The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1877-07-19
The Late Church Trial.

VIII the editor of the Chief allow short space in
hIs valuable sheet in answer to "JuInus, who seems
highly gratied the result of Mr. Leaks trial land
well he might for his church had sunk low by the
scandal that nothing short of killing off their former
preacher could possibly raise it-a novel method to
be sure; but when the brain lever fails in its le.t
mate work. it must have recourse TO some stratagem
to attain its object Such the in getting up
this trial. A member of the church gets mad, and
threatens leave the church, because his daughter
had sunk her reputation and brought disgrace on his
family. The preacher in charge. was his duty, IN
ouircs his reason for leaving and he brings ont old
letter of year and half standing purported to have
been written by the defendant, the instrument of
his daughters disgrace. Said daughter was then
brought under little wholesome discipline, and in
terrogated by father and preacher to other little
matters or words that had been done said by the
defendant hence came ont the batch of falsehoods
that appear in the specifications. Baker on the Dis
eipline says that specification must neither rise above
nor fall below the charge; yet the charge Of immoral
ty was made though the specifications, had they all
been true at the utmost could only sustain imprr,-
denee Not a single law of the Decalogne was shown
to have been violated in the articles setting forth the
charge. The mighty array of witnesses, so conspeu-
Gus in .Junnss" imagination, were, first the father
of the ruined girl, whose brain confused that
he could remember nothing distinctly yet his thought
so" his "opinion" and his don't know exactly were
all taken as prima faee evidence. The next witness
called was a medical brother, whose evidence might
have sunk milestone; who positively affirmed that
he asked the defendant, bitter cold night to go
home with him, but he (the defendant) mmorally re-
fused, and would 60 with the father Of the gir-for
the reader must understand that the defendant
once went home with the girl alone Mt night Next
came lady from the faro city Of Chicago, and went
to said girl who had been acquainted with her from
childhood had seen said girl perhaps dozen times
during the past ten years, and Notwithstanding the
deceit the said girl had pracced her mother, and
every else, she competent to sustain her We
racity Then walked to the witness seat the stately
physician whose keen eye detected at the birth of the
child "the very image of its father" whom he doubt
less thought to be the defendant But that did not
CO. then he had an opinion that defendant took too
much interest in said girl for he defendant came to
his house with her, to have her lungs examined and
it being a cold morning, the defendant told her to
wrap up warm, as she went back. This was another
proof of immortality. But the climax was reached
when the venerable, grayheaded sire, perhaps the
Oldest of the church, took the seat and gravely tes
fed that he defendant, on the 4th of july 1876
in the Court House yard, in the middle Of the day.
with several hundred people around, sitting on the
end of one seat and said girl sitting another seat
with the defendants hand resting on her hand, and
eonversing with her; that he saw defendant get up
an,lwalk away and after time, return and talk
again Now if all this array of testimony was not suf
ficent to prove immortality, what could have done it !
But must stop here, fear it may take too much
space for one week. If permitted will give the
rest next week THE DEFENDANT.