Scheme of the Indictment--Story of the Case--What Constitutes Fraudulent
Bidding--How a Conspiracy Must be Proved--The Hypothesis of Guilt and
Law of Evidence--Conversation Unsatisfactory Evidence--Fallibility of
Memory--Proposition to Produce Mr. Dorsey's Books--Interruption of the
Court to Decide that Primary Evidence, having Once been Refused, can not
afterwards be Introduced to Contradict Secondary Evidence--A Defendant
may not be Presumed into the Penitentiary--A Decision by Justice
Field--The Right of Petition--Was there a Conspiracy?--Dorsey's
Benevolence (p. 250)--The Chico Springs Letter--Evidence of Moore
Reviewed--Mr. Ker's Defective Memory--The Informer System--Testimony
of Rerdell Reviewed--His Letter to Dorsey (p. 304)--The Affidavit of
Rerdell and Dorsey--Petitions for Faster Time--Uncertainty Regarding
Handwriting--Government Should be Incapable of Deceit--Rerdell's
withdrawal of the Plea of Not Guilty (p. 362)--Informers, their Immunity
and Evidence--Nailing Down the Lid of Rerdell's Coffin--Mistakes of
Messrs. Ker and Merrick and the Court--Letter of H. M. Vaile to the
Sixth Auditor--Miner's Letter to Carey--Miner, Peck & Co. to Frank A.
Tuttle--Answering Points Raised by Mr. Bliss (396 et seq.)--Evidence
regarding the Payment of Money by Dorsey to Brady--A. E. Boone's
Testimony Reviewed--Secrecy of Contractors Regarding the Amount of their
Bids--Boone's Partnership Agreement with Dorsey--Explanation of Bids
in Different Names--Omission of Instructions from Proposals (p.
450)--Accusation that Senator Mitchell was the Paid Agent of
the Defendants--Alleged Sneers at Things held Sacred--What is a
Conspiracy?--The Theory that there was a Conspiracy--Dorsey's Alleged
Interest--The Two Affidavits in Evidence--Inquiry of General Miles--Why
the Defendant's Books were not Produced--Tames W. Bosler's Testimony
Read (p. 500)--The Court shown to be Mistaken Regarding a Decision
Previously Made (pp. 496-502)--No Logic in Abuse--Charges against John
W. Miner--Testimony of A. W. Moore Reviewed-The Verdict Predicted--The
Defendants in the Case--What is left for the Jury to Say--Remarks of
Messrs. Henkle and Davidge--The Verdict.