The Washington herald., 1916-05-27
BANKERS CASES
TO JURY TODAY
Closing Appeals Are Made by
Both Prosecution and
Defense.
COURT SITS UNTIL LATE
Justice Siddons Announces He Will
Instruct Jury in Perjury Trial
at Session This Morning.


The prosecution and defense in the trial
of Riggs bankers for alleged perjury made
their final appeals to the jury yesterday
The arguments were closed after the
longest session in the three weeks OF
the trial, court sitting until $40 o'clock
Justice Siddons will instruct the jury this
morning, he announced.
Assistant Attorney General Fits, as
ISOLATED with the prosecution, addressed
the last arguments to the jury. He talk
ed for an hour and ten minutes and plead
ed that the law should be no respecter OF
men, even though the prominent banker.
defendants faced the penitentiary.
United States District Attorney Laskey
opened the final arguments. He was fol-
lowed by Attorneys Hoover and ODon-
oghue, who spoke thirty minutes each, and
by John B. Stanchield, of New York
who closed the arguments for the defense
Hogan Landed and Derided.
A feature of the appeals was the place
given therein to Frank ]. Hogan. of coun-
sci for the defense, who drew the affida-
Wit on which the bankers, Charles c.
Glover, William J. Flather and Henry
Fl. Flather, were indicted Placed upon
an enviable pedestal by the oratory OF
John B. Stanchfeld. who declared him
TO be famous throughout the country, he
was drought uO"n IN momentum the
eye of those who believed Attorney Fits
by the caustic wit of the chief prosecu-
tor.
Attorney Hogan's testimony as the last
witness I'm the trial. occupies a conspicu-
GUS position in the facts to be considered
by the jury. He testified to the drawing
up Of the affidavit and how the accused
bankers relied upon him in signing 1t.
The point brought out by the govern
ment in its final arguments was whether
the bankers signed the affidavit, which
declared the Riggs Bank did not deal in
stocks. knowing it to be false.
Attorney O'Donoghue declared the evil
dence produced in the trial showed the
bank officers and not the bank dealt in
stocks. He asserted the government had
not made out its case.
Scores sherlock Holmes"
Attorney StanchfieId spoke Of "a mod
ern Sherlock Holmes and a Sherlock
Holmes in the last edition when he
brought Bank Examiner Trimble into
his address. Trimble had testified that
he found some 800 stocks slips and orders
in the basement OF the bank after he al
legd the bankers had told him they had
been destroyed. He said the officials
declare they first put the slips on spin
dies as memoranda held but a short time.
Those slips he found in a secluded"
place in the basement were not pune
tured by spindles, he had said.
Are spindle holes of tremendous con-
sequence where human liberty Is con-
cerned?' Attorney Stanchfield asked the
jury.
The name OF TEDDY" Roosevelt was
placed before the jury by Stanchfield
He had come hundreds of miles to testify
for the defendants, Mr.. Stanchfield said.
rs there a man on the fury who does
not believe in Teddy" he asked.
The injection of the former Presidents
name into the address was scored by At
torney Fits.
Attorney Fits was interrupted FIVE
times by Attorney Hogan. who objected
to his reference to matters concerning
the bank which were not brought out in
the trial. The objections were sustained
Shortly after court opened, Justice Sid
dOns announced he would overrule the
motion made Thursday for an instructed
Jury