Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-11-24

all be prosecuted by the Commonwealth,
and will say to them, as to this man to-day,
| if the law and the evidence show that they
are not guilty will ask the jury to let them
go scot Tree, but if the law of this Common
wealth and the evidence in the case shows
that they be guilty. whether the man be
Sylvester Critchlow or Henry Clay Fr1ck, L
will ask the jury to bring in verdict OF
to try.
A Very Ridiculous Claim.
But vet, while their whole defense IS an
alibi, 90 per cent of the kind of their arRu-
ment is consumed in trying to convince this
Jury OF something that is so absolutely ridic-
ulous that 1t almost makes me blush to refer
to it. viz: That q revolution like unto that
of Lexington and Bunker Hill was about
breaking out in our midst, as if anybody
would believe such stuff as that. Suppose
was indicted in Philadelphia for a
crime that was ALLEGED to have committed
in Philadelphia yesterday, do you suppose
would go there and defend myself by saying
or showing that the man who committed the
crime had a right to commit it? would DO
what Sylvester Critchlow processes to do.
l would set up an alibi and prove by every
man in this courtroom that upon yesterday
/ was in the county of Allegheny. They
know their alibf is weak and won't stand
Why they say 1t is misfortune to the
country that we didn't go outside OF this
ascertain the cause and effect of that strike.
What has that to do with the case-accord-
ing to them this man wasn't there. He d1dnt
do the killing, he wasn't on the ground, and
in the name of God why does he complain
because the Commonwealth didn't put more
witnesses on the stand and prove various
other things He tells YOU in the next
breath that this defendant ought to be ac-
Quilted because there is not a single solitary
piece of evidence that Mr. Frick was inter-
ested in or owned that mill yard. Is the
opposite OF that proposition truef DO un-
defstand nv friend on the other side to
nryue to this Jury that il there was evidence
that Mr.. Frfck was interested or owned that
millyard that then this man is guilty Of
murder
1t is to be determined by you, if their
theory be right, whether within this peace
able county OF ours an Allegheny county
jury is going to say that citizens within 1ts
borders, with guns, muskets, dynamite and
burning oil and every invention that could
be invented by muir ferrous mind, can be
brought to hear against $40 human beings
upon our rivers, even to the extent of ex-
termination, and vet be guilty OF no crime.
A Roast Intended for Erwin.
Are you prepared to say that to the worldr
You have been told i'll language that shocked
every hearer within the walls of this room
that men within this county had right to
shoot them upon the boat to shoot them in
the mart, to shoot them at their hearth
stones and after their death to
climb over the boundaries itself, and to
snoot them upon the burning bosom OF the
Prince of He'll. Are you going to indorse
that? That is the theory of the defense.
You have been told if those men had not
surrendered at O'Clock upon that day, that
people of this county had a right to shoot
and shoot and shoot, even down until yes
terday if they hadn't surrendered. and had
a right to kill every one OF them; that it
was right under tile law. Are you going to
a, ,fpof hQ i1h
language, it is brutal language, language
contrary to Divine law, Contrary to
human law, contrary to the laws
of the savages and barbarians, language
that 1 world not even attribute to the
Prince of Darkness himself. because l be-
lieve it would make him blush to say it, and
1 don't believe he would indorse it. And
yet the time has come in Allegheny county
when an officer of the court can stand be-
fore the public and the jury and say to
them, under the oath that he took TO prose-
cute the case that that is right under tho
law of Pennsylvania. Horrible! Awful A
hideous doctrine! doctrine that l do not
believe any Il men in or out of Cbristendom
would give their assent and their approba-
ton 1t is worse than tho crime for which
Critchlow stands indicted. 1t is more
ghastlv and more awful than any murder
ever committed in Allegheny county. The
PRONUNCIATION of a doctrine like that is not
law, it is anarchy pure and simple, it is the
utterance of a communist.
If Critchlow encouraged the formation of
Un1C rlOC tuo Vi anu tHtu lelG
and didn't go back agaiu, he is just as guilty
under the law as if he had stayed there all
the day. And why? A man cannot start a
mig hty engine of destruction in motion, or
cause SUCH q terrible riot as that was: d man
cannot be the means OF congregating on the
ground 5000 people with dynamite and oil,
and cannon and shotguls. and pistols ami
rifles, and leave them there to complete the
job without being guilty OF everything that
takes place after he was first on the scene.
no matter whether he remained there or
not. And to avoid any mistake about it, /
don't care whether Critchlow was home at 3
O'Clock, whether he was asleep at 4 o'clock
or not: if lie was there that morning at any
time after this murderous attack started un-
der the law he is just as guilty as If he re-
manned there all day.
A Description of the Riot.
Mr.. Burleigh then went into an elaborate
account of the events of July at Home
stead. He claimed the Pinkertons were
carefully brought to Homestead to guard
property; that Sheriff Gray's presence
sanctioned the undertaking and that the