Show CRAZY COUNSEL de desperate debates and Dit disputes in dorseys Dorsc Dors Ts evs defense an inkling of the guiteau trial farce 1 cr ir W V U telegraph Telee Telea raph to the Ife herald raid 11 march 8 in the star bouto trial george eorge W sweeny of the contract office appeared with a huge pile of papers being accounts of deductions duct ions fines and remissions made out in the indictment mr wilson began to examine witness in this connection tion recess aher after re ess although the court assured wilson that sweeny had brought in enough papers to last a week he insisted his on oil right to be allowed allowe lamest access to others the old wound was reopened and counsel had bad a lively time merrick ch characterized the demand as ridiculous declared every facility had bad been offered the defense an and when wilson persisted in his demand exclaimed 1 I 1 dont think you know what you want yourself I 1 dont think you are eane sane on it BO so help mo me god 1 I think you crazy retorted wilson the court ought not talk to a crazy man that way laughter wilson bitterly 1 I suppose tha the court is endo endorsing what merrick aid said merrick with mock gravity your honor should not tay say that the court of course it was only ajeet a jest assuming his theory that you are crazy I 1 said he lie ought not talk to you in in that way wilson alt it is not the first time tha tho court has talked to me in an unkind way the court LI I did make a mistake because of your incapacity of ampre dating adest a jest merrick bl errick was getting too warm and I 1 thought to call him off A merrick lerrick Il attempted to interpose but wilson wilson turned angrily and shaking his finger finzer at him exclaimed 1 I know the methods of this prosecution I 1 know lie lio had hada a spy of the prosecution bitting sitting behind roe me for weeks bliss so 89 far as the prosecution knows that is not true truo 11 the court if you ou will allow me another joke I 1 will say you are all spies upon one another it is the business of counsel to find out what they can of lie the plans of of the other bide side I 1 allson V ilson with undaunted warmth I 1 will not allow any man to spy oa on melfa me if I 1 know inand I 1 will never spy upon another man merrick laughing ive plenty behind me now examination into the papers was resumed when it had proceeded for sobie some time the court interrupted saying it failed to see the pertinence of the offered evidence the papers hienkle said these documents had been set met out in the indictment as part of the conspiracy the court said it did not form a part of the governments case 4 merrick said eald it was to prove that a man did not commit one act by bv show allow ing that he did not do another davidia argued at length in sup port of offering the papers taking the indictment as the tile basis of his arguments arga he ile declared that bra brady while in office cut to pieces his alleged f co conspirators in making deductions duct ions and in fines and acted only as a good man as a judge in making remissions in the tho interest ori of justice wilson also participated in the argument ha lie asserted that whenever a postmaster regularly reported a abail fhil ure to brady he lie relentlessly and unerringly and everlastingly so long as he lie did last in his office imposed these fines in strict accordance with law and the regulations walsh said brady pot got half the remissions he lie wanted to show by Q ahe testimony offered in this statement ct c t that 1 A lph was utterly untrue he ile wanted the jury u to see flee whether or not remi remissions ions had bobeen been justly made he lie wanted to show allow that b at the remitted money passed into such hands bands that it would have been absolutely impossible for his client brady to touch a cent of it bliss said white the prosecution regarded the evidence as inadmissible yet in view of ortho tho wild statements of the other tide side he lie would re request nest the court to admit it the tile esmarch bismarck tongue luver river route was tha the only route upon which there waa was no subcontractor upon others it wan wad possible for brady to cut and deduct ded netto to any extent so it was in the limit of the bub sub contractors pay the court decided to let in the evidence in order to save time and shorten the trial so as to bring it within the compass afan of an average lifetime so again the tile examination was resumed and continued until adjournment |