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5 description on all these points, and in all Il
7 circumstances there is not one in his favor. III
evidence of the tracks is not conclusive; but ;
far as they could be measured, they correspon
! with his. We find blood spotted on his gal
!; ments, as it was on the wall.
Welcomes movements were traced, as show
by the evidence, and the inconsistencies in hi
own account of them. Welcome says he did nc
go out of the road to Harry Russell's. By hi
account it took him six or eight hours to 70 tw
and half miles. But he is seen by several wit
nesses off the road to Harry Russell's. He wa
seen lurking about Perry Russell's house. If h
was there for an honest purpose, his learne.
counsel could have shown it. At ten in tn
evening man is seen by DR.. Taggart, who dis
appears at Harry Russell's. This, it is probable
was the man that spent the night in Harry Rus
sells barn, and that man, we know, was Henry
Welcome. He lies in the barn till noon on Sun,
day next crosses WinOoski bridge; next at Mr.
Whites that evening, reporting himself as Phi
lip Welcome, not Henry. lie is arrested at Wa
terbury, and when told of excitement at Hines
burgh, asks 90 do you think they would have
hung me, if had been there words perhaps
not inconsistent with innocence. He tried to get
his honest father to swear to a lie to clear him.
There are suspicious circumstances The incon-
sstency of the nose-bleed story with the facts
was shown. The circumstances alone were suffi-
cient to warrant a verdict of guilty. But in ad-
dition to those, we have Welcomes distinct
admission of his guilt to Dumas. The testimony
Of Dumas was analysed, in detail, and it was
insisted that it was unimpeachei Dumas was
an honest man, and the jury must believe him.
But it is claimed that there is so much falsehood
in the confession, that it must all be false, but it
is correct as to the pitchfork, as to the cutting
the harness, as to the mode Of killing, as to the
old lady's escape As to the money it was I'M
true, why, Welcome wished to secure Dumas
aid by bride, and invented the story about the
$50, to show him that he could pay him. His
own letters state that Dumas knew all about his
case. In all Dumas did he acted by direction
of the authorities. If he tells true, you have the
declaration Of Welcome freely given, not extorted
save by his own hopes and inspirations, that he
committed the murder You must act on testi-
mony. You must act on belief for You Egotr
nothing Of It, of your own knoRleIge If Won
believe him guilty beyond a reasonable doubt
you must pronounce him SO, Whatever NAV be
the consequences 10 him. As soon as he is pro-
we'd murderer, sympathy for him must cease.
and you must listen to the demand Of justice.
Mr. Roberts smoke. As he said he v.orll
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clear c'''''ls oi 1He 'e7..l'ony' anu " calm ex-
POSITION u us 'H,o' NE ueiei0e oi dumas as
an honest anu re'' '''e "i'iiess' was earnest and
effective
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mi. t;55 reonirs bi7ber dsgrse f cert,.,ty
than ordinary cases of dollars and cents. Ifyou
have a reasonable doubt, the law gives the re
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