Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-11-10
had certified to his true character as seen


in intimate walks Of life; that though with
some prominent peculiarities, he was
good man and d man without offence.
Men who had been forgotten by their
friends had been cared for and nursed by
Edwin Gribble and one forgotten. Judge
had died in his sympathetic vims, while,
when the whole legal fraternity had turned
thdir backs on Lautenschlager, now ser
wing sentence for murder at Saltwater,
and whom the majority of the citizens of
St. Paul feel is innocent,
and for whom measures are now
being taken for pardon, he, Gribble,
had stood by him to the last without any
hope of reward but with pity and belief in
his innocence of the crime charged against
him..
'sThe butt of the town." Yes, with The
criticisms of wit of johnson, and Garriek
and Burke heaped upon his head the i'm
mortal Goldsmith was the 'sbutt of the
town" as he was walking the mountain
ranges of the mind, IS have hosts Of dis
tinguished men above men following to
perfectness the conceptions endowed upon
them by their Maker. The first moulded
men Intellectually are not generally the
greatest, for the greatent men are those
who are led by heart and impule INSTEAD
of intellect, and those men have accom-
plished the greatest human triumphs.
The greatest achievements in the history
of the world from the siege Of Troy down
to our own Revolutionary war, came not
from the head but from the hearts OF man
kind. It is the link between US and our
Maker, which seems as tine moves on as
though in its development ae seems 80 in
| tend to make US equal with Himself.
Therefore it does not follow thai
the gifted IN one respect
in law Or intellect must 20 equally gifted
in another to answer GODS plan, and it is
rare in legal history that good counsel
lor is good advocate, while there is truth
| in the divine assertion that in a multitude
Of counsellors there is safety"
The public press has grown TO be an au-
| dacious and tyrannical engine of destruc-
| ton. Human life is full of noble wrecks
which by its subtle dagger ready for ply
| steal murder have been thus killed IN their
immortal part. By just such attacks as
this made upon Mr.. Gribble human hearts,
| households, men and women have bAen
morally and mentally slain, while men by
| the score have been driven out of public
life by faIsehoods coined for the very pur-
pose. The men are few of high and emf
nent attainment who can and
| have successfully battled with
| this giant foe for evil when in tie man
agement of irresponsible and careless men
having no care for the public peace and
safety and no thought but that of extend
ing their sale for private gain.
In his final remarks to tho jury Mr..
Brisbin asked them to not only consider in
| the question of damages that to the char
| acter of the man assailed, but in finding
these to consider the necessity of admins
tering rebuke to mercenary press, that
it thereby be made more chaste in the in
terests of society and be reproved to elm
mate this species Of abuse from its
columns and conserve rather as the educa-
tors of the people, and conserve rather to
the public peace and safety, asking iudg-
ment for this offence SO that it be moi
dared to be repeated.
Judge Wilkin summed up in succinct
form the evidence and legal points in the
case, very plainly gave the jury an under
standing of the law against libel, explain
ed all mitigatory clauses therein, etc. He
further said that the law required that the
! justification for libel most be as broad as
the charge; that the whole charge must be
proved to be true, and that the
charge could not be divided. There
was no proof of justifca
ton in this case and no points OF law to
be given, and the jury must decide
the amount of damages purely on the evil
dence which had been adduced.
He added, furthermore, that the press
had no right to attack a person any more
than one individuai had to attack another,
and that justifea.ion must be shown
The two question as to the making up of
damages would fall under the head OF
compensatory" and "parative," or in
other words to compensate thereby the
plaintiff for damage done him individual
ly, and to punish the defendant for doing
this libel.
At lis p. m. the jury retired and at 5 &c
p. IN. brought in verdict of $1,000 for
the plaintiff.