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

self before him as she did at that time,
there would somewhere in his nature arise
spark of manhood that would cause him
thereafter to be true to her. He told her
ne did 1t to make sure OF her and ne
promised her that he would be true, that
he would be faithful, that he would keep
that precious casket of her love aud defend
1t through all his life. So she told him then
that she would marry him-told him
because she felt that he had obtained tnat
which was the dearest and most precious
thing to woman. Is that strange. L feel
at times, as | think this over, as il | could
not discuss the argument OF the prosecu-
ton with patience upon this point. is 1t
strange that that girl should grasp out at
this to save ner honor! The man who is
thrown over into the seething, boiling
ocean reaches out and grasps the straw he
sees above his head in the hope OF saving
his life, and is it strange that this girl at that
moment should reach out and grasp that
straw in the hopes of saving her honor!
And that she should take and bury the
| secret in her own breast as she did during
those ten long months! She made of that
breast grave-that breast wherein rests
the sweetest and the pureSt passions was
| TO this girl grave. There was buried her
hopes, there was buried her love, there was
buried her very life. And they blame her
plead with you as would in this case, 1t
does seem to me that you would render
verdict here without even leaving your
seats and 1 feel that it ought to be done.
What were the thoughts of that girl! He
left her. He was false to her. He had
carried with him all that she had. What
more had she? What more could she give?
She had told him that she loved him, she
had pledged her hand. Don't you believe
that that little girl, if she had had the
opportunity, if she had had the home that
she would liked to have had with the man
she loved, that she
WOULD HAVE BEEN QUEEN
| among womenl 1t has seemed to me as
have watched her in this case, as have
studied her as she has striven TO bear up
during this terrible trial, as il there
must indeed, as there was sug-
gested once here in this city, flow
in her veins the blood of the Vikingsa She
is noble woman. She would have made
to man loyal wife. What greater jewel
| is there in the household, than a virtuous,
a loyal wifei But he left her, left her in
her sorrow, left her in her shame, and
she felt that others must know what she
knew. All, the girl then could well have
| said that:
| Had it pleased high Heaven
| To try me with affection; had he raind
All kinds of sores, and shames, on my bare
head;
| STEPPED me in poverty to the very lips;
Given to captivity me and my utmost hopes;
l should have found in some place of my soul
| A drop OF patience: but alas, to make me
The fixed figure of theitime, for Scorn
To point his slow and moving finger at"
Once after that she met him-once again
she saw him here upon First South street,
and there she renewed her pleadings and
he renewed his pledges to her. saying:
Loyal and faithful will be,
All that have done to thee
Was that could draw you near to me.
And then the next that this girl heard was
that that man had left this city.
l have brought you to this point, and
have endeavored as well as l could to pic
ture to you the trust and the confidence
that this girl had given to that man
and in order that you may I'M
derstand this case-because it is
important and it is legitimate that should
make this argument beg of you that you
will supply the imperfections of my speech
with the picture of this girls life up to that
time as it has been disclosed upon this wit
ness stand.
All of the witnesses tell you that her life
was as pure as the breath of the morning
All of them tell you that she had grown tC
womanhood without guile. All of them say
to you that her voice in her fathers house
hold was as sweet as the songs of angels
All the testimony shows that she was
pearl without price. Up to that point she
was all in all to her folks. To her the world
was as bright and as glorious and as beauti
. full as it was the morning when it was Gre
ated by the Almighty and the stars sang
and the great God SAID,
"LET THERE BE LIGHT"
and there was light, and the flower.
lN,,, Sha1 4
themselves in their glory and the angel.
chanted because new world had been
born. Life to her was as beautiful and as
! pure as the fragile lily of tne valley. 1t wa.
as sweet as the perfume that rises from thu
tender violet in spring. She sought thu
society of her girl friends. Never once die
she retire within herself. She loved tt
! converse with those whom she met Silt
arose in the morning with the lark, retired
at evening at proper hour, and in all he
J habits was girl who was perfect in health
. and supremely happy mentally. That il
the girl that you have here to try. Their,
was a household that, was happy as an,
=. within this city. And we find 1t in tina
b condition up to the very hour when thi
. man left the city, and with him carried tn,
y happiness of that home, carried the yer!
9 life Of that girl, and scattered the seed
. that ripened into this trial
- 1t becomes my duty now to turn another
y page in this history. Up to this time i
. has been poem that we nave been read
ing, poem as sweet and as beautiful a.
q any that ever were written by poets who's
:, hands were guided by angels fingers, ant
- whose thoughts were inspired right from
:, . the great white throne We turn anothe
- page, ana what do we find I! Despair, sor
q row, trouble, anguish, jealousy, wee, re
II morSe-all the pain that can affiict TIT
. human intellect. The sun has gone out
= the clouds have come, and in the place O
the royal glow Of that great orb the black
,, ness of midnight broods over this life
!. Would not such a change affect human
:, intellectl Would it not have some effec
g upon this little woman! Have you mel
. never had business troubles Have am
:; of you ever thought and worried owe
. financial difficulties, and felt that tn
a entire world was blank to you, felt tina
! everything was against you, felt tina
. there was nothing to struggle for, felt tina
= you were indeed ruined and that you nigh
9 as well be in your grave. What of that
: You had your home to go to. and you
A friends to talk with. You had your lif
4 before you. You had your hopes to chez
you. But If you have suffered to that eS
. tent, simply, you may have some idea O
:, the blackness that came over the life O
!; this girl at that time. What capital ha
4 she +! Simply her little womanly hear
\ that had beaten
= FOR NO MAN BUT HALL.
Simply the love that she, as nader
had given to him; and when he left an
% had bereft her of her virtue, she was in
d deed bankrupt. and she felt that she ma
J. nothing more 10 look for. 1t seemed to he
8 as if the heavens rained backness
e seemed to her as if the father of evil ha
e spread his black wings over their house
IS hold and breathed into her nostrils trouble
g trouble ! Jroublell She could not wor
h after that. Would you think that sh