"guilty As Charged."

ClNCiNN'ATl, Ohio, Feb. 4. - The argum eet in the trial of Benjamin E. Hopkins, of the Fidelity bank, ware concluded Friday evenin?, and Judge Sage, at the afternoou session, d'.'livered bis charge to the jury, who took the case under consideration. At nine o'clock Saturday morning the verdict was received. It was: "Guilty as charged in the indictment." Judgf j Sage's charge to the jury was read f rom manuscript, ana covereU all tne reatures ot the law and facts. The statement was broadly made that to sign a check upon the bank and accept it as a deposit when there were no furxl.s to pay it, without an arrangement which would make sucb a transaction a loan, was a fraud. He further said that Hopkins' duty as a director and officer was to know what reas being done in the bank, and that it was no defensa to say that he thought Harper had ampie funds to protect the bunk, nor did it excuse hira tbat Harper was the superior offlcer and directed him to act as he did.