Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1885-10-25

THE AMOUNT OF BEER DRASK
Was next brought mp. He thought that
sfter imbibing $3I worth of beer they
must have been intoxicated to cegree
there must have been. some obscurity Of
vision. although the defense claimed al
we're perfectly sober.
The Colonel concluded by pointing out
several strong points IN the testimony, ano
also by referring to the charges as the ma
tural result of long-continned and persis-
tent persecution of the City Sergeant. An
even hour was consumed in Colonel ar
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 by
saying that be wanted toput conundrum
to the committee. why were the charges
ike Col. White2 Because they were broken
down." Continuing, he said it seemed to
be taken for granted BY the public that he
would desire to say something in behalf o.
the defendant. When he had found thai
this was the expectation, he had devoted
an hour to considering what he should
say, but he had wasted the time In won
dering what gentlemen on the other sidt
would say in support of their case, In the
widest fight of imagination of which ne
was capable, he could not have
conceived that the prosecution could
be actuated By an impulse as diseolieal as
had been shown in the sccuser. With devil
ish maEignity, that creature, for two 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 offense or not, and dare moi
claim that anything wrong has been done
AMI when the prosecuuon-"hen Inc aolF
counsel on the other side-iS compelled &c
come before the committee and say they
can't say anything about this man, any &c
cent person would have quit before n
commenced. To this language Colons
Ar1ett objected, but Mr.. Hubbard SAID b
did not refer to him, and advised him no
to suueal before he had been hurt. SO
for from criticising the motives Of coun
sci" be said, II sympathize with them
Honest and able as they are, 1t Is hare
that Fate should have put them In the
clutches of the creature who now
WANTS TO sLISE OUT OF THIS NATTER.
sympathizs with the counsel in ihei'
lsbors to get witnesses here, when some
times there were as many as four in thu
hall at one time, and also sympathize witt
their Herculean lsbors TO get rid Of other'
whom they placed on the stand.
A little later he said:
Col. Arnett said, in the course Of his
argument, that no man ever desired to In
lure the character of another. Tbs
speaker had Intended 10 have
said, with Shakespeare, that Goo
made the accuser, and therefore lie
him pass for q man, but, on the authority
of counsel for the other side, he would no
say it, 1t was not in the character OF {
devil from hell to malign a man for tive
weeks, as his client had been msEgned
ard then say, well, don't think it amounts
10 much after all, aud don't think The
committee ought 10 do anything
Proceeding, he said great deal was
heard nowadays about modern skepticism
ard especially was there good deel Of de
NAL OF the existence OF hell II there
was not q hell there ought e
to be. If there was more
Heaven was not just. If man
was so depraved that no human punish
ment could reach him, then there ought tc
be hell. The existence of Porter Smith
was convincing argument of the truth Of
the doctrine of eternal punishment"
The counsel then proceeded 10 review
the charges in detail. He thought Col.
Arnett could not 60 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 10 Coun-
Gil, and said he was not afraid to sug-
gest that recommendation ought to be
made. He referred Enthusiastically to
the charge of interference with the eff.
cheney of the police, and said that, wheGG
officers were on tie 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 inter he meant that the Mayor had
visited houses Of ill-fape for immoral pur
poses. When the accuser was brought
face 10 face with his own charges he
shrsnk away, AS vile ard base as those
charges we're, and
VILE AND BASE
as was this man who made them, the tes-
timony in support of them was as Infamous
and vile as they were base and cowardly."
The eighth charge Mr.. Hubbard cbal.
lenged as the sum OF the yillainies"
Here Smith could not get under any ones
coat tsils, and 80 he made the charge him.
self. Smith sWore be could sit in q room,
six feet from door, aud lcok outin hall,
around 9 corner, and into another room.
Captain Smith here said he said no such
thing, 10 which Mr.. Hubbard retorted by
saying the recollection of the witness when
not on the stand was about as bad as
when he was on it. He referred to Col.
Arne,ts statement thatthe three Pittsburg
witnesses were unfriendly. and said he did
not wonder at their uDfrieUdliness toward
! man who had violated every principle Of
human honor. He hoped to heaven they
we're unfiiendly.
The prosecution had Lot summoned or
,nt upon the stand ell the witnesses it
,ould. Tie aecuser had talked to Mr.. B. |
,hsnley-bonest, manly man that he was
: and when he had found out what be |
Tould be willing to say be let him stand
n the room four nights without calling
i'm.
The Pearl Woods matter was next taken
? and considered. The Chief could not
rest people without 8 warrant, and YET
e had, on q warrant for ida Holiday, ar
,sted Pearl Woods, and cooked up q
roper warrant afterwards.
de referred to the charges of drunken.
tss in Pittsburg, and sa;d d, taking it for
'anted that the party visited fifteen houses,
A. .Ss.N1 VnAn had draoH onl tknt an