The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-11-09

at this time than millions or money
subscribed to the defense fund. Public feel
ing in England IS rather apathetic in regard
to this case, owing, doubtless, to the sense of
adherence which everyone felt toward the
man who was killed. But if the people are
Indifferent the government is not, In more
than the ordinary legal sense the English
government is O'DonnelPs prosecutor, and
it will give him no quarter. do not be-
leve, however, that this fact will have any
more influence with judge or jury than
would the clamors of an outside rabble or
the strongest possible bias, one way or the
other, of intelligent public sentiment. That
the man will have fair trial, in the English
sense of the term, is, | think a foregone con-
clusion. OF course, if by such a trial is
meant one in which feeling is allowed to
subvert facts and the eloquent appeals OF de-
PENDANTS counsel to have more weight with
the jury than the evidence presented or the
charge of the presiding judge, that kind, you
may be sure, be will not get. This is the
wrong country for such exhibitions as that
AT the same time ] do not anticipate that
there will be any unreasonable crowding OF
the defense. They will be given ample OPP
portunity to bring their witnesses from the
Cape, if they can show that they
have any there and plenty of time to
examine them in court. Moreover, the
American lawyers who have come over will
be treated with every courtesy, and but for
an international custom which may prevent
it, they will undoubtedly be allowed their
say at the trial General Pryor has been so
we'll treated thus far that he feels almost as
much of lion as Lord Coleridge must do
among the gentlemen of the bar in the
United States; and like the shrewd lawyer
that he is, the General is hard at work just
now. trying to make capital for his cause by
passing pretty compliments upon English in
situations and the English Judges. Mr.. JUS
tice Hawkins can scarcely be unaware Of the
fact that the distinguished visitor from
abroad has pronounced him "consummate
master of his profession" and has declared
that he never heard anything equal to his
charges to the jury" and unless he is more
than human he will feel kindly disposed to-
ward General Pryor for this expression.
NOT MATTER OF SENTIMENT.
But sentiment, as have before said will
have nothing to do with the case, which
will be settled for against the accused, solely
by a cold-blooded appeal to the law and the
testimony This greatly simplifeS the affair
and leaves little room for speculation as to
the result. The testimony on one side is al
ready in and no less than three tribunals
have declared it to be sufficient.
The only question would seem to be,
thereforefore, as to whether or not the
defense can produce evidence that will de-
stroy the force of this Aside from the testi-
mony of Mrs. Carey and her son, the only
circumstance that seems to mark O'Donnell
as ali agent sent forth expressly to do this
work was the discovery in his pocket-book
at the time of a portrait of Carey, and
newspaper clipping relating to the lnvinci-
bles. This however would prove nothing
by itself, for public interest in the informer
was so great that probably the likenesses
scattered abroad by the press were preserved
hxyf dc Of no n
testimony heard at the preliminary exam
ination was that which showed the slain in
former to have received three bullets from
ODonnelps pistol the two latter in the back,
while he was staggering, in STOPPING pos
ture, across the saloon. If it can be shown,
however, that Carey's pistol was picked up
by his son from the saloon floor, instead of
being obtained, as the boy says, from a bag
in his fathers state-room, color will then DE
given to the claim of ODonnell that Carey
was STOPPING to pick up that weapon, and
the plea OF self-defense will thus be helped,
though it is questionable if even that would
be held by jury to justify two shots at one
already severely wounded, who was facing in
an opposite direction. Great curiosity is
felt, [ may add, in regard to the woman who
was travelling with O'Donnell and who
seems to have been the only person
besides the crown witnesses who was
present during the shooting. 1t
request that she was left behind in the first
instance, and l cannot learn that the defense
have any intention of producing her even
now. People wonder what her testimony
would be, and certainly ODonnell shows
great self-denial it, as alleged, his only reason
for not having her brought to England is the
trouble and annoyance to which she would
be put.
The English people, on the principle of
misery loving company take considerable
comfort in the thought that the United
States has little Ireland on her hands in
the Territory of Utah. Not that the Nor
mons are recruited to any great degree from
that race for, to their credit be it said the
Irish do not take to that faith. But minia-
ture Ireland Mormondom unquestionably is,
in its disregard for law and resistance to the
constituted government, and hence the En-
gllsh look upon our troubles there with q
peculiar interest. Nor are they at all back
ward in offering advice. Why should they
be when we have lavished the same article
with such unstinting freeness upon them
under similar circumstances? But they
would not have us deal harshly with the
Mormons They would have us fight polyg-
amy, not with bayonets, but with bOnnets
and the other expensive articles OF feminine
attire. the Daily Telegraph suggesting that
the readest conceivable way to cure them of
the desire for more than one wife would be
to import into Utah the army of French
millners whom the Sultan of Turkey has
just banished from Constantinople. H. Il.
Hitting Ally When He Is Down.
Philadelphia Record (Dem)
1t is happy thing for the country that
such a cunning and captivating demagogue
has been overthrow. There are enough in
sincere and blatant fools in the Democratic
party who, if Butler had carried Massachu-
sets second time, would have been ready
to fling up their caps for him as a Presiden-
tlal candidate. The rag-tag and bob-tail,
who mistake cunning for capacity and wind
for wisdom, will have to wait awhile; their
idol has been smashed in his own temple
The Liquor Dealers in Politics.
New York World (Dem.)