
GEOIS PERSECI TION.

Alleges Political Conspiracy and SAYS
NOae tBuo . Cray Nan Woald Have
Ieene What Furlo0g n Accused 10 pO.
Ing To charge Sury rhis MOrnlng.
The trial in the Suprsme Court in
Brooklyn Of Police Magistrate Henry J.
FurlOng for bribery was finished yester
day with the summing up % Assistant
District Attorney Elder. and the case
will 20 IN the jury to-day after Justice
Isaac NJ. Kapper has delivered his charge.
0Otthslf and FurlonE were called in
rsbuttal yesterday and sAC', l.nied parts
Of the others testimony I'Otthelf testi-
fed 20 Furlong's alleged relation With
Rita l.. DOMAIN and said that the girl had
visited the Magistrate in his private oftice
about fifty times that q child had been
born and that Furlong tried 20 induce the
witness % pose A. its father. He saId
that hs refused tn do this. but acted a.
a mediator and occurred release upon
payment Il tIJO The release was read in
court 0otthelf testified that Furlong
instructed the girl to take the child 10
the City Home and say that she vas dss-
titute and that its father was In the
Philippians.
Morris Donsn. the girl's father. told
OF FuTlong's Introduction TO his home.
but thu District Attorney spared him
from telling any bus the bare circum-
stances OF the introduction age Of
the girl lshe was :Ol and the number OF
times the Magistrate had called. DOMAIN
was member Of Furlong's political club.
Furlong was recalled for a few MN
utes to explain parts Of his former testi-
,nnn~ All aha ...,tAan,.a rrna in ywhssn fhs.
court adjourned for luncheon.
In tina afternoon W. Bourks Cochran
summed up for the defence. He de-
nouncsd the District Attorneys ofiice.
faysd Ootthelf an a crook unworthy Of
belief and laid what he termed his clients
persecution 20 a political conspiracy. IL
was this contention in the FIRST place. the
contention that FNIrlong was the victim OF
rotten politics. that gave the District
Attorney his chance 10 attack the defend
ants private character and past perform
snoes by innuendo and direct slIegatlon
IL was this lins Of defence that enabled
the District Attorney practically To choose
his own latitude in the matter OF cross
examination. And he CHOSE u with an
embracing thUroughness that reached
back for twenty ysars and included alleged
indiscretions with women from Manitoba
TO the Ramapo River farm in New JsTSey.
The defenos had claimed that the better
known MADDEN and DOMAIN scandals we're
jobs cooked up by politicians
Mr.. Cochran said that the District At
torney had been outragcnusly tenacious
in persecuting FurlonG. that the present
trial had been conducted with unwar-
Tanted b, ttsrns.as. that a malicious rumor
vas enough 90 -et that officials once
probing into his clients private life. He
said that the whole thing was = conspiracy.
that u had its beginning IN the MADDEN
case and would have ended there IL Fur
long had been willing to acknowledge the
leadership ~ James = Sinnoat Ia East
New York. Failure TO acknowledge this
resulted. according 10 Cochran. IN the
Donan frameup. A persistent refusal tn
come 70 tune had forced the conspirators
IN make more serious trouble
The folly Of the thinGs charged against
FurlOng was painted in picturesque Ian
gllaRs by the former Congressman a. he
drImmed on the table with his fist. He
would lay himself open az Furiong was
-@ntsd 10y IN" District Attorney showed
FarlOng in the light Of an insane man
putting evidence ia the hands Of crooks 20
bs ,!sad aSsias: himself. He said that u
reminded him ~ the operate consplrators
who come ON the stage and stamp and
rage and sing songs Of what u is all about.
The summing up Of MIR Elder reviewed
the case IN a dlspassionate manner, de-
niei that he had offered immunity TO Colt
h@lf and requested the jury to consider
the evidences aEd find it, verdict accord
ingiy