The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-03-26
THE IRISH CASE AGAIN,

| To the Editor Of the Eagle.
We had hoped that the recent decision
of Justice Redfield in the case of Officer
Irish would have been sufficient to cause
the matter to rest, brit it seems not, as
Slower insists now over his own signature
that comparing the whole evidence in
the case with that card (referring to my
recent letter. surely smacks of partisan
ship"
Mr.. Slower, would you for a moment ask
the public or ''those five contrary jury
man" to believe that Mr.. Irish was right
Irish and Scuily, at the moment of this
tragedy, was 20 or 40 feet and that
Scully was also right when he
said they were 250 feet apart
Had Scully made the distance twice
or thrice as far as Irish / might have
been able TO reconcile those diverse state
meats but when Scully makes it six or
eight times as far as Irish 1t ''don'S down"
with me. You inquire, Mr.. Slower, "Why
l don't tell something that Irish testified
to?" Would you, Mr.. Stover, expect me,
after what you and both heard and say
III that case to give full weight to all bis
statementsl Ii Mir. Irish was so Innocent
as you would assume, Mr.. Slower, how do
you account for his willing demsan0r I'M
der the storrniug fire of Willard BOone's
cross-questioning while on the witness
stand? l Will further answer that quest 100
by saying that his testimony and Scully's
conflict with reference to the direction the
pistol was pointed when the first shot was
fired. Might not they both have been
mistaken aud might il not have been the
iirsv slot that took effect? | would further
answer their question by saying hat other
PERSONS have insisted 10 me on the street
nr1 Of ha 4
that the four contrary jurors aud myself
must be wrong as they knew Mr.. Irish to
be i truthful man. Web, Perhaps we
were basely prejudiced by partisansbi D
and Irish yeritaDie George Washington.
You ask me Slower why 1 do not give
more weight to the testimony OF
Mr.. Mitchell" the other coal thief.
Now. Mr. Slower, you surely know
that the testimony of Mr.. Mitchell was
more against Irish than for hin. WHAT
WAS the, meaning OF tnat wavering, vocii-
latins, Indefinite, uncertain, shaiowy tes
timony? Ii ne saw him tall, he knew it.
and why aid he not say SO aud not say
that he thought lie saw the shadow or
form OF a man or Dian himself fall but
would DOT be positive Down deep in your
little heart, DIR. Slower, don't you know
that his evidence was lot worth Il ny, aud
really was against Irish rather than for
him: lu every move ne made. in every
w0ru he altered, IN every expression OF his
couotenance, while on that stand was
written the fact that he was under the
thumb OF some nan or men. VINO with
their base motives of defeating the en- is of
justice, were using this poor nran to help
secrete dark, dark, dizzy, reckless oee,I.
Mitchell testified that he Was not uodeT
arrest, that he lad not bsen stealing coal.
Scully testified that he had hun under
arrest anu took hi N tn the station house
and That his trial had iloE come OF vet
snc you Mr.. Stover brand me and those
other -four coutrari-s' Us paTtisaus he
cease forsooG5 We woaId 40. Cast cur vote
10 tuTa loose upon thr aahlic
ihe niau who committed shis deed.
Brand noe IS "A shie:, "a liar. a coward. sr
anything else So meau that even az Ingalls,
could not frsd y og,is 10 express It's oies,s-
ia.,, bat Ia lie aalne VI All tass IL good -