Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1891-12-18

/ William y . UNIONS ana MRS. ClAfk are
only locked up at night, During the day
they roam around under the Court
House at their own sweet will
Edward Clark ard Joe Clark are locked
up all the time, and occupy separate
cells. At night Mrs. Clark occupies her
husbands cell.
nervously, talking FIRST to one and then
to another She cannot read, and that
makes time hang very heavily upon her
hands.
Edward Clark seems to be very much
down in the mouth and exercised TO the
highest degree.
Joseph Clark reads TO the others and
does not seem to be very much concerned.
The only paper they get is the EVENING
| JOURNAL, and Gibbons reads 10 to the
Others with much gusto. he says: IL Is
the Cd DIST paper ont Of h-l aud etc !,
| don't care what il says about me- am
innocent, and those people are the cause
of all my troubles. / never was guilty Of
starting any Of the fires. and | will take
my oath that | never was at Clark s
house but the one time In my life don't
like the way in which the JOURNAL gets
on to the way in which | come into and
leave the court room. /"
THEYRE AFTER MET THEY'RE AFTER
MEP
Mrs. Clark sleeps but little. and when
she does her slumbers are ftful Early
yesterday morning she cried out: oh,
Edward Edward They're after me oh,
they're after me r Her husband, after
she awakened, had some trouble to
pacify her
Mrs Cfarl~ 5nar +l,n .auLs,~ e.. a.
whole party. The supplies are taken to
her by the bailiff She has the use of
cook stove and dishes the meals up In
good style.
When William J. Gibbons, Edward
Clark Mary Clark aud Joseph Clark nled
iuto the court room this bright morning,
they seemed to fully realize that it might
be the last day they would see the court
room for many years, and could only see
the glorious sunshine from the cell win
dows of the Chateau de Simmons, at New
Castle Their faces were pale and bag.
gard, and showed a sleeplese night
1t was feared that court could not sit
to-day on account Of the sickness of three
Of the jurors. but they came to the
scratch smilingly at 10 o'clock, followed
by the judges. Francis g. and Eugene
DUPONT were among the spectators.
THE CARR CASE OK MONDAY.
As soon as Court called Judge Cullen
discharged al the jurors not drawn IN
the barn-burning case until next Mon
day morning He further stated to the
members of the bar that he Court will
not take any case up this week. Ga
Monday the capital case Of the State VS..
James Carr for the murder OF Antonio
Basso will be taken up After the
capital case is taken up and disposed OF
the Kemether conspiracy case aud the
trial of Eugene Dupont Burns for barn.
burning will begin. The capital case
will occupy several days AID Carr viii be
defended by Walter a. Hayes A vev-
diet Of not guilty is expected.
LAST ATTACHMENT or THE PRISONERS.
These matters disposed Of Attorney
General Biggs resumed his closing argu-
ment in the case of the State VS., the
Clarks and Gibbons. He saii.
while the date, In the indictment is
immateiisl, as q matter Of fact, the date
was the one which Mrs. Noble had the
first conversation with Clark about burn
ing the old barn.
Gentlemen, there are two questions
for You to determine. In the first place
was there conspiracy to burn this old |
barn, aud in the second place, are these |
defendants or any Of them guilty Of this |
conspiracy
There must have been a conspiracy
or this property would not have been |
burned in such rapid succession.
IF you had any doubts that those |
three letters were written by Joseph |
Clark. the testimony of such experts as |
were put upon the stand from New
York and this city, must have removed |
those doubts If there ever was a fact /
proven In a court Of justice. it has been
shown here that that ANONYMOUS letter 4
and those other documents were ali /
written by the hand of joseph Clark /
That anonymous letter is a complete
history of what hsd been done and what
was to have been done.
This letter proves that there was a
conspiracy aud that there was a society
Who composed this society. Joe Clark
says there were only FIVE members who
were any good, and Mary Clark says that
Edward belonged to it. Every bit OF evil
dence from that stand corroborates the
statements made in that letter.
Il say that If there is one person above
any among all those conspirators who
can be singled out as the schemer and
plotter, | am ashamed to be compelled to
say It for her sex, IL is Mrs. Clark AsI
eohcelvlng and inventing the plans for
destroying this property that person is
Lhat woman who sits there, Mary Clark
puS say 70 you, sorry as am because
sne Is woman and of her sex. that she
was the head center and prime-moyer in
this conspiracy.
II have heard it said that whan
y oman goes down she goes down to the
aepths. lhat woman Is the worst person
- tne seven years o. my prosecution OF
criminals that have ever come
across as shown by this evidence a.
shown by that letter, che is the main-
spring and the mother Of all this hellIsh
destruction, Willing as the others were
she seems to be the one of the whole LOT
who ts born to conceive the plans which
we're to be carried out BY others, who
we're accomplices with her
Gibbons was one OF the instruments
hat caused these fires.
About o'clock in the evening the
attempt to burn the old barn was
made by Gibbons and Burns MY learned
Tiend says Why, it was broad day
iPhtF Well, what If it WASP That is
when the others were burned 1t was
When one Waterman would 20 of I
md another go on. The fact that
hey were there has never been i'm
reached. You can come to no other con {
fusion that Gibbons was one of these
onspirators. That man, William Glib
IONS, was the one who executed the hell
al plots of these thrpa CiarIxs and Y,rip