Show lOUTE OASES district court of the district of columbia rendered its decision in the star route cases it 13 far different one aiom what the people generally expected from the character of the evidence hat had been submitted in tho trial several months has been consumed in for this trill and it was hoped that the postal swindlers lers would get their just deceits at the hands of tho injured law attorney h was so confident of convicting the defendants in tho cases that he only asked to be retained in the cabinet until said conviction which would be at this fills session of the court money and legal talent w as employ cd on both side the former on the part of the government in procuring witnesses and information to suc tess fully prosecute the panties that bad been for years past engaged in bobbing lobbing its treasury iho court however after heal ing the arguments discharged the defendants on the ground that the proceeding oy information was not tiie proper course but that if the charges preferred were capable of substantiation tho should have been by presentation to the grand jury ind indictment in the usual way from present appearances this puts an end to the star route cases the defendants whole from its first ingli aution have goic about 1 alph ing and that ohp trial would never come off and they dively snapped then finfera at the at colne tolne general and the attorney and since their discharge bj tic cobit the seem to feel a ee bunty and are naturally jubilant lu bilant the government is certainly ery deficient the law coition of its cabinet attorney general a made an pardonable pir donable blunder by basiner the cases upon information and not presenting them to the giand jury and an indictment the usual wa ahe government has beean sincere in those bat the legal aing of it is guilty of an irreparable oversight which has cost immense sums of money possibly the cases may again be taken up in the future and if so they will no doubt be put through the proper channel |