The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-12-14
could be found Immediately, my brother
SAYS, he sent word that
HE worLp MEET THEM

at the head of Commercial street He
was indeed magnanimous! He would meet
this little girl at the head of Commercial
street. Didn't he kaow where she lived !.
Was it far from Mrs. Harris house, over
the way. TO where she lived! Could he not
have called and told her that he had come
back home! Could he not have expressed
to her one single word of sympathy. Could
henot have done something to alleviate her
suffering! 1t was generous upon his part
if we look at it from the standpoint OF the
prosecution that immediately he sent WORD
he would meet her at the head of CONNER
cal street.
You know what that man possessed at
that time. You know that he had that
girls love. You know that he had bereft
her of her virtue. You know that he had
been false to her You know that he had
betrayed her. You know that he had been
q traitor. You know that for ten months
he never had sent her a word, and 1t was so
Very kind of him that he condescendeu 10
meet her at the head of Commercial street.
So he meets her there. He does not want
to have the mother present, for some rea-
son or other, and says to her that II she
will wait for twenty minutes that he has a
beautiful place that he will take the girl to.
She never uad been into that restaurant. l
trust that all of you have. My brother has
pictured ID you that beautiful parlor into
which the spider urged the fly to enter. He
tells you of those lovely windows that
looked on the street, Of that magnificent
plate glass frosted all over so that no one
could look in. Hs says that that room that
they were in was as much as twelve feet
wide. Well, 1t was eight or twelve, the
size of it does not amount to much. He
pictures it tOyou as beautiful home. l
say to you that believe that If any man
were to take a daughter or the wife or any
near relative of any Of you, or any member
OF the prosecutors family down into that
place where that girl was taken and as she
was taken that they would not hesitate
unit they had
BROKEN THE MANS HEAD.
He took her in there not for the purpose
Of dining or anything of that kind, she
does not attract attention, II is true, going
IN. This girl was not advertising her
shame TO the world She was not about
with bright cOlors in her bonnet, and the
Attest fashion upon her back, advertising
her shame up and down the street. She
was seeking Hall simply to see whether he
would not treat with her yet. That is what
she was there for. She was there upon the
most desperate errand of her whole life.
That IS what she went there for. She did
not desire to attract attention, and she did
not. She Is womanly little woman. She
went there as quietly as she could.
That Interview must have been terrible
when woman went and placed herself al
the feet of the man whom she loved, and
when woman does that she is inspired by
d feeling of desperation that would cause
her Just as quickly To cast herself into a
stream and let 1t cover her over forever.
When she reaches that point she is so des-
perate, ana loves so deeply that she Will
plead and beg, and forget he~ womanly
pride she has reached the point of desper-
alton, and reason does not control her. We
have to try women a little differently than
we DO men. because men IN the ordinary
possession Of their faculties have the ability
10 control themselves, 1t is for that reason
that | say that any and every man who has
the possession of his faculties, who finds
that q young girl who has always been
virtuous, and who has never been be
trayed, WHO'S not street walker, who is
of a good family, has placed herself com
pletely in his power, there is nothing toe
bad that can be done to that man If he be
trays her. 1 think mankind generally viii
Justify that assertion.
He got her into the room, and after the
interview that he had had with her, where
she plead with him, he laughed al her
Think Of that. They may seek to dis
creit this by saying that we have no wit
nesses except this girl that such was the
fact You know yourselves that something
desperate and terrible must have occnreC
she finally did. As | directed attention al
the outset eff this cast it is seldom that
woman is placed upon trial for murder
There must have happened to this girl as
terrible a thing as could happen TO woman,
TO induce her TO do it. So I say that there
is strong confederation of the story of this
girl Us to what took place there. At any
rate, there is nothing to dispute or TO con
hadict it And can you say that you have
al abiding faith, beyond a reason" l.
doubt, that there did not occur Just ha
she states! Why, they say that she die no
rush wildly from there, ] told you a tn
outset that when that girl finally BIZ,
away from that man after
he HAD INsULTED HER
right there at that time, she said L
him that he had taken her in there, and hC
ought TO be man enough to see that she go
out of there. Her whole effort was to ge
out without people observing her, because
she was not advertising her shame Anc
so he escorted her to the door, and, he stop.
at the cigar stand and cody takes his cigar
There is the man who moment bsfor,
had had the heart of a woman at his feet
There was the msn of the world, who haC
sought to insult that woman when She
Frustrated herself to him, and he car
cody step to the cigar stand, and light hi:
cigar
Out of that door, with her mind filled
with the most terrible emotions, went thai
little girl into the arms of her mother She
did not stop to light cigars nor to ask ques
tions of this man or that man, because then
from that moment, her life was complete
blank, and complete wreck She went
out OF there. He remained there, nothing
upon his mind, nothing worrying him His
previous record is not before you. Hi.
record in this case is before you. You car
form your own Judgment as to what his
life had been, from what has been dis
closed here. Just think of what the prose
cutting attorney said to you. 1t is that
owing to the familiarities that existed be
tween Hail and the girl, he may hav,
sought TO have caressed her, possibly no
IN the most gentle and virtuous manner
but nevertheless, it was meant as a caress
put that statement with the stafemen
which he MADE that
IF ALL SUCH MEN WE'RE KILLED.
cur cities would be depopulated
Let it go with that dom
CALI ceress. | call it an assault.
deadly Insult. Icall it adding insult to in
iury-injury which was the deepest an,
the greatest that man could give to woman
and / say that the woman's heart tina
would not then be fired, the woman's in
tellect that would not then be overthrown
would indeei have to be heart of stont
aud an intellect OF wire and steel.
She went to her home with her mother
broken hearted and hopeless. When sh,
got there she cried as if her heart woul,
break. God pitied her then. and he Der
uitted from her eyes TO flow the tears-th,
tears that heal There she cried, an,
bowed her head, and felt that there wer,
raining upon her such troubles that sh,
could not endure: and when the fonts wer,
empty, she never cried again until after hel
terrible deed. Her eyes became ike coal.