zaA- Correspondence of h, Baltimore Ams,le.a.
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WAsHIHG1oE. Nov. 3O.

 The testimony taken in lhe Van Ness case this morning has been duller than upon any day during the prnlracled rial. The counsel for lhe prosaen. office witnesses, Colonel Gardiner and four of the clerks) of so staggering character that it became necessary to weaken il fl possible The points proved by Ihe defence that no such letters mass ed through the office as claimed for tue Green Valley letters, and the inference drawn was that the letters were iOrgeries, written and sent through lle office m lS46, and then made to bear dae in August 1915. The stamps and the waters were examined at length. and the day occupied in this dull work The inference 10 be drawn from all this both from the testimony of Saturday and to-day was that the Green Valley letteIs mol what they purport to be, and have no doubt the fact will prove go The counsel for the prosecution deserve great credit for their hard labor. al least in counteractng the ies- mnny of Saturday

 Very lale in the day Mr. Reese of the Philadel phia Post Office examined He was shown one of the famous "nine leier's," filed in the Orphans Court. bearing the Philadelphia Post marks, from General Van Ness, and promising to make Mrs Conner his legal wife. The marks, il was testified, were not those of the Philadelsha office, and the witness was of this The witness also testified that thIs opinion had before been gIven,-that the plaintiff : counsel had visited the Philadelphia Post Office.-that he had expressed the opinion there that the letter in question was not genuine The counsel for ihe plaintiff objected to some important questions which the defence wished to put to him in regard 10 he forgery of an envelope, purporting o be from tien. Van Ness 10 Mrs. Conner. This en velopo had been pronounced forgery and the lettel sf July 26 also. and this resisted. The counse argued the question of the admission of tesliuon, | al some length and with great feeling. The Cour adjourned with the argument.