Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1865-12-20

two weeks or two moments before the deed
was committed. AS guilty in one case as
the other. Nor dOesit matter how much
liquor he may have drank, if he knew what
he was about at the time of the murder.
The advocate concluded his plea with the
following recapitulation:
Gentlemen, LET us for a moment pass in
review this case, bloodiest in the annals of
crime. The facts cannot be denied. The
defendant himself boosted over the ruin be
had wrought, THAT he should meet the
murdered enc across the great waters"
Seems to me even now and here he might
see wandering by, a shadow like an angel,
with bright hair, dabbled in blood"
ATamzen'Pa Parsons died in defense other vir-
tue. Whenthe seducer came in the person Of
a man of pleasing address. and,fnished edu-
cation, with a forged decree Of divorce in
his hand, he found her q mere child vet
at school. She yielded to his Vaccinations
and was lured from home and friends. The
forger became the bigamist and wrote on
his forehead the herrid crime Of adultery.
Her friends followed, she learned of his de-
ception and was rescued from the jaws of a
remorseless prostitution ! Anon the For
ger, the Bigamist, the Adulterer was DOOM
ed TO confinement for a year within the
walls Of a prison. After four months, we
find his poor wife, the mother of his child,
true TO her womanly instincts, vending her
way through our city, procuring signatures
for his pardon. She obtained it. What
promises he makes, we know not Does he
come to her with contrition and gratitude
mol He banishes her and his child. For
whatl That he may again set his snares
for the young and u~nsuspecting Tamzen,
that he may lead her to a life of p~rostitu
ton TO end her days with those fallen ones
who are bought with a price.
The forger, the bigamist, the adulterer,
seeks again his prey, plies his arts. The
mother of the child hovers near. Tamzen
says " You nave deceived me once, YOU
can not again." He will not desist-eounts
upon his strong control. He is mistaken,
she will not yield. She seeks the house of
I1ruSe Sian by a christian woman-nearly
entered-he sees all is lost ne cannOT POs-
sess her-he draws-takes deadly aim
fires, and Tamzen dies to live in Heaven.
The forger, the bigamist, the adulterer,
John w, Hughes, walks forth a murderer
Let a monument be raised in memory of
fallen virtue, which the young and fair can
look upon when we are dead and gone.
From this sad tragedy we learn
''The trinmphs that on vice attend,
''Shall ever in confusion end;
The good man suffers but to gain,
And every virtue springs from pain.
As aromatic plants bestow
No spicy fragrance, while they grow,
But crushed or trodden to the ground,
Difuse their balmY sweets around"
Gentlemen. we throw upon you the bur
then of this case. 1t rests with you. You
have solemnly sworn to decide this issue,
according to the law and the evidence.
Mercy rests not with you, not with the
judge, but with the Governor of the chair of
State. You are to do justiee-nothing more,
nothing less. ask you in the name of that
community so cruelty outraged, that waits
patiently to see whether under any
circumstances, the highest penalty can
be enforeed-I ask you in the name of
violated chastity every whereI ask you in
the name of God whose image has been SO
cruelty defaced, and finally, l ask you in
the name of the very law itself, to this day
protection which shall be given to the poor
mans child.
On the conclusion of Mr. Shades plea, R.
E. Knight, Esq, opened the argument for
the defence, first admonishing the jury, in
very eloquent terms, to consider, without
bias, passion or prejudice, the facts in the
case. He confined himself to the consider
alton Of tn. law in application to crime, in
reference to deliberation, generalization, in
tOxication and insanity. We proposed Civ
ing an outline of his argument, but as he
merely entered upon it, and will doubtless
occupy all this forenoon, prefer to wait its
conclusion, and make our report entire and
continuous.