The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-01-01
JUDGE FURMAN'S PLEA.
DR.. Graves Counsel Say Some Last
and Earnest Words.
NO SESSION HELD TODAY.
The Court Adjonrns Over New Years
Jury and Counsel Take Rest, but
Tomorrow the Case Is Expected To Go
To the Jury.

DENVER, Jan. 1.-When court adjouned
at Q O'Clock last evening it was until to-
morrow morning, no session being held
| to-day.
| Judge Belford concluded his argument
| for the prosecution yesterday by alluding
to DIR. Graves voluntary visit 10 the Bar
naby house, where he confessed sending a
bottle Of whiskey to her Denver address
a confession which none had contradicted
save the defendant. who. having lied right
and left on everything else, must he pre-
sumed TO have lied, when, on being con
fronted with this confession, he denied its
correctness.
Judge Furman, for the defence, began
his speech as soon as Judge Belford had
concfued He said This trial has been
backed up by the Pinkerton detective
agency: 81 100000 and as many witnesses
as money could purchase.
He dissected the instructions of Judge
Rising to the jury, and dwelt upon the
fact that the defendant could be sentenced
10 Imprisonment in the penitentiary for
life, and, if il became necessary to convict
the defendant, imprisonment for life
should he decided upon by them.
According to Belford," he proceeded,
''Mr. Barnaby left his wife the finest man
sion in Providence His will don't show
1 lis
"a large house, with retinue of horses,
carriages and servants be kept up on
=. 800 a year!
'They charge DR.. Graves with not send
ing enough money. How are they going
to make that g., 800 last whole yeary
Look at their Pinkerton agencies. For
50 they will swear h-ll an ice house
II have no war TO make on rich men,
by my observation has been that true
affection does not always exist in the
families of millionnaires j. Is. Barnaby
owed considerable to his wife. who was
cut off. Mary Hickey says that was
happy family-God save me from such
happy family"
AS to the testimony of Mary Hickey, he
said: This woman. before DIR. Graves be-
came the executor of the Barnaby estate,
collected all the rents, and the appearance
of the physician was a source OF great an
noyance To her. Does not that show a
motiveg Is il not possible that she might
have had cause To commit this crime?
Mary Hickey lays the blame on DIR.
Graves. Do you believe herr You might
as soon believe that she turned double
somersault backward through fifteen
foot stone wall
Judge Furman at this point turned
toward counsel for the defence and deliy-
| cred an arraignment of the strongest kind.
He announced that he would prove that
/ the letter DIR. Graves mailed TO Mrs. Bar
naby at East Pasadena, Cal, was sent
without knowledge on his part that she
was in Denver.
/ fic then returned 10 the Barnaby family
| He said that IL Mrs. Barnaby loved her
| husband she would not have believed the
alleged story that her husband left slOO,-
600 TO his mistress. She would have re
sented the accusation against the charac-
| ter of the dead man, and would have de-
| nounced DIR. Graves to the world.
Judge Furman ridiculed the idea that,
! if Mrs. Barnaby was poor, weak-minded,
| paralytic woman, her loving son-in-law,
| Mr.. Conrad, should have left her To the
tender mercies of the man they now de-
nounce and expose to the world as muir
derer, thief and a perjurer. Hang
J him9 No; no you certainly could not be-
| lieve that story There is no reason in it.
Look to the Worrells. Think well and
long over the story they have told you.
put two and two together, and when you
have finished, / rely upon your Judgment
| asmen not TO convict Dr. Graves.
AT this point court adjourned until 7:30
p. NJ.
At the night session, Judge Furman
continued his argument. Gentlemen,
| you must remember that quantity does
not make weight, neither do numbers
make preponderance, such is the charac-
teristic of this case.
"Now you know that Mrs. +. s. Wor-
rell swore that she had notified DR.. Graves
that she and Mrs. Barnaby would be in
Denver about the lst OF April Now
when she was asked if she wrote TO Ches-
ter us TO her movements. she replied, No,
because we couldn't tell Now how could
she tell DR.. Graves | don't want TO
apuse Mrs. Worrell; we are fighting this
case on justice and truth. We haven't
brought any bubbles into this court for
sympathy. Are You going To find
that Mrs. Worrell did write to DR.
Graves on the seventh day of March when
she would be in Denver, while on the wit
ness stand she swore she did not know
until the 21tnf"
At O'Clock an adjournment was taken
until Saturday morning