| Show TRIAL O F I il 111 I BRIDE Asslilart Postmaster Being Tried for tfe Allied Embezzling of S3 072 ARTHUR BROWNS NUMEROUS OBJECTIONS Conlt list Applies for Writ or Defiant CorpoHt In I Jotnt Cart Catalog The cat of the Unite plates against Frank M I McBride charged with om bczllng the sum or 130 2 while assistant assist-ant postmaster for Halt Lake City was called for trial In the federal court to la I with United Staten District After ney Judd and 1 hli Assistant YY 11 YlcOlnnla prosccullm nnd exsenntor Muthur Drown and Attorney I L YVIIllama appearing In behalf of the defendant de-fendant The Indictment n returned by the giand jury contains five counts and In brief accuses McUrlde with having on the lOlh day of January 1897 and at divers other days before then mlille acting In the capacity of assistant post matter under C It IBrrnt now de ceased embezzled the sum of 3072 Pat licteo from stamps reglslt red letters money order etc belonging to the gnvrmnl or the United States and which lie converted rind npprprlatd to tilt or n use Judge J I McBride father or the defendant well known In Ball lake City hut now a resident of Spokane Washington wn In attendance nt court today and occupied a seat near hla son and attorneys J W Cunnlngton Indicted along with McUrlde for complicity In the crime will be tried after the Present case haA Ion llnosidrf Judge Judd In examInIng exam-InIng the Jury today made the slate I n earn thai the evidence Introduce tnt tn-t resent case would necessarily ai ply to the other HAD NO SCIIU1II Nearly the whole or the morning won taken up securing n Jury Only live clallenxes however were exercised There wee n number or humorous replieR re-plieR it the Introgntlon or Judge Judd Addressing John OooUelow or 10un flint I Judge Judd Inquired ot him If he bail any conscientious scruples to convictIng con-victIng n mn who bail violated the law lawNol Not a tilt I replied Oondfellow He wn Accepted TIM ATTOHNLYS IY QUITC FRIEND I Challenge for cause Is 1 with the giy ernment said the cour 1 a 1 Have none replied I Mr Judd With the defendant the court Went on Hut we lave none was Mr Irown answer A peremptory challenge I with that government continued hlhonor I pass I to the defendant sa14 Judd JuddAid I piss It back again wua Drowns rejoinder Till JUDY SWOUV Swear the jury Mr Clerk said 1 JUdge Marshall sharply and twelve mn stool ui and were sworn by Clerk etcher Their names are V M libation Frank Y Taylor John noolfellow J Daynes Jnmes Jr P r B Jennings Hrnzler Joseph M B f l Andrew Knudson M L I ratl 111 I L Price John Itoblnion and John Hnnrord Those challenged and nud woe A Hnnauer Oergo At Cannon Charles Idr Tie n Jones and M F cndergalt JUDDS OrrVINO STATEMENT Judge Judd then read the Indictment to the Jury after dismissing the fourth mnd fifth counts and afterwards made the opening slattment Mr Drown did not make any statement but said that before the honoralle representative of the government Proceeded to call his witnesses he would like to know what crime Mcflrtde was charged with I dont have to Judge Judd re piledHut Hut I think you should be male to and the court should so Instruct you ontlnuel Mr Drown The defendant lie naldwas charged under thren or four statutes for ono offense nech count was mad a semrate anti distinct or lenpL and le dll not Intend to EO to rant on any such a proposition Here wo are Mr Drown continue driftIng drift-Ing wo dont t know where trying we dont know what He hall asked the United States attorney for nn explanation explana-tion reply And he received the following MAY In MUMS Th indictment In this cape In I round Under and Is I referable to the following statutes Sections 40o3 HOD 91 92 and M Itevlsed Statutes Also on March 3 1 975 first ipplement Tel Statutes daVnot 93 There may beather hut I do not think or any othprq at this time J YV JUDD After some furlhir talk Judge Nine shall overruled Mr Drowns objection EXAMINATION or YYlTVrSSLS It Y Mclo 5teloY deputy clerk of tie Tt Ird district court and expert accountant ac-countant testlflel that he was count clerk In 1819 and had some bu lneas dealings with the defendant McUrlde Itecognized his handwriting on a num Ier or quarterly reports while C M Hrrnt was Postmaster IxItmter A N Nh testified that when ho vacated the of In Ile cember I9G he turned over 10 Me Bride accounts amounting to 18005GI Acting Assistant Iomnlor General Gen-eral Hth retire statement In nc count mith tile Salt lk p0tofce was offered In evidence and objected to by Mr Drawn on the ground that It did not connect leBrde In any wny With the receipt or stamp envelo etc sent here The cou4 sutalraei the objection cour life Mrloy w 1A recalled and wax Ilv Ing expert testimony when the INeus report closed |
