Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1885-10-02

vited, but treated, take it, will
courtesy, and sleeps in the very bed
of Torian, who had gone of Oh Wis
II TO Trigg Co, what does he say tc
Peter Adcock ? The same question
is in his heart, the same thought
wells up into his throat. lie talks to
Adcock. lie knows they are friends
and perhaps confidants. "What about
this thing? Don't you believe To-
rian is going to marry Lizzie StegerI
Adcock replies ~ know nothing
about it," This was but short time
before the killing and what does
liadlord say? "1'hey are fixing TO
marry now, Jake tells me he is hot
but | know lie is lying about IT, l
know that the girl upon whom l
have set my hearts affections is to
become the wife of another. The
gentlemen say there isnothing in this.
That there are plenty other girls. 1t
may be gentlemen that 80 out of 100.
aye that 1899 out of million men
might have done otherwise, but we
know there have been parallels totliis
very case, Jealousy may burn in
the heart like Ktna's burning breast
of flame. Did you not hear Mr.. Hen
ry read the dispatch yesterday that
told where a jury had passed a death
sentence upon Bob Fowler for the
murder of LYDIA Barnett. lie way
laid her on the public highway on
Aug. l6, and cut her throat from ear
to ear because she refused to marry
him. commend that jury in Union
Co. There was man capable of do
inga deed like this from the same
motive. Such monstrosities in liu-
man shape can't be accounted for by
human reason. There was case al
luded to by Mr.. Henry in This coun-
ty.s ] remember it although the OBJ
liyious waves OFFS years have swept
over the crime. There was a Young
woman in tho southern part of this
county, in the bloom of youth, her
life innocent and holy without spot
OF blemish. She was the afflanccd
wife of a good man, yet there came
in the shape of man one who sought
her hand. She rejected him as Liz
zie Steger rejected Luther Radtord.
She said "your wife | can never be-"
and few nights from that time as
she sat by her firesde, lie crept, %
years ago, to window and the thun-
dering voice ofa gun sent adeatlly
messenger Of death to her heart and
she fell at the feet of her mother and
father and poured out her hearts
blood in red libations, the victim of
Il Ell ousyof discarded l)ve'. There
is no passion to equal this passion in
mans breast. Just such man, such
a monstrositY as murdered that girl,
as murdered LYDIA Barnett, murdered
Jake Torian. Here was une man in
that neighborhood who had pow
erful lrotiye that urged and drove
and lashed him on. In that ncighbor-
hood where everybody knows every
body else, nine long months have
passed, and the finger Of suspicion
has never yet pointed TO any one save
and except Luther e. Radford. PGb-
lie sentiment will not be far from the
truth. | stop to wonder when the
counsel talk so earnestly and urge
the absolute innocence of this man
how is it that nowhere is there a
suspicion of another? There was one
faint move, the weak fOreshadowings
of an accusation but it has vanished
into thin air and we have heard no
more of il. You heard talk of war
and rumors of war. Where was Ed.
Steger and where was Bill Winn that
night? Soon it vanished and was
forever abandoned. When they be-
gan to question the old lady they
learned that the man they would ac-
cuse was in this court house armed
with the proof that he was in Jack
son, Tenn. Hence This theory disap-
peared and is gone and lost forever.
Likewise the roads, the trips and the
ponds have vanished from this jury.
GETTING DOWN TO FACTS.
Gentlemen, if | have established
anything by discussing the facts, l
have shown this, that Torian was
murdered by Smith Il Wesson pis-
tol No. 3S, with a ball indented and
inilled. / have established that he
was killed and assassinated on Dec
%, 1884, at 25 minutes past six in the
evening. On top of that have shown
that Radford had motive to have
committed that crime. | haven't said
yet that lie did it. But he had mo-
tive that would have moved and in
iluenced the man that did 1T. The
only question now at issue is
WHO DID TIP
Whom doyou believe did it. The
law is that if you believe Radford
didit, to tho exclusion of doubt, it
is your duty to acquit. Then
what of Radford? What do VIC
find? On that day. Esq. Gar
rott' tells us that Radford ate his
dinner at his house, mounted his
horse and rode away. He further
says Radford boarded at his house,
and that he owned ii Smith Il Wes-
son pistol No 3S, that shot a Win
chester ball with a mllled edge. The
gentlemen say, "are you going to
hang man when liz, 200 other men
have the same kind of pistol. as
shown by the number?' But as Mr..
Howell said, don't care if there are
two millions of them, ii is a fact that
Luther Radford owned one and it is
a fact that he owned the very calibre
and character of a weapon and ball
that hurled Torian headlong into
eternity. That much is fact, wheth-
er he did 1t or not. His weapon and
balls were similar in every particular
to the weapon and ball that killed
Torian. This is one Of the circum-
stances, of which we hear so much
talk that stand about this case as
guide-posts to point to the truth.
What more !? lie left CARROTS be-
tween | and 2 o'clock. The next we
hear of him is at Longview. We hear
nothing of his business more than
that he had his horse shod at j. j.
Gray's shop. Two new shoes put on
the hind feet, 6nails to the shoe. No
question about that. 1t is a fact moi
disputed. Moreover, it is a fact that
there is graveyard about 125 yards
from the Steger residence, where the
murder was committed, where rest