Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1861-12-17

able scoundrel' whohas no money, no influence,
no frlendai How else can you account for II,
other than that Lynch had certain men In his
power Thomas Given is summoned before the
Grand Jury, and Rt once q key is given 70 Mr..
BOYD, and IN some mysterious manner Given geo
MaTshal's on e and remains there ell day and
night and q part Of the next day. Why al thiI
effort 70 prevent the indiotmentOf this " mlsera.
bic offender" Lynchi L. j Ryder, not q friend
OF Minckleyi who says that Minckley only
came to his Office twice yet when you hnd this
defendant indicted, who is Il that does the dirty
work. Had Lynch then been guilty Of the bur-
glary, be without money or friends, how could
he, gentlemen, command such extraordinary eE-
foFs from these par lest
According 20 Lynch's statement he was TO be
let out. Now what Is the faei We and the
doors Of HIS cell door unlocked at 8 O'Clock on the
next morning. 1 don't care ifh0 Is dOuble-dyed
In vlllany, there Is the factl Lynch says that
after he bad got Into this difficulty, after he had
been male the tool of johnson, that he relented,
and confessed this plot against Green. Rider
tells you that he didn't want 20 defend Green,
and why not, gentlemen He would defeud
Lynch, why not GreenS Green was an honest
reasOni
The statement that Mlnekley made before the
Magistrate bears internal evidence Of falsehood.
he says he was watching o a the Flats; was
watching for nothing in particular; that 10 ssv
two men 90 70 the log; what q remarkable con
currence Of circumstances ls Il that he should
chance 70 be watching for nothing In particular
Just after this burglary he goes 20 the leg and
finds the watch, and brings Il up, and then car
ries II back and watches all the night till near
morning, and then gees OF and leaves the watch
alone and exposed; then stays there alone till
the next afternoon, and then when he sees q man
70 20 the log, he follows him, not knowing wheth-
er be has the watch In his pos ession or not, to
the barber shOp, and then has 70 call 70 bis assis-
lance another policeman 10 arrest one man In
his shop, when he went over the river alone and
stayed there night and day 10 look after two men.
y the statement Of Jack Smith be true that
Ainekley was only Q or 8 rods from Green, why
did Minekley not know also that It was Green,
with whom he was well acquainted He sWore
Il was a colored man, why could he not swear it
With regard TO the question of Minckley,s ties
ttmony o nserning the locality of the log, II
Mtnckley did not testify that the log was in the
orchard, how do you account for those witnesses
whom you have heard testifying here, going
down 70 ezamine concerning this polntS They
went there and found that there were marks of
acane in 8 hole By 4 log which lies In an exposed
position, and the last place that would be select
ed as & place of eoncealmsnt. Somebody had
been there evidently; but the theory of the State
is that Mtnckley, becoming alarmed, had gone
over, subsequently. 70 fabricEte testimony, to be
used thereafter, II necessary.
II you believe the testimony Of Hill, Green
was in his shop up TO near 2 o'clock, engaged IN
his usual avOcati0n. Ifhe was there, he couldn't
have been on the Flats. DR.. Mckenzie swears
that he saw Minckley leaning on the railing from
a half 6 minute to two minutes. Minekley sWore
that he had not leaned on the railing st ALL
mckenzie testi1es that he saw some one come
down from the Weddell House and 20 into the |
shop some minutes before be saw Mineklsy.-
What does Given say he saw Minckley walt
ing under the balcony Of the Weddell. 1t was
not a casual observation" be had of him. Mr.. |
Givenis a policeman and every interest was oppos
cd to his testifying against his chief, and every 1
word that he said was true. The moment that
the direct examination was finished did they
cross examine the witness. Mol They did not
dare to do so i
ALI of this testimony goes to show that this
arrest was made within a few moments Of time, |
having made the arrest Could Green then have
been seen by Smith ats minutes past 2 over on
the ttackf Why did they not bring Thompson
on the stand, II he would have sworn that Green
confessed to him at the watch house about get
ting the Watchf and Stevens, If he could have /
thus sTornf Does it not strike you, gentlemen, /
that about this time Green had en- extraordinary
amOnnt OF customers tho many who were inter Il
ested in knowing what Green knew about the
Minckley casef | tell you, gentlemen, that the
failure to bring on such witnesses indicates clear
ly, that this defence is fabrication from be-
ginning TO end. You will find 1t to be the case,
that ct every material point where Il Is necessary
for Minokley TO be seen, he was seen by two per
sons. Over on the fats, on Vineyard street,
everywhere except at O'Clock in the morning,
when there was but one witness. I began to
think that they could prove anything that they
wished. Boyd sees him st 3 o'clock that was
the only loop-hole that there was, but the def.
kAlANI vs. FARkAAI4s 1
Where does the evidence that is brouEht in
here come FROM from saloons and frem Riders
office. Sayers was subpGaned here, but why was
he not called upon the stand to testify TO this
pointf who is this Moore that has Travelled over
% States, 3 territories. and through Upper and
Lower Canada You would think that this
Moore was q respectable man If you took the
biography of the counsel for the defence
L. A. Hale says that he r~ecOllects reading Of
the arrest in the papers. He saw two men over
there, Monday, or Tuesday, or Wednesday can't
tell which. Next comes Jeremiah Lady He
saw q colOred man and q white man coming over
there, while he was going over to bask under the
trees. He didn't know Green, but he comes In
here and sWears to having seen him. Never had
communicated tito any one, but at this late day
he comes in and remembers I. al.
d. A. Eddy thinks that he hes a recollection of
seeing Minckley there because be vas bagging |
eats on that day. Buto on pressing the matter we
aud out that theoats were bsgged on the sd
the day after.
HenrY Mathews should have been spoken of
i-noOnHeetiOn with Lady. He wentinto Green's
shop for the first and last time soon after this In
dicfment was brought Is Il not strange that
Green should have all these Customers2 What Is /
there about seeing 8 oO.ored man that Is 81
strange that he should remember the occurrence |
six months after. Jack Smith swears that he
went OHt bpt four times that week; but If we
could have brought IN the testimony of Frank
Wilson we could have shown that he went out
on Friday as well as Thursday. BE was certain
" mistaken, and he did go out and saw Green on
some other day than the one he supposes. Jack
smith saw him 81 eight minutes past two,
and 1t Is an impOssibility If We come to consider
the time that the defendant should have been
seen down on the Flats there and seen 90 shortly
before and so shortly after up town.
Mr.. Slade Will conclude his argument this
morning.