The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1889-08-10

shadow Of death lowering O'er me; see "a
Instrument of death TO be dealt out 10
stranger in your land. Over your hills
came with a friend less than a year agr
that friend has. 70 all accounts, gone % be
| last resting place. Are you positive No
| you Ere not L. il the friend that / left a
| the Montana Central depot. Can you az
swer yes. You cannot. True Il was be
clothes, by the marks, but whose body wa
in those clothes Was II Identified
Never Way was / not called on TO indeut
tfy? Let US say that IL was Annie Lund
strom and pass on to nay guilt
Have you any evidence TO conclusiveil
prove that the poor young man standinl
| before you 70 day committed the crime
| You have none whatever. True, yoa haV,
| circumstances and suppositions thAt speal
volumes, but what do they prove Car
| you hang a man on such evidence Evi
IDENTIFY YOU can Without rem0rse you tax,
the evidences as gospel OF people who have
| no regard for the truth Whatever. Pal,
| hIrelings OF the law take the evidence Ol
1 Mrs. Hardwick and Mixture, two of tht
| main witnesses OF the prosecution. Dc
you believe them Which of these stories
/ do you believe. her nrst at the pre-
/ liminary examination of the one in
/ the district court In this city,
/ or do YOU believe any or any part OF her
| evidence? Her first was that the defend
/ ant in this case came home about 9.9l
| o'clock on the evening Mrs. LundstrOm
disappeared, liz lamp and commenced
| taking down the things from the wall and
packing them in the trunks, also that be
| made considerable noise, and she doubted
very much whether l slept any all night.
and as t. the loud talking she heard, she
could not really call Il a quarrel What
does story No. ? say that the defendant
came home aOOut 10 O'Clock, sneaked l.
made no noise whatsoever, got up
at an unusual hour in the morning
When asked as to the house
talk, she stated with vehemence
in her spt ech and look that IL
was concentrated indignation. Can any
sane man believe such testimony and say
you are guilty. She also Identifies every
prominent article in q stranger trunk and
says they were the WOman's who dissp-
peared. Mrs. Mixture does likewise. That
white dress she made no one could make
il NO one else wears white dresses. on,
no! no one else has sewing machine that
sews just like hers. Where Is the So bill
Mrs. LuudStrOm left with herr Why was Il
not produced Because she never left Il with
her. She did not have So to leave with her
Did not have 10 give her money 10 buy q
ticket TO go to Butte? ? Now let nae pass On
20 the evidence Of Mr.. Detective Neis p
Walters. He says he found those articles
in the prospect hole on the morning of
March 4, along with other witnesses How
Is it they were found Immediately after
left Helena for this city Why does be 20
up there with three OF four men 10 do de-
tective work. Because he put them there
ate his story and make an impression. How
easy to take ring and scratch the initials
A. l.. on IT, How easy to take the hair
pins nd put them in the hole How easy
70 take that handkerchief and put It them.
How mIracuously easy 70 take that
pOcketbOOk az the time the
body was fOnnd and slip il in his pocket
You will agree with me gentlemen that
had those things been in that hole October
lst, 1855, they would have been found
You have sample of his testimony when
he swOre that ! said / bought the ticket for
Mrs. LunstrOm at the depot along with
Anthony kuniz- Did we not have 70 put
their own attorney on the stand and con-
tradic them 70 establish the truth? 1 have
L ever been % the prospect hole in question
hui have common sense enough % know
that Detective Walters committed
perjury and the good people pay
such scouBdrel SI,500 a year
Did the defense not prove to you without
question this woman was seen in company
with another man below the depot and
again with man of the same
appearance goingl in the direction OF the
hole on the evening she dts
appeared. Did she not by
the evidence of Mr. Chandler. have clan
destine and probably criminal meetinEs !
with man described specifically as above ? |
Certainly she did. DID she ever inform
her friend, myself, of il? No, she did not. |
Who Is this man ? Is he the one who killed
Annie LunstrOm or not? 1t seems TO
about her death. Take the
hackmsn covered with blood from head TO
foot Why does be leave town OD the very
evening she disappeared and has not been
seen since. Were these two men in cOliu-
sion with each Other2 Did they make the |
tracks leading 10 the hole where the body
was founded. Th-re must have been two |
men in order 10 tie the w0man's the way |
they were tied when found and seereted her |
in that hole. Who was the man OF men /
who has, by the evidence Of Mr. Wright, /
had when the defendant In this case was
in Jail in Helena, taken the pole out of that i
hole, knocked the steps of and thrown IL
fully one hundred feet from the hole, re
turned on the night previous tO the body Il
being found and ulaced the pole back In its
former position 1 should judge 10 aliay Il
suspicion. Does That man know who nut
that body there or uOfp VI lst undoubtedly /
he does How did Sir Dancan Dixon ind
that lDjuU," as be termed it3 Can you
tell me in such metre in two hours after
the reward was ffered he finds what the
whole town of Helena was bafiled 70 md
in three and almost four weeks? ? Oh, my
friends, standing here A. 1 do on The brink
Of the grave tits mODstrOus % behold, innO-
cent as / am. Death is nothing, mere
Whit, impaired with the brand OF shame
which falls upon my child, my offspring,
Ler whom ! love, next to God, better than
all else in this world; her image u en-
grayed on my heart, never to be enaced
only when il ceases TO be, and then 70
carry IL with me 10 heaven and paradise.
Is 1t not safe TO say that have been con
victed on public sentimentg DO you call
this a competent juror when be says ne
has formed an opinion and that opinion 70
adverse 10 the prisoner IN the dock
Your statutes say nay. had four
been true and honest men they
would have asked the court N excuse them.
One juror, when balloting as TO the cause
Of death, signed known lmeaning the
cause OF deathJ- as there any eNldehce
of death introduced % show the most gull
llble the cause of death None whatever.
you have found your verdict |
on these principles. woman was killed
Somebody had % suffer 70 satisfy the law
You picked stranger upon your streets
and said We have not enough evidence %
convict him, but hang he must In con-
clusiOn | must state that the territory OF
Montana in hanging George Duncan Bry-
son commits q judicial murder, breaks
and mother IN the world, and dishOn0rs
the most honorable name in Canadian his
tory. Some day God will clear up this
He will, 10 doubt, reveal the
guilty ones, and they will be justly pun
lshed. How, gentlemen of the jury, will
you feel when / am indicated IN this state
ment and my name shall De set forth as an
other victim Of circumstantisi evidence
VIII tins nation continue TO convict men /
on the same principle, or will they hesi-
tate? Time will tell Let me say few Il
words as 10 the press of Helena, the ISDE-
PENDENT especially. 1 have yet 20 see a
more higoted, partisan newspaper. Il
stopped at nothing, even defaming my |
father and beltfling him in the 1
ayes of the public The very first editorial
introduced myself as a thief. burglar, high
way robber, and to cap all a murderer. IL
printed tha article on the uncorTOborsted
testimony Of one Frank GTiswold Ward.
BOW discharged empl0ye OF the Union /
Peciho Tea company, Minneapolis How
honest in principle must have been that
and renowned man, editor INDE- |
PENDENT. What an example OF morality |
md Uprlghtnees the former At the time be
wrote To the authorities at Helena w2s
se ling cndee 81 . cents pound aU0
putting lZ5E rents Of the money Te-
,eiyed into his own pocket on,
people. yOu stand around me to-day |
,ome out Of morbid curiosity. others out OF
aud others 20 do their sword
iutF. Take = little advice, strangers.
4 void bad company IL has sweyed ua-
Ions: yes, Il has ruined some. IL has
-uined me. and bowed my head Ia shame.
The only consolation ! have that in anY
way consoles me Is tn knOwledge
hat In the future my relatives.
bOugh smarting from the Injustice done
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