Omaha daily bee., 1889-04-09

and deliberate murder, with malice afore-
thought. Have you ever imagined TO your
self, gentlemen, what murderer would be,
one who would deliberately, in his proper
senses, intentionally with malice afore-
thought take, for revenge or gain, IL
may be, the life of fellow beingl You ex-
pect to find there monster IN human shape.
You expect TO find a wicked, vicious spirit.
The law believe says of malice That it is
evidence of heart
Reckless of Social Duty.
Gentlemen of the jury, this Is the mur.
deress. Do you find murder do you find
any indications Of murder about her
anywherel Do you find any indica-
tions Of depraved heart about her any
where in her conducts Gentlemen of
the jury, all these go to the first considera-
tion that shall present in this case, and that
Is, What was Libbie King What was her
/ character What was her dispositionl What
was the bent OF her mindl Because we
must analyze that first, so that we may after
ward rnteliigently apply the facts in the case
that touch directly upon this homicide. Then,
let us look at her conduct generally; If she is
n murderess we will expect some evidence
of q murderous disposition in her life before.
Won't wel If she is what the district attor-
ney called her, virtually blackmaler, and
| you might as well apply that term to an
angel from heaven as to her, under this
testimony-if she was that, you will find
"
If she was revengeful TO Harry King, you
win find something of that in her record,
won't youi II at any time she sought the
destruction of a life on account OF any of the
grievances that she suffered at his hands, you
will find some of it somewhere in her life,
won't youl
take up her life from the time that it is
necessary to take hold of it, and am not
afraid that the stain shall attach TO that. |
would that all men, | would that those who
would sneer at her could present before US
the purity of heart the purity of devotion,
The love that this Woman.
has exhibited since the time that she COM
menced life with Harry King. And, in this
regard, heretofore, shall have to be tedious;
but can't help it, want to show to you,
and to show to you conclusively that there is
not an element of malice in this woman's
nature; that there is not an element of re-
venge in this record; that there is not an ele
ment that goes to make up crime, to make up
| n murderess.
Gentlemen, let us take her character gen
| orally before | go into it in detail. The
| learned district attorney SAID, and that is all
| there is in this case, as to her record before
she became the spouse of Harry w. King,
| that, before she commenced her life with
| him. she was not wholly without sin. How
| serious charge have made against her in
that! Who says that bauishes her from my
| society, that makes her an outcast; she was
| not without sin! Christ said, LET him who
| is without sin cast the first stone at her."
| There was not stone cast. / said further
| than that, gentlemen and this IS all there is
| in this record in regard to her life. | said
| further than that that she was poor girl,
| thrown upon her own resources, laboring as
| common servant; that
She was Sought in Marriage
| BY lover, that she felt his honeyed words
| raining down upon her heart gentlemen, and
| this is no trifing matter. 1t is our organ
ism. God gave it to us, and we have got to
| take 1t as it is. II is not sentimental slush,
| in the elegant language of the assistant at
| torney. She found, say, his honeyed words
| dropping upon her heart with the glee and
| Joy that the pafched desert received the
| drops of rain from heaven. And, under his
| promise and under his sway she erred. Man
| was the cause of her error. Man was the
cause of her first misstep; and now, gentle
| men of the jury, you will find want to apply
| word that | do not generally use, but /
want to apply it here. You will find gang
| of reprobate libertines around this city who
would raise their hands against her and smite
| her, and who want to convict her, although
they make it the boast of their lives that they
have turned the channels of virtue into vice.
| man may spit and scorn upon you,
But There is a Living Jesus.
| who has promised you protection. Aye, she
| fell. | said that she had never become de-
praved woman. Nor did She Now this
| gentlemen of the jury, is all the testimony in
the case, is it not, my friend Mahohey!
| Nothing else will be referred to by me moth
ing else, l believe, will be referred to by the
! district attorney, because, all want Of you,
| OF you OF you, of any of you, gentlemen, is
| to pass upon the testimony in this case And,
| If you do that, then there is not the shadow
| OF doubt of the result of her case. If you
will pass upon, the testimony. ! said that,
| gentlemen, and now then we find here, her in
| the happy hopes of life, not on that day be.
fore yesterday that so many can refer to
with heart burning sorrow; not the day be-
fore yesterday, at time when she stood be-
fore the world pure maiden robed in
chastity-and there is not for the earth
| lovlier VISION, and there is not for the skies
more angelic candidate than that little
woman before she was touched by the ruth
less hand of man.
Then we find the deceased, what9 A mil
lionaire's son, with gold back of him by the
millions, who raises his banner in society
and says, no matter what my sin, society
| must take off its hat and bow to me. No
| matter what may do, have place on the
dias and IN the drawing room, and you
Must Bring innocent Maidens
| up and introduce them to me, aud make me
| a reception center. | demand it. Whati
In the name of manhood' in the name of
the qualifications of the twelve men that
Christ picked out as his twelve disciples!
No. l demand it in the name of gold, of
position. For 1 tell you that society says
that kings may commit all the sins that they
please. We will plate them over
with gold and send them out
gentlemen, gold. have a right to do as
please; am wealthy; my folks are respect
able. Society bows its head when they ap-
proach. So, do as / please. | want to
know-I, Harry w. King-I want to know
what rights seventeen, or eighteen, or
nineteen-year-old laboring girl, working girl,
has with respect to my desires. | would
like to know what rights! Why, none AT all.
l am walking champion of my profession;
of that profession of which there are some
followers obedient followers in the city of
Omaha. This is the man. Why, Mr.. Adams,
or Johnson, don't know which, says
She Got Him in Her Clutches.
She got him in her clutchess She, a
woman twenty years of age; he nearly ten
years older. She, girl that had not re-
ceived the assistance Of man or woman
| scarcely from childhood, and had only de-
pended upon that Great Father who prom
| ised to be father to the fatherless; she
| bring into her clutches the college graduate,
| the worldexperienced Harry Kingi And on
this you would send her to the gallows, Or
| to imprisonment in the penitentiary, which
would be worse than the gallowsi The GAL
| lows will take her life, and there an end of
| it. The penitentiary will only be a racking
| machine upon which her already broken
| mental powers would be stretched like the
| nquisitiop until death must come in that
| way Aye, hang her, hang her, hang her; ;
don't put her on the mental rack.