St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-02-17
He FLIES HIGH,
Does County Attorney Davis in His
Address.
DETECTIVES ARE DEFENDED.
Hints for Wealthy Citizens About to
Die---Argument in the MUIR
J, der Case.

witness stand. He stated that he was
with Mr.. ByrneS when he visited the
saloon kept by E. P. Thompson, at 719
Washington avenue sOnth. He then re-
lated the conversation which took place
between Thompson and his barkeeper,
Peterson, in which they said they could
not remember who was in the saloon
/ the night of the Goth of July.
j. b. BrOulette, James Manly, Matt
| EvertOn and j. G. Mccall were called
and asked in regard to the reputation of
| George Robinson for truth and Veracity.
7 Ihey testified that it was good. Mr..
Erwin then announced that the defense
had introduced all of their evidence.
JUDGE DONAHUE OPENS.
MI. DOnahue, one of the counsel for
the defense, then commenced his adj
dress to the jury. He spoke of the
nigh office of the juror and the great
responsibility that rested OH each men,
Der of the jury in this case. ''It rests
with you. he continued, whether this
boys life is sacrificed, OF whether he is
given his liberty.' He then reviewed
the evidence in the case at
length, and stated that the de-
tectlves and police were after the
! reward. and in order to get it, some one
| must be convicted, and they had picked
out Timothy and Peter Barrett as their
victims. Their practices and methods
nave been infamous, and their work
has been against an innocent boy, but
this is the way justice is melted out in
TINS fair city. The witnesses for the
defense have been inundated and
threatened with every kind of danger
by the detectives and the police if they
resumed for the defense, and we have
mad great difficulty in getting
them to testify" He then arraigned
Henry Barrett and asked why his teSti-
lnony should be placed above the de-
PENDANTS and the witnesses for the de-
tense, who are called perjurers. This
self-cOnfeSSed murderer, who is work
ing for immunity, and who has added to
his other crimes the crime of perjury, in
trying to swear away his brothers lives
III order to escape just punishment. The
county attorney is supposed to stand as
bulwark between the accused and the
accusers, but in this case we find his as
sIstant, in company with the detectives.
trying to brighten this boy by threats
brought into court and be used against
him, although the law plainly says that
prisoner shall be considered innocent
until proved guilty, and that the state
shall defend him in his rights. Mr..
DOnahue spoke about an hour, and was
followed by
|. COUNTY ATTORNEY DAVIS.
He began by referring to the burden
which rested upon the jury in a case of
this kind. He then referred to the
office of county attorney, ian officer
whose business it was to see that no in
nOcent man was convicted and that no
guilty man escaped" He then pictured
the murder of Tollefson for few
paltry pieces of silver, and asked if the
man who committed this dastardly
murder should go free. eff Thomas
TollefsOn had been killed on the field
of battle he would have been called
hero; but he was killed at his humble
toll, while performing his duty and de-
Tending his employers property: and
he is only spoken of as the dead car
driver. No monument will ever mark
his burial place, and yet does he not
deserve it more than some of the heroes
known to history? Only the green sod
and the bush which waves in
the wind, which sweeps across
Only the birds sing the
requiem of Thomas Tol.efson."
He then pictured the remorse
Reddy had suffered, and which caused
him to confess. He daily heard the
screams of TolleffsOn; every signing
of the wind through the trees caused
him to remember that night in Lay
mans cemetery. and every time he
passed that cemetery he thought of
that unmarked grave, and the whole
circumstances of that dastardly muir
der appears before his eyes. "There
was no escape but suicide, and this
under this constant strain of his con-
science, confessed. He confessed be-
cause the knowledge of the crime
weighed upon him like it did on Cain.''
LIE WARNED THE JURY
against the elOQuence of the counsel for
the defense, ''that polished subtle
eloquence which warped the best judg-
ment of juries and defeated the ends of
justice; that brilliant man who has
not an equal anywhere. 10 save that
guilty man they have called upon this
man of genius, and hope by the aid of
his keen mind to ward off the shafta of
the state. Let not his eloquence carry
away your judgment, let not his subtle
sophistry guide you. pray that light
may come from heaven to light your
path that you may not err" He then
made an extended defense of the
methods, motives and work of the detec-
tives, the police and himself. He said:
eff these detectives or police are
bought, put your hands on the evidence,
OF do not say it. If they have gone
upon the stand and sworn to what is
false, bring it to light and they will
be punished. They tell no different
story from that told by my faithful
assistant, and if they, lied then he
counsel on the other side have
said that they do not doubt his
truthfulness and consequently they
must not besmirch these detectives, for
they tell the same story. have heard,'
he continued, ''day after day that they
were working for the reward. Well,
what of it. Men die and leave requests
to found beneficent institutions, wherein
the sick and afflicted may be cared for.
and why should not money be dedicated
to the arrest and conviction of GRIM
inals? | tell you that far above the
good achieved by caring for the sick
and afflicted would be that wrought by
of his wealth for the discovery of GRIM
inals." He offered an apology for the
man who worked for rewards. He re-
ferred to the two witnesses, Pitman
and Robinson, who testified to seeing
Timothy and Peter at Thomp-
sons saloon Oh the night of
the Goth of July, and likened
them to the characters, ::"Roger and ;"
in the poem entitled the ''Vagabonds,"
written by Trowbridge; he likened
Robinson to Roger, the dog" and
asked what kind of witnesses were they.
He then paid his respects to Ed A.
Stevens with his statistics, and said the
counsel for the defense claimed they
were unable to secure certain witnesses
and asked why they did not send this
man Stevens after them, and that he,
with his statistics, would surely have
found them. He paid his respects to
the witnesses who testified to Robinson
having good reputation for veracity,
and said part of them were sworn twice