The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1882-09-07

An Engine Boiler Explodcs In n Shop
at Atlanta, Georgla, and Causes
the Almost Instant Death
OF Three Men.
A Locomotive Runs into m Omnibus,
Knocking q Man n Hundred Feet
and Killing Him.
A Whaling Vessel Comes TO Grief In the
Ice Fields Of the Arc.
tic Seas.
Some LOw-Lived villain Opens n Rail-
road Switch and Causes
An Express Train to be Ditchcd, and
Several Men Hurt.
Other Foreign and Domestic News.
Ingersoil's Speech.

Otner Foreign anu DOMeStlc N6Wss
anS Ingersoll's Speech.
WASHINGTON, September ga great
crowd thronged the criminal court room
to-day because Of the announcement that
II. G. Ipgersoll's turn to speak for the de-
tense had arrived. Ingersoll began by ask
ing the jury to understand that he was
as much opposed to official corruptio. as
any man in the world, and he had not one
word to say in defense OF any man who he
believed had robbed the treasury. He
wanted the jury to understand that he was
not defending, nor exercising, nor endeay-
oring to palliate the slightest dishonesty in
any.public official. He had been told that
the people of the United States were a de-
moralized people, that the tide
to sweep from one shore of the country to
I, the other. 1t had been appealed to to find
innocent m en- guilty. in order that the tide
might be successfully resisted it had been
told that it was necessary to make an ex-
!. ample of somebody, in order that the coun-
try might take the road to honesty. The
country had been in war; but he denied
I that war had demoralized any person who
ever fought for right, or what he believed
to be right. He did not demoraiize himself,
he ennobled himself, and the war through
which the country had passed had been a
reformation, and not Decentralization.
War was period OF moral enthusiasm, dur
ing which people had been a thousand times
grander and more noble than they had ever
been before. The effect of the war had been
good, ,.and only good. When we shook the
shackles off of four million people it did not
demoral re us; when we changed the hut
of the slave into the castle of the freedman
it did not demoralize us The jury had
been told that the United States was dis
tinguished among the nations of the world
Z only for corruption He cared not who
said that first it made no difference to him
that it was quoted from republican
senator, he denied it. This country was
not distinguished for corruption; and no
natriot believed it he had heard that nom
sense and intellectual rot all his life it was
the capital stock Of every prosecuting law
yer; but in 1T there was not word of
truth he had always supposed that the
people of America were distinguished for
free speech and for just laws, and not for
corruption, and yet in the name of this
universal corruption the jury was appealed
to also to become corrupt, Never would he
with sharp emphasis on "never' and q
significant look toward the jury put stain
on the forehead of the country in order
that he might consign some honest man to
the penitentiary. So far as his clients were
concerned, everything. they had was at
stake, and everything they had depended
only mercy they asked Of the jury YVES the
mercy of an honest verdict according to
law: that was all that they expected. An
honest verdict wasa verdict in accordance
with the evidence. Whoever found ver-
dict to please power, whoever violated his
be in accord, or supposed accordance, with
an administration or government, was
bribed; whoever found a verdict that he
might increase his reputation, was bribed;
whoever found verdict for fear he would
lose his reputation, was .bribed; whoever
bent to the public demands, or bowed be-
fore the public press was bribed;
of appreciation bribed thousands of men
where gold bribed one; an honest verdict
was the result, not Of fear, but of courage;
not prejudice, but of candor; and above all
it was the result of love of justice. The
minds Of the jurors should moi. be affected
prosecution turning to an examination Of
Indictment. He argued that overt acts
charged must be proved exactly as
alleged, no matter whether a description
was unnecessary or not. In support Of his
position he quoted from numerous
authorities until the court suggested that it
was a legal position which would not be
coptroyerted, and suggested that il was
unnecessary for IngersolI to cite further
authorities. Ingersoll then proceeded to
. minute analvsis of Tire charges In the
Indictment, taking MP and examining the
evidence on the various routes ana one
by one dismissing them. When he had
concluded each, with such calculations as,
"that disposes Of that route" another
child washed" there was not q solitary
shingle left on the roof Of that route, /"
Ingersoll, addressing. the court, said he
supposed he could with propriety draw an
inference as 10 the policy OF the postoffice
the case. The. court replied that
he had refused TO receive evidence
on that subject when offered by the
defence for the simple reason
that he was Of the opinion that no second
assistant postmaster general could establish
branch Of the government. It was not to
be found,in law and the court was unwilling
10 let the second assistant postmaster gene
raj set up bis policy in defense Of bis case.
He had no right to prove bis policy. In
gersoll consumed the remainder ofthe day
In speaking as TO the legal points IN the
with the Judge or the opposing counsel. In
closing he stated he would.conclude his re-
marks tomorrow forenoon. The attorney
general will follow him.
sVasHfNoTor, September 6.--1ngersoll re-
susned his argument In the star-route trial
day, and after some dssuitory dlscusslon
eraninine Of Walsh's testimony, though
he thought il had been grour.d 10 powder
already He said that everything In the
world was true In that proportion IN which Il
nrreed with human experience. Take sspar
OF crystal from the far north and snothel
from the lar south. put them together and
they would fif toesther erscily; 20 4 vas
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