The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-01-01
THIRD EDITION
TwITCHELL.
Ex- District Attorney Mann's Argu-
ment for the Defense.

from Second Edition.
The prisoner Is stunned, paralyzed, confused.
he IL arrested and taken on by the officers OF
he law. Then comes the great point OF the
nT yonr sSrtP" "aot i in carrying in the body
son, mol you didn't have II on then r. III @ csn,I
be ~ sy sbou ths
cannot explain to me how that blood got on |
my shirt; they cannot account for the murder m 81
do not want them." He knew |
nothing OF scientific theories; he was bewil. !
story; is there any thing in the Commemorative
case to contradict II? l think can snow you
and and with viii the theory Of his Innocence. NOW it
is well known that Mrs, Hil carried large
Sums OF money about her person; There
found upon or about the prisoner, and ne
20 opportunity to conceal 1t had had
POKER ps Hi did the deed and they e Cling 70 That pet
theory, for II IL is true some one who must have
oeen sar lam WIN na 1se avs bee earSs ne
ckell. This is the greatest mistake the Com.
monwealth has made. We have SHOWN You
that ad this poker been used upon Mrs. HiiPs
skull IL would have been battered and bent, and
would have borne unmistaksole evidence of 1T:
DO We find any such upon iL2 We flnd asmear OF
blood upon IL. Is that stranger Toe poker was
found lying under her head in the pool OF
upon il .? There is one gray hair upon 1t. Is IL
not perfectly natural that 1t shoul Id have got
there by its being thrust under her head. Tnis
Is nonsense 10 argue away mans life from
such trifles as these. The murderer took his
weapon away with him, and, as Lady Mac
left George Twltchelfs weapon stained
with blood beneath their victim, In order to
throw the suspicion upon him. l wondered In
this trial If hadn't lost my senses. 1t was
thrown into my teeth that had convicted four
me n upon evidence ike this, and therefore this
prisoner should be hung. l did not convict
them-infallible facts, a just Court. and wise
jury convicted them-I did not But in each
one Of those cases there was one all-importsnt.
vital fact; but here there is the absence OF that
there is no motive, and therefore you must
acYyolt; YyUn or. told ,ba. had that head taken M.
l did SO TO see these wounds, TO study them, for
had to get at the facts and truthS OF this case
On that head / found straight outs, running
this way and that way, as though the man
making them were changing position and
that a man would not move thus about her
booy, but that swinging instrument like a
these different wounds without the striker
changing his position. found taat the poker
S% nave not done it. and some ens muss
sSsS ss been hin Bas fher1 found %a0 nehsp it
turned from George Twitcnell for he did not
answer. Gentlemen, to try this case upon the
theory that the poker did this 10 TO try It upon
| q falsehood. have studied this closely. have
| experimental, and have proven to you that
1t could not have been done by the poker. and If
| you do not so find you show nat you have not
hearkened TO the evidence. Bat the Common
wealth loves Its pet theory and clings to 1t.
| the truth. You may cast of truth, out IL will
oask 10 y1b @sg an
mouth m Of lis sepulchre: Now great cry is
locked up, and therefore could not make an
alarm. Who tells you that The dogs We're
| wealth argues that IL was their custom to be
| there at that time, and, therefore, they were
custom % % OF MI and Mrs. Twitcaeii to o be- % IN bed bed
| at halfpast eight or nine o'clock. and therefore
on this night .ney were not nd tdere aaks axe
what becomes Of your reasoning?
In r. gard TO this door OF the dining room,
that little tell. tale spot OF blood SHOWS beyond
doubt that the door was fastened, and that it
| had been fastened to prevent George 8. Twit'
! TO make, as they anticipated. Aud the prisoner
tells you this was done while he was In bed:
! And you are asked to set aside these facts. and
sacrifice this man because somebody must be
convicted when murder is committed.
| Now, gentlemen, another fact from which
the Commonwealths officers ask you to draw
an inference, Is that the prisoner made threats
] thing for me to SIT in judgment upon my fell
! low-beiDgs. and shall well upon the character
when men come forward and swear they would
not believe n witness under oath, IL Is ex-
| temely dangerous TO rely upon evidence COM
ing tainted through such channel hon or hu-
man friendship; love the man who VIII stand
| and agony. The man who offered himself as a
! pledge, even unto death, that his friend might
be allowed 10 see his wife before his execution;
that man has left a holy name that will live In
, tie human heart for ages after the name OF the
| tyranL who slew his friend has been forgotten.
| And could not help making this comparison
! as looked upon Gilbert at the elbow OF the
| District Attorney, and then upon young
| McCulJy beside the prisoner In the dock For
| Coos sake let us leave Gilbert. IL George
Twitchell is 10 be destroyed, let II be through
| honest evidence, and not by Gilbert's treachery
to Twitchell, which means truthfuiness TO no
| map.
Now, then, the last remaining and great point
| upon which the Commonwealth Will unger, is
| the blood upon the prisoners clothing. III II
was not for this there would be no evidence
whatever against him. These sprinkles are
the things; they tell, IL is said. Why, gentlemen
If you take drops OF ink on the end OF your
finger and 1irt half OF IL on a piece of paper
you will make TWO hundred and thirty-six
sprink kled spots visible To the naked eye Then
may not the prisoner have got forty-tve upon
him without having come in contact with the
discharge from a severed artery? We must
hang upon such evidence as thatl Oh. no
human life is more valuable than that. Then
they say his vest was bloody, and he hadn't Il
on when he carried the body In. he did have II
on. The vest was q low-cut one buttOned low
down, and the Commonwealth q Witnesses say
his coat was buttoned up close. Then they
could not have seen IL. The officer did not sec
IL until he put on his coat up stairs, anC
therefore he concludes he did not have IL or
before this. Az TO this shirt, men from our col
leges, men from the highest places, tell you tina
inst such spots may have got upon it by the
flirting OF bloody fingers or OF bloody garments