The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-05-10
LEGAL INTELLIGENCE.
Conttnued nom be FYrst .Paae.

=, His character is very much misnterpreted David
Shepherds boy. come with pebbles from the brook"
but the holy writers say of David that he man
10 saul. Nay more, that he was a con ely person.
Nay, more. that he was amau Of prudent sense. Nay
least must admit that the counsel for the prisoner
When David prayed for Saul to Danish the evil
spirit from him, he was limited to the SIMPLE harp of
or strings; butthe counsel for the prisoner came
TSe spT Of the lust made perfect
We have music and melody OF a most excellent
We have the outward world demonstrated before
us, and we have all the inner world; all the untold
reCesses of the human mind portrayed before
II is also said that am 70 make capital out of this
Capital! What capital? The capital of sitting here
from day TO day night after night aud then when
this over taking up Les case aud sit day after day
Here l am TO remain, day after day, for eighteen
months alInough the public are warned not 10 repeat
in obedience TO law TO do my duty. You are to do
ever il may be- strive to make such verdict in order
TO make capital, any more than L Will strive to
This was a case which the evidence convinced him
should he tried speedily. Was the public prosecutor
to wait, wait, and walt, until somebody more int
rested in the prisoner than in the cause of Justice
or the man who Identified the razor should die, go
A warning was taken from the case of Gottleib
Williams and If 1t was considered 6aroarism to bring
ave tRe muTderers Of PHadeph to undertanS
That SO long as he occupies his present position there
Then Iothe case In discussiou the first question
lS, llu lnlS prisoner DOtCa5 MuRllIOuF COunSel
for defense at the beginning of the satisfied
in their hearts that he did IT, aud their doubts
STrTy u to o S % thy
hand IN order to pull harder with theother upon the
It is the commemorative theory. that the
prisoner was let ln,o tue use by Mrs Magon; that
he qgiehy Ky put his nat on the & So The prisoner en-
watching his opportunity, he stole the hammer and
using The razor he robbed her for there was not
drop blood upon the notes; then he completed his
a r. aZOr
into ihe sink and washedhis hands at the hydrant in
door and told the World that had visited the place
and found the woman murdered; he took the husband
Winnemore was the witnesses tell us, perfectly calm
evidence of recovering from an epleptlc fit; this
man whom, It is said, the sight of blood makes mad,
had washed from his hands the blood he got upon
He lett his hotel that morning without a cent but
he Is arrested with two ~ bills 10 his pocket Now.
isn't 1t reasonable TO suppose that the found upon
the prisoner were the same? No witnesses were pro-
Williams didn't get a. but he knew what he wanted.
he got but a. Mr.. MagiltOn was not a man without
means. Who would steal the prisoners razor for the
murder? II this is not his razor, where is itf Why
The counsel for the defense did not get this razor
Immediately, because warning was5taken from Ber-
counsel for the defense, and because Of something
peculiar about the track IL made, they had another
made that very night, and brought IL into Court
the next morning. with The nails and pegs driven in
In reference TO the subject of animal magnetism,
which the defense have brought up suppose for in
stance, that Mrs Magilton had the power of magne-
tizing this man, and she really did exercise ths
tiled one is said to have for the magnetzer, is
it reasonable TO suppose that had she magnetzed him
ltIwould make him take up that hammer and strike
her in the head one, two three four. five, six,
blows, and then cut her throat with razor? Such
presumption, TO say the least OF IT, Is simply absurd.
No, that Will not dO-thoSe pictures OF the flowers
of paradise, spoken of as having such an effect upon
the prisoner. Those pictures were not in the room
where Mrs. MaglltOn was killed. II this foolish idea
march upRnd down before those pictures In another
room until he he'd worked himself into a murderOus
state OF mind and then walked into the room where
she was sitting, ana taking the hammer, Killed her
Epileptic fits have not been proved, The prisone'
may have had hts but no person who processes TO
know anything about the matter says that they were
epIleptc; and they were not.
There is no scientific evidence whatever for dis
cusson. The prisoners melancholy, which no doubt
evidence whatever of insanity. II his seeing spirits
evidence OF insanity, the witnesses who
testified 10 that fact are insane and therefore not TO
Hallucinatons are not evidences of insanity. They
are the tendencies OF an oVerwroughb mind. The pri-
soner, II he had them, was not insane. We cannot
ting that the subject OF spritualsm Is correct, and
allowed In the flesh see the spirits OF the dead
dc this prisoner see them? MOI lie IS mere ad-
venturer. He lmpO ing upon these people TO get
hs meals, HI is an imposter TWO leaves OF his diary
torn out, and they undoubtedly made with in
order 10 hide the deporahle state OF his finances.
You cannot pro your little ONES whom you leave
at home II YOU don't execute the law. IT Won are
satisfied that this man committed this high crime,
am satisfied you will say so by your verdict.
Judge Brewster was charging the jury when our re-
'DisTRicT ooURT-JudEe sharswood.-D ,nahue
fore reported. Verdict for defendants.
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