Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1890-12-09
ToDAY's PROCEEDINGS.

a numerous body OF interested
spectators assembled again In the
Third District Court room this
morning, when the arguments Of
counsel in the Olson case began.
The three front rows of benches
we're occupied principally by ladies',
most Of whom were residents in the
neighborhood in which dwell the
accused and her parents. Miss
Olson was seated in her accustomed
place, at the attorneys table, her
parents sitting Immediately behind
1er. The defendant who still wore
ler veil, occasionally exhibited
.igns Of mental anguish, and ut on.
n two stages Of the trial drew hei
handkerchief from her pocket ano
inaudibly sobbed. On these occa-
lions Judge Power. turned toward
her aud offered a few consoling
vords. which were seemingly not
without effect
ar. CIi.cuiow proceeded to ad-
iress the jury on the part Of the
prosecution. He commenced by re-
ferring to the importance Of the
case not only to the accused herself,
out to the public. Upon counsel for
the people in a case Of this sort, he
aid, there rested q solemn and
seighty responsibility. The prose
cution had no desire to press this
ease unduly against the defendant,
and he would sooner drop dead al
that moment than do aught of in
Justice towards her. He begged the
jury to set aside all popular senti-
nent and clamor, not to take the
law into their own hands. but to
1t upon broad principles.
He asked them to calmly, pa
tiently, and deliberately Investigate
and weigh the evidence, and upon
their consciences try the issues pre-
sented and render . just verdict.
Let them as honest men, acting
under the obligations Of an osth,
iivest their minds Of whatever
might he extraneOus In this case.
In one sense this was a cold
bloodei murder, and yet in the real
aspects of the case 1t was q murder
born Of hot blood and passions
natural TO the human mind. Coun-
sci next insisted that ut the time
Amanda Olson shot Frank Hall
she was sane person, and nothing
mad yet been shown TO indicate that
she WAS possessed Of other than a
rational mind.
and infinitely the history and dispo-
sition Of Miss Olson from her child
hood, as had been revealed by the
evidence, her general bearing
in the society Of her associates, and
entered into q generafreview of the
facts of the case from the period OF
her introduction to Hall until the
commission of the act with which
she stands charged. He laid particu-
TAR stress upon the alleged assault by
Hall upon the accused on the night
before his departure, and asked the
iury-Do you really believe that
this young woman was lost to every
sense of decency and self-respect, to
the honor due to her par
ents, herself, her friends
AZ right there in that room, under
the very shadow of the wrong,
under resentment for the
injury she had received. to plight
her truth 10 the man who had
wronged her? 1t Is outrageous. 1t
is a stigma on womaukind t. think
that that sort Of thing could have
been done. I do not believe In this
theory Of q rape; for that is what II
comes down to. do not see how
any rational mau-any man at all
versed In the aiiairs of human life,
who knows anything OF the rela-
ton Of the sexes, can believe for
one moment that that man on that
night, forcibly and against
the viii of this girl, succeeded in
accomplishing his purpose toward
her. For once and for AL, 1 say
whatever may have been proven In
this case, it does seem to me-and /
win always believe-that, % far =
that part of the defence goes, it Is alb
solutely without foundation. What
evidence was there, asked counsel,
beyopd the bare assertion OF the
herself, that . seduction
ever took place; for no medical evil
depce had been adduced to show
the condition of the girl in this par
ticular.
The name of Mrs. Hart vas In
introduced by Attorney
CritchIov. who remarked upon the
evidently intense jealousy o. The
defendant on account Of Hall's 1t
tentions towards her. The scene
aid To have occurred At the Com
mere;al Street restaurant on the
saturday prior TO the shooting va