The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1889-10-06

vas love for the priest, asserting that
there is no woman or girl who does not
know that it is wrong to thus go TO a
mans room and sit in his lap. He asked
why Geneva did not scream when BOYLE
let her rise, upon hearing noises down
stairs. He said Geneva's testimony was
given
| WITHOUT BLUSH
and with Indifference, not as that of an
| outraged woman would be. In conclu-
| sion he said that Boyel, not a ma
tive of North Carolina, but of Pennsyl-
vania, was morally disgraced, but was
not guilty of this capital offense He
/ appealed TO the jury most eloquently in
Boyle's behalf He said he feared the
effect of Solicitor Argos closing argu-
ment upon the jury. Boyle was at the
CONCLUSION OF MIR. SHOWS SPEECH
more affected than at any time during
the trial. He bowed his head and COW
cred his eyes with his hands Mr. Shows
speech was pronounced the ablest he has
ever made. After an hours recess Col.
Fuller made the closing speech for the
defense. He said that at one place in
the State he had been told that BOYLE
would have been promptly lynched, but
in Wake he was proud to say there never
had been a lynching. Col. Fuller sus-
tanned his high reputation as a lawyer
tie reviewed the story of the prosceutrix,
and picked out what he alleged were its
discrepancies. He said she was no child
but grown woman, seventeen years of
age, with the mind and passions of a
woman. He appealed to the jury TO
SHOW NO PREJUDICE
towards Boyle because he was a Roman
Catholic priest. Geneva, said he, had
told Katie Deboys that she had sat in the
priests lap and that he had kissed her,
and had told Katie not to tell of it, there
by showing her guilty knowledge. He
said the case was one of mutual passion
between priest and girl, and that the lat
ter showed that she knew the priests
feeling when by her own story, she had
told Boyle it was wrong for her to sit in
his lap. He argued that the girl had
never screamed at the top of her voice
several times for if she had her screams
would most certainly have been heard by
Alice Upchurch, for womans scream
was
LIKE A FIRE BELL
in the night The girl has made false
statement, she had never screamed, for if
she had the people on the premises would
have heard her screams. Then too, if
she had been outraged, she would have
fled as soon as the hands of the despoiler
were removed from her, and when she
met Alice Cpchurch Or Katie DebOys she
would have told them
THE PRIEST HAD RUINED HER.
He contended that the girl had, to save
her own honor taken the desperate step
of attempting to swear away BOyle's life
He argued That had Boyle committed the
outrage he would have fled. He said
that Boyle had accounted for everything
save the bruises on the girls body. He
said the State
WANTED TO THROTTLE JUSTICE
in its thirst for thit ii ''an Rq4a sga 5Aa4
---~~GoL. ARGOS SPEECH.
Solicitor Argo closed for the State and |
spoke over two hours. His argument |
was powerful and was one of the chief |
events of this memorable trial. He de- |
MED Indignantly the charge that the |
State was thirsting for the prisoners |
blood and said the defence had full op- |
portunity to have gotten information |
about the bruises on the girl 1t was |
EOYLE TURNED HIS FACE AWAY
and looked steadily at the floor. The |
solicitor said Boyle's relation to Geneva
as her priest fully explained her trustful- |
ness in going to his room when sent for |
Death now stared Boyle in the face, but |
The monster was there at BOyle's own in
vitatiOn Tor rape is
THE MOST HEINOUs
of four capital crimes known to North |
Carolina laws. He said the sole de- |
fence was consent and Boyle's evidence
was his sole defence. Finger-prints and |
bruises upon the girlwere absolute proofs
of brutal force and that medical exami- |
nation also showed the same. The girl |
had cried out when the priest assaulted |
her. and one of the principal witnesses |
for the defence had heard that cry.
HIS DENUNCIATIoN OF BOYLE
was terrible, and he declared that the lat |
ters whole story was manufactured lie. |
At $50 the argument was concluded. |
The judge began
THE CHARGE TO THE JURY.
He charged that the only question was
the act against her will, and by her con-
sent, and that The only evidence as to this
TACT was that or the prosecution ana the
prisoner, the latter having his own life at
stake and the former her character and
good name. He charged that fear was
one form of violence. The jury retired
at $50 and took one ballot without result
and then went out TO supper.
THE CASE GOES TO TIRE JURY.
At $50 the jury took the case. At IL
90 Judge Armfield took his seat on the
bench and five minutes later the jury en-
tered There was a deathly stiffness in
the crowded court room. GOyle stood
up. The verdict was
GUILTY"
given loud and clear The prisoner sat
down in an instant. He showed no spe-
cial emotion save that there was an ashi-
ness about his face which was soon sue