St. Paul daily globe., 1888-02-19

proved to have done. But if Tollefson
placed his knee on the cash box to pre-
vent them from taking it, then it APP
pears plainly enough how he received
the wound.
He then argued at some length to
show the mules did not, through train
ing, pull the car around. Speaking of
the return of the three boys to 2S30 Fort
avenue, he asked they should talk in
mutfled tones. If it had been committed
by the three Barrett boys,
they would have felt at home.
The women would have been in league
with them, and would have known
about this midnight excursion. But if
they would have been backward about
going up stairs. How did they know
but what Peter and Timothy might be
there that night. Henry then goes up
stairs alone and calls his wife out in the
hall, and he, after interrogating her,
sends her back into her room, and then
the two others come up stairs.
If it had been Peter and Timothy, what
would have been strange about their
coming home with Henry to their own
house and their own place of business?
Why is it that Minnie Barrett and
Chloe Belts were taken out and hid at
Waconia, under assumed names, if they
did not know anything about this muir
der? Why was it that these women
were taken into custody and are still
held III custody, for fear some one con-
nected with the defense might see them
and talk with them, if they don't know
anything about the murder. If they
don't know anything about who was
with Henry Barrett, why is it that they
cannot depend on this Wife'S devotion
for her husband to say that she does not
know anything about
THIS DASTARDLY MURDER?
No, they do not know who committed
this murder, and that is why they are
concealed. Now when Minnie Barrett
is put on the stand, she said she heard
noise out in the hall after she had gone
back in her room and shut the door.
WAS it like the rattling of TIM" asked
the county attorney.
Il believe it was"
"Was the noise like this?" and the
county attorney placed some silver in
the box and poured it out on this table
here. And what was her answer?
Il believe it was"
Now Henry says on the first trial that
the box was not emptied out on the
table, but that Timothy took cigar and
some money out of the box and the
checks were all left in, and that he and
Peter then went down the cellar and
buried it.
Mr.. Erwin spent considerable time in
an effort to upset the story of burying
the box in the cellar, and then scored
the detectives and Mr.. Jamison for
their part in the scenes in the North
Minneapolis station. He then said:
The state expects you to believe the
story of Reddy Barrett, but if the testi-
mony of Heyn, Foster, Mclaughlin,
McKinnon and the other witnesses is to
go down before the testimony of this
brutal dog, tnen order this man hung
ane 60 out and take down from your
court houses and public buildings
your statues Of Justice and order
stone a blear-eyed, diseased wanton.
held up by brace of detectives, and
holding in one hand the scales ofjuStice,
and reaching out with the other to pull
one side down. To-day the jury system
of England is traveSty on justice.
The jurieS are packed with men who
get their living from the prosecution,
with men who can be depended on to
believe the detectives and the inform
ers, and this is the way the champions
of Ireland are tried.
If you can carry this system into
effect into this country, our free insti-
tutionS are gone. We have already
adopted nearly all of their system in
this country, and when we get it COM
plete, the rights of the people will
he gone. If you bring in a verdict of
acQuittal it can never be said of the
county attorney and his assistant that
they have not done their best to sustain
these detectives, for they have gone
clear outside of the law in order to SuS-
tain them.
THE PERORATION.
To be, to live, or not to be, is the all
absorbing question of our lives. No
question like that to you. No question
like that to me. No question like that
to Peter Barrett. To die, to sleep, no
more; to die, to sleep, perchance to
dream. For in that sleep of death,
when we have Shuffied off this
mortal coil, what dreams may come
must give us pause, in the light of the
dread of that something after death, that
undiscovered bourne from whose land no
traveller returns. What dreams may come
10 you, if you should unwittingly by
haste and by mistake of your duty, and
unshrived to meet his God. Will YOU
dare, on the story of Henry
Barrett, to see before your conscience
at that dread time the figure swinging
from the scaffold, and to have on your
memories forever that you put out the
light of life which you cannot give?
That is the ultimate question in
this case. | invoke upon YOU, so
far as dare, the commendation of the
great God to assist you as you go to the
jury ro0l and confidently leave my
client in your hands,"