New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-11-21
SAVE HYDE FROM JAIL
BY RUSHING TRIAL
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| lawyer, had prepared his own Case
making constant consultation between
him and his counsel necessary Ihls,
he pointed out, would be impossible IL
HYDE were committed to jail.
The venerable justice said he couid
not consider the points mentioned SUI
fcient reason for an exception IN
Hyde's favor.
Have you any special reason be-
sides that which you have already
stated" he asked.
Hyde, whose rotund countenanoe mad
acquired decided droop during TINS
colloquy, whispered with Mr.. Stanch-
| field, who replied to the court:
1.-THE defendant has some important
business engagements which he must
keep, IL that appeals to your honor.
can only repeat that it is imperative
that his counsel confer with him fire.
quently, since he has prepared the case
! himself, and IL would be utterly I'M
possible to reach him at night II you
| should adhere TO your rule. We do not
expect a long trial, and your honor can
readily see that we are anxious 10
expedite 1t by the rapidly with which
we have helped select jurors. To have
free access to our client would ma
| terially aid us in reaching an early
verdict"
Justice Goff asked District Attorney
Whitman how long he expected TO take
in presenting the peoples case. The
District Attorney replied that he
| thought four days would suffice Mr..
| Stanchfield added that the presentation
of the defence would probably con-
sumo day and half or two days.
Under these circumstances, an
nounced the court, II will reserve de-
cision and see how the trial proceeds"
All this took place at the end Of the
morning session, about l p. M, when
seven jurors had been selected. At
o'clock the selection of jurors was re-
sumed and by 3:4S o'clock the box was
filed. But at this point Juror No. 4
was excused by consent, because he
appeared i'll, and the picking Of an
other talesman TO fill his place con-
sumed another twenty minutes.
To-day the District Attorney will
make his opening address, and then
proceed as speedily as possible TO put
on the stand Joseph G. Robin, the con-
victed banker, whose testimony before
the grand jury led TO Hyde's indict-
ment.
The Charge Against Hyde.
! In brief, Hyde is charged with in
ducing Robin to lend the Cummins
coterie in the Carnegie Trust Company
$4,000 by promising 10 increase the
city deposits In the Northern Bank, the
| institution In which Robin was the
! prime spirit. The bank records show
that shortly after the conference which
Robin has testified he had with the City
Chamberlain, and at which, he has
said, such an agreement was reached
between them, the Northern Bank
actually lent the Carnegie Trust Com
pany $4,000. and that a little later
the City Chamberlain increased the city
deposits I'm the Northern Bank. This
was in the summer and fall of 1910,
when the Carnegie Trust Company was
tottering to it's fall.
The District Attorney will try to put
OH the witness stand for the people, it
| is said, from twenty-five TO thirty Wit
nesses. among them many of those
bank officers who testified before the
grand Jury year ago last spring that
they had lent Cummins and his group
various amounts in the expectation of
gaining thereby more city money.
There were fourteen Of these institu-
tions.
In examining the talesmen yesterday
the District Attorney asked each man
| II he had had any business dealings
with any one OF these banks or with
| the Carnegie Trust Company or the
Washington Savings Bank. another
Robin institution. He asked each pros
pective juror whether he knew William
]. Cummins, the real power in the Car
negie Trust Company, who has been
convicted Of grand larceny for divert
| ing 10 his own use certain funds of the
bank; whether he knew any member
Of the Cummins crowd, which included
Joseph B. Reichmann. former president
| Of the Carnegie Trust Company; Mar
tin j. Condor, president Of the Ameri-
can Snuff Company; Charles Arthur
Moore, jr., and others; whether he
knew any of the directors OF the Car
negie Trust Company or any Of Cum
mins's relatives or Robin or his friends
and relatives, or the defendant or his
| counsel.
He read his long list OF men and
banks TO the assembled talesmen be-
fore examining them individually, so
that he would not have to repeat the
whole thing 10 each one as he took the
stand. Justice Golf exclaimed:
why, Mr.. District Attorney, how
great section OF the City Directory
| have you just read? 1t would almost
seem to me impossible to collect twelve
men, no one of whom had had deal
ings at some time or another with one
| Of these men or companies"
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