Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 May 1906 — McCOY GASES STILL GRINDING. [ARTICLE]

McCOY GASES STILL GRINDING.

State Will Take Up Another Week In Introducing Evidence.—Proceedings Continue Rather Dry. The McCoy trial has been dragging along all week since Monday at Monticello. From fifteen to thirty witnesses are called over from here every day, but the evidence drawn from them is practically all known to our readers. About all that is asked of them is the amounts they had on deposit, what per cent of same has been paid them in the dividends declared (30 per cent), and if the McCoys owed them —in the case of tradesmen here—open accounts, and if so if they have been paid. An occasional tilt between the attorneys and a frequent warm reply from some witness who resents the methods of the cross-ex-amination is about all that occurs to relieve the monotony The jurors are allowed to separate and go home at night, after being admonished about talking about or reading newspaper accounts of the proceedings. This has occasioned considerable adverse criticism.

Probably upwards of 300 witnesses have been examined thus far by the State, and no doubt the greater part of next week will be taken up with the prosecution’s testimony. At this time it looks like the case would last two weeks yet at least. The argument of the attorneys will no doubt take up two or three days. Witnesses of course, will receive no pay, but the court costs, or the daily expense of running the court, will come out of the pockets of the taxpayers of Jasper county, who have already contributed in the way of special counsel, grand juries, etc., $1,200 to $1,500. ’ Justice, as she’s run these days, is a peculiar dame, surely.