Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-10-26

nett's argument, which was very effectively
delivered, and listened to with close atten
ton by sll within hearing.
Mr.. Hubbard.
The counsel for the defense began b!
saying that be wanted toput o eonundrun
to the committee. why were the charges
ike Col. White2 Because they were broker
down." Continuing, he said it seemed tc
be taken for granted by the public that h
would desire to say something in behalf o
the defendant. When he bad found tina
this was the expectation, he had devoted
an hour to considering what he should
cay, but he had wasted the time in won
dering what gentlemen on the other side
would say in support Of their case. In the
widest flight of Imagination OF which he
was capable, he could not have
conceived that the prosecution could
be actuated by an impulse as disbolical as
had been shown in the accuser. With devil
ish malignity, that creature, for tive weeks
had been dragging the name Of an honor
able man in the dirt. and then he comes
here by counsel and says he does not want
to ask The committee to say whether there
has been an offsnse or not, and dare moi
claim that anything wrong has been done
and when the prosecution-When the able
counsel on the other side-is compelled &c
come before the committee and soy they
can't say anything about this man, any de
cent person would have quit before ht
commenced. To this language Colone
Araett objected, but Mr.. Hubbard said he
did not refer to him, and advised him mo-
TO saueal before he had been hurt" $50
for from c,iticising the motives of coun
sci, he said, az sympathize with them
Honest and able as they are, it is hard
that Fate should have put them in the
clutches OF the creature who now
WANTS TO STINK OUT OF THIS MATTER.
l sympathize with the counsel in their
laborS to get witnesses here, when some
times there were as many ss four in the
hall at one time, and also sympathize with
their Herculean labors TO get rid Of Others
whom they placed on the stand"
A little later he said:
"Col. Arnett said, in the course Of hii
argument, that no man ever desired to in
lure the character Of another. The
speaker had intended to have
said, with Shakespeare, that GOO
made the sccuser, and therefore lei
him pass for man, but, on the authority
Of counsel for the other side, he would no,
say it, 1t was not in the character Of 9
devil from hell to mslign a man for two
weeks as his client had been maligned
and then say, well, / don't think it amounts
to much after all, aud don't think the
committee ought to do anything.
Proceeding, he SAID great deal was
heard nowadays about modern skepteism
nd especially was there good deal Of de
NAL of the existence OF hell II there
was not hell there ought tc
to be. If there was none
Heaven was not just. If q man
was so depraved that no human punish
ment could reach him, then there ought to
be hell. The existence of Porter Smith
was o convincing argument Of the truth Of
the doctrine of eternal punishment"
The counsel then proceeded to review
the charges in detail. He thought Col.
Arnett could not 90 over the evidence be.
cause the evidence had gone over him, and
what had been heard from the Colonel was
simply the bubbles where the pros.
ecution had gone down. BE
criticized severely the claim that the
committee was not to recommend to Coun-
Gil, and said he was not afraid to sug,
gest that o recommendation ought to be
made He referred Enthusiastically to
the charge of interference with the eff
cheney of the police, and said that, when
officers were on the stand, they would not
admit that anything OF demoralizing
nature had happened. The construction
to be put upon the charges vas next re-
ferred to, the speaker claiming that the
Chief must have known that the public
would infer he meant that the Mayor had
visited houses Of ill-fame for immoral pur
poses. When the sccussr was brought
face 10 face with his own charges he
shrauk away. "As vile and base as those
charges were, and
VILE AND BASE
as was this man who made them, the tss,
timony in support of them was As infamous
and vile as they were base and cowardly."
The eighth charge Mr.. Hubbard chal
lenged as the sum of the villainies.
Here Smith could not get under any ones
coat. tails, and 90 be made the charge him
self@ Smith sWore he could cit in room
ak feet from door, and look outin hall
around corner, and into another room.
Captain Smith here said he said no suct
thing, 10 which Mr.. Hubbard retorted BY
SAYING the recollection Of the witness wheT
not on the stand was about as bad aq
when he was on it. He referred to Col
arnelfs statement thatthe three Pittshurl
witnesses were unfriendly, and said he die
not wonder at their unfriendliness TOWARD
q man who had violated every principle o
hpnsu honor. BE hoped to heaven the
were unIiendly.
The prosecution had not summoned O
put upoa the stand oil the witnesses
could. The sccuser had talked to Mr.. B
Shanley-honest, manly man that he va
= and when he had found out what b,
would be willing to say he let him stant
in the room four nights without calling
him.
The Pearl Woods matter was next takel
ND and copsiderad. The Chiet coald no
arrest people without q warrant, and ye
he had. on q warrant for ida Holiday, Al
rested Pearl Woods, and cooked up q
proper warrant afterwards.
de referred to the charges Of drunken
ness in Pithburg, and sad, taking it 70
granted that the party visited fifteen houses
that seven men had drank, and that 81
average Of six girls had drank with then
in each house, just ninety-seven peopl
slipped at the thirty-one bottles Of beer
The beer wss not bought to drink-it va
not ct 10 drlnk-aHd the buying OF It va
only in the nature Of an aamitnnce fee +
the houses.
He concluded By hoping fiat the eom
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