Omaha daily bee., 1891-05-27

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court room show that she has the required
coolness In planning such deed But her
face aud expression are not true story OF
the purposes that lurk In the heart
when crime is committed you naturally
look for the motive. What was tue motive
in this casei
don't believe, gentlemen OF the Jury, that
tnat there Is one Of you but who believes that
Monday Mcfarland was induced by Mrs
Sheedy 10 commit this murder. The induce.
ments offered for the commission Of the crime
were put in more alluring form and shape
than were those offered by satan TO Christ.
She first offered him money and sparkling
diamonds, hut these failed 10 have the effect
on the negro. Her next step was TO tell him
how she was abused by her husband and
thereby tried to work upon the symp1,hies
of the black man. What NEXT She then
offers TO barter away her virtue and hcr
womanhood for the purpose of securing the
murder OF her own husband. Great God
was virtue and womanhood ever barteredt +
such damnlOie commodity But tho de-
fense affect TO abhor the idea OF criminal IN
tinacy between Mrs Sheedy and the negro.
DO YOU suppose that o woman who has mur-
der in her heart would hesitate TO commit
adultery with negro She finally gained the
poor negro's affections and prevailed upon
him TO commit the terrible crime. Monday
said that 1t was easier to 90 forward than
backward. Mrs. Sheedy had threatened 10
kill him IL he failed ner. II was death to him
in either case. He was coaxed, coerced and
pushed until this crime was committed
MIR. Hall then reviewed the facts leading
up TO the murder, Mrs Sheedy's intimacy
with Walstrom, her alleged reasons for wish
ing TO have her husband put out OF the way,
McFariand's confession and the certainty Of
Its truthfulness, after which court adjourned
until the afternoon.
In the afternoon Mr.. Hall resumed his
argument:
Nov the learned advocate who addressed
you Yesterday tried to convince you that this
prosecution was being waged against Mrs.
Sheedy from venai purpose, and he thought
could speak from the great beyond
he would say 10 Dennis Sheedy, for
Gods sake, stop that prosecution of my be-
loved wife. II John Sheedys spirit could
speak from that place, he would tell a
different story. | have no doubt that John
Sheedy's spirit has visited this woman in
her solitary confinement more than once
since 1t took its flight, ana | would 10 God
that you might know the story that John
Sheedy's spirit could tell. He would tell a
story that would stir the pulses of your
heart. He would tell a story that has not
oeen told by the witnesses upon this stand.
tie would tell you what occurred in his home
circle after he was assaulted and unless that
spirit tells the story, | fear you will never
know 1t since the only people who DO know it,
do not see fit to tell it,
You have heard OF the murder Of King
Claudius. How his spirit returned and
chided his only son for not prosecuting his
most cruel and foul murder. Do you believe
Dennis Sheedy Is prosecuting this case for
the paltry amount that will fall to ms share
OF the estate of John Sheedyi Why, If a
wife can murder her husband in an enlight-
ened, Christian community and the brother
would not raise his arm TO defend IL, to
avenge it, to prosecute the guilty party, he
would be unworthy the name of a brother,
and think John Sheedy's spirit would come
back 10 haunt him and chide him for the
brotherly duty neglected and unfulnlled.
MIR. Courtnay cells what Dennis Sheedy
did for this woman before she was sus-
pected, before she was arrested, before the
finger OF suspicion pointed to her. that he ar.
ranged everything iu the most systematic or
der. He replenished her bank account with
$3.50 that he had collected from different peo-
pie who owed his brothers estate, Did he
sweep IL down in his own pocket and skin
out homer
Mr.. Hall spoke in this strain for about an
hour longer.
Mr.. X. ID. Steains, counsel for Mrs Sheedv.
next addressed the jury. He characterized
the action OF County Attorney Smell in this
prosecution as that of a bound-out boy. He
scored him for playing secondary part and
not doiug more questioning and cross-ques-
tonlng He condemned the alleged charity
OF Dennis Sheedy in giving Mrs. Sheedy
$3.50. This is wonderful charity said he
when we remember that he took home with
him valuable gold watch and chain and
other articles not belonging to him This
action Is to be Investigated later. What
creience can you give to Goldwater's testi-
mony after he told the story that he did
to Burr about jim Malone offering
him n reward of s200i II would take
a magnifying glass of 100000 power to
lind the veracity of Goldwater, particularly
| II Jim Malone had polished him up This
man did as he did because he wished to stand
in with the officers, and was after gain.
"A remarkable instance in this case is that
several persons had passed and repassed on
the porch, il had been scanned in search for
blood spots. but the cane had not been found;
Fully twenty minutes had passed before 1t
was discovered there. Why don't the prose-
cution prove that the cane was not put there
after John Sheedy was taken into the house
| Another remarkable circumstance is the fact
that the prosecution has not proved that the
ring had been given to Monday Mcfarland.
| Gould rot they have proved this by half q
dozen witnesses.
The prosecution would make yeu believe
that Mrs. Sheedy is a monster OF wckedness.
| The face of Mrs Sheedy indicates that of a
| cultured or ut least refined woman. IL YOU
| have scanned the face Of Mrs. Sheedy YOU
| cannot help but see that it is a refutation OF
the scandalous, cruel and wicked lies that
| the prosecution are so glib in relating. You
| cannot find anybody who can believe the
! story OF Illicit Intercourse with the negro. Ii
could not have happened at all. 1t never did
| happen. just think to what depths of deg
radiation a woman would have TO sink to be
| guilty of such thing, Nature herself re
| flutes. denies and condemns the awful story.
| , Just think. gentlemen Of the jury. of the
| absurdity of lover being willing to kill q
man so that another lover might supplant the
| man who did the killing. Is such thing
| probable' And yet that is the way that the
| prosecution would have you believe. They
claim that Monday Mcfarland, out of his
| love for Mrs. Sheedy. killed Mr. Sheedy SO
that another lover, Walstrom, might carry
her away. 1t is out OF the range OF human
| reason.
| The presumption OF good character like
that Of innocence is always held until proven
otherwise, and the attorneys for the prosecu
tion have no right to have you presume other
| wise.n
| PHIL4 4DELPHIl'S TREASTRER