The Indicted Assemblyman.

New York, 1895

Judge Clute has decided that the indictment charging Assemblyman Vacheron with being a bribe taker is good in law, and, therefore, the accused will have to stand his trial unless the men who have been trying to aid him succeed in getting it staved off. The desire of Vacheron and his counsel to secure delay was successful. That delay was what they were after was shown by the absence of Vacheron and his counsel from the court room when Judge Clute rendered his decision on the demurrer. District Attorney Burlingame protested against their absence, because it prevented a day being fixed for the trial, and the matter will have to come up again on notice, so that it is hardly probable that the trial can be held before the Fall. The whole purpose of the defense so far has been to secure delay. Time is valuable. It is always possible that a witness may die, or go crazy, or leave the country.

—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, NY, June 28, 1895, p. 4.