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upon the discharge of this duty de-
pended whether his client should go
forth free man, or go to prison for
twenty years, or loose his life.
The exProsecutor of Cape May
closed very weak speech of more
than half hours length by stating
that i'll order to convict, the jury must
be satisfied beyond all reasonable
[ doubt that he did the act, and ap-
| pealed TO the sympathies of the jury.
! He closed at ten minutes of twelve
o'clock, and Mr.. Berault began his
argument. He first poured forth a
few sentences of real eloquence and
solemnity; during the delivery of which
Mrs. Knox first shed tears copiously
but soon burst forth in low sobs and
| wailing. Knox turned his head quickly
| and looked at her as her first sobs of
grief reached his ear, but he sat un-
| moved slowly chewing tobacco and
occasionally expectorating in the.
| cuspidor at his feet.
Mr.. Berault made a very good
speech, the points of which were the
burder of the defense-that Knox had
not committed the crime, but that
Leitchie was the man who did do it,
and that Warrington and Schuh were
accessories to it. F.
Court adjourned to half-past two,
with Berault's speech unfinished.
FRIDAY AFTERNOON,
Wheaton Berault continued his ad-
dress to the jury when Court opened
in the afternoon, turning his attention
to the inquest by the Coroner. and the
testsmony given there by the witnesses
who had testified for the prosecution.
Mr.. Miller, his associate. stepped up to
the Judges desk and handed Judge
Reed some notes which he wanted in
corporated in the Judges charge to
the jury.
Mr.. Logue then calmly but earnestly
commenced a speech of rare decision
and perspicuity. He said he fully, and
deeply, and painfully realized the
weight and responsibility which rested
upon the Jury. He had had the op-
portunity to look into and examine
the case and the evidence, and most
unfortunately SO, and became familiar
with its tendencies. The more he had
looked into it, the more he had exam
ined and analyzed the circumstances
of the case, the more, and he said it
with sorrow, the more they pointed to
the implication of John Knox as the
guilty one. He said he would review
the evidence briefly and then make a
few comments upon it.
SYNOPSIS OF JUDGE REEDS CHARGE,
Judge Reed charged the jury that
Annie Borden had been murdered on
December 5th last, from injuries in
fiicted by some person or persons; her
dead body was found in the house
where she had lived on, December 9Th.
The first question was as to the cause
of the woman's death; whether it was
from natural causes or by human vio-
lence. The evidence disclosed that she
had come to her death by violence; this
was shown by the evidence of DIR. Bid
we'll, a physician. 1t was revealed also
by the postmortem upon the body.
The Judge then went on to describe
with particularly the nature of the
wounds and the organs injured
from which death had resulted. and
he said it was in evidence that the
wounds were made by the human hand.
The jury was to take into considera-
ton whether death resulted from these
wounds or not; it must also find
whether the defendant John Knox, in
dicted for the crime, had been proven
by the State, to have been the person
who caused the injuries and committed
the deed.
The State claimed it had established
this in showing the conditions favor
able to it's commission in John Knox's
opportunity to do it; in his inebriety
and by the blood on his hand.
To show the opportunity, the Judge
gave history of the actions of John
Knox and his three companions from
the time of his leaving the depot al
Millville to their visit at Roedle's house
and at Annie Borden's house, then to
the three men going up to the Brown
woman's house at Vineland, when
Knox was left alone at the house OF
the colored woman, as detailed by the
States evidence.
This was Knox's opportunity.
The Judge then reviewed Roedle's
evidence as to knox's actions, and
stated that so far as the evidence
showed, Knox was the man who had
the opportunity to commit the deed
and, if the blood on his hand was
human blood, or this woman's blood
he not Oplv had the OInOrtupitv hri