Daily Yellowstone journal., 1891-08-08
MI EGGS OF MURDER.

How They Are Scattered About By
Thoughtless and Gallons Men.
'SThe causes of capital crimes" said
a Tombs lawyer 70 a party Of friends
at a restaurant table the other night
'sthat is, the real and immediate causes
are frequently overlooked by juries
just listen to that man at the table
over there. Got a voice like a horse
fiddle. He is letting the whole
know the list of hereditary diseases
that affect his family. 1t would be a
blessing to humanity If that man was
shot dead as a hammer. yet his slayer
would be charged with manslaughter
and probably convicted by a jury of
the crime. ! tell you that the words
Of that curio will CRATE upon some ears
IN this room tonight and will probably
derange for the time being some sensi-
tive physical organism, under the intlu-
ence of which a vindictive act will be
committed thai will perhaps cause life
long regret if not a punishment by law.
"a client Of mine was once charged
with murder in the first degree, The
statement presented by the prosecution
was that the prisoner had had a differ
ence with an acquaintance. Two weeks
afterward he met this Acquaintance com
ing out of an uptown cafe after dark,
drew a revolver Immediately and shot
him to death. The difference referred
TO was IN itself absolutely trivial. II
lad resulted from IN argument owe
the relative merits a. Langtry and Mrs.
Brown Potter. They had actually part
ed good friends. Tut their high words
at one stage Of tn argument had been
overheard
Now, on the night in question my
client had gone into a restaurant for
dinner. One {. those creatures with
the delicacy of a rhinoceros sat at the
next table. Flo had been attached to a
sherifs Office ono upon a time, ano
Immediately upon sitting down he be-
gan 70 tell the nan near him Of the
hangings that he had witnessed and the
details Of the revolving crimes for which
the prisoners had been hanged My
friend was at about the middle of his
dinner. The words of the brute were
like so many leaden balls dropping
down into my clients stomach. He
tried TO continue, but he could not
choke down more food. In desperation
be called for a glass of brandy and then
another glass. and before be left the
place be had taken a half dozen large
doses in quick succession
That morning in starting out he
had put a revolver in his pocket in
tending to sleep at the house of a friend
In the country. the way to which lay
through a lonesome piece of woods,
which he would have to pass late at
night. As he left the restaurant he
thought Of taking the train. and put
ting bis hand in his overcoat pocket he
found the weapon
"Just at that very moment the &C
quaintance approached. and what real.
" happened was this My client went
MP TO the other and said, Charley, ]
feel so desperately miserable that ]
almost could commit murder or suicide.
See here. ! have a pistol too In try.
ing to take the weapon from his pockel
II became entangled in the cloth. An
explosion followed and one OF the mer
fell dead
Il exhausted my powers Of speech
upon the jury. and after proving by
hygienie experts how talk Of the kind
referred TO would act upon a sensitive
man, succeeded in securing a verdict o.
manslaughter. The man ought to have
been acquitted" New York Recorder