Show ff SHEPHERD I 1 gray sued him for damages I 1 on a contract BEING DISMISSED TOO SOON notwithstanding col Inger pleading the jury returned a verdict for the defendant NEW YORK dec 15 the doors of tho the supreme court were besieged by a larger crowd than usual today it being known to be the closing day in the tile suit of frank 8 I 1 ray y a against col elliott I 1 shepard for damaged aw e in the sum of 1 20 for alleged breach of 0 f contract the case has been on trial for three days and arid lias liss been replete i with sensational charges a and rid counter I 1 charges gra gray y wag was em employed played as business i manager I 1 0 of f tit the mail mall anti and express under a ova five year I 1 contract at the end ot of three vears ha be I 1 wag was dismissed by shepard among the reasons I 1 given being incompatibility 11 or grays s suit was for two years salary or ab abot 0 jt shepard charged charged that hia his incompatibility consisted 0 of violent lan 11 guage and general conduct incompatible s with ili his shepard s wishes dray gray charged I 1 thas the real reason of dismissal was that he refused to bribe commissioner mcclave to secure for the mall and L lapress ress election advertising both sides i made n ze charges of drunkenness drun kennes against each other and the I 1 haa has been such as a to attract large and ili interested te rested audiences in search of new developments when the proceedings commenced today 1 y lawyer Part parsons ions opened for shepard 1 lie 1 ll 11 dwelt upon the batters lat generosity to gray and argued that gray himself admitted tike the violence which marked hn his conduct in the mail and anti express lix press office lie ile dwelt upon the evidence which showed that at during bit business iness hours gray often resorted to the asior astor house bar and ran a gamut of drinks from beer to ebani champagne lie criticized gray for bre breilh job of hospitality in uttering littering the tile charge that his host hosl was a drunkard parsons contended thattie that the I 1 sworn denials of the police mcclave and others convicted gray oray of lying when he lie testified fied that he applied I 1 je d to mcclave for election adver advertising t hang aa for or t the 0 mail tail and H alx lx press lle argued that inthe if the interpretation linkul put bv by gray on the lie live thousand dollar chieck sent him mm by shepard for ifor commissions nila was sincere then graya action amounted to a condonation of the crime for instead of defending bis his honor he lie placed money to his tits own credit in the bank ank he ife maintained also that grays demanding from shepard ja although now months after he lie claimed cat only some stamped him as an infamous infamous blackmailer col ingersoll for the plaintiff argued that Slie pardi generosity amounted to no more than getting I 1 it GM gras services service a for what ho he coufa could 0 OT of shel Sh epards a P lett er dismissing grav gray he lie said lie ile charges G gray M I 1 in it with dishonesty inconis incompetency elency incon incompatibility and it is marked private and confidential ingersoll contended contend KI that the testimony haa has shown that the I 1 c charges harges of dishonesty were bawl baaed on manufactured evidence after the suit was wall instituted itu the allegations of breach of contract in publishing tho fact that a contract cited aisted xi ted for the maintenance of fast hones horses at tho the expense of the tile mall and arid allx 1 I press and other matters he maintained from to 0 have been proved to be bo after thoughts and groundless grays disc dl charee harge asserted Ins ingersoll ersoll grew from that advertising scheme when il a man roan is found out in in crime by another he hates him let a man mail 9 suggest ug at to another what is is criminal and if f the lt other eother does not agree in the work with him incompatibility so soon 0 n arises continuing ingersoll it or said the case was simply i that she shepard pard wanted to stop paying paying gray the alary salary he lie agreed to give him lie fe wis was wit willing C 11 to 0 keep keel gray at a smaller salary and could put up with profanity ro fanity grav gray is denounced for keeping fg sit Sh epards rd se check h ec k said ingersoll if you hasa had an enemy speaking speaking to the iury lury who is about to stab your reputation and you had this would YOU not use it as a sword and shield behind which to defy the miserable devil who made gray coinon the broacher breach of hospitality for which he has been denounced noun ced it was you ou mr parsons it waa was v voa I 1 w who ito asked him where besides the 1 hieretta arc tt house he had seen shepard drink perhaps you thought ho he ought to tobaie haire told a ile lie I 1 thought he lie should have said nothing answered ParOO parsons ill 1 I dont object to your drinking col ool She shepard panl said in ingersoll jerroll soll but to your trying to bide hide it T there jer bere iere hav have been boeta ts and arid painters musicians and statesmen who absolutely filled themselves then relves with wine and there have been many of them who would sooner cut their throats than then attempt to bribe a man judge parker then summed up aud and the jury retired at 30 at I 1 p m they returned and announced they agreed upon a verdict in favor of shepard he le arose and curnin to the tile jury said 1 I shaik you very ery much 0 grays mys lawyer moved for a new trial on t the he gounds grounds of the verdict being axin against I 1 the 1 e weicht 2 it of the tile evidence e bat the motion I 1 was denied |