Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-05-27
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liberation and with malice and with
reconciliation he killed and murdered
DR.. George Baird on the 9TH OF March
in cold blood. That in cold blood, and
not i'm the heat of anger,
he accomplished his foul purpose
He tells you that in this
conflict i'm which, with his splendid
Dhvsioue. he crushed his antagonist, he
was threatened, and that he went and
armed himself. Is there any one who
denies it? He announces it himself
and against what? A threat which no
one heard and which, If uttered, could
have been heard. Do you mean to say
that OF ali those friends there, standing
about like SentinelS TO watch, some one
would not have heard those threats, II
any were made? i notify you what to
.exDecJ i'm the future l take ii for
granted that did not occur. But sup
mise DR.. Baird had said, I'll kill you.
WHY should DR.. Garrison 60 and arm
himself III Or. Baird had been in that
ordition-armed to kill him-and
wanted to 90 it, what better time or
nlsceo He was armed. 1t has been
shown that be habitually carried
revolver, but did he attempt to use 1t?
DR. Garrison came out of it without
scratch. while DR.. Baird for days after
that with humiliation had to acknowl-
edge his defeat, would say that DR.. Gar
rison did TO. and would call him hard
name DR.. Baird passes him as he goes
m and fro in this city, and what does
no do? He contents himself with
doing lust as children do when they
have been caught in sugar barrel, and
have been spanked by an irate grocer.
He calls names. IL was the only thing
he could do and he did it, and as he
would be passing one way or another,
and he would see DR.. Garrison, he would
call a name, and there never was an OPP
oportunity for DR.. Garrison, who had
nut pistol in his pocket and carried 1t
around through this city for six months,
10 carry out his purpose until the 9TH of
March, when he found his opportunity
and used it. This is his own evidence,
and that is the fact"
The speaker then took up the evidence
NJ the witness Baker and Of the defend
ant himself, and after an extended ex-
nosition of it and some sharp criticism,
he said:
..Where is there the man on top Of
Gods green earth who ever heard DR..
Raird threaten TO kill DR.. Garrison?
There is none. But DR.. Garrison says
he had been warned. He couldn't give
the words of warning, but w. IL. Travis
could. and w. Ii. Travis sat here in this
Conrt room uncalled, when he could
have supplemented and explained this
defendant. Why was not w. Ii. Travis
put upon that stand?
Did Clark HaneS ever tell you that
Dr. Baird had threatened you? Did he
ever communicate any of those threats?
Or did he tell you he had warned him?
clark Hanes was brought in here, and
sworn i'm the presence of this jury and
excluded, and he was never called.
Wbv? And echo answers Why He
could have said just what DR.. Baird said
he would do to DR.. Garrison, and the
counsel for the defense did not do their
duty II they didn't put him on the
stand 90 aid this man in the peril in
which he stands"
Col. Arnett. Of counsel for the defense,
here objected TO the statement, and said
be had explained that the witnesses
Gould not be put on the stand. Mr..
Howard objected 10 the ColOne'S re-
marks. aud Col. Arnett said: Then
don,t call on me, or I'll answer"
Captain DOvener-Tll call on you at
any time.
Col. Arnett-All right.
Mr.. Howard referred to that mat
ter in the opening argument, and the
defense did what they could to reply.
Thev have done that, and their day has
nassed. Col. Arnett and the defense
have GONE outside of the evidence in
This case-they have cited novels, and
that sort of thing, and they were not
interrupted, and l object now to any
statement from them.
This called up Col. Arnett, who
made an explanation. and said he
would not again interrupt except when
he was called upon.
Mr.. Howard object to the inter
ruptiOu.
cant Dovener The interruption adds
nothing TO the explanation. It's an
aXDIAnatlOO WulCu ubtN Ape ONftSiu'
Th.v summoned Clark HaneS and
others and they were here in
answer il, and they were not called,
and counsel had no right to take
,ucb chances rs that when a man was
m trial for his life. If Clark HaneS or
Mr.. Travis had heard threats that was
he very best diSintereSted evidence
.bev could get, aud il is not to be ex-
,ected that the State would run any |
.isk in fooling with an adverse witness. |
Who summoned him? The State? No. !
Clark HaneS was summoned here by |
he defense, who says that threats were |
TO him. Blu, don't be-
love that Col. Arnett ever fails in his
lutv. The fact is, the assertion OF the
defendant could not be proven.
lis life Of so little impOrtance-iS life
10 cheap that 10 can be forfeited so
,asily? That is. can i, be bartered at
he price of an epithet, and on the inter
rotation of harmless movement 10 be
threat? am going to talk plain. I'm
.oipg to brush away the chat and
traw brought into this case, and if
here is 20 be any SHINING here, 1t will /;
"a in the open daylight. /:
The speaker then took up the evidence