The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1871-02-10

AFIEhNOON
Mr.. Baker resumed his closing argument:-
Gentlemen of the jury, was proceeding with
some of tn e prominent facts of the intercourse
between Gen. Shepley and Mrs. Miller, at the
adjournment; had come to the point where
Statira Miller was at the house of her brother,
who proposed to go to Rogers's and asked her
| to remain till he returned, and she promised
that she would do so. While she was there,
Gen. Shepley, Just returned from New York,
weary and waywOrn with his travel, came to
the place where he would most naturally find
sympathy and consolation, apparently with
| out time to have gone to his own bone. He
seemed dull but gentlemanly, remained a
short time and proposed to leave, started
down stairs, they then occupying the back
| chamber for sitting room, reached the door of
the lower hall, held very low conversation,
Mrs. Miller came back up stairs and invited
Miss Statira to 60 home, and proposed that the
General should go with her; she respectfully
declined the polite invitation. Mrs. Miller re
with-one denial, the General himself goes to
the foot of the stairs and calls her State, in
most familiar and persuasive way, an appella-
ton, which she says he never used before, never
had any right to use to her, because they had
not been on intimate terms, she respectfully
thanking him for his kindness. She did not
swallow the sugar coated pill. Now, gentle
men, what do you suppose that was for / do
| not propose to answer this
Then Mr.. Jordan saw Gen. Shepley in the
General knew him; was in the habit of recog-
nizing him, but on this occasion did not recog-
| nige him. Shepley crosses and re-crosses the
| street; blind of the window is opened; he
passes across the sidewalk and up the steps,
| enters the door without ringing; this was at Z
| o'clock in the evening. What does it all mean ?
| You have heard the ingenious CLOSING that
| has been put upon it, but he don't deny the
fact of crossing and re-crOssing.
| Counsel next discusses the presents. There
| was no evidence connecting Gen. Shepley
with that black shawl until he went upon the
stand himself and inadvertently dropped the
| fact that he was connected with it after ALL 1t
| appeared from the evidence before that the
shawl was bought at Marrett's and that Mrs.
| Granice, sister of Mrs. Miller presented it to
her. 1t seems it was one selected by his daugh-
| ter and laid aside in Marretts store for her.
And what is a little remarkable, that Mrs.
| Granice should happen to be there when the
shawl was purchased, when he actually paid
| the money for the shawl and the shawl which
was laid aside Ior his daughter, that he should
take it away from his daughter, though he paid
| for it, and it was turned over to Mrs. Granice
and presented to Mrs. Miller, and Mrs. Gran
ice repaid the money to him. Gentlemen, that
is good ways round, to get at the point, but
| the point was reached finally; probably it is
| true that Mrs. Granice paid him the money;
perhaps you will think SO.
Counsel discusses the bracket, the cribba9e
eoar the necklace and the chain: Did you
over go to the theatre, gentlemen? We had
Steta nere Yesterday. A Judge of the United
t nsat I court an honorable map. holding one of
the Trgnest and dgnified offices in the gift of
into a s.uo states, condescends to go down
| in.o street here and buy n little chain and
| bring 1T into Court with a n;eoa - o ,".. anu
tacheu 10 IL, the price affixed by the storekee1.
| or, which he knew was not evidence ora hu;a
! it in here in most dramatic manner and
hibit it before this jury to show that it could be