Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-04-29

VOCAL EXERCISE
OF the Lawyers in the Bonner
Murder Case.
The ARGUMENT CLOSED,
And the Jury wal BE Charged This
MorninE-Great Sympathy Expressed
foe Mrs Tsmpiotou and tho
Defendant.
The ARGUMENT CLOSED,

The Bonner murder case occupied an
day yesterday and has not YET been given
TO the jury
The court room was crowded, the de-
PENDANT sat YEARLY back ia his chair
upon one side Of him was his wife. upon
the other was his daughter aud Mrs
Stands his wifcs sister
MIS- IempletOn was not in the court
room. She had had all Of the experience
mat she wanted and bad not recovered
from tue ORDEAL which she had passed
through the day before
County Attorney .. W Gillespie opened
the case by reading the Indictment aud
presenting the law relating TO homicide.
lie was followed by y. s. IanmOre.
who made very forcible argument for
the state. summing up the evidence
| Clearly aud logically 1t was a mastery
effort but IN the beat Of argument he
allowed himself to very strongly criticise
Mrs. Templcton, whose troubles. pre-
yious acquittal and ladylike demeauor
when on the stand had won the sympathy
Of the jury. The effect upon the by
ISLANDERS and upon the jury was very no.
ticeable. They symputhizcd with the
woman and showed " plainly.
There was general sentiment openly
expressed In the corridors that III guilty
az all, the defendant was guilty alone.
that he was infatuated with Mrs. Temple.
ton. that she lived ngreouhly with her
husband, that defendant was next n
her estimation, that she and defendant
did not 10 % Joshua, that the stryChuine
was not bought for the purpose OF killing
TempletOn nc all, that when deceased
went 10 the room TO give his wife The
toddy, the defendant went into the kitch-
en-, knowing that the whisky and strych-
nine were there, ard put the stryChuiue
In the whisky, that " was q sudden resO.
lutiyn hastily executed that when TEN.
plcton first took drink and took 10 TO
his WIFE 10 was not poisoned. and that 10
was poisoned when he went back. aud
defendant was the only one iu the house,
and the only one who knew the whisky
and Strychniue were there. Even this
theory seemed 20 give way before the
day was over, and there seemed 90 be a
general sentiment In favor Of the pris.
Oncr. although judgment vF- withheld
until all OF the arguments should br
closed and the judges charge read.
Mrs Templcton had the sympathy Of
the crowd from the very first.
Mr.. baltimore was followed by Hon.
NJ NJ Crane with one Of the most logi.
cal. forcible and best prepared urgu'
mcnts ever heard In The TArrant county
courtroom Ills defense Of Mrs. Temple
TONS nume aud his pXCuriutiOu VI the
witness j. ID. Hail. were. the one the
most eloquent aud the other the most
bitterly denungiatory passages ever de-
liyertd In that courthouse,
lie was followed by Hon. g. V. Mcy'
prs Of Clcburnc. who made u very able
argument and produced "a very favorable
imnrcssion, hut he too ran against the
current ~ popular sympathy by trying
10 connect Mrs Templcton, who had
been acquitted. with the crime.
The next speaker for the defense was
Hon. II. i. Brown. who made .
stiikingly eloquent speech and was iol
lowed by Hon. William POindeNter,. who
Ina his slcdge hammer style reviewed thc
evidence aud the Absurdity Of some Of The
positions maintained boy the state. II be
had never made another speech. he one
he delivered Yesterday would epulle MIN
10 a front rank among the great criminal
lnWy,rs of the West or Southwest.
lie was followed 10y Hon. q. W. bll'
lpspie. who closed for the state, made u
magnificent argument, ana was Warmly
congratulated boy his friends
A verdict W IN probably be- reached To-
day. and IL the sentiment of those in
attendance upon the trim can Dc taken
ms n criterion. the defendant will be hon,
orally acquitted, q being the general
verdict thlt the trip tO Joshua was MOI
nroy,d. the undue intimacy between de-
| PENDANT aud Mrs. Tcmplet0n was NOT
proved and the defendant was not con
nected with the killing nj oil under the
/ theory OF the state.