Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1891-05-24

terference and there ought to be no sug-
0estion from ANYBODY, much less from the
prosecution, that your Judgment ougnt 10
be influenced by anything of that sort. You
gentlemen have been sworn to bring in such
a verdict as seems 10 you TO De WARRANTED,
and neither Mr.. Howard, not captain
Dovener, nor Col. Arnett, nor myself Ire
the keepers of either your consclences nol
of the morals of this community cannot
think that YOU will be willing tnat any
further indignities should be heaped upon
this defendant. The gentleman VINO rep
resents the State here, has spoken OF tears,
and has invited YOU togo with him to an
adjacent cemetery, and view the body OF
Doctor Baird, which there lies Inferred.
If that were legitimate argument in this
case. | would ask you TO go with me TO the
little hamlet of West Liberty, and there
see the heart broken old mother, suffering
under the stroke of this calamity, and /
would invite YOU TO go with me 10 that
home in North Wheeling, and to there see
that stricken wife aud that desolate home,
brought about by feud engendered be-
vond the control of this defendant; and |
would ask you to 60 with me to the jail OF
this county, and there see this defendant
as he lies there in his cell, unvlslted Tor
large portion of the time by any OF his
relatives would be willing to have you
weigh all this against any tale
of suffering or of woe that the
State could tell US, if such argument
was legitimate and proper. That Doctor
Baird is in his grave is u sad truth. Would
to God he were not there. Would to God
he could be brought back again. Would
toGod he had not pursued the course he dld
while he was among us. These are SAD
thoughts and sad sentiments; if such are to
figure in this case, let this defendant have
the benefit of his share. No man in this
community has ever had to undergo what
this defendant has had to suffer No such
persecU ted man has ever before came into
the Court House of Ohio county. No man
has had to bear, with what tortitude ne
might summon, such systematic revlle-
ment. And this being so, | say to you,
gentlemen, if you are TO be appealed to in
this way-if you are to be controlled by
such influences as these, the only thing you
can do is to return a verdict of not guilty.
What more could be gained by further
persecution of this defendant. In Gods
name. gentlemen, hasn't he suffered
enough? For long weeks he has lain in the
Jail OF your county. Isn't that punishment
enoughl His future life, if not ollghted,
has been weighted down by an everlasting
regret. Before this he was law-abidlDg
cltlZen, anu YET NC uau ooOu hOulNc
throughout this city. If the whole
community in which Doctor CARR,
rison lives should join in one grand
chorus of coincidence, it would not suffice
to atone for what DR.. Garrison has already
suffered, and that being so, why pursue him
further. There is nothing which makes 1t
seem you would want to return verdict OF
that kind and let me say to you, that when
| take the hand of that friend of mine in
the future. as have often taken it in the
past, know that grasp the hand OF an
unfortunate man, but not the hand OF
murderer.
Gentlemen, thank you"
Mr.. Sommerville concluded at four
o'clock, having spoken for four hours and
thirty-five minutes, and made speech
which was justly esteemed great one by
the large audience which had assembled to
hear him He was warmly congratulated
by his friends at the close.
After making some arrangements about
the submission of instructions TO the Court
an adjournment was taken until half-past
nine tomorrow morning, when Col. Arnett
will address the jury for the defense