Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1865-12-22
THEREFORE, MURDER
DIR. JOHN W HUGHES,
The Mlrdererof Miss Parsons
EARGUMENT OF M. s. CASTLE, ESQ.

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The court met pursuant 70 adjournment
a-tniueo'clOek yesterday morning; when n.
g.. Castle, Esq. associate council for defend
ant resumed the argument which he COM
menced on Wednesday afternoon. He con-
mmed1aH the forenoon of yesterday; esd
about an hour in the afternoon. He confn-
ed himselfl throughout, to the discussion of
the evidence taken by the State reviewing
it generally, and in parts witt merei1ess
analysis and criticism, and putting upon
it such constructions as he claims is
warranted by fact or proof in the light Of
reason. speeeh, from first to last, oecu-
pied seven mortal hours. 1t will be seen
that We cannot give a report of it, nor is it
necessary, since the testimony in the case
has been snbmitted to the people throaghthe
IEADER,day by day as it was developed in the
course of the trial. To give a report at all
adequate would require the publication Of
the whole mass Of evidence taken. Mr..
Castle worked his way through this noun
tain, struck daylight through il, and should
be commended for his industry, persistency
and heroic endurance, not to speak of the
ability with which he discharged his obli-
gations to- the defendant. His argument
abounded with passages ofeloquence, pathos,
mvVo -4 ipAaassioned appeal.
which thrilled an present, which no re,
port can do Justice to, from the, fact that
this advocates power is a personal, mag
netic force,
His theory Of the case, as authorized by
+hev-idenvey g tket Fe1-e1- R~---
not a mere child, as represented, but a per
son come to responsible womanhood; that
there was a mutually reciprocal passion
burning in the hearts of her and Hughes !;
that she knew he was a married man, that
the claimed forged bill of divorce dmust
have been executed in Pittsburgh after the
elopement and with her knowledge that
she never gave over her love for him, albeit
she yielded to the solicitations of her friends
and returned home,-for on the night Of the
18th of July last she testified her willing
moss andseven desire to keep his company
when her father had gone to Bedford for an
officer to arrest Hughes for HOUSEKEEPING
and assault and by holding an interview
of two hours duration with him at the
yard fence that at no subsequent time did
she manifest the slightest in-wiIl toward
him; that he loved her with a wild idola-
try albeit it was an Illicit love that all his
day was but a thought of her, and she his
dream by night, so that life was nothing to
him without her that, when bafled by the
opposition Of her friends, and set on fire of
hell by excessive drink, with his predispo-
sitions, while intoxicated, to insanity, rea-
son forsoOk her seat as Tamzen fitted
across his path on-that dark day when he
slew her; that the murder was the sudden
impulse of a brain crazed bydrink, and no
deliberate, malicious act.
The advocate devoted much time to the
ventilation OF the alleged threats made by
Hughes to take Tamzen's life viz. that to
DR.. Wray on the 18th of July, when he said
that if she didn't stop calling herself Mrs.
Hughes he would kill her that to, Mrs.
Eddy, the next morning, at breakfast at the
Plank Road House, in response to her in
forming him that a bullet had recently been
fred through her parasol: "Pfty it hadn't
gonere little lower and blown her DID
brains out, and saved me the trouble some
time''; and that to Viol Salisbury, at Bed
ford, the same day: al must hunt her
Tamzen) up, and if she won't live with me,
III kill her" He dwelt long and loud on
the ssentiaLabsurdity and improbability Of
his making such statements when his love
for her is considered, his desires and efforts
TO get her to live with him. 1t is inconceiv-
able that, if he meditated her murder, or
desired to take her life, that he should thus
drum up witnesses of the contemplated
deed, and SO plan things as to make his con-
viction fatally sure. 1t was the poison he
had swallowed in eOpiOus draughts which
killed Tamzen Parsons-net John W.
Hughes. A4"I r7v AZ
Mr.. Castles voice gave out after an hours
speaking in the afternoon, yhereupOn he
was obliged to give over the, case into, the
hands of THE Prosecutor, C. W. Palmer, Esq.
That gentlemen entered upon a. statement
Of the facts and Interpretation of the evil
dence in the case, and continued until the
adjournment Of the court at five o'clock,
weaving a web of iron threads. He will
resune his argument at nine o'clock this
morning, and will probably conclude in time
allow the Gourtto charge the jury before
adjournment. ,E1791T 90 p
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