Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-09-07

THE STAR ROUTE TRIAL.
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His Address.
No days session of the Guiteau trial
crowded court room than did the opening
yesterday morning in the Star Route cases.
Every seat within tho bar was filled with
spectators and the aisles and standing
room were blocked up with q jostling,
perspiring mass or people. Newspaper
men and attorneys were compelled to ap-
peal to the marshal for admission, and this
official was at his Wits end to find entrance
even to the court room for men who
had the right to demand it. Col. Ingcr-
soils remarks were devoted chiefly to the
law phases of the case and but little of his
distinguished originality marked the ar
gument. Even the crowd refrained from
making comments upon the statements Of
the attorney. Occasionally Judge Wylie
turned to him for an explanation of a
statement, but it was done in D courteous
and mild ld-mannered way that has by no
means hitherto marked the colloquies be-
tween court and counsel. An explanation
of this is given in the assertion that both
court and prosecution have given up the
idea of conviction as to Dorsey, whom
Ingersoll especially represents, and see NO
reason for contradiction of or objection to
the argument in his behalf made by his
counsel.
In his closing remarks, Mr.. IngersOll
spoke of his client Dorsey as a man with
an intellectual horizon, ard a mental sky
"a man of genius, generous and honest.
Yet, he said, this prosecution, this gov
ernment, these attorneys, representing the
majesty of the republic, have asked you
not only to violate the law of the land but
also the law of nature. They have tram
pied on tho holicst humanitics and havo
even made light because q wife in this
trial has sat by her husbands side. Thele
is painting in the Louvre-a painting Of
desolat,On, Of despair and love. 1t repres-
ents 'The Night Of the CrucifixiOn.' The
world is wrapped in shadow tho stars
are dead !; and yet in the darkness is seen
kneeling form. 1t is Mary Magda!en
with loving lips and hands pressed against
the bleeding feet of Christ. The skies
were never dark enough or starless
enough, the storm was never fierce
enough nor wild enough; the quick bolts
of heaven were never lurid enough, and
the arrows of SANDER never fell thick
enough to drive noble woman from her
husbands side. (Applause.) And SO it
is in all of human speech tho holiest
word is woman"
While Mr. Ingersell was delivering this
speech several ladies burst into tears, and
Mrs. Dorsey kept her handkerchief to her
eyes for some minutes.
In conclusion Mr.. Ingersoll said: 81
have spoken now, gentlemen, tho last
words that will DO spoken in public for my
clients, tho last words that will be spoken
in public for any of these defendants, the
last words that will be heard in their
favor until hear form the lips of the
foreman the two eloquent words mot
guilty."
Attorney General Brewster rehearsed
his connection with the case and replied to
the charge that it was beneath his dignity
to appear in the case. He said that it was
his duty to be wherever justice was to be
done, and that the statements by the coun-
sci for the defense that his action was
without precedent showed that they had
not examined their books. He gave several
incidents OF such action. He was here to
see justice done. and he would see it or
surrender his Office. Then he looked over
The points of the case, speaking of pre-
ductiveness as test of how much service
was needed.
In the course of his remarks, the attor-
ney- general referred to Brady as mail
contractor, but stopping himself said {:
"NO, not a mail contractor but 4 mail ex-
pander."
Mr.. Ingersoll had told tho jury how lies
would not fit; and Ingersoll ought to
know. He had been dealing with them
for those people. lie meant nothing per.
sonal to Mr.. Ingersoll. In ancient Assyria
it was the custom, when a man and
woman were detected in adultery to kill
the woman and chain her dead and fester-
ing body to the man and he went about
crying. ''Oh, wretched man that am, who
will deliver me from the body Of this
death ?" Acquit these men and the fes-
tering body of their atrOcious crime,
committed against the whole community,
would hang around their necks and they
would cry out "Oh, wretched man that
am, who will deliver me from the body
of his death ?" The jury had heard Mr..
1ngersoll to-day, with an impressiveness
which drew tears to tho eyes of many,
depict tho horrors and terrors which hung
round these peoples, and while this was
going on, whenever there was a ribald
speech or a joke, Brady sat laughing.
Right at the door of the penitcntiary he
could sit and laugh at ribaldry and Jokes.
lie had the hide of q rhinosceros. When
Mr.. Ingersoll burst forth in great perora.
tiOn Miner put his hands to his face and
Naile, too, and oh, how they blubbered.
but when it was all over they got up, and