Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-04-14
Afternoon session.

Where he haQ closed, ana apologyzing
fer the length of his remarks con-
tinued:
The defense has endeavoredt to show
that DR.. Harlan was partly respon-
sible for his own death and the blame
was all on his side. Now, he may
have been "all their fancy painted
him. still he was her friend, and ac-
cording to her own testimony, friend
on whom she could depend when in
need of financial assistance. He
might have been gambler, a
drunkard, consorter with bad char
acters of all descriptions, yet he was
her friend, and it makes it all the
worse for her, now it is known she
knew his character and still suffered
him to call upon her, and take her out
riding alone, unattended and at night.
She has been shown to have en-
deavored to borrow pistol. She asks
for the pistol and tells Mrs. Ferguson
she wants it to "kill a snake" Did
she mean to kill herself? Ii she did,
why did she not do so? She pur-
chases pistol, failing to borrow one,
and with that pistol in her pocket
writes note to DR.. Harlan, demand
ing his presence at her room. He re-
ceives the note, and at the time tells
DR.. Schim that he has no idea hat
she wants him for. He goes to see
Hattie. Hattie proposes walk, and
after walking few blocks Harlan
proposes to ride. She gets into the
buggy and they drive to that lonely
barn, the location OF which she had
pointed out to Harlan only the day
before.
She says that after she came back
she sat up all night, and taking the
buggy back in the morning went and
buried the watch and pistol. Her sis
ter says Hattie was at home all the
morning and assisted her in making a
dress. She made no outcry after see
ing Harlan dead at her feet. She did
not drop into Mysteries or faint when
the last shot was fired and her lover
was killed, but she went back and +,
burying the only evidences of her
crime, she says not word to her sis
ter of the horrible occurrences of the
night before. But We next find that
she went to the circus and there, in
the company of new lover, man
entirely unknown to her sister,
goes to the show to enjoy an
evenings fun. No, gentlemen, her
course throughout, from the first mo-
ment she lived in this city, is that Of
an adventures, and points to a career
OF crime and reason for it. Now.
what is love in woman? 1t is the
mother-the woman-who first takes
the child by the hand and teaches it
to pour out its infant soul in supplica-
tions to heaven. 1t is woman, who,
by her love, directs the child in its
path through the world. 1t is woman
who first draws the love of young
man from his mother into a different
channel, and directs it to a love which
brings her to his arms as a true and
faithful wife. Was this the love which
the defendent bore for Harlan? You
cannot answer in the affirmative, for,
by her own sworn testimony, she
states that she accepted his love after
she had discovered that he had se-
duced her-after she had discovered
he was a married man with q living
wife.
Gentlemen, "Hell hath no fury like
a woman scorned," and the love she
bore for Harlan, which was nothing
but that of wanton from the start,
took this turn, and that which should
have been as pure as the pearly drops
OF the mornings dew, turned to the
veriest gall and sowed in her breast
the seeds which afterward blossomed
out in the shape of black, unholy
murder."
The Judge then made an eloquent
appeal to the jury, urging upon them
the necessity OF trimming off what
ever prejudice might have entered
their minds as to the unworthiness of
Harlan, and to give verdict strictly
in accordance with the impression
produced upon them by the strong
chain of circumstantial evidence,
which had been woven by the testi-
mony of the witnesses and presented
to them in all its horrible truth as the
trial proceeded. He told them to be-
lleve only that which had been fully
sustained by the evidence, and to rem
der a verdict strictly in accordance
with that belief.
Judge Reymert then concluded his
argument and recess was declared
for ten minutes to allow the jury to 60
out and cool off, as the room was so
terribly hot as to be almost insufer-
able.
JUDGE STEPHENS ARGUMENT.
Judge G. c. Stephens then arose
and commenced his address to the
jury. He began by saying: May it
Please the court, and you. gentlemen
of the jury-I had hoped that after
the labored efforts Of between thirty
and forty witnesses to convict this
poor girl, that the volunteer counsel
for the prosecution, in his opening
argument, would give us an intelli
gent discussion OF the facts, and not
long and la bored and fearful effort to
apologize for rape, seduction, at
tempted ravishing and burglary. |
expected that my friend, Judge Rey-
mert-for he is my friend = who
has just come from the dark and
bloody recesses of the gloomy mount
ain glens on the borders of
the Apache reservation in uncivilized
Arizona to prosecute the case, would
be able to connect the dark mystery
of the old tin can with the murder of
DIR. Harlan. / expected that he would
bring forth some well-paid and hook
nosed detective, supplied to the Dis
trict attorney by benevolent county
board which is earnest in its desire to
put down crime, would be able to track
Doc Harlan's footsteps from the time
he left his boon companion, that
schin, Shin, Shindy-what is his
name, Colonel? Ito Colonel Wells,
who answered. "Mr. Schim"] until
the moment the fatal shot was fred
by the poor gil, in whose breast there
is not one spot of impurity, and that
this detective would be able to prove