The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1892-02-09
FOURTH edition
JOHN BIGGS.
The state's Attorney General Makes n
Ponderous aud Powerful Speech to
Convict the Priaoner


Ponderous aud Powerful Speech to
Convict the Prisoner.
On Courts resuming the Blackburn
trial at 10 O'Clock this morning Mr..
ward was permitted to include In his
nesses for the defence.
Attorney General Biggs began his
concluding argument for the prose-
cutlon at l0l2a. m.
III Isabel Scott was so bent on swear-
ing the prisoners life away, why was
sio SO cautious in her Identification?
Mt. Blggs took upi In detail each wit
ness used to contradict Bella Scott.
ITO paid great attention to fortifylng
her testimony,
Bella Scott went around by the rail-
road and saw this object coming
down.
When she got within the length OF n
car IRON him she saw who 1t was. 1t
was such bright moonlight night,
that you could zee a square away. Her
te5tlmony here was tho same as her
conversation to Hawkins II she was
50 uaterlnlhed to swear away tho life
OF the prisoner. why did she modify
| her statement?
The dark mustachs tho defense laid
great stress upon Reddy Clifford Is
pretty bird to contradict anybody.
linen no hnd witness to say BellaScott
was gong to testify it was Blackburn
whether 1t was him or not. Now all
that amounts to Is that she knew it
was Blackburn.
Lola Seaford raclSed her llttle brain
to do what she could to save her
| friends. Then Catherine A. Dolan said
Hel'a Scott said that she told the de-
tecttyes "dod burned pack OF Hes"
| Now Catharlue A. Dolan OF Mr.. Haw-
kin5 was wrong. and its more proba-
BILE Hawkins was correct,
Then that old man Iiinseley didn't
know anything except pitched up
story about n black mustache.
The testimony OF Bella Scott is In
tho case and my learned friend cannot
white it down. They have tried
every way to get psomething against
IL but when you come to slit it, II
amounts to nothing.
His own witness, Dal Redden says
they walked over this town hunting
for the lost boy and never asked any.
body where he was. Why not2 Be
cause he knew he himself killed the
boy. Now this boy was murdered.
Who did 1t? Nobody in the world but
that man Cpolnting TO the prisoner).
Don't you believe he knew as we'll as
| ilS hllcN ms own llulilh Indt lnb DOly
was in that car? Everybody. mother
relatives, policemen and ,'detectlveS
were hunting for the lost BOY. So thu
prisoner went hunting round when hs
knew where he was.
le prowled around that car because
no WAS uneasy and wanted to sec il
that car had not gone and the body
with il. 1t was his conscience tina
troubled him.
If Lawrence McKegney ia right tht
tep-Glandmother is all wrong. rheJ
contradict each other. Mrs Trivoli
the step grandmother, and my learned
friend struggled hard to got Black
burn in that house and asleep
Now, all the old lady know was thai
blackburn got III there and laid down
That IS all she really knows about 1t
My learned friend tried hard to make
the time up to six o'clock. Now OF:
side of Mrs TrivoN, the testi
mony OF every witness shortens tn,
, time he was in the house asleep.
= The prisoner told John Cook he wen
A home about four O'Clock. He and hi
= sister and his father fix the testimun,
that he had but ono nap. Therefor
, he never had dream. For il h had
L he told it before he had it. The testi
mony of father and sister and TIL
$ prisoner himself shows he told til,
dream before the time they proved h
had II he had it at all.
He comes up to MeKcgney and say
did joe see Eddie Gardner2 Do yol
! believe he didn't know where lIuza
t assaulted that bow
. He an idler? With nothing in tn
: world to do but TO run about thl
l town? He says McKegney, Have yo
: seen Hazel anywhere about hero to
day.
lIG was getting ready to lay 1t o
A Hazel. lie afterwards tried to lay
!, on an innocent man, Hlnesley, as II
/ noeeut of it as you ana |. Ii lIaz
had been seen there he would huy
$ laid it on him.