Evening Star Newspaper, January 7, 1882, Page 1

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UNIVERSALIST CHURCH, MASONIC TEM- (CS sie, Simner Sth and F etrects northwest. “Services ‘To-morrow at I! s.r. Sermon by the Pastor, Rev. ALex. Kent. ubject, ‘*Only one way to be saved.” Bunday school at 9:45 a.m. 1 Ga a as Se ra AN KL }OB] — atlla.m. ‘and 7:20 pam. "At the evening service the Mizpah Band will be present and it MA will 1° REFORM: re P. RCH, ES" acc. Temple ters Aatnun Fostes, preach at Ila.m. ‘0-norrow. VERMONT AVENUE CHRISTIAN CHURCH, .. POWER, Pastor.—Services a Seats free. All very welcome. -It* MOUNT VERNON PLi ‘M.E. CHURCH “ South, corner 9th and K_ streets northwest.— Preaching Sunds Mt ll a.m. by Rev. A. J. HUNTING- rox, D-D.. and the usual service at 7:86 pan. “Public invi a. [-3* UNITED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, N.A— =. Resular services every Sabbath, at 11 a.m. and 6 Pye tu the City Hall, by the Pastor. Rev, 8. Cont .D., (residing at ‘9th street northwest.) respectfully invited. Ce STE GI. -& corner 11th and H w-morrow (Sunday) at 11a.m. and 7:30 p.m. Come toworship Everybody welcome. 8. Domes, D.D., pastor. it ==> CALVARY BAPTIST CHURCH, 8TH AND H <% streets northwest.—Rev. SaM'L. “H. GREE Pastor.—Preaching, Morning, 11 o'clock; Evening, 7:3 o'clock. ‘The ordinance of baptism nt the close of the evening eervice, Sunday school 9:30 a.m. All are It CHURCH, CORNER tor, Rev. K. N. Barn, will pre - mi. and 7: Sunday echool at 9:30 a.m. Strangers cordially invited. HAMLINE M. E. CHURCH, CORNER 9TH Se and P streets.—11 ‘a.m,, by the Pastor, Rev. by ‘A special charge to Chiristian “Monitory voice of the Season.” ‘hool. 4 p.m. fo ats Fog Speeches by the newly elect resident, Chae. M. Nye; the retiring president, H. B. b lcalton, and Jno. B.' Dunning, » All are Ne WASHINGTON UARY 5, 1882, 'e the F hee Ballers 6 the Mutual Fire Insurance 2:4 Yoitcy holders of the above Company, centlemen of the OLD BOARD were oti ion on MONDAY, January For Maxacr R. B. DETRICK i ==° ANOTHER NOTICE TO THE PU BLIC. and ou the All per- sien Ne Of Rochen reby notied to pay 0: a th to state of New York, are li te such y from the larly notifi agent of said ‘aly Wasnixatox, T 1 Vine affairs of cwe of the © sual meeting of the company ier saall be the a we.tof a duct the meeting and election between the palextat oenen by fire fo ‘and paid... Leases by tie fo and unpaid... bo pee of he ¢ Insurance Company: SEOs, WESLEY BOTELER, it for bottling | . | lection. for the rale of | y in | myany it | {43° MIZPAH BAND.—MEETINGS ON SUNDAY, tS = Jenuary 8, clock p.m., mm cope of the Y. M. C. A., 804 E stre y Brother Wu. Dut 220 p.m., at'Sixth Presbyterian Churel ith street, near Maryiand avenuesouth- 1 expecially invited. at 5 ER OF 5TH AND F iy school at 9 . stor, Rev. wat. T. iio Spécial services every the Pai MORE, A Te jorrow, the Sth inst;5 at MoKENDREE M. E. CHURCH, MASSA- chusetts avs ic. beiween 9th and Toth streets Hennenr Ricnanpson, Pactor, 1 ‘The Divinity of Christ: The Testimony of Him- d the Apostles. lecture and concert . Subject of I ‘Adam and Eve—The tse and the Blessing.” it tS ‘TADELPHIAN ECCL! <7 EVER NDAY, at 11 a: Hall, Pennsylvania avenue, between theast. “The objec rence of the a 1 we, a8 the em! blood, and to expoun the y of Eternal Life. 1AM in MeCauiey’ Su and dd streets the mectings is a weekly re Messiah in the use of bre broken body and sl scriptures, which wh Puolic are invited. Bore NEW JERU: Capitol street, n KING, Iste of "M Morrow. 5 EMPLE, Li free. vist, Protestant Clnreh, will ect, "The Trunsteuration of a, RkER,” Rector. 30 a.m. ; morning prayer. eventie prayer and ectechisi aud sermon, 7:30 p.m. areday, 11 a. y | Holy € and sermon 11a ; short ee ION M. E. CHURCH, West, near Pennsylvania’ a ila. Subjec nord ‘Sebb: Blood.” 7 | for haig ho: | SALE SOULS: ce HL, <3 comer 14th and L streets, Kev tor.—Morning service at iI a.m. -_ Subject of vesper talk, '‘*Putere Punish- * The jastor desires to announce that he has erranged, m conjunction with the American Unitarian | Association, for the delivery cf the third series of eermoue in th. eh, during the coming months, by Hie 10st inent Unitirian divines. ‘The eeries wilt be opened | by-iev. M. J. SavsGR, of Boston, on Sunday, January | 15th, who Will be followed by’Rer. Henny W. Bre- | Lows, D.D., of New York, on Jannary 22d. ‘Lhe series will ihehide ‘Rev. Ewin EVERET HALE, Rev. JAMES Furemas Charxe, D.D.. Kev. H. CARPENTER, of Kostnr Couryer, itev. J. C. Kmenact, nn.» andothers, whose dates wilt be an nounced heteat ie TEMPERANC Gospel meeting to-morrow (Sabbath) o'clock, at Masonic Temple, corner ¥ streets. . NAUGLE, the converted sailor boy, (at Waugh Chapel, ) will conduct the service. ny 231-13 Secretary. | Good Pubic invited. Cc PURER A SPRINGS WATER (from Arkanaas, | SUCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF <F s: Geyser (Sarstoga), Be | &-s CRUELTY TO ANIMALS, thesds. Biue Lick, Be jan, Michigan, Con- | | The annusl meeting of this Society, will be held gress Water, and Othe Waters, freshiy received, EVENING, January 10, 1852, at 7:30 p.m. aud for sale on draught at MILBURN’S PHARMACY, 1429 Peunsylvanis avenue. _ LECTURE TTERALY LECTURES AND READINGS, AT TH sCovzrewati-nal Church, corner of 10th and G sts Miss HOWISON, of Ciicinnatt. TUESDAY, Jani bert Burns; WEDNESDAY, January 11, AtS nm mb ary 10, & hakes eure » it Building, corner 8th and F strects, All members are earnestly requested to be present. It* THE DARTMOUTH ASSOCIATION WILL the Burean of Education Home, MON- ated BE He BOND, Secivtrys \ce Tequ E IN z ON EATON Presijlent. jer de (CS ALCXON COMMANDERY, U.0.6.0 “J tice is hereby given that meeting wii be held at Timms’ Hall, (top floor), comer 7th and D strecta nozth- west, at 7:20 o'clock, ary 9, 1882. Full ai ot MONDAY EVENING, Janu- GUY W. WINES, N.E-R. ENKY WISE GAENE TORNEY-AT-LAW, So. 2 Columbian Law Buiiding, 6th «f., bet. Dand E, sep6-6m, 1p Wasutnetos. D. C. QB. aILLE, % iis office to Attorney-at-Law, ‘Hooms 6 snd 8, Gunton Law 3y25-6m City H EK OK A 3 K AA ERR EE KK AA AAA ROWING KOWING Has Oars and Stiding Seat. Used indoors forenlandng the anes, expanding the t and Increasing the whole Bodily Strength. Cures Dye sepia, Consumption, Indices on, Se. On daily exhibition in ‘window at ('MEARA'S EOWING BAZAR, 1347 Pennsylvania ROWING avenue. asl H AYWARD & HUTCHINSON, 307 NINTH STREET NORTHWEST, Wasuixerox, D.C., Dec. 24, 1881. Our up-town customers are respectfully informed that We have ccenpied our New Shop, No. 1760 P STREET, near Dupont Circle, and bave private telephone wire from there to our Store No. $17 9th street. ‘We shall keep vart of our force of workmen at cach Place, andall customers will have their orders attended te. 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Ir Maxes 4 Lavy ov Taint APPEam BUT Twestr! And so natural, gradual, and perfect are ity effects that plication. it is impossible fo detect ite av; (er Notice. ‘The Stockholders of the NATIONAL FATR ASSOCI- ATION wil ‘smemble fa oor MONDAY, January 9th, 1862 a Shea's Hai bas ene yivanin avenue northwest, for the purpose of electing leven Directors, and for the franstction of such other ers a8 may come before them. ‘The Ballots to be used. on white printed Polis open at 2 o'clock p. ny and clcse AES ONCE PST NCANSON, Secretary, All membern of the Assceiation are reanested to at- feud; tuaticrs of vital uuportatice will be considered. THE NATIONAL BANK ©) PUBLIC—Washin; DS., Be THE RE- , December 29, ESDAY, January 10th, between JAMES H. McGILL, WH AND RETAIL DEALER IN BUILDING BU! ‘1421 New York avenue, near the Treseury Department, Wasitrxetox, D. C. Bartlett; Hayward & Co.'s Architectural Iron Work. Ma- sury's Pamts end Col Plate, Window Povtinsd Commenter touts on Cement, &! A large aesoctment of Fancy Porcelain and Duplex | Lawns, Portables and Fancy Shade Paper Shades. ‘Magnificent Dispiay of Gas Fixtures. ait Corcoran Building. 3 “NOVICE.°-1 HAVE THIS DAY TAKEN = 2 into Parts ceshaiyy with 126 my GRAVES. EWS be couluctd under the SPECIAL NOTICE.—THE Hop CARRIERS UNION, No. 3, hereby notify the Bose 2 of the District of Octtambi: 1 3B Et | ‘B. CHARLTON. | Curtiss, pege 1. THE TRIAL OF GUITEAU. 1*"| ARGUMENTS ON THE PRAYERS. MR. DAVIDGE ON THE INSANITY QUESTION. INTERRUPTIONS BY THE PRISONER. ‘The door-keepers, in pursuance of instructions from the court, were very strict this morning re- garding adiaissions to the court rooms. The door at the northeast corner of the room was kept almost exclusively for the use of the jury and the court officers, and the space about the jury wes kept clear. The pressure for admittance was very great, the two days’ intermission in the trial having served apparently to freshen the interest in the proceedings. The day also marked the entrance upon the final stage of the trial. Messrs. Reed and Scoville were in their seats as usual long before 10 o'clock. THE COURT OPENED. ‘The counsel for the prosecution and the judge were, however, late in arriving, and court did not open till 10:15 o'clock. When the prisoner was brought in, Mr. Reed went to the dock and had a brief talk with him. THE JURY DECLINE TO TAKE A WALK. The court remarked that he did not think 1t necessary that the Jury should be retained all day. “No,” said Mr. Davidge, “I think the arguments on the law points wili take all day. They might take a walk.” ‘The jurymen, however, showed no disposition to leave the court room and remained in thetr seats. Judge Cox announced that he was ready to hear arguments on the prayers. Mr. Davidge Opens the Argument on the Prayers. Mr. Davidge, rising, made a brief review of the contents of the prayers of the prosecution. To Shut the door upon controversy in respect to these prayers, he said, he proposed to read them again to the court. He thereupon read the four prayers of the prosecution, defining the law regarding insan- ity as construed by the prosecution. He saiduhe expression, “contrary to the law of the land” was synonymous to wrong. ‘The object ot the first prayer was to demonstrate where the law draws the line of responsibility. It simply professed to afford a human rule how much intelligence 13 necessary to make the ‘accused amenable to the Luw of the land. Commenting upon the second prayer, he sald the exercise of the mental faculties leading to a beltet in inspiration would affor. no excuse. The whole import of the second prayer wis that a hwain being reaching the degree Of Intelligence defined In. the first prayer was responsible to human Taw, no matter whut his pellet, whit his pxss!ons or w his indifference to duty. The prayer was tntendc TO STAMP OUT THE DOCTRINE OF MORAL INSANITY, Which was not known in courts of law and not recognized by them. The law recognized no dis- ease of the humain nature Independent of the human mind. Moral insanity, {f his moral nature de diseased, would be no excuse In the third prayer, they asked the court to de- fine just whe ty would constitute a de- feuc Ldesling with iusanity from point. ‘The question here we rt of insanity Would constitute a defenc for erie. THE SUBJE or delusion, was Ahumin e OF IRRESISTIBLE IMPULSE, 1 of fu the fourth pra: iction, he said, no matter how pr ford any excuse for A man fs bound to know w sand tis right, providing he resches t Of intel e defined tn the first prayer. Tn fourth he jised both expressions— “wrong” and “contrary to Law. AS TO THE PRAY HE DEFENCE he had not, he sali,exp2cted amy sericus con- troversy rezaring the prayers. Yet he had seen found or how fixed, cann crime. in the papers yesterday a list of prayers, 1 it was sald, the defence would offer. So far as these prayers infringed on law, they simply tended to make obscurity. It might be unjust to remark upon these prayers before the defence had had op- portunity Co expisin them, yet if they meant what Uuiey seeined to mean, he’ thought the most of them were not worth Consideration. THE TESTOF HUMAN INTELLIGENCE AND RULE RE- GARDING RESPONSIBILITY. Referring to the first prayer of the prosecution, Mr. Davidge sald the great central point in that was the test of human intelligence. They were dealing here with crime, What degree of intelll- gence ought to fix the responsibility for crime; and such acrime! He thought the law fixed the age of J years as the age at which a person becomes responsible for crime. The question of respoust- bility was involved in great doubt until the de- cisions reached in the McNaughton case. There the House of Lords, alarmed at the acquittal of a man for shooting down another, under an insane de- lusion, summoned the judges to conference, and the result of that conference was the rule regard- ing responsiblity which has ever since been fol- lowed in Enzland, and has been almost universuliy adopted in this country. The responsibility of a person begins when the person knows the dlffer- shtand wrong. The law, he sid, ion between high and low degre as the responsibility for crime— between, for instance, the illustrious victim of this prisoner’ on one hand, and wits assassin on the Other, A man might even be partially insane, vut if he rose to the Intelligence where he knew the difference between right and wrong, he was re- sponsible. GUITEAU’S FIRST INTERRUPTION. “T didn’t know the difference between right and wrong,” interrupted the prisoner, “I had no chotee.” “Well see hereafter,” sald Mr. Davidge, “whether he had cholce.” Mr, Davidge then read from the rulings of the English judges In the Mc- Naughton case. Having laid much stress on one of the propositions that the responsibility was syn- onymous with the knowledge ot the accused a8 to the difference between right and wrong, the pris- oner again interrupted saying— “+1 didn’t know,” Mr. Davidge said that from the time of the Mc- whton case to the present there had been no departure in England from the rule founded on hu- ihan nature—that he was respoustble who knew the difference between right and wrong. ‘Mr. Davidge referred to the case of Flanigan against the people, 52d New York, page 488, and Quoted at length troin the decision, holding ‘that e test of responsibility where a detence of in- Sanity was interposed, was the capacity of the in- dividual to distinguish between right and wrong with respect to tlie act under consideration. There was, he said, a very late decision rendered’ by Mr. dustice Davis, in New York, during the pending of a Judge Porter relieved Mr. Davidge, here, merely to read from Judge Davis’ recent decision in the Coleman case, Which has been printed in Tae AR MR. SCOVILLE OBJECTS. When Judge Porter finished reading Mr. Scoville, rising, sald he objected to the counsel delivering a specch under the guise of reading as authority a decision which was no more authority than the stump speech of a politician, as it did not apply tw the case in which it was rendered. He re- marked that Judge Porter, in order to read the de- cision dramatically, had scerue to relieve Mr. Davidge, though the latter not complained of hoarseness. “THIS FARCE MUST END.” Judge Porter said this farce must end. They had come to a potntin this trial where they must stand upon their rights, and counsel must not make broadcast assertions. He paid a high tribute to Judge Davis, who, he said, if he had a peer, had no superior in the magistracy of the Unton. The ence between rij decision thority, he said. It applied to this case, and tothat. He read it to the court. because It appeared only yesterday in oficial form. JUDGE COX HOPES THERE WILL BR NO ALTERCATION BETWEEN COUNSEL, Judge Cox sald he hoped there would be no altercation between the counsel. He thought it was proper to cite Judge Davis’ decision. The question as to Its application to the case where It Was rendered was a subject for comment by coun- = GUITEAU'S POINT. The prisoner, who during this short debate had been keeping up a clamor, said, referring to the Coleman case: “The jury went against the dec: sion, too, in thelr verdict They pald no attention to the decision whatever Mr. Davidge, proceeding, was about to quote a decision rendered by Mr. Justice Curtiss in tie case of United Stutes agt. McGlue, reported tu Let ‘MR. DAVIDGE'S Foner. ‘The prisoner kept up his Tegani- down in that pre- “I don’t pretend to be insane now,” sald the pris- oner. “Iam no more insane tham youare. Tran- sitory manta 1s what I claim.” “I venture to say,” continued Mr. Davidge, “that he knows as accurately us any lawyer here.” “And so T do,” satd the prisoner, “Mr. Scoville,” observed Mr. Bavidge, “said he ‘was a fool for three weeks.” “That's so,” satd the prisoner, who, perhaps, purposely misunderstood the remark, “Scoville 1S afool. Scoville is entirely wrong in his theory. That’s all.” Mr. Davidge was about to preceed again when the prisoner interrupted him, saying: “I have sald {t was God's act, You men on the prosecu- tion will get the Deity dowm on you and He will stick to you all your lives.” GUITEAU WANTS A TWO HOURS’ TALK TO THE JURY TO SETTLE THE MATTER ‘The court having attempted t silence the pris- oner, he called out: “I want to get a chance at that jury, and in two hours’ talk settle this whole matter.” Mr. Davidge, when the prisoner was quieted, sald: “We are trying a man, who, however im- becile, for three weeks was transfigured in the es- timation of the jury and the world by his own testimony. ..« then proceeded -with the reading of the decision in the McGlue case. Mr. Davidge quoted also from the decision of Mr. Justice Clifford-in the ease of the United States against Holmes, reported in 1st Clifford, page 98. GUITEAU SAYS THERE 18 “LAW ON THE OTHER SIDE.” When Mr. Davidge finished the reading, which occupted twenty minutes, the prisoner remarked: “There’s plenty of lw, Mr. Davidge, on the other side of that issue. You ure very one-sided this morning.” Mr. Davidge satd he r Unbroken current of decisions In England from 1843 down to the present thme, and also the out- givings of the American courts. Tusanity as a defence was governed by rules of law. THE PRISONER KESPONSIBLE IF HE KNEW WHAT HE WAS DOING, If the accused party knew what he was doing— ithe were eccentric, if he were queer, even if he were insane, and knew what he was dotng—he was responsible. If a man of ttle intelligence rose to the intelligence required by law, he was Tesponsible. No matter what his bellef was, if 1t Was not the result of disease, if it came from within, from the oper tions of Nis own fa perception fra rted or deprave nature, the defen nity could not be main tiled. Untillt, was shown that the belle In tu- spiration was tue result of disease it constituted no defence. GUITEAU ON MORMONISM. Mr. Davidge having referred to a deciston In a Mormon bigumy case, the prisoner sald: “That reference to the Mormons 1s pertinent. They are breaking the law all the time, and yet the govern- ment doesn’t do anything about 1.77 nted to the court an MR. DAVIDGE’S RETORT. are breaking the law just as the law was Mr. “They broken here,” said Davidge, and he then quoted the Mormon case to show that the United tes Supreme Court held that no bellet, no re ous conviction, If 1U be not a ase, could a defence for crime. ‘ord Pal law, and he chooses to violate the mu- law and obey what he believes to be in- red law, he tikes the Otherwise ld not her Liv Ro hy Tt would, perhops, be Improper for him, he said tn, to dischss tle different propositions pre pared by the defence, He thoucht the difier: tions owt to be read tezether to suow ML requiren “Mornont Pts of the e28, the prisoner whi act or tas tion patriotic 1 ple, and the e Port r cited the court to de: we McLean, 6th MoLean, page 123, an: Bel, 7th ornist. ‘The court at 12: K a recess for hi ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS HID FOR GUITE DAVER, Mr. Scoville has received an offer, which he co: siders bona fide, of one thousand dc Guiteat’s bo no further u: Ine Of the person tiking (he pre physician of this city. ‘The nied to enter into. tn gh he thinks, the pr Mr. Scoville,who svenis inclined to accept th says the mon-y wou! sed in quiets vs © prisoner’s debis. M 1 Guile wt hot use any money in paying his that the body v grave, if it were eptunce of joned Mpon the execution of the | ing to its terms the body 1s to be tk ever the prisoner dies. Whet sclentific purposes or for speculation as an exhti tion ts not known. AN UNNAMED ADVOCATE OF THE THEORY OF IN- SANITY. Mr, John W.Guiteau said to a StAR reporter that he had a letter, written by a promineat ali and practitioner, and editor of a medical mont who has not testified In the case, toa promin insane asylum superintendent which, he thousht, ought tobe printed. He declined, however, to disclose the name of the writer, saying 1t would be a breach of coufldence for hita to do. $9. ‘The following portions of the letter are given, as it shows views of the cas fondly. che deiense: “While admitting the w: and Kempster's testimony 1 would say balance of probabilities was in favor of tie man’s unsoundness, He Is either Insine or feigning, and it the latter {t cannot be determined without more opportunity forexaméning hin than has been afforded. After all the heinousness of the crime, its Inadequate motive, the absence of all hope of Teward, the absence 6f a conspiracy, its open character precluding all possibility ot reward, the time “and and going. immedkitely to jail, the absurd reasons for the act when the country 13 at peace, his_proclam : American people, as thous ad of a crintnal mal in court, ete,, ete. testliy so as to new trial to study the case. B, jmproprieties Tshould ‘We want. a psyeho- logteal dissection, without prejudice, preconceived notions of mehtal unity, or passion. The people may now want vengeance executed, but a little while they will ask again asin the pep ianing why did he killGarfield? Can it be possible that he was really a sane man, and if there were a doubt of his sanity why was his case so hastily disposed of? Gray, Kempster and MacDonald’s rules are too precise and theoretical We have all sen doubtful cases where the sequal proves insanity after many months. George Francis Train, for instance. I am 801 Ray has fone. He 5 liscussing and weigh- Jevel and al head in ing psychological problems, “Unique cases are as likely to arise in the present ns in the past. Psy- chology is not a finished selence, and the rules for Ineasuring morbid mind are not all trrevocably es- tablished to which there are no exception. Guiteau_ is not the only psychival puzzle you know. Morbid mind, according to Gray, Kempster and MacDon- ald, is as easily demonstrated as a problem in Eu- clid, notwithstanding some natural minds are as unfathomabie as some parts of the sea.” TRIAL NOTES. Guiteau ts preparing an address to the jury which will be very similar to his address to the American peopte, ‘A physician from Philadelphia went to jail yes- terday with John Guiteau and took measurements Of the prisoner's head, gens NORE GovERNMENT RECEIPTS To-pAY.—Internal rev- enue, $456,925.74; customs, $918,885.87. Narionat, BANKS.—The treasury now hol:Js $371,. 912,100 in U. 8. bonds to secure National bank cir- culation; U.S. bonds deposited on this account week endlag to-day, $1,683,000,.and withdrawn, 429,050. Di the week ended to-day there Mite reccivedPat the ‘Treasury ‘for redemption Peale in National bank notes, as aguinst $899,000 for the corresponding week of last year, ‘Tuz PRESIDENT SIGNED THE ‘BILL to-day to legalize the el-ction of the Territorial legislature cf New Mexico held ‘November dy 1880, Wuirte Hovsr CaLters.—To-day being Saturday, very few people were recel ved:by the President. There were no delegations, Among these who saw the President were Senators David Davis, Anthony, Ferry and Coke, and Representatives Weltborn and Van Verhis, Seugtor Ferry was acccmmpanied by three or four’: bers of the Michigan congressional de! Peusonat.—Ex-Attorney Genaral MacVesgh 1s to deliver ths oration at the nexteemmencement of the Yale law school.—THfon: Horace Rublee, of pain, and U.S. Marshal Douglas, 22, Are at the EbvitL— Its Row sald thet, entering Ube service of Japan, as has beon reported, Miuister Bingham propes’s tore turn ty Onto snd run tor Conte — Mr. Sastice Pay, AG uprene Court, Represents! a ~ and Morse, a es gs, ao ot ington, were ‘ated York de wea Sonn We MeLenn, editer of the O's If a man knows whats the | e | Ing bids « THE STAR ROUTE CASES. ALLEGED STRAW BONDSMEN ARRESTED. PROCEEDINGS IN THE POLICE COURT TO-DAY. It was mentioned in THE Star last evening that. there had been a consultation yesterday of Col. George Bliss and District Attorney Corkhill with Judge Snell, of the Police Court, as was supposed, on the subjectof alleged frauds in connection with star route contracts, What took place at this in- terview or the names of the parties against whom the informations were to issue was kept a profound secret. The mystery was dispelled last. evening, however, when it became known that several ar- rests of so-called straw bondsmen had been made. ‘The warrants were sworn out by ZT. Tidball, special agent of the Post Ofice departinent, and several of them were served last evening by the police detectives, and brought into the detective office one by one: NAMES OF THE MEN ARRESTED LAST NIGHT. The five men arrested last night were Edwin J. Sweet, a real estate agent; Samuel L. Hoyt, a clerk; W. 8. Barringer, a manufacturer of ink; James W. Donohue, a Pension office clerk, and John W. Minnix, a Uniontown blacksmith. "The general charge against them 1s conspiracy with others to defraud the United States by giving fraudulent and worthless bonds, thesums Varying in different cases from €200 to $1,000, ‘The bonds were given to secure the contracts of A. E. Boone and 8. G. Cabell and others. Warrants were ts- sued for Messrs. Boone and Cabell last night, but they eluded arrest. Pelham, who app ared at olice headquarters torney for Boone, said hat Mr. Boone would be produced when wanted. WHAT I8 CHARGED IN THE WARRANTS. ‘The warrants are similar except the necessary changes of names. One may, therefore, be taken to show the character of all. It charges, after the usual legal formulas: First—That Samuel G,. Cabell, John N. M innix, Charles H. Dickson, and other persons as yet un- known, in the county maliciously, confed nd giving unto, te Une an insufficlent and worth States of America | bond tn the sum of $1,000, accompanying 2 propo- | 811 of the said Cal ell to carry the mails of tae | from Lamberton to Fair Bluff, No. 13,190, nthe first y of June, A.D. 1884, witht | cipal and the said Minnix phe sail € and Dickson as sureties for the faithiul porfern- | pr ance of the service proposed by the sald Cat his Sald proposal, a8 aioresald, and that In pursit- | ance of the Sill conspiracy, &., the said suret es | Were not peeunta sand trawdulestly obtained Irom th t a contract with intent to detraud the seid United Stats to. the dam ize of $1,600, Se of | false represeniitions the sald principal and stire- | | ties did conspire, & row the United States 01 $1,000 by © which w Third aC That fraud the ug into a boud + Sof $1,000 by ent Hood. : 1 Reports on W1 ugs ure Hased. The reasons why these warrants were Issued are | | shown fn the ents ect ye letter i fromthe lite Postumster ¢ tue | responstbilit supon bonds accompany tsfor mall service during ich the of surety ont Jast font year. the I ent to the i sterday. Ano 1 ter fro ® Bubs to Pos eral dames, in hes ort of Inspectors \Tidball and Si Heross he sent to Congr | request for such } AtION ws 1 SW.th a be deemed | Sociated with, bim: | mall contractors, ian nedonn W, Alvin 0. Buei pre | udulent character, lug case 1S an Mustrat Under tie advisement of November 1, 15 war letting, Booue DL? on 2.459 rontes in | Crolint, South Carona, “Georgia, | Alabama, Mississinpl, Tennessee, Kentucky | Ohio. ‘Tie tof the bonds | his proposals cmounted to $1,600,209. | at Uils letting sixty-nine contricts, a quired to file bonds in the tot! sun: | His surcties for the 2 were W ‘The foltow- 1¢88 bond. fle an afikdavit, and did not at the tine of ex ate Or other prop owned were not his, perty alleged to be 10. orgla was made by Alvin O. Buck to him for the pr | pose of enabling him to go upon Lonis, aud t ‘ansaction was a iraud eoncoted'by Albert | E. Boone, Alvin O. Buck and Nicholas |) Callan, a hotary public of Tie grand reSu't oF the ope j his combination may he sun ‘Total number of bids, 13,110: Ons ying proposals, $8,034,542; total num ber of contracts secured, 295, and the tot1l_ amount of bonds required With contracts, $202,905. A large | nuinber of these worthless bonds were certified by D. B. Ainger, postinaster at Washington, D.C. In ome in=tinces Myron M. Parker, assistant post- master, made out the certificates, skyning Alny name iis postmaster and his own’ as assist postmaster. | He also signed as surety on a num T of proposals of John R. Miner, contrary to the law foroidding such action on the part of ein- ployes of the Post OMice deparunent. The only reasons given by Ainger and Parker, In explan: tion of their action in granting irregular certin- cates, are that the proposals were accompanied by a certified check of the bidder, and that the pro- sed stireties had the endorsement of Brady und rench. In this matter the inspectors aré con- Strained to believe that they were easily imposed upon and led astray, otherwise they were com- pelled to accept such’ a transparent excuse of a great wrong as evidence of corruption. In conclusion the inspector says: “In view of the fact that the department has no protection whatever for the service now under contract to Boone, and the members of his combination. it seems but reasonable that measures should be adopted to prevent further uaposition on their part; and we, therefore, respectcully suggest that he most cffectual means for the accomplishment. of this object would be the institution of criminal Proceedings against all of the parties on aecount ‘Of the violation of law committed by them in ob- taining the contracts at present in operation. The developments of our own and of the inv ions of other toepecents of thts department or sub- Ject of mail contract bonds, are of such a char- ‘acter as to warrant us in recommending that some change be made in the manner of procuring the certificate of ability and responsibility of sureties. At present such certificates are furnished by post- masters, but we respectiully recommend that hereatter certificates of responsibility of sureties on contractors and bidders’ bonds be required and made under seal of office by officers in charge of the records of the property described in the bonds.’ WHAT BOONE'S COUNSEL SAID, Mr. Peiham, counsel for Boone, claimed last night that the arrests were forced in the interest of aring opposed to Messrs. Boone ana Cabell, Who wanted to take some means to defeat their chances tn the inail letting, for which bids Were to be submitted to the department to-Qa: ‘Messrs. Boone and Cabell sn sed his | Sepsaaes By anes ba force of clerks engaged in preparing bis Proceedings in the Police Court To-day. ‘This morning Messrs. Sweet, Barringer, Hoyt and Donohue, accompanied by some of the detec- tives, proceeded to the Police Court, where'they Waited for the case to be called. Messrs. A. E. Boone, W. W. Dickson, of ee ee by Hon. Jeremiah W for Messrs. y who - ‘nd Diets MEG Pelham whe . Kk was over, (about noon), conspiracy cu! cases were to continued 2b: eo that the | dant | the rest were attended by t | about forty ef acting in this way should be ready to goto Mr. A. K. Browne said he appeared for some of the defendants and regarded the action of the Tnoment just as remarkable as did Bf brother itson ana Intended to defend his cltent. stop by Step. He deemed the proceedings an outrage. ir. Wilson said that he held in his hand one of the Warrants, and referring to that In the case of Mr. Hoyt he read it as affecting the amount of bail re- quired. He remarked that he did not like thts memorandum business, and he had hoped hat Mr. Bitss would have appeared tn This war- rant charges Boone as principal and Barringer and Hoyt with’ giving insufictent bond in the sum of $1,000, on Which “Boone subsequently obtained a contract. There were three counts in this war- Fant, and he directed attention to the charge. This bond was simply to accompany a proposal that he Would execute a contract. He protested that this Was an iniquity to bring these men here, and when the amounts set by Mr. Bliss are looked at they Will be found to be excessive. There was no alle- gation that these contracts had not been carried out, or that the governinent had losta cent. He was ready now to go on with the case, and if the government was not ready to go on these parties Should be allowed to go on their recognizince. Mr. Blunt remarked that he was not prepared to Go on with the case now. THR QUESTION OF BATE. The court said that he had not yet acted on the question of bail, and after Mr. Blunt had examined the cases he would fix the batL Mr. Oliver suzgested that Mr. Minnix, being a prrperty-holder, was willing to go on Mr. Dono- hue’s bond. ars suggested that Mr. Minnix fix up his case first. Mr. Pelham called attention to the cases of Mr. Boone, the amounts involved being $2,200 and $800. Mr. Blunt said that he had Inforimation that these were but a portion of the charges, Mr. Browne asked why they did not bring ta the charges by the cart-load. He did not think it looked well for the government to make these mid- nicht arrests. ‘The court remarked that the amounts fixed ti Mr. Bliss were Intended to cover all the “s aginst each individaal, There were thirty war- rants altozether, . The Clerk—They are betng made up in the room, and will be ready in five minutes. ‘The court suggested that he would remstn until three o'clock, and fix the bonds after consultat kson was taken out terior department this morning with- out notice, and Mr. Hoyt was locked up tn the station honse all night. ‘These cases should have been brought before the grand jury, which body has exclusive control of them, and there ts no ry son way the district attorney should come her sinand that these gentiemen should be brought In and not be here to face Maem now, and it would be unjust forthe government to require the defen- to enter into recognizance for their appears nce. The several attorneys for the defence all. cor of the way their client had been taken to custody. THE AMOUNT OF BAIL REQUIRED, Mr. Blint said he had a memorandum from Mr. Bliss, stating the amount of ball he was ready to take in each case. ‘The amount varied trom $15,000 to $1,500. The following ts weet. ol, Aru is, 1 ¥ REMARKS OF JUDGE SNELL. ‘The court remarked that there were thirty war- rants Issued In these cases, changing thirty differ- ent eri about t inst ref the prosecui wos bound te give t and thougit that Ui much re ison (9 compl sin about the wa ken into custody. The court remarke he expected thet the cotiasel woukl watve Hh Mallon an} ta rectly veic amd jury on} tor of | her preltinty upper court court stid tasty ey tor dt 1 n ta prevent ent tre tracts, te= Lay bell could be tied. 1 id ting on e last day that such blis GETTING BAIL. urned the defendants were rin custody of deputy morsuals. two of Uiem had given bonds, and i ho were After the court all ins! Upto2 orl doins thelr best to RE 3. Hinds, one of the spoetal been employed on the star row tendered ssnation yesterday, #s Is d, because | of the want of concert of action among tbe ins ors pectors who has | ——+0-— Ramsdel! Against the District. VERDICT FOR THE DEPENDANT. ‘This morning in the Circuit Court, Judge Mac- Arthur, the trial of the case of H. J. Rumsdell act. the District of Colwnbla, action for damages re- broken leg a resumed. After the ck Enoch Totten the court ed to make Up a ver- turned into court with ave — Affairs in West Washington. Tue Lare THowas Thowmes Peters, f who Puesday e last, und wos bur the last of eleven ch ns He was the son of the Baluimore couniy, end ‘of the late Judge Richard Peters, Puil- airnount park on onged. fs had be L of Washington for nea, nephi a yh nd | | in one of our busiest streets Edith Gray Telegrams to The Star A KENTUCKY THEATER BURNED, INDIAN DEPREDATIONS IN ARIZONA, EX-MINISTER STOUGHTON CRITICALLY ILL. —~>—___ Matters of Note Abroad. es CHURCH AND STATE IN GERMANY. ERLIN, January 7.—There is much disappol Ment among the clertcals at the dectsion of ie government to introduce no more comprehensive ieasure than the July bill. The clerical leaders in the Diet are preparing a series of ame: which if ad Will practically have the effect of repealing the May laws. ‘The conservatives re. gare the forthcoming ecclestastical bill as porary, to be followed by a revision of the Falk laws as soon as the negotiations with the Natican Are concluded. | Tt ts only on (hts assump. lon that the conservatives have agreed to supe port the bill, . a MARSEILLES RIOTRRS SENTENCED. AIX, January 7.—At the assizes here the trial of the cases arising from the disturbane s at Mare Seliles, last June, on the oecasion af the return of | French trom Tunts, has resulted ss follows: One Ttalian has been condemned to ten years ime prisonment and ten years police snpery ision: others to five years tuprisonment and tv Police supervision; another to five | Prisonment, and two more to SX months lime Prisonment, —s Another Theater Burned. Owenssrea, Ky., January The opera house Was Set on fire last evening over: hace and the flames were communteat to the adjoining buildings. The water works Proved to be a complet» failure,and the town would ave been at the mercy of the flames had it pot been for the steam fire engine which bad been cast aside when the water works were built, it which Was now called into action and did effective ser- vice. Before the fire was brought under controt the opera house, which Was owned by A. HIll. was completely destroyed, ¢ ling a loss of $18,000; Insurance ts $10,000. Planters’ hous* was’ not very seriously diay onge and Walter Par- Tish, Who Occupied a book store under The opera house, lose thelr entire stock, Valued at $8,090 and. Ansured for $6,000. Robert Munn, grocery, suffers @ loss of $5,000; fully insured. se Ace To be Hanged tor Wife Murder. Newark, N. J. Jho 7.—Judge Depus this morning s¢ntenced Robert Martin, convicted of the murder of his wife iid, t Be hanged March 2d. Martin was 4 fected and shed tears when the sentence was pronounced. Hiort nbematers Got Dis Deserts at Last. Cmicaco, 14., Jonuary 7 esser Friedburg, one Of most notorious pywabrokers of the city, name ures in several dark transactio being the murder of policeman Rar, was’ sent. to Joliet Penitenuliry to-day, after bamted Justice over Uaree years and having spent $20,000 to secure imiunity for i A Store and Mill Burned. Port Jenvis, N. ¥., January 7.—The store of J. BR. Cooper, at Hasbrouck, Sullivan county, w: | burned Thursday nicht with all Its contents” The j los Out $4,000; covered by Insurances The j flames communt=ated to the grist mill of Wm. € » Which was aiso burned. The mill Was | not lusured, rite tober to. ses In the pr. There are now 110 ¢ smnail-pox hospital. > . 8,009 from Hix Employers, Gre Hartendort, Stole Park, Scott & Co., confesses 10 out of we git moanting about Wl Luis fraud thas ests receotly, tie are the plunder, NCU Fs, 1A., Januory Last evening ites Julia tanley, attemnted t shoot a younz man waned dershot. She fired four shots #t hit, each of tssed the mark, the Intended victim es- caping by running thio a stloon, Je sdousy is sup- posed to have been the conse of the att ick. All Tully tnsar vurty Moor oF ® building Uais mor > Indian Depredations & San Francisco, Jinuary w, under Chiefs € ey Lions in th aud have 1 paews THEME, ur children, ene Of It isex~ eri with Gen: 7. Elwin W. t Russa, who has been confined Several weeks by ti 1s constde very cruical ¢ n vnday by pe jor Lig january see ‘ON STOCK EXCHANGT. Ped. wrernime ed In 1838, at the age of 45,und removed herein “41 or 42 His family were the associates of Gen. Washington, Judge Peters being an Intimate friend. He had a lle 1 Wes estimated ub $50,000, but whic r agement, had been greatly reduced; $200 of which Was devised to hin to defray funeral expeases, ‘The balance was unequally divided between the four heirs. He bad been of unsound malni cor Mi teen years past, caused, it 1s believed, money acquired from the sale of property more. SoppEN DraTH OF A WeLL-KNown Crrizen. Benjamin Miller, a well-known citizen of tis place, died at his residence, on 31st street, shorily fore 5 o'clock this morning, in the 61st year of hiszge. Mr. Miller has been coniined to his home since Christtaas by conjestion of the right lung, but had recovered from this trouble and was con- sidered much better and quite out of danger, when. suddenly, almost without warning, he died from a clot of blood at the heart. ‘The deceased was born in Jefferson county, Va, (now West Virginia, but Temoved at an early age Winchester, where he was 3 in business until the late War, when he removed to Georgetown in 1862, and has been engased in the dry goods business here since 1885. He Was a vestryman of Christ P. E. church and a director of the Firmers' and Mechanics’ National Bank. He leaves a widow and six children, who have the sympathy of the community in be- reavement. ELECTION OF OFFicens.—At the met 4 evening of Mechanics’ Lodge, No. 18, LOU, ey os were led by Grand Secre- . H. Sweet Juper CnILToN’s ConpITIon.—Judge Chilton. eae dg eg partially paralyzed y ‘MEETING.—Quite a meeting took place last even- Fire Insurance and Gaslic Washington CityGarli¢ht Compan: Warhington City Gaslicht Co. weriy Georvetown Gaslight ¢ »! ‘Columbia Insurance C Railroad Stocks. Washington and Georgetown Stock. Washington aua Georgetown Bonds. Woshington Marker Go. “Bt, Wash: Market Co. Bonds. Fyanhoe Mining Co. Stock. Fy sd Mechanics” Geotown mers an = Bank, lslg gel 1! 150 235 Mewpers op Concxess were abroad in the de partmen ts to-day, looking after appointments ang thing s for their constituents, {0,000 Stan Rovre Bins.—Bids for contracts tor star route service in nearly all the territory west of the Mississippi river were received at the Post OMice department up to 8 p.m. an 50,000 bids were put In al The ope ng bids will commence M next, and wiil com ‘Unue until all are ‘The wes thronged to-day with western members of Cole and others interested directly or the mail service to be contracted for. ‘Tae Treascey Ixves InvEsTigaTION.- survive to- |-mittce on appropriations, investigating the expen was |Gitures of tne Treasury contingent fund, recalled . The statements a eee ee ivan wihile ade