The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1889-07-26

.'PpcdlS 10 MIN 10 give her husband work
py which he might feed his little ones
Kissed Her Through Sympathy.
nable to resist her earnest prayers and
yleidlng to the better instincts Of his ma
ture he complies with her request-and if
he had dismissed her with words of kind
ness only, it would have saved him a load
or misery. But right then and there the
tempter entered into his heart, and drove
hlh TO the first act of what he hoped
would be career of pleasure, but which
has proved to be a tragedy 1t WHISPERED
10 MN now Is your time 10 feel the way:
KISS her through sympathy and if She
taheS II kindly you can kiss her again, and
20 on kissing her. lie did kiss her
through Sympat by. As she thought, and a,
ne says, aud, receiving no rebuke for it,
he felt that the case started out well and
there was good time ahead of him, but
'Oh what a tangled web we weave
W hen nrst we practice to deceive.
Mrs. Perkinson's Character.
II was the Genesis of an Had Of woes
for him. ! Will not 60 over All the story
told 10y Mrs. Perkinson. Iou remember
II, and the minutencSe with which Mrs
Perkinson gave her evidence. and vou
also remember what is quite rs mpol
tant her demeanor on the witness stand.
and YOU cannot forget that a large mum
ber Of highly respectable witnesses gave
her, not only q good character, but A re
markably high character from her child
hood TO this hour Several gentlemen who
knew her when they were students at
Wake Forest College and she was at Mrs
fureioy school. testified that She was al
ways remarked upon for her singular
modcsty and lady-hke departments and
some of them, especially Mr.. Holding and
Mr.. Denmark, said they knew her general
character to be as good now as 1t was
then, the latter saying that it was as good
as that of any lady in North Carolina
And Yet, gentlemen, you saw the pitiful
attempt made in her case, aS in that Of
other important witnesses, TO discredt her
and make ii appear that she too was swear
ing 10 a lie. The only witness was an old
lady who disliked Mrs. Perkiusons family
because her brother had run away with.
and married the old lady's daughter. This
old lady SAID She didn't think Mrs Perkin
son chara ter was very good, and was
allowed to leave the witness stand without
cross-eNamln1tiOn, because We know what
We could prove 10 the contrary The last
witness, you will Remember sad chat oulv
last Sunday he heard a large number of
the women at the church where Mrs PR
klusou used to attend, expressing a-.pr
lshment that any ole oheui a>-al h..
characters
!.c - ou!i Have Ii,d.
You have 10 ri5hl 10 ca.-idnr ,Ga-
counsel said ne expected 10 prove ~ 4 wat
ness about Mrs. Perkusou. because the
testimony was excluded Counsel ought
not TO have said it, bat as b.. did. ~Iu
say that am authorized 10 -sft tht If
the witness A,td sworn 10 il d WoIl Aa..s
lied
Her Conduct Modest and adv-Like
Well. here, gentlemen, yol have wo-
man who has proved rs gooi 4 character
a> any lady in North Caroli,a, swearing
thaf l'r. Gr1sou after ki,stL her rs she
Thought through ~ympa-. tar her distress
(Which he admits tc Uc trueJ tr.,J after
war = to take liberties WitG and DIR.
Grsaom Swearing mat Il Is absolutely
false do not care to dwell Ill this speci-
1ication farther than % say THAT never in
my life saw woman Oh the witness stand
whose whole conduct and d"mcanor was
more modest and lady like, whose story
was told with more simple ma uralness and
who sustained herself better under a severe
cross examination than Mr9. PerkinSon
dlltI Sir Is a poor woman NID makes ln
honest living by hard work ma is respect
ed by her neghbors according To tn" tc>ti
mony If she has told the truth, is il not
doubly hard On her and doubly Infamous
in DR.. Grissom to first attempt to soduce
her, and failing in that, to attempt to
blacken her character when she tcstities
against him!
1t Sickcn~ the Soul.
And now, gentlemen, Will proceed to
consider the first specification under the
first charge. | confess that there is an in
eXpreasble sadness about the cas-. Of Miss
8urch from any point Of view, and there
are horrors SUGGESTED by il that are
enough to sicken the soul. In dealing
with it | realize the impotoncy Of any Ian
guage ut my command. feel as if | was
entering a charnel house, and being forced
to commit an act OF deSecration, and this,
too, upon any theory of the evidence.
And yet, gentlemen, cannot drive away
the thought which haunts me that if She
is CONSCIOUS Of these proceedings, which
God forbid, even the shame with which
| they will overwhelm her will be swallow
ed up in the satisfaction of knowing that
retributon has ovcrtaken him who wrought
her ruin. How lame, and how poor, and
weak is the story told by the accused TO
explain away the evidence Of Mr.. King,
and Emanuel Jones and Mr.. West III re
gard to what occurred in the matron's
| bed room, Having listened to all they
said before going himself upon the witness
stand, and knowing that a simple denial
would not answer, and having abundant
! time to invent theory and abundant ca
pacity to do 50, he tells q tale that he
thinks viii fit the facts sworn to.
Ingenious, But it Will Not Do.
All, gentlemen, it was ingenious, but it
will not do. 1t lacks those elements of
probability which are absolutely necessary
to carry conviction against such direct and
| positive testimony.
Let us dissect this story. He says this
| poor lady consulted rs TO a complaint in
cideut to her sex that he had reason 10
attribute it to a certain cause which re-
quircd a private examination that he
made other examinations generally N the
| matrOns room, the matrOn sometimes
being present i'll the adjoining room, and
sometimes not that he applied the nee
essary remedy and relieved the trouble to
some extent, but not entirely, and that he
never committed the act with which he Is
charged in regard to her.
| The Oath OF Eye Witnesses.
You will observe that, according to this
statement, the witnesses (klng, Jones
and West } are cOrrobOrated 50 far as their
evidence as to Dr. GriSsOm5 ) and NJ 81
| Burch's visits TO the matrOnS 5 room are
concerned and also as to the matron's ab-
sence at the time, because he admits that
his private examinations Of Miss Burch
generally occurred in the matron'a room,
and that sometimes the matr0n WAS ab