The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1885-07-21
SHEA ACQUITTED.
The Jury in the Jardine-Shea
Libel Suit
Return a Verdict of Mo-
Guilty.
The Arguments of the Attor-
neyS in the Case.

and the verdict rec, ivei with d>mOn--
trative applause. The Journal will rtate
on good authority that the othsr Ep sco
pallan clergyman OF the C ty will, on to
morrow request Mr.. Jardine to resign his
rectOrsbip, and In event OF his refusal they
will present him to the eccie,ias ic ii cCun-
ell Tor trlsl.
THE DETAILS
The following appeared in yesterdays
Kansas City Star;
The court TO I'M was well filled by 9
o'clock. Several ladies sat inside the bar,
and attorneys, d fendan', prosecuting W t.
ness, and jurymen all were in their
places. Bro. Shea sat calmly tanning
himself with palm-leaf fan and showed
no signs of having been disturbed during
the night sith hideous dreams. Father
JardiLe wore his usual imperiurbab Y
calm express ion OF countenarce.
Promptly at 9 o'clock Judge Waters
took his place on the beEch, and vigorously
raped for order. He began by saying
that he h I'D refused the inS ructiOns offered
by both sides and in lieu thereof re a
copy of instructions prepared by himself.
THE ARGUMENTS.
The court limited the argument to four
hours. Mai. WoOdson opened for the pros
ecution. lie reviewed the general nature
of libel, as defined by the court, and the ma
ture Of Justification. Ten specific charges,
he said, were made in the pamphlet, each
enc clesrly libelCns, of which ;he gr. alter
numb had been ign ored by the defense i'm
the testimony which il had introduced.
He referred esp ciaily to the charge made
that Mr.. Jardine accepted monthly do
nation of $50 from young lady of his
congreg ,lion. This has been proven I'M
true 90 the witness stand. Next he spoke
of the witness who had BEEN shocked by
Mr.. Jardine's explaining to her the nature
of the marriage relation and lis sscredness.
would to God" he said, "thst in these
times of rank immOraliry, when the mar
rage tie is all too frequently disregarded,
that there were more heroic Gle. gymen to
teach the sscIednsss and inviolablity of
the marriage relation" The witness, he
said, testified that she was being taught
81 the time the me- aiming of al the ten com
mandments. and was III course Of prepare
ton for confirmation.
He impressed on the jury the courts in
struct!on that the charges must be sever
ally and spi officially proven. He reviewed
the testimony OF little Inez Bryant, with
the purpose of showing the inprobabiIity
of the Incidents which she h ad related. He
carefully revis wed Lizzie Eas0n's testi-
mony, showing that it was altogether in
favor OF the prosecuting witness. He
dwelt on the motives of the defendant in
issui6g the pamphlet, characterizing it as
a vrnomous attack Instigated by bitter
feelings engendered in church quarrel.
In regard to the witness Stilwe.l, he said
the testimony bears on its face the marks
of imp:obsbility. He closed with impress
ing on the jury their duty to decide the
case strictly in accordance with the testi-
mony and instructions of,the court. Fifty
mil utes were occupied by the speech.
Col. Wofford followed for the defense.
He began by expressing his regret at hav-
ing to hold up for public censure ike i'm
moral acts OF a minister OF the gospel.
"But," he said, the purity of women is the
cornerstone Cf the republic. Whoever viO-
lates il is sowing the seeds of hell, from
which will be raped harvest of harlO's.
The attorneys for the prescott on have
claimed that Henry ID. Jardine is not
party TO the suit. He is 4 party to the
suit, In that the chsrgeS are made against
his character, aid unless they are proven
true the defendant is guilty of libel. The
attorney INDUCED In Orm OF scS thing
inyectiyes, under which the prose cutting
witness visibly WINGED. In regard to the
defendant, he laid he was the only man in
the community who had the courage to lay
bare systematic licentiouSnsss.
"The pcs ton of the prosecution is one
which would scorn to fake had been for
a. a 70 ha1 h..-r
ing a herd OF hundred cows, and it was
proven that there was one black bull elf
in the herd which he did not get, and,
therefore, he should be declared Innocent
would have either defended Mr.. Jsrline's
character ard showed It above such acts as
were charged sgain>t him, or W. Uld have
admitted his guilt. But II was auy por; in
a Storm"
He spoke at leug'h cf the testimony of
the hack driver S.illw-ll. "Why did not
tie prosecution bring witnesses to prove
his character bad it they believed it SO
He has lived in the city four years and Is
well known. There is 20 caste in this re-
public, thank God, 10 make ore man bet
ter than another on account OF his calling"
He 20, n;ed Out that the attorneys fer the
prosecution had svo deG sSSinS the witness,
Chsrile EaSOn, whether he was prSs mt on
the morning when The eyergreens were de-
Iivered. They had avoided it as carefully
as they would the. smallpox. He then
drew picture Of the scere in the sacris ty
when Stillwe'l opened the door, which was
too graphic for strictly moral reading.
Speaking of the testimony OF Mrs. North
up, he said il was claimed that a canon of
the church demanded that little children
be initiated into the mysteries of fornics.
ton and sdultIy. Possibly it is also a
canon of the church that minister Of the
church must hold a woman on his lap
that her bosom must be open. ard her cor
sets living on a chair. 1 am not posted on
church matters so we'll as my brother
Wooden and my distinguished brother
from St. Louis.
He then dwelt at length on the credibili-
ty of the testimony of Inez Bryant. He
spoke of the severe discrimination to
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