The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1892-11-25
CRITCHLOW CASE.
Closing Addresses OF the Couu-
eel in the Homestead Trial.
PROSECUTION SEVERE on DEFENDANT
Also on CritohIow'a Attorney For EavIz-
iuE EoElstanCe TO pInIzsrtoas-CrItc
lows Attorney Makes a violent
aEgl UuuEua

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PIrrsHUEau, Pa Nov. 23.-Testi-
m0ny in the Critchlow case was con-
tinued-
The points of law submitted were
those usual in murder cases One OF
those advanced by the defense was that
where two or more persons are charged
with committing a crime and lt is uu-
certain which, all must b- acquitted
At p. m- Attorney John s. R1bb be-
gan his address TO the jury. lie said iu
part: ''Are we to be told 10y stranger,
and thank God 10 was 2 stranger, that
lu Pennsylvania from its fountain head
of law down to the district attorney, all
is corruption? This was done i'm the
opening OF the case by the defense. We
vver1 told that somewhere in this case
there would come a mysterious some
thing floating somewhere that would
be used in this case What 20 was no
one has yet becu able to discover and
it is still a mystery, and why this so
called mystery was introduced in this
case is "a mystery to me- This great
country has made up its mind that 1T
win not be bIotted from the face of the
earth by anarchy, idiotic misrule and
b-oodshed. Our laws shall not be
trampled under foot our flag shall not
be hauled down. If i We're not "a bet
ter citizen than TO advise jurors to dis
regard their oathsr as has been done in
this case, I would wish I were dead
'It makes little difference i'm this case
who ured the first shot, but there Is no
doubt ia my mind that the first shoot
ing came from the shore aud i ann GER
tain you believe me. The murder OF ".
j. CDuuor took place long after this
first assault and his murder was pre-
mcdituted, deliberate and yyilfuL
''Aas the defendant there that day
ms "a rH- % D. o.
and shooting he is guilty Of the crime
with which he is charged Six wit
usszes swear CritChIuw was there and
all swear he had gun ia his hands,
and one witness sTears he saw CriLeh-
low behind the breastvlrlEs firing
his gun through the port holes i'm
the breustwOrlzs- Who says he was
not tEere2 He goes on the stand and
picks out certain hours when he says
he was not on the mill premises He
docs not pretend to say he was not
there ut any time He does not say
where he was, he does not even corrob-
crate his own witnesses whom Le tried
TO prove uu lliuii he does not say he
did not have % guns he does not say he
did not IRE at the JarEssi La does not
say he did not fire the shot that killed
Counor He denies nothing, but that
at certain hours he was not In the mill
yard"
d., preceded his address to the jury by
thanking the court Tor the fair aud im-
partial manner -u which the case had
been tried He said the jury could not
presume that there was any strike at
Home- teudi it wus not i'm evidence;
there was NO proof shat there was any
g aston; there was no evidence that
Frlc--r WHO sends armed invaders TO
Homestead, had cay property there.
There was NO evidence tLat the men,
women and children Were there l1E lz-.
lawful purposes but the commonwealth
said they must infer.
All the jury knew was that there
woro armed foreign invaders there,
There was no evidence that these men
wero hired as watchmau- Not the
slightest evidence. aEd the jury had no
right to assume they We're watChmau.
The abzeuge of proof gives riso TO the
presumption that the peoples territory
had been invaded by armed foreign
meu-armei by QuartermaEUer Friclz
Why he did not know but presumed
the purpose was SO dumuuble that
Erick would not dare tell it before the
open forum of the court
Continuing, he saiis t'Cuiess the
right of the Piulzertous TO be there was
made plain. the people should have shot
them down. should have followed them
. TO their LGlrtlsL1ue5 ard shot them
down therei should have shot them at
Gods own altar and, If possible, TO foI-
low them across the great bouudaryi
should have followed them across
the graves and shot them down
as they lay ON the bosom OF the
prince of hell But iu case YOU do not
agree with me that the force was 10 lie
legal armed invasion, was there any or
gauized resistance to the landingf Not
g bit of evidence was introduced TO show
it There was a cry of 'scabs- You can't