| Show CHIRLES mm is the case is given to the jury at 1030 and they deliberate four hours returning a ver diet at 3 p m r 0 judge marshall charged tho joiy in the cac ca c in the federal 0 0 court at salt lake and they retired at 1030 this the 0 0 chargo of tho judge was regarded as being against the defendant and 0 0 his friends at up any hope of acquittal and only looked at 0 0 the bett for a jury the jury was out four hours and a half and 0 0 returned a verdict of embezzlement of funds 0 0 the jury nude for mercy judge marshall has not es 0 0 a reputation of possessing an of tho latter quality 0 rt ft rt rrth rort arti ra the trial of charles ia ended all the evidence wab in at noon yesterday and in the affen won the attorneys began the judge marshall charged the iviry hiis morning Sevc rel of the witnesses were recalled in the morning tint their testimony was largely clear some of the points in the ef which had previously been brought out miss edna thomas to giving out the paycheck for clerks between april 1 and conly 1 Only tap twp of the clerks checks between those dates charles kapp former assistant postmaster at the ogden office was also called in rebuttal his testimony made something ofa stir jie testified that he got hla appointment through kelly the former assistant postmaster the appointment was made conditionally as the result of aw agreement by rapp was to month and pay the test of his salary to kelly his testimony closed the evidence and the attorney began summing up attorney 0 S in his summing up said among other things it has not been provene that charles meighan took the money there is only the report of the inspectors 0 o prove that there was a shortage T is a shortage on rapa but there is nothing in alx ovidene ovide nw to show where nor how the shortage you must admit that charles meighan is a ann of some sense in november the inspectors made the office a visit and found shortage they pave mr meighan to understand that they would come again and be prepared to make a thorough examination of his accounts the testimony of the witnesses is to the effect ahat a big shortage appears in the accounts between the first and the second visit of the inspectors does it look reasonable trint any sane man would appropriate funds at auch a lime knowing that the men were coming back and that they were going to make an examination of his books does ft look reasonable it is preposterous the defendant is a lan borne i rood reputation lie is a man who neither drank bor gambled he had a good salary if there was a shortage hi the funds there is nothing in tho to prove that he took the money when confronted with the figures of the inspectors ho said he would have sworn that the accounts were straight no deficit was found in his accounts before this time K ip info ded to anke the money is it reasonable to suppose he would do it at mich a time when he that the inspectors intended to investigate his accounts I 1 to convict him it must be proven beyond a doubt that he took the money arc you going to send this man to the penitentiary on such evidence on the strength of the acre statement that there was a shortage united states attorney joseph lipp man in his summing up took the position that the evidence proved that there was a shortage in the accounts of the postmaster money had been taken and as head of the office meighan was responsible it was not necessary for the prosecution to show what was done with the money the shortage existed and meighan is held accountable the fact that meighan did not know there was a shortage he said is absurd assistant united states attorney pennel cherrington Gh in calling attention to documents he believed tended to establish the of the prisoners guilt alft al ft to the of capos beinar oit ait at late hours in the evening and saad sixta five dollars a month is not enough for a man who is out at 2 in the morning with the fact that meighan had borne a good re he said meant nothing evera criminal can look back to a time when he was innocent to a time when there has been no blemish on his character to a time when he has committed first crime |
