Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-03-24

move, and yet the body was found twenty
feet away. He was struck, knocked off the
porch, followed up and pounded until he
was dead. Mrs. Hanson, who made the
PRETTY PLAY OF PAINTING
before you last night, was cool. When her
husband was beating a man to death she
said she would go in and get her shawl.
She was cold. Hanson says with two blows
and the scuff1e all these limitations were
made. Do you believe it9 The theory of
the defense is that he fell on a stick and
broke his ribs. DR.. Evans says it is i'm
probable, and you know it is impossible.
The ground was soft and muddy. Mr..
Woolley called attention to the discrepancy
in the evidence about calling Kate Thesis,
but said, perhaps that might be reconciled.
He next referred to the kick administered
there while the white face,
streaked with blood, looked up into
the moonlight, and the lips moved,
perhaps, in an appeal to God, perhaps beg
ging James Hanson for mercy. But he
might as we'll have appealed to she wolf.
Hanson says Moriarlty might have done
several things but does not say he believed
he had such intention,but he struck before
Moriarity made move. Who needs pro-
tect his wife (as he says he was doing) like
that?
TO HE'LL WITH VIRTUE THAT NEEDS MURDER
to protect it. The idea of a man attempt
ing to outrage woman in the presence
of her husband. He says he killed him be-
cause he was Cd id tramp. Must
man be killed because he was tramp.
feel like saying God pity the tramp,
and help him in his heavy way.
1t is not every tramp who will COM
nit an outrage. He had never been
bothered by the tramp who slept in his
barn. Mr.. Woolley pointed to the neck
and muscHlarity of the young blacksmith,
and asked if any one ever saw a finer ply
steal specimen. He referred to the re-
mark of the prisoner that he had "slugged
the -- - - and asked if that was
| the remark of peaceful, quiet man. He
alluded to Kate Thesis as the only disin-
terested eyewitness who had given her
testimony at all times alike, and thought
it entitled to more credit than that of the
prisoner or his wife. If Hanson thought
crime was about to be commit
ted, why didn't he shoot? He was
not afraid of any such thing.
Hanson didn't intend to kill Moriarity, but
he did't care whether he killed him or not
MIR. Woolley then explained the various
degrees of murder and manslaughter, and
explained of what they consisted. do
not want to revenge the death of Moriari-
ty. The old man who started out to find
rest, found it and perhaps with the sod
upon his grave, and the snow folded over
his breast, he rests as peacefully as though
he had died upon bed of
down, and although no woman's
hand was there to close his eyes
in death, the winds will blow over
him, and the trees wave over his grave
with the same benediction they do over
the graves of your loved or mine. Old
man Moriarity got the benefit of no doubt,
yet give this man the benefit of every
doubt. Temper justice with mercy. Deal
tenderly with him. No mercy for Mortar
ity. Perhaps he don't need it. This is
Good Friday-the commemoration of the
day when He was crucifed for Patrick
Moriarity, and perhaps it is the brightest
Good Friday the old man ever saw. He
got no mercy, but it is the law to give
mercy to Hanson, and do it.
FOR THE DEFENSE.
When court reRssembled at
. o'clock, Mr.. Boardman rose to
address the jury for the defense.
He referred to the location where Hanson
lived as lonely and infested by trsmps.
He read the legal definition of iustifable
homicide, and claimed that this was such
case, reviewing the evidence to sustain his
theory. When Mrs. Hanson was seized and
screamed, and her husband came to the
rescue, he rushed at the intruder-true TO
the instincts of man, and as they both
went off the porch, Hanson falling on top,
he crushed in the mans ribs with his
knee.
Mr.. Boardman referred to the accused as
an industrious, honest, sober, Woodworking
man, and said he had been incarcerated
since Nov. II last for doing no more than
any one OF US would have done under like
circumstances. An irresistible impulse
would have transformed any one of you
into demon. Who knows what Moriarity
meant to do or might have done if be had
found the woman alone? He said that a
man who has always been of good charac-
ter does not suddenly become demon and
kill another without cause. Refer
ring to the kick which Kate Thesis testi-
fed to, Mr.. Boardman claimed that
she mistook the moving of the arm, as
testified to by Hanson, for kick. A kick
couldn't have broken the ribs, as she Gays
the kick was in the back. If he did kick
the man there was nothing cruel in it, as
he supposed the man had entered his
house with felonious intent The trip to
the police station and the talk with Capt.
Chase is evidence that he
THOUGHT BE HAD DONE RIGHT.
There was no improperly in his shaking
his fist at the man, either, because of the
belief he had. The accused was excited
that night, and may have made some wild
talk, some hard statements. He thought
he had done right, was proud of it, and
was anxious to tell every one about it. Mr..
Boardman referred to the depredations of
tramps, and characterized them as a vii
famous lot. It is mans first right and
duty to protect himself and family, and t.
take no chances. There is no time to ask
for certificate of moral character. You
must act promptly, or it will be too late.
MIR. Boardman characterized circumstan-
tisl evidence as dangerous, and referred to
the Pierce murder in st. Paul as an IL
lustration of what such evidence will do,
and told another long story in illustration.
He characterized Mr.. Woolley's plea as an
appeal to the preiudices OF the jury, and
said the jury had better hundred times
acnuit puiItv man than convict an inno-