Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-03-24
NOT GUILTY.

The Jury an the Hanson Case Vent OWt at
Four O'clock Yesterday Afternoon-MTs.
HansOn's TestinaOny-T7se ReGWtt0I-The
Summing Ui,-The TeTdict.
Mrs. Florence Hanson was called to the
witness stand yesterday morning, and tes-
titled as follows:
When she opened the door man pushed
il on her and she screamed two or three
times and her husband came. She testified
substantially as her husband did, except
that Hanson went to the Thiess house with
her, while Hanson testified that he met his
wife and Kate Thesis while they were re-
turning from across the street and joined
them. She said there was a mark On her
wrist where the man grabbed her; she
showed it to her father, and offered to show
it on the inquest. Witness denied that
Hanson kicked the man while pas sing
him as testified to by Miss Thesis. Every
day strange men came around the house
and asked witness if she lived alone; had
seen places in the barn where men had
been lying and smelled tobacco.
Cross-examined- man took me by
the left wrist; don't remember of telling
the officers that night that he took me by
the right wrist; don't know whether 1 told
the truth then, but know do now; don't
lie very often; did not tell the officers that
night that the man took me by the right
wrist; that wasn't the place to tell my story
here is the place; 1 don't recollect whether
told them or not; did not tell Kate The
ISIS that the man caught me by the right
wrist; didn't tell her anything; we didn't
talk at all.
Mr.. Woolley - Two remarkable women
met that night.
Witness-We all walked close together
coming back from Thesis house; saw
Frank turn only twice; did not see defend
ant kick the man; the man moved his arm
after Hanson went away; can't say which
one; heard him moan; can't say which
hand Moriarity took hold of me with;
Frank asked him three times what he
wanted; opened the door with my right
hand; don't know which hand he raised to
strike Hanson with; Frank was close to
Moriarity when he asked him what he
wanted; didn't see Hanson push the man
with his foot; was next to the body when
we passed, and Frank was next to me;
should think 1 would have seen if he had
kicked him; Frank did not tell Kate any
thing about it as I heard.
R. Peet, the father of Mrs. Hanson, was
next sworn: Saw a mark Of a thumb and
five fingers on her wrist that night; she
showed it at the coroner's inquest, but
they didn't appear to take any notice of it;
to get up on the porch one would be
obliged to step up three times; several
pieces of gang wood were lying in the
yard, and the sidewalk was broken.
Cross communicative lived here seven
years; my daughter has not always lived
with me.
Several witnesses we're examined and
gave their testimony as to good
character of the defendant. The rebuttal
occupied but a short time and did not
bring out any new or important facts.
SUMMING Up.
County Attorney Woolley addressed the
jury for the prosecution and he said no
zeal of his would induce him to 90 beyond
the oath he had taken to serve the people
simply to win lawsuit. tits, however,
difficult to sit here and not feel that at all
hazards this man ought to suffer the ex-
IRENE penalty of the law. More brutal,
damnlng testimony was never before
drawn out. have pitied all of the petty
thieves who have been convicted at this
term of court. Some have been acquitted,
and believe rightly SO. Let US have a
care that no mistake is made here. Life
is dear to all, and IN the lives of all there
comes time when land, money, every
thing, would be sacrificed for one hour Of
life. The richest queen of she greatest
nation on earth, On her death-bed ex-
claimed, ''My kingdom for one hour of
life.'' In the home of the rich or the howell
of the poor, even though cold and hunger
sit
MUTTERING By THE HEARTHsToNR,
yet death is terrible-we would live on if
We could have our choice. If death comes
al the hand of an assassin, it is still more
horrible. But if it comes as it did to this
poor old man, the horror is indescribable.
Picture to me, ye eloquent orators, the
misery of poor Moriarity in that terrible
hour. A stranger to the cause of the at
tackinnocent OF any hanr, he is doubtin G,
hoping, fearing, and the horror of his
death in the darkness of the mind and the
darkness of death, cannot be pictured.
Alone in city Of $4,000 people, with only
one friend, and his house lost. A cold,
windy night in November. Inquiring for
a friends house, and being
met at the door by mann, with a
blow from a brute, before he could
make word of inquiry about the place of
rest he was seeking. Think of it; think of
yourself or your old father being in his
place, and picture the suffering the poor
old man underwent that night. Only q
few blocks from friends house, where he
knew, though poor, he
COULD REST AND WAIT
for work, and where he had sat and chatted
the night before of days of twenty years
ago! We find the old man at Finn's hunt
ing Quinn's, and in Mrs. Firms evidence
Moriarity is back here in the court room
giving the lie to Hansons testimony. She
says he behaved like gentleman, thanked
her and went away. Thirty minutes after
ward he is being kicked
to death by man who
doesn't claim to have an excuse for it,
There is sickly sentimentality often dis
plsyed in murder cases to raise doubts on
account of the punishment, but have no
sympathy with it, and you should not have.
This case is remarkable in the
APPALLING GRossNEss OF TEE CRUELTY.
Mr.. Wilson says he didn't know the man
and had no malice. No! That is the damn
ing point He had no reason exceDt Che