Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-05-26
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him have done, continues TO look
ahead Of him, and neither 70 the right
or the left.
i saw this, because it is DO uncom-
mon thing for the Prosecutors OF cOun-
ties to appear before jurieS and say
they are TO be credited with great and
lofty purpose, while the attorneys Tor
the defense are 10 be expected TO mis-
lead YOU. l say to you, gentlemen
that on this point the honorS are even
s.Now. gentlemen, l wish 10 ask the
patience and indulgence OF the jury
while attempt to argue the main Tea
lures presented in this case, ana l eA-
pect to do il alone from sense OF duty
not alone 70 this defendant. but also
10 YOU gentlemen of the jury. do
not expect, gentlemen, 10 affect you
by any declarations may make
or by any suggestions l may con-
ceive, not supported by the evidence
We depend alone upon the evidence In
this case. / only hope 10 satisfy your
minds and convict your Judgment when
| refer 10 the evidence in this case. IL
would be impossible for me TO examine
the case rs il is entitled 10 be cOnSld-
cred and reviewed without covering
much ground already gone over by coun-
sci. and shall do this only because l
think il necessary that my ideas may be
perfectly understood by you and be
properly considered and investigated.
.'The defendant has been charged by
the grand inquest of this county with
having unlawfully killed, slain and muir
dered DR.. George Baird. That is the
charge. gentlemen, TO which he has
interposed a plea of not guilty, and that
plea OF not guilty, is where the issue Is
raised, Quadruple, if not Quintuple IN
form. which 10 is your duty TO aroltrate
and determine. That indictment and
plea constitutes the question, along with
the evidence, which you gentlemen are
70 decide
Col. Arnett then took up the crime OF
murder as a generic otfenSe, and from
brief consideration of that passed to
The Jury themselves, and said he knew
that they were anxious to do their duty,
not from the motives which had been
assigned by counsel for the State, but in
such a manner that in years to come,
not only by day, but at night, when
man is most given 10 communion with
his own thoughts, they would concede
they had discharged their duty well.
While on this subject he said:
Gentlemen, l beseech you, look In
the face of the defendant, and see II he
is such a man as the State would have
YOU believe. The Almighty God is said
10 write a plain hand; and no man who
looks upon the face of George l. Carl
son can fail 10 see there the likeness OF
his Maker. There is not the face OF a
felon. not the face of Il fOrger, not the
face of one guilty of foul crime; there
YOU NAV see the face of an unfortunate
man, but not the lineamentS OF a muir
derer, and yet these gentlemen ask you
10 find him guilty of that awful crime.
What evidence have they OF his being
guilty? Let Us see. Upon what evil
dence does this charge OF generalization
rest? Upon the evidence OF w. IL. Fee
and upon the evidence OF w. Z. Beans.
And who elSe2 No one. And when the
gentlemen on the other side undertook
TO explain the language of DR.. Baird In
the gas office, they said il was but
the efTervescence of an angry mind, but
the idle vaporingS of an angry man, but
the meaningless expressions OF
man mad and smarting under
the blows OF an antagonist. II that be
so, how are they TO be cOntraSted with
the feelings of George /. Garrison when
he was visited by w. c. Beans. Stung
10 the quick, outraged, vilifed by let
Ter. the like OF which was never before
pepned by human hand-inSulted by
q letter such as had never been either
writer or cOnceived-undert these condi-
tionS YOU are asked TO believe that he
uttered the uncertain language testified
10 by an uncertain witness. II he did
So ne acted under a motive far stronger
than that had by the late Or. Baird
when he went to the extent of warning
this defendant that he would take his
life. Mr.. Beans couldn't say just what
that language was-which of the three
things-Tm fixed for him. or III
fix him. or I'll kill him, were
used. and my friend Mr.. Sommer-
Vile has already called your attention
TO the uncertainty Of the language, but
more than that, Mr.. Beans has said that,
except in the light OF after events, the
language made no impression upon him.
After Or. Baird was dead, and not until
then. did the circumstances of that con-
versation come rushing back upon the
memory of the witneSS-nOt until then
did the recollection OF what DR.. CARR
son had said 10 him in that hour OF
wrath came TO him and he CON-
municated il to the Prosecuting
Attorney, and was brought in
here TO testify Oh, gentlemen, IL he
had given utterance TO those express
SionS, while he was Smarting under the
indignitieS which had been heaped upon
him in every part of this great city-if
he was burning with Indignation at the
epithetS which had been applied to him
on Main street, and on Market street,
and at the JAIL and at many other
points when language was used
towards him which would have
induced almost every other man
20 have taken revolver and
avenged the inSult-can You blame him?
Look at what tranSpired at the post
office, when epithetS the most foul were
applied 20 him, and yet all this man,
whom rba Srafa would have vOu believe