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Show SUPREME JUDGE HERMANN WITNESS WASHINGTON, April 17. The" defense de-fense in the case of Blnger Hermann for destroying public records rested and the prosecution began its evidence in rebuttal. re-buttal. The sur-rebuttal testimony of the defense, it Is expected, will be brief, after af-ter which arguments will be made and the case given to the Jury. That Mr. Hermann's reputation for honesty and integrity is good was testified testi-fied to by Justice McKenna of the Supreme Su-preme court of the United States, Justice Jus-tice Lowery of the United State Court of Claims, Justice Gould of the Supreme court of the District of Columbia and Chief Clerk H. H. Gilfey of the United States Senate. John S. Mosby, leader of Mosby's guerrillas guer-rillas during the Civil war, produced two letters from the defendant commending him for work in running down land frauds in Nebrsaka in 1902, when Col. Mosby was a special agent of the land office. These letters were regarded as Important, as showing that not all of Mr. Hermann's correspondence was copied in his letter books. Harry J. Brown, Washington correspondent corre-spondent of a Portland, or., newspaper, identified a dispatch he sent his paper July 23. 1902, telling of the creation of the Blue Mountain forest reserve. This information, he said, he got from Commissioner Com-missioner Hermann, and it waa printed in Portland two days before the alleged "tip" telegram sent by Hermann to F. P. Mays of Portland. |