The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1885-11-05
TUG OF WAR.
Greek is Meeting Greek al
the Court House.
GREAT MINDS DIFFER.
The Jury Listens AttentiveIy
to All That is Said.
The Air Full of Question
Marks.
Will They Convict, Acquitior
Hang Fire 2
Prom Tu esday's Daily.
YESTERDAY.

Prom Tu esday's Daily.
YESTERDAY.
On the conclusion of Mr.. Sterry'G
speech yesterday, which had occupied
three hours and a half. Hon. George 8.
DOdds Of Hazlehurst Miss, came for.
ward 10 speak on behalf of the defend.
ant. Mr.. Dodds is stranger here and
everybody in the court room was anx-
ious to hear what he could do. He
started in 10 get Mr.. Sterry and before
he had fairly started there was an
outburst of applause from all parts
of the house which plainly indicated to
the speaker that he at least had the SYM
pathy of the audience. Mr.. Dodds
spoke for two hours in very logical
manner describing how he had known
Minnie Wallace when she was little
baby in long dresses, and from that time
until her leaving New Orleans for this
city he had watched her grow to perfect
WonanhOOd. He impressed upon the
minds of the jury that there were at least
two others who had motives for the COM
mission of the diabolical set
even stronger than any Mrs.
Walkup could possibly have had
and with opportunities equally as good.
He then detailed the unrelisbilItY of ex-
pert testimony, characterizing the testi-
mony of the physicians before this court
as the foresight of their hindsight." In
answering Mr.. Sterry's statement that
Mrs. Walkup was SO cool and collected,
and had never shed tear tor her
departed husband or expressed any
anxiety or fear for her own future, Mr..
Dodds said that with her widow weeds
torn from her in the hour of her sad be-
reaVement, was 1t any wonder she did
not weep. and as for anxiety or fear he
said "The wicked teeth where no man
pursueth, but the innocent are
as brave as a lion''. Mr.. Dodds grew quite
eloquent as he progressed ana that he
made an able address, and many friends
at the same time Is certain.
Mr.. Dodds was followed by Judge j.
Jay Buck for the prosecu-
ton who spoke for three
quarters OF an hour. His main point
was the UNFOLDING of the expert testi-
monY introduced by the state, which he
did IN very able manner, saying the
physicians who had been upon
the witness stand were all
old residents and beyond reproach.
The testimony given by them should
have greater weight than that of medI-
Cal men brought in here from abroad
who knew nothing of Walkup's illness
but what they had read in the
newspapers. While the judge did not
endeaVor to elevate the roof of the court
house with his eloquence, it Is thought
that the plain logical statement OF facts
made by HIM was one of the ablest pre-
sensations that could possibly have been
made.
Court adjourned until a. m. to-day.
Fourteenth Day.
The fourteenth day of the Walkup
trial opened, as usual, with court room
over-crowded before $50 IN. The
jury were in their places promptly at 8
O'Clock, but court was not opened until
about ten minutes later. After the call of
the jury had been gone drought with,
Hon. w. W. Scott began his
argument on behalf of the defense.
The most important points in his
speech are as follows: The great Issues
Of life and death are left to you, gentle
men, as men, not as blocks of stone.
This case is surrounded by mys-
terIes that TO me are mex
plicable, but according to the
instructions Of the court given you yes
terday, unless you are ABSOLUTELY certain
that everything is plain TO you an ac-
qulttal by you will necessarily ensue.
The address OF my friend MIR. Sterry be-
fore you yesterday was false, in fact,
false IN religion, false in law and false
In philosophy; false in fact because he
stated to you that every witness brought
here by the defense was purchased; false
in religion because OF his lack of char
ity; false in law because of his manner
OF proceeding in adducing evidencewhich
has no bearing on the case; false 10
philosophy. because according to his
own statement that in his soul he was
convinced of her guilt. Gentlemen OF
the. jury, IN any murder case on
record where the accused is a wo-
man, if she breaks down and
weeps wildly you will find the
state standing before you saying that ii
is all put on, and, therefore, convincing
proof OF her guilt. II, on the other hand,
she gathers together her fortitude and
keeps up her courage they point her out
TO you as fiend incarnate. 1 want 70
ask you gentlemen of the jury, whether
or not, all the Christian charity, all the
ladylike deDortment which you or !
have seen in this case has not beeu
shown by the prisoner atthe bar. The
idea OF her purchase of strychnine and
hesltating to give reason
when she could easily have
said, as hundreds of other entries on thai
very hook, that it was to skill rats, /" shs
however told him then that it was for 4
preparation to remove stains from cloth
ing Mr. Sterry on hunting for a mo
tive saw the weak point in his areumen
and he says that Walkup had refused e
carry out his promises to hi
wife and that in order to cash her inter.
, ests she had poisoned HIM. Now, gen.
demen, I want to say TO you tina
! Walkup was faithfully carrying on
every one OF those promises. Will
I Willis had been brought up here to q
: to school and was In almost daily CORES
. pondence with the broiher-in.iaw of III
defendant in reference to his comm
here TO take charge of g grocery busj
: ness here, Then why should she wan
i. to cut him down and thus receive onI
d half, when by few months of vartin
she might have had the whole of hi
: property. Mr.. Scott then spoke of ID
expert evidence and the hvn,
thetical questions. ''cOncocted with
!. devilish ingenuity" as he terme
:. it by set of men who were worse tbs
y bloodhOunds. ain order'' Mr.. Sen
said: "tO make these hypothetical Que
lions and clOck-work answers hold COZ
" it was necessary to prove that Walkr
Was not sick in Topeka on Friday, A,
gust 18th. as was conclusively shown
several reputable witnesses on q
:, part of the defense. and maintained
{. spite of the frantic endeayors of the sts
~ 70 prove TO the contrary" He went oy
on the questions one by one, and the q
swers thereto. and criticised their &c