St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-01-04

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arguing it. We must let no undue SYM
pathy change our views in this matter.
Jurors are required to try cases by rule
and by their minds. We expect you to
try this case with your minds. We eX-
pect you to weigh this evidence and
give verdict in accordance with what
you think is right. Criminal cases are
tried by twelve minds. Twelve
men are put upon the jury be-
cause one man is almost sure
to err. One man can take but one view
of anything, one man sees thing one
way, another one another way. Could
you twelve men create daily paper,
make telegraph line, make locomo-
tive. Man knows nothing separately,
but only in the aggregate. That is why
a jury generally is right, for after an
honest, fair and deliberate discussion
by a jury, it is generally able to give
JUST AND RIGHT VERDICT.
L hope that you, when you come to
consider the evidence in this case you
will also consider the undue zeal which
certain detectives have taken. This
prosecution has been in secret until this
trial. Peter, who lived IN Omaha, was
arrested and Immediately put Oh trial
loI lllS lllc. LIE usual way was nOG
taken in this case. They were taken
for and obtained ten days adjourn
ment. Before this time was up, the
grand jury had indicted them. The
witnesses who appeared before the
grand jury were James Howard, James
HankinSOn and DR.. Spring; these three
men have been on this witness stand
and you have heard their testimony, and
you know that their testimony was not
sufficient to indict any one.
Then again to show you how
anxious the police were to obtain con-
yiction see the interested part which
they have taken in this case. This red
handed murdered Reddy Barrett was
not even taken in custody, but was
taken outside the county to board at
hotel under an assumed name, his wife
under another name, and the deputy
sheriff and Reddy Barrett'S sister-in-
law took for purposes of convenience
the same name. This prosecution was
vindictive against these two men, and
charged tliS offenSe against them, while
| these
not having taken any part in this hOmi-
| eide, could not give us any information,
this red-handed murderer was spirited
away. We were not permitted to see
him and find from him what was the
charges against which we would
be forced to defend them.
Oh, wish we had the tribunals of our
fathers to prohibit the recurrence of an
act so dangerous to liberty and life. The
whole proceeding is worthy of the dark
ages, when the gag, the lash and the
torture were used as means to obtain
the truth. The prosecution belieyed
HhNrtc ctr pnlA Anrt Inro in, hi
youth and honor. believed his story. 1t
is for you to say how far this secret and
sudden prosecution has affected the de-
fenSe. We did not know what the case
was. We could not get witnesses,
| and we could not get the court
to adjourn the case. My clients could
not give counsel any information. They
were not at the murder. Don't you
think we should have been prepared
had we known the situation. These
men were sailing on tranquil sea,
when suddenly the deadly simeon de-
Scended upon them and thrust them
into darkness. We are asked: "Why
did you not put John Barrett and the
old gray-haired mother on the stand?"
Because their poor, simple minds are
in such sore trouble that they would
not be able to control themselves. They
would have been
BLOWN AWAY BY THE STORM
whichoyOu have raised. Why do we not
put George Coleman on the stand. Be
cause he is sick in bed. and you heard
me ask the court to be allowed to take
his deposition and was refused. |
asked Reddy Barrett on the cross-exam-
| ination every conceivable question
| germane to the case. Was it to build up
a defense? Oh, no, it was to surround
this liar so could trap him. and when
he found he was bound hand and foot,
his answers broke from him and he
interrupted the court trying to
es ape. We took up this case when
on the horizon there was not witness,
but since they have gradually surround
ed, and those detectives are growing
pale with fear. They hope to divide the
There they sit and laugh with the same
jocularity as those other brutes of
former ages, but some time in the fut-
ure, when the common people arise in
their might and cause the rats and the
| other vermin to flee then these Great
ures who go under the name of detect
ives will be exposed. The defense in
this case has been placed like the gladi-
atOr who was placed in the arena with
out even knowing how many beasts, or
| of what kind or size, were to be let out
| on him; but we have met all these
beasts which have sprang against US,
have pummelled them
INTO A SHAPELESS MASS
by cross-eXamination while on the wit
ness stand. feared the splendid abili-
ties and brilliant intellect of this man
who has prosecuted this case. He has
made the strongest prosecution that /
| have ever known. 1t is tremendous
| prosecution from mass of incOherent
| facts, and from the horrid blackness of
| Reddy'S sin. If ever innocence was in
danger it was when the SPLENDID
strategy and cOnsummate ability of the
! prosecution were brought to bear on this
case. There has been large reward
| offered for the conviction of this muir
| derer, but that there should be any con-
nection between the counsel for the
| prosecution and this reward 1 disdain.
| But that it was that which caused the
| interest which has been shown by the
| police department L do maintain.
MI. Davis painted this murder
| as black as the blackness of
midnight, but he did not paint this
man Reddy black enough, for this muir
der was committed by midnight assas-
sin for a handful Of silver. For the
law, which does not here on this earth
acknowledge any higher power, it is
| well for US to remember that all things
| will nevertheless some time be set
| Alright. We might also ask who was it
| that gave the state the right to cOmpro-
mise with this red-handed murderer,
| Reddy Barrett? If Tim is not convicted