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Show I MAGHEN CASE GOES I . TO THE JURY TODAY Closing Argument for tho Govera- ment Concluded, and J udgo Will m Charge Jury Today. H WASHINGTON, Feb. 25. MY. Con- rad, special counsel for the Govern-; Govern-; ment in the postal trial, continued his fl I Argument for the prosecution today.' He dwelt at lonpth upon the question of what constitutes a reasonable doubt nnfi instanced cases where a single Juror had hung a Jury through a nils-conception nils-conception of the meaning of a reason-able reason-able doubt, when he was Interrupted by Mr. Kumler, -who charged that the statements were an imputation on the 1 ury in this case. A sharp colloquy be- tween Mr. Conrad and Mr. Kumler fol-(owed. fol-(owed. Resuming Ills remarks, Mr. Conrad ', contended that the counsel for the de- tense hod admitted all the allocations 3f the indictment. This brought Charles A. Douglass to his feet, who H lenied that this was so. After some HI wrangling' Justice Prltchard told tho HI ury that they understood how the mat- H ter was and directed Mr. Conrad to proceed. Mr. Conrad attacked the statements made on the stand by Mr. Lawrence HI regarding his llrst examination of the Groff fastener In 1S95, and said that ; they are not borno out by the clrcum- ; stances surrounding it. 1 When Mr Conrad concluded this af- temoon Justice Prltchard. announced HI that he would deliver his charge to the HI Jury tomorrow morning. |