The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-12-10

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argument to the jury. He said that those
who recalled the 10Th of September re-
nembered that the sky was overcast with
Clouds. When this case was opened the
valley was overcast with clouds. But this
morning, as they turned to the east, the /
sunlight was streaming down upon them.
Gould he net take this as good omen, as
the presage OF the verdict that the little
girl he had been defending should receive.
rms was the first time woman had ever |
been placed on trial for her life in this |
court. This showed that a woman's hand |
was not often stained with blood, and |
When woman was so placed on trial, the |
responsibilities of the jury, court and coun- |
sci were graver. broader and deeper than |
IN any other case. His first proposition |
was that the man who seduced an innocent |
girl earned his death, and the second was
tnat the hand of Amanda Olson could not
be stayed. The Indictment charged muir
der In the first degree, and he proposed to
snow that this girl was either guilty OF
the highest crime or else she was innocent.
Amanda Olson would accept no
compromise. If the jury thought she
had committed a cold blooded muir
der, then she must be offered
upas a sacrifice to thel law. If she was not
guilty to that extent, she was not guilty at
all. He then read the legal definitions OF
murder in the first and second degree, and
continuing said that if the theory of the
prosecution was correct, they had estab
lshed case of murder in the first degree.
Mr.. Critchlow recognized the fact that
public sentiment demanded that this girl
should go free wi en- he begged them to steel
their hearts against public sentiment. In
the history of American jurisprudence.
there had never been case where girl
had been convicted for killing her seducer,
or where husband had been convicted for
killing the destroyer of his happiness. the
prosecution had done its full duty to the
people in this case. 1t seemed to him that
Mr.. Critchlow, though but performing his
duty, was cruel. He had said that if man
kind We're not to be shot down for
such things as these, our cities
and towns would be depopulated. Mr..
Critchlow could not have considered the
words he uttered. There were men in this
city who were honest and virtuous ana
there were such men on this jury-men who
at night went to their homes, where the
queen of love held sway. There was the
true happiness of this llfe and to say that
cities were full of men who would seek out
the tender plants just budding into woman
hood, was monstrous. If it is true, then
our towns and cities should be depopulated,
and the brute creation allowed to take their
place. Mr. Critchlow wanted the jury to
believe that this ignorant, unsophisticated
girl, as he termed her, was a Lady
Macbeth. full of plans, schemes and re-
venge, who, after having shot this man,
was able to come in and play part on the
stage. Mr.. Critchlow had intimated that
popular clamor demanded that the acquittal
OF this girl Was this true of cold-blooded
murderer. The people were pretty
good judges, and since the prose
ccution had seen fit to give him
the opportunity, he took pleasure
in indicating how this case struck other
people. He next proposed to tell them the
story of this girls life, and in doing this,
he wished be had tongue which could coin
the words his heart would express. If he
could do this, he would show them such
suffering and sorrow as mankind is rarely
called upon to bear.
He said the recital of the story which he
was about to make, would, he thought, be
sufficient to induce any fair minded Jury to
render verdict of acquittal. This girl
was born herei Salt Lake. Her parents
came from the north country, where viz
tuous women had lived and brave men had
died. They came here seeking the light
and intelligence which was the
glory of America. Here this con-
fiding, lovable and virtuous girl
for she was nothing worse vas
born. She was of that nature that when a
man won her love, he won a treasure more
to be priced than riches. Her character
had been produced in evidence, and there
could not be found in this whole city man
or woman who could assail it. She grew
up here and she loved. Love to woman
was more than life itself. This happy girl,
this child of Utah, grew up, unsuspecting
mans wiles. From her childhood she had
known a woman, Mrs. Hart, about whom
the defense had SAID as little as possible.
As to Frank Hall, the defense felt that
death ended all. Mrs. Hart introduced this
little girl to Frank Hall. Did Amanda
/ Olson ever seek him! Did she ever walk
the streets seeking for an designation with
hima No, she met him a guileless, unsophis-
ticated child The man who had reached
years of discretion, and would steal from
woman the dearest thing on earth to her,
was base and not the white-soulded indi
vidual pictured by the prosecution. He
worked upon this girls pity and
won her love. To pity and tc
love was to be womanly and sweet. She
| gave to this man, unworthy as he was, her
whole heart. Judge Powers then sketched
with masters hand the Olson home when
Frank Hall entered it, Continuing he
asked who it was that broke this casket OF
virtue: 1t was Frank Hall. A man who
would betray such trust as was placed il
Frank Hall was unworthy to walk upright
in the image of His Maker. He played upor
that girls heart strings until she gave Il
him her very heart and life. lying at his
feet every hope she had in life He ther
did that which earned for him the thunder
bolt which the Almighty hurled down upor
him. He deserted her in the midst of the
sorrow and shane he had brought upoI
her, and she felt that the finger of scorr
was pointed at her-she whose life haC
been as sweet as the breath Of the morning
she whose presence was the sunlight of thu
h. l1ll I'LL L.. -.
felt that she was bankrupt in everything
No man could conceive how she felt, be
cause no man had the womans heart Blu
she buried her secret, even though
each night trouble famed hel
sleep. Hours grew into days, ant
days grew into weeks aud weeks grew int
months and still sorrow was her compan
ion. Was it any wonder that her womanly
nature broke downl A mental earthuuak,
visited her mind. Judge Powers her,
reached the subject of insanity and sal.
that this disease was preceded by chang
in the physical nature of woman. One form
OF insanity was melancholia, and all tn
physicians who testified recognized tina
Amanda Olson was suffering from that be
fore the shooting. Virtue was the founda
ton of the state and the corner stone of uh
home. Was not the seducer warrin
against the peace of the commonwealth
After discussing the law for some time
Judge Powers turned his atten
ton to Hall, and said that tn
first murder committed in thi
tragedy was when Hall murdered this girl
life, went east for ten months and caused
lying message to be sent to this girl that h
hal gone to Montana. But still she love
him, and when she looked from her windoy
that morning after his return and saw him
she fell to the floor senseless. 1t had bee
charged that she was jealous. He believed
1t, and when all those passions of love AM
j jealousy were aroused in her breast was
any wonder she was swept from her feet
Then she turned to her mother, her frs
comforter and told her of her trouble TIL