Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1886-09-24
defense stated that they had no testimony

defense stated that theyhad no testimony
to offer.
Mr.. Dickson arose and made a brief
argument, in which he called attention
! TO the fact that in these cases it was usu-
ally impossible to obtain more than cir
! cumstantial evidence, and went on to
show wherein the circumstances in this
case went to show the guilt of the de-
defendant. He pointed to the peculiar
circumstances under which they we're
seen at Logan by Mr.. Young, and laid
particular stress upon their meeting at
Mr.. Woods house at Woods Cross. He
showed that one could not but believe
from the evidence that Dean had stopped
all night at that house, and how from the
have stopped in no o but the parlor,
in which there was but n bed. and that
occupied by Florence Ridges.
At the conclusion of Mr.. Dickson's
speech Mr.. Rawlins arose to reply. The
drift of his argument was to prove that
the circumstances surrounding the rela-
ton of these two people were simply
everyday. He claimed that all the at
tention hat Dean was seen to show this
woman on the trip from Logan to this
city, was simply the attention that any
gentleman might show to any lady, and
said that all their conduct while at
Woods house, in Woods Cross, might
be explained by the assumption that they
we're engaged in the innocent wiles Of
courtship. In conclusion, he laid great
weight upon the fact that the jury had no
right to convict upon what might be the
facts or upon what were generally be-
lieved to be the facts, but that it must
confine itself strictly to the evidence
brought out in the case.
At the conclusion of this argument the
court took a recess until 2 p. IN.
SESSION.
At the afternoon session of the court,
Attorney Richards took up the argument
for the defense. He ran in a little of the
pathetic and abjured the jury not to find
Dean guilty. He took up the argument
of Mr.. Rawlins to the effect that the de-
PENDANT and Florence were innocent
lovers and that his visits to her were as
free from impurities as the visits of
angels.
He was followed by Mr.. Dickson, who
closed the case with a telling argument.
He scoffed at the theory that this pair
were innocent lovers, and presented a
touching picture of the position in which
the girl was placed by the evidence given
in the case. He admitted that it was
possible that the pair had sat and ohatted
all night long, night after night, but he
sail it vas also possible that the man
had stayed there with her for a few hours
and then gone out on the side
walk and slept the rest of the
night. He appealed to the jury to Judge
as to the probability and not the posi-
bility of such a theory, and closed his
argument by saying the jury had to de-
eide n of two things, whether this girl
was married to the defendant or whether
he had been allowed to debauch her IN
der the roof of her own sister.
The Court then charged the jury care
fully, explaining the exact meaning of
cohabitation, and instructing them as to
what evidence would be necessary to con-
vict.
The jury was then placed in the charge
of Deputy Hurd and taken to a secret
chamber for consideration of the case,
and was still out at the time we went to
press.
There is quite a general impression
that the testimony of John G.. Young,
added to the strong circumstantial evil
dence given by Mrs. Wood, will complete
the case against Dean and secure his con-
%viction; but there are still many who
believe that one or two members of the
jury will conclude to make a chang" of
it. The public can, therefore, only watch
and wait.