The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-12-14


like waves, when be said to you that there
seemed to be a popular feeling that this
girl should go free, and when he begged Of
you that you would steel your
hearts against it and urged
that you should be as ccld as
ice, and decide this case without reference
TO tue way in which the public would have
II be decided. / ask Of you the same; and
yet, feel as he felt In a case of this
kind there Is something that is planted in
mans heart that makes it impossible for
him to treat 1t as be would case Of cold
blooded, deliberate murder. Do you know
that in the history of American jurispru-
dencc there never yet has been girl con-
vlcted OF killing her seducer! There never
has been man convicted,
WHO KILLED THE DESTROYER
OF ;he happiness of his family, or
who killed the man who seduced or
wronGed his sister. We may pass our
human laws and pile them high, we ill the
statute books with fine determinations as
to what constitutes offenses, and yet the
Almighty has planted in mans heart a feel
ing that makes this popular sentiment that
my oroJaer spoke about 1t is human ma
ture. IL Is claimed that in courts of jus
ice we cannot consider that-that is that
we ought not TO consider Jhat; DO not say
that we cannot, because human nature IS
human nature the world over, and IL Is
sometimes impossible for d man to be
otherwise than human. 1t IS sometimes
impossible for him to be sWayeo by other
than human impulses. l know my brother
sLrove hard this morning-indeed l felt as
Mir. Crltcelow progressed, that ] wished
that he could have felt that it was.not neces-
ssary Tor him IN the discussion of the facts
In way almost cruel, and that must have
cut my client TO her little heart 1t did seem
! to Ine, and say it here as the counsel Of this
girl, filled with the responsibilities of this
case very hard that that little girl should
have TO sit here and have it stated Overland
over in her presence that what she had
testlhed to from the witness stand was not
true; to bear that she was a fiiuty, stone
hearted person, TO hear the one who had
Wronged her, as woman scarcely ever is
Wronged, neld up as paragon of virtue.
In behalf of humanity [ desire to rafute
one imputation that has been made by the
learned counsel. He said in the course of
his argument that if mankind is to be shot
down as for such things as these, our
towns and cities will be depopulated. Can
II be that mankind has fallen so low that if
! We punish those who assault the virtue of
| innocent girls we will depopulate our
towns ana cities! Mr.. Criochlow could
not have weighed those words. He could
not have seriously considered the senti-
ment that he expressed. / have too much
faith in humanity to believe it. l do not
| believe that we have reached that state of
morals where such a course as was pur-
sued towards this girl can oe justified for
a single moment by any living man, and
! heileve tnat there are in this city honest
and yirtuouS men as there are honest and
vlrtuous women. l believe that there are
men on this jury who love their children
AND LOVE THEIR HOMES.
Wherein does the happiness of this world
| consist 1t IS when at night YOU close the
door behind you as you enter and sit within
the realm where the queen of love holds
sway, where you hear your little ones
prattiing and you read in their eyes your
hopes OF the future: where you see your
glrls bud to wOmanhood as beautiful as
human flowers, as graceful, tender and in
nocent as WomanSiud can be. There you
shut out the world. There, by your own
hreSlde, you think not such thoughts as
have been expressed by the counsel upon
the other side. There is the true happi-
ness Of this life, and to say that any town
in this whole wide world is made up prin-
cipally of men who would seek out these
tender plants and destroy them just as they
are budding into womanhoOd, is TO say that
man, made in the image of the Almighty.
is human monster, and the sooner he is
swept from of the face of the earth, and
some of the beasts of the field take his
place, the better. If man has reached that
point, then l say that our towns and cities
ought to be depopulated.
Then, again, counsel takes inconsistent
positions. He argues at the outset that
Amanda Olson is an uneducated, unsophis-
t.Cated girl, of poor but honest parents
respectable enough as the world goes, but
not having reached very high socia
plane, and ne scarcely admits that she has
2 womanly heart and womanly impulses
aud feelings. Later on, when he wants
to build up the case for the pros
ecution, he pictures her as a tigress.
He
COMPARES HER WITH LADY MACBETH.
He says that she is scheming, that she i!
cold. that she is jealous. and that she is an
cry. He would have you believe that thi.
simple, unsophisticated, uneducated-thi.
common sort of girl, suddenly bloomed int
a person filed with vile schemes, capable o
contending with acute minds, able to plan
and to plot deliberate murder, and after
, wards to play upon the stage that she is in
sane and make men believe it even in thost
terrible moments of distress after tn,
dreadful tragedy occurred. / direct atten
ton TO this for the purpose Of indicating t.
, you its Inconsistency.
IN fact, the propositions advanced weri
.
opened and closed his argument with tn
t proposition that the people demanded tina
, this girl be acquitted. Now, that mean
something, don't it, When cold-blooded
wilful, deliberate, premeditated murder i
committed, when there is no excuse, no de
, tense, e'people are not crying out tina
the murderer should be acquitted. Whel
crime stalks abroad with its hideous mier
tbs people are insisting that it shall be pu
- n a
o. the people and for the people. The,
make and they execute their laws; ant
while i would have been improper for N
} tc refer to this had it not been referred .
by counsel for the prosecution, and Woult
, not have referred TO it, | say that after al
tnat the people are pretty good judges of til
! way il which they want their laws eX
ecuted. t thank my brother for giving IN
) the opportunity Of indicating to you VIII
have been lmmureed IN your rooms for tn
past foar or five days an idea as to now TN
evidence in this case
HAS INTERESTED THE PEOPLE.
Counsel started with the life of Amand
Olsen as little girl, and he unmercifull
} dissected it as he proceeded. He laid bar,
yTomaD'S heart, and as ne handed it befor
you and dissscted it, he gave ii as hi
opinion that Il was not of flesh but stone
, He took her intellect and dissected that AM
he argued TO you that it was cold caculat
! ing aud scheming intellect He direct
: attention 10 the girl herself, and indicate,
/ that for the purpose of saving her life, sh
has wilfully concocted story He seem
to lose, in discussing the case, some matter
} that we have 20 take into consideration
= We have to take into consideration huma
; impulses and human feelings; and so now
propose to tell you the story Of Amand
: Olson, the story of one little life as it ha
been developed IN this case. l propose, S
far as / can, to take you and with you to g
l with that little girl as she grew up t
? womanhood, as she went about her dail