St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-12-08

that the object Of such committee, or OF
the appointment of such committee was
made. II is false as hell, unsupported by a
seintilla of evidence, and l challenge the
whole record.
Mr.. Longenecker-I only say the testimony
was that motion was carried.
Mr.. Foster-I know that motion was car
ried. | have not falsified the record, nor
have attempted to, and 1t makes me mad,
clients life is in Jeopardy to have
men continue to insinuate and inter-
polate in the hearing of the jury to
men in the jury box that there is eyidqpee
that committee was appointed TO murder
Dr. CronIn. No adjective in the English
language known 10 me is sufficiently strong
TO express my views and my sentiments
when those charges are made, because II Is
false as hell.
Mr.. Foster continued to argue at
length that BeggS. as senior guardian.
had always counseled In favor of peace
and unity, and then said: Hang him, be-
cause he Is friend of Alexander Sulli-
van. do not know whether he is a
friend of Alexander Sullivan or not. l
do know that Alexander Sullivan has
been arrested in this case. | do know
that he has been discharged under
the evidence by one of the ableSt and
oldest jurists that sits upon the bench
in this state. / do not know that his
case has been presented to the grand
jury and the bill ignored. / do not know
that the bonds under which he was re
quired to answer have been Cancelled and
he is free man. Now, in the name OF
conscience and in the name of heaven.
will they ask you to convict my client
because he Is the friend of another man
whom they despise, but against whom
they can prove no criminal act?
HANG HIM FOR HIS FRIENDS
Now, | will hot discuss the question
he and Alexander Sullivan are friends
or not. do not know. l 40 not care.
For the purpose of this case do not
care" This was followed by
an argument as to the evidence.
Concluding, Mr.. Foster told the
client worthy of death. or must acQuit
him entirely. He said: John f. Beggs
is the dupe of no man. He
is the tool of no man.
He stands forth response
bic for his acts without mitigating cir.
cumstance il he is guilty. Therefore l
say TO you, gentlemen. in all candOr and
sincerity you must DESTROY the life
of John T. Beggs. or else you
must turn him free. Are you opposed
to the execution of the death penalty.
You and each one of you have sworn
that you were not. Are you waiting for
a murder more atrociOuS. In the name
of heaven. where do you expect to hear
of one? l am talking sense now,
gentlemen. | am appealing to your
reason. your judgment. Ii Beggs is
guilty he must die. Shame to the YER
diet, shame 10 tine verdict under the cir
cumstances surrounding this case that
would say, I'VE will not torture our
minds, we have not the moral turpitude
to hang man upon this evidence, but
guessing. imagining, specializing that
he might be. guilty. we will give
him term in the penitentiary upon
general principle, or upon Specu-
lation. Shame upon such verdict as
that. Humanity can stand no such out
rage perpetrated upon one of its mem-
bers." Mr.. Forest began the closing
argument on
BEHALF OF ALL THE ACCUSED.
He began by contrasting the methods
used by the orators for the prosecution
and those for the defense in
treating of circumstantial evidence.
The prosecution treated it as
a mass, as a bundle of sticks.
but the defense proceeded to analyze
each circumstance The latter was the
right method and was according to law,
logic and reason. Mr.. Ingham and the
jury. he, said. would never forget the
scene when Ingham. in his address de-.
nOunced COughlin and KunZe with such,
ferceness that their faces blanched, and
the little German cried out from the
bottom of his soul: ''God knows I am
innocent This was the an
swer to the reasoning and in
situations of the prosecutions.
Mr.. Foster occupied the remainder OF.
the time till the adjournment Of the
court in reading from wills on Evil
dence" and other legal works, and in
making an exhaustive statement of the
methods to be employed in the appilca-
ton of cireumstantial evidence. saz