St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-12-11
ARGUING TO THE JURY.
The Closing Scenes Attract Large
Crowds to the Court.

The Closing Scenes Attract Large
Crowds to the Court.
An immense crowd of people filled
the court room and adjoining corridors
all of yesterday to hear the counsel
argue tile case to the jury.
The address Of County Attorney
O'Brien was q strong and powerful
presentation of we'll tried case. After
a few opening sentences MIR. OBrlen
launched out into review OF the trial
and the incidents of the homicide. lie
declared the otfense to be the highest
known to the lava deliberate Killing,
with malice aforethought and without
eXcuse-the consequences OF conVlc-
ion tor murder being the seYereSt pun
iShment known TO the law.
Mr. OBrien spoke for an hour and thirty
five minutes. during which he said that the
jury owes it to the community to protect So
Ciety. The time was when the man nandlesI
with the bowie knife or revolver was KING OF
the country. But as society was formed law
afforded protection, and there is now no
excuse for the use of those weapons l snail
Hsk for this woman's punishment 1or the
Wanton, deliberate murder OF man.
Before discussing the evidence WISH TO
impress upon you that the testimony or the
three Blair boys, the two Rashka and Inc
Johnson boy is ali true. These SIX boys told
H..
lnlse or the story of the defendant is false.
She describes Il light near the barn, Wnere
one man had hold OF the others throat
These six men tell of running fight III the
water at another point. III IS Impossible Ior
these bows to have made up q story ana come
here and corroborate each other II 1t were not
lrue IL is not probable that they would tell a
story which, if not true, would give you an
opportunity to place in the power OF the
court the right to inflict the death penalty,
tc there
circumstances may sentence her TO the pen
itentiary for life. If any one has perJured
himself i'll this case. he has committed a
crime to which he should answer to society
and the court. If the story told by the Blair
BOYS is true, this is case OF murder III the
first degree. Either She is guilty of the high
est crime or these boys deliberately led.
Taking the story of these boys as true, 1t was
necessary for this defendant TO either plead
guilty or to deny the story told by the boys.
| CLAIM that this woman living at Bass lake
was of desperate. Wanton character. She
cared no more for the life of fellow being
than she did for the life OF dog. 1t is not
necessary to characterize Mr.. Hennig i'll this
case more than it shall affect the case on
trial Another jury will pass upon his case
This is the first time the story of either de
fendant has been told. nave my own views
of the fight as far as Mr. Hennig is concerned,
particularly since he appeared on the stand,
but that will be reserved for another tribu-
nal We had no right to show the character.
The counsel for defense boldly threw down
the challenge to prove character. In lace OF
This challenge he knew we had the testimony
OF witnesses as TO her temper and the shoot
ing at other people.
/ wish to show by the testimony of the de-
fense that auv one who rowed a boat across
The lake near the Hennig property, or puI
his nose OH The premises, unless a favored
neighbor, it was al the penalty OF life. II
was the ruling passion OF the defendants to
keep people off the property. | do not be-
=. IL CO fap htttt hic
an had led turbulent life, and she deliber-
ately killed Hoppe. Even the course of Hen
mig shows that, even before the blood began
10 OoZe from the wound, he went to drive q
man from the lot for fear he would tramp on
the garden lie then dragged the body from
the premises to prevent people from tramp
ing his garden. 1t was the ruling passion OF
these people to keep people off. Mr. o Brie1
declared that every case OF self defense tried
in this county revealed the same movement
10 a hip pocket A something that glisIened
and q fear OF being shot prompted the de
fendant 10 take life to protect himself. a
Mr.. Erwin here took an exception to the
county attorneys testlfying as TO what hac
been done in other cases.
Mr.. O'Brien scarcely hesitated long enough
for the exception TO be noted, when he reiter
ated the statement as to the general theory Of
self defense. In his view it was Hoppe tha
was doing What he could in self-defense
The defendants were the aggressors.
Where is the assault made on Hennig
taking his own testmonyT' asked MIR
O'Breu did Hennig tell the truth, or die
the woman tell the truth? Where is the jus
tification in the story Of Hennig? If Hennll
told the truth this woman lied and this is
case of cold blooded. heartless murder. Il
there any use to go further with this recital
Is there any reason Why there should not bt
Avindication of the law"
The symrathes OF man are with the de
fendant in This case because it is a woman
no Won know that when q woman descend
10 such things and changes her nature anC
takes the nature of wolf. the more intense
cruel and reckless she becomes? We hay'
here crime that no one but woman
Eoman who has descended to low leve
eould commit. After discussion as to tn