The Labor enquirer., 1886-12-04
prosecution Of this case. there has been
no search warrant present.

W
are its sworn supporters and who get
| their living in the pursuit of the law, dc
you think 1t naturally tends to produce
respect for the law on the part of those
on whom they prey, when they violate
the law? If you say that very often JUS
tlce could not under certain circum.
stances and emergencies be carried ou
If every technicality of the law wal
obeYed, does it not show the impossible
lity of applying the laws justly and
rightly in every case :? Now, think
lthat is the natural tendency, and I wish
to say that after was arrested without
a warrant-another violation of the law
II was taken out upon the sidewalk
Three men went through the house
turned it upside down, as the leader has
admitted here, and they found nothing
that indicated that was a dangerous
character-not even an empty cartridge
of a revolver. They not only did this,
|
went back there again and without pre-
senting any search warrant went through
the house-her husband and protector
in Jail.
Your honor, I merely state these
things to show that men hired bv the
law to defend it, are The very ones who
throw discredit upon It, ANY one could
have gone there at any time, searched
the house and robbed it of everything
there was in it, and have just as much
justification in going in as any of these
men had.
[ wish to call your attention for little
while-it is going back to the question I
spoke of before, but l think it is neces-
sarv in my own defense to one of this
class of persons who have been in the
habit of going into houses without au-
thoriLY of law, testified at the coroner's
inquest, and he testified upon this cas- g
in court, that he had said in the coro-
ner's Jury room he had heard me say,
Here come the bloodhounds, you do
YOUR duty and will do mine" l would
submit to YOUR homo that it would be
very good thing for you to ask one of the
counsel on either side of this case to al
low you to look at the report of the cor
oner's jury and see whether that man
lied or not. have no fear of the result
of that investigation.
An interview has been held with Mr..
Grinnell and published in one of the
papers of this city since his return from
the vacation. Mr.. Grlnnell is reported
to have said-and perhaps the reporter
lied-I should not wCnder if he had
they have done it before, and it would
not be surprising: why, these men
have no principles. They did not de-
fend themselves with their principles"
l have said before that we were not here
to defend our principles. We were here
to respond to the charge of murder. If
we were guilty of murder We were guilty
whether we had principles or not. After
we got all our testimony in we were
then told that we were being tried be-
cause We had certain principles. What
are the duties ofa prosecuting attorney
The lawyers can give technical defni-
tions, supp ,se, but the general idea of
the duties of a prosecuting attorney is
do not call in question the fact that
they are necessary under our present
social regulations-to see to it that no
guilty man shall escape, If he can possl
blv prevent it. 1t is also the duty of
the prosecuting attorney, as much as it
ls of the defendants attorney, to see to
it that no innocent man should suffer
for any crime. Lawyers have peculiar
code of morals. Their success in their
particular avocatlon depends upon their
gaining suits. And l am afraid that
there are lawyers to be found who care
little as to whether their suit is right or
in the interest of Justice and truth so
long as they can gain their case and
make reputation for themselves.
Now, it is not the duty of tn prose-
uting att ornev to take that view of the
position. And when l call upon your
honor to 20 back and review the pro-
ceedings of the coroner's inquest, also
ask Mr.. Grinnell to review them. l ask
him to see whether any man testified at
the coroner's inquest with the events of
the fourth of May fresh in his mind,
that Fielden said on that night, Here
come the bloodhounds, you do your duty
and 1 will do mine" Twill state fur
ther, Coroner Hertz came to me shortly
after my Incarceration in this building,
and asked me to sign synopsis which
he had of the testimony given in the
coroner's room, in which synopsis there
was not one word ofthe kind attributed
to me in this trial
The Great Socialist who lived in this
world nearly 1900 wears ago, Jesus
Christ, has left these words, and there
are no grander words in which the prln-
ciples of justice and right are conveyed
in any language. He said: Better
that ninety-nine guilty men should go
unpunishe ed than that one innocent man
should suffer" Mr.. Grinnell, 1 should
Judge from his statements here, is a
Christian. I would ask him to apply
that statement of the Great Teacher to