The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-11-23

to discover, and it is still a amystery.
and why this so-called mystery was in
troduced in this case is mystery to
me. This great country has made up
its mind that it will not be blotted from
the face OF the earth by anarchy, riot
misrule and bloodshed Our laws shall
not be hauled down. II / were not
better citizen than TO advise jurors to
disregard their oaths, as has been done
in this case, would wish were dead.
at makes little difference in this
case who fred the first shot, but there
is no doubt in my mind that the first
shooting came from the shore, and /
am certain you believe me. The muir
der of T. ]. Connor took place long
after this first assault, and it was pre-
meditated, willful Was the defendant
there that day, aiding and abetting,
armed with gun and shooting? II SO,
he is guilty Of the crime with which he
charged. Six witnesses swear Critch-
low was there, and all swear he had O
gun in his hands, and one witness
swears he saw Critchlow behind the
breastworks firing his gun through the
port holes in the breastworks. Who
says he was not there? He goes on the
stand and picks out certain hours when
he says he was not on the mill premises.
He does not pretend to say he was not
there at any time; he does not say
where he was; he does not even cor
roborate his own witness who tried to
prove an alibi; he does not say he did
not have a gun; he does not say he did
not fire gun; he does not say he did
not FIRE at the barges; he does not say
he did not fire tho shot that killed
Connor; he denies nothing but that at
certain hours, fixed by himself, he was
not in the mill yard"
William NJ. Erwin, Esq, OF Sioux
Falls, preceded his address to the jury
by thanking the=Court for the fair and
impartial manner in which the case had
been tried.
He said the jury could not presume
that there was any strike at Homestead;
it was not in evidence; there was no
proof that there was any dissention.
There was no evidence that Frick, who
sends armed invaders to the shore of
Homestead, had any property there.
There was no evidence that the men,
women and children were there for un-
lawful purposes, but the commonwealth
said they must infer. "Infer"-a way
to wink when logic could not speak!
All the Jury knew was that there were
armed foreign invaders there.
"Was the battle at Homestead riot
or was 1t an unwarranted invasion? II
the latter, that ends it, for the people
never delegated away their right to re-
pei invasion.
Continuing, he said "unless the right
of the Pinkertons to be there was made
plain the people should have shot them
down. should have shot them alter
leaving the barges, should have follow
edthen to their hearthstones and shoot
them down there, should have shot
them at Gods own altar, and, il possi-
BILE, to follow them across the great
boundary, should have followed them
across the grave and shot them down
as they lay on the bosom Of the prince
of hell.
Mr.. Erwin reviewed the evidence
sigen by the witnesses for the prosecu-
tion and argued to show much of it un-
worthy of belief. In conclusion he said
to the jury:
81 leave my client in your hands and
you in the higher hands OF the Al
mighty"