The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-11-09

time disposed to lay violent
hands on the fabric of Government
that had fostered and protected hun,
and to tear It down,-insisted immedi-
1 ately upon tearing down and destroy
ing even before this jury and court, the
own sister Desperate emergencies re-
qutre desperate means; and you saw
/ what was attempted. 1t was a confess
sion, gentlemen, of the force and effect
of that disclosures: that Daniel Steenrod,
noY In his grave, had said to her time
and again, 81 hold the Carroll farm in
trust for your three children;" that he
had said to her, "If Daniel is about TO
marry, he ought to move on to that
farm and buy out his two sisters %
lThereupon the woman Is to be impeach-
ed, and the jury are to be compelled, If
possible, to believe that she has clothed
herset with perjury as with a garment
the obligations Of an oath,
| I-that she mas uttered nothing but false
l mood In the presence of God and the
ministers OF Justice; and that the jury
shall discard all she saysI Well, e
talled ed,--signal failed. Even the old
mans voice spoke from the grave in
rebuke of all such attempts. He came
here to testify, though his own lips
were sealed iu death, by the lips of his
neighbors, who were disinterested, that
he had made the same statement: that
the Carroll farm was intended for Dam
iet-substantiallY admitting that it be-
longed to him. Yet it is not SO IN his
will. Hewould not sell It because it was
intended for Daniel. Well the testimony
OF this lady, instead of being broken
down, is scorroborated by that of her
neighbors and by one of their own wit
nesses. There, then, stands the facts
the provision of the will-the attempt
to get rid of the trust by putting com
trivance of that sort in the willEwhollv
unexplained. And then when this dis.
closure Is made here In the face of that
miserable contriyer, he attempts to de-
stroy the credibility of the Witness
his own sister,-and the gentleman is
even pressed to ask woman whether
she did not take the sacrament with her
father-a matter between her and her
maker. The question was asked. 1
cast no reflections whatever on the
counsel for asking it. know too much
ter OF my venerable friend fudge Ken
nonl to suppose for a moment he would
have asked it except under the require
ment of his client, and under the inn
preston at the time it might be con-
nected with something to justify It..
But 1t turns out there was nothing in
Gods world to Justify it.) And then
there comes the other question: Did not
| you write q letter tseekinp TO get rid of
her IN some way) to Daniel Steenrod,
calling him a scoundre1 or some other
such epithet2 i objected to the ques-
tlon; but the woman answered 'tNo!"
and answered 1t with an emphasis that
indicated very clearly to the Jury that
she felt 1t an imputation on her honor,
and as wound upon her feelinGs. You
recolect, demanded the production
of the letter; and the witness, being in
formed of her rights under suggestion
OF Your Honor, demanded its produce
ton, too; showing her perfect con-
seriousness of integrity and perfect se-
curttYs In doing SO. What took place
thenf Why, under instruction Of her
Drother, her counsel is advised to Law
the foundation of an impeachment.
Howf Why. by tho testimony, of anoth-
,er brother of her own house. The re-
suit is she.fs asked directly the ques-
tion, in the mode required by the rules
OF law, giving time, place and words.
whether IN her fathers house, in the
presence other brother james, she had
not about such and such time de-
olarsd that Daniel Steenrod. senior. had
obtained this conveyance of the Carroll
farm of her husband, Edward, by for
gerry and by fraud? Her answer was
'sNoB sirIh' You remember what took
place then. Mr.. Peck, touched, with
this attempt to crush woman, made bv
her own brothers, who ought to be her
natural protectors and defenders, spoke
out quietly here, maniFestly in no of
fensiVe or Observation-Disclosures for
the purpose of provoking nobody's
wrath, but by way of protest: "Did you
fetch her brother James to contradict
was seen3 Why the man who drew up
these instructions, who had been baffled
IN his endeavors to cheat and swindle
the orphan children of his own
dead brother out of the trust estate in
tne hands OF his father, rises in his
nInNn fhpFfA a N0lg f,-E
Peck, his eyes kindling with the fire OF
rage and every muscle of his face dis
0rted with passion, mntteringf out his
words In tho presence of the court, with
suppressed utterance through his
clenched teeth; which indicated to the
jury doubtless yobservant of all, this,
that the man had been thwarted. It was
IN vain he had taken advantage of the
confidence which that old fathef-ingIayy
OF his reposedz in hiDl-thatg aged man
upon whose head time with its frosty
nngers had scattered the SHOWS of eight
aud seventy winters!- 1t was in vain he
wrote outand dictated himself the in
structtons for his father-in-law's last
VIII and testament, and put. into those
INSTRUCTIONS the strange and curious
device by which every legatee and de-
V1see would be- compelled by his will
before he took any benefit of that will
TO surrender all claim they had TO anY
interest whatever in any property which
by that will was disposed of TO others
1t was in vain he got up the cOntrivunce
by which he took from Edward Steen-.
rods heirs the whole Carroll estate
which upon the testimony of their own
witnesses Is worth thirty-three thou-
sand dollars-and gave them in return
-whaH To the two daughters nothing:
ana the son, who, SO far as the testf.
monYl has disclosed the facts to INV
mind, alone transmits among the liy,
ing today the name of his grandfather.
IS put OF with the Tobacco farm, which
by the testimony oftheir own witnesses
ls worth but four Thousand dollars:
thus cheating him and his sisters out OF
operation. - a" ~ 'H'l7lT - iFFs9;
It needs some explanation nrovi-
sion OF that sort in this Rills, No explR-
nation has been made of it. IsaV-the
burden IS upon these gentlemen them.
selves. When the fact Is established.
the burden Is upon these gentlemen
themselves to explain il; and I say that
on the authority of their books as we'll
as ours. On this authority from which
the learned gentleman read who opened
the argument and from one OF the cases
believe to which he himself referred
put OF that am not certain, but think
he did refer to and probably read some
portiou'of it himselE-oCcnrs this LAM
guage: agol.5,1 4 rIiSfIT' n : = =
= TheSe circumstances may be suseepf- |
pie OF, explanations and OIn not inc. /
lined 70 draw harsh inferenceS from them: !
ICsl DaI -s 1nex - panel they present the ap-
weak minded old man, broken down hy afstsj
and disease, and deprRaled with RFiefE fIloFie |
VIII M and then this WIn 8 be+