The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-06-20

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said Of hert Would the world have
excused herf
''Shall there be one law for Lizzie and
one law for Bridget have the honor
10 be AN officer OF a commonwealth,
shall not he said that one Of these shall
escape suspicion ia the face OF acts
which would convict the other.
| IL - absolutely nece' sary that al
| witnesses should appear an testify be-
fore You In person that you may judge AS
TO the value Of the evidence they give"
The Quarrel In Police station.
| Mr.. knowlton then turned his atten-
tion to the story OF the quarrel In the
| police matron's room. He claimed its
truth, and said that il was cut OF the
kindness OF Mrs. Regan's heart, and not
out Of her malice. that she tried to
| deny it,
"All her friends. she said, made her
take IL back and she was willing TO sian
that certificate because she felt the force
| OF the statement.
"It was the oflicious. IL may say so.
the officious Mr.. Holmes and the inter-
esIed Mr.. Buck who asked her to deny IL.
| Did it ever occur to you that L. zzie
Neither OF them asked Mrs. Reagan to
| say a word about il.
| ''rhey did not say to her that she had
told an untruth. That she had told a
lie about them which might lead TO Liz
| zie's death.
What is a signife mt factf
| why learned irie IDS have made hu-
| morous remarks about the hate lets.
Science does not stop at the micros-
| cope and the chemicals. IL goes fur
| ther.
IF blood had been found on that large
fRh har ifas al IA. rAA 4 i. NJ
II was out OF tue case, because IL would
hot Ht the wounds.
"Ths Very Skulls
would have told a story of its innocence.
Now look at the little hatchet blade.
"Mullaly saws IL looked as il the dirt y
ashes were rubbed on it.
The dust on iG was not the same as
on the OF her TO is in the box.
Professor Wood examined it, too.
He found no blool on it, but he found
TO the intercesses OF that sharpened
blade. How was that adhered dust kept
therel Why was IL sop
Professor Wood says il it had been
thrust into ashes when wee the dust
would have clung to il as it does now.
Il do not say there was blood on the
hsrchet.
.! am only & wing you the facts.
'Profts,or Wood SAYS the large hatchet
could not have been wa he'd easily.
What lie does saw of this little one is
that it couid have been washed.
Nov look at the skulls.
Dr. Ca ever said the wound in the
side OF Mr.. Bor face would have
been m de by hatchet three and one
half iuches or three inches In breadth.
. IL has been told you by my opponen Is,
under amisapprehenslon Of Jhe evidence,
tnat DIR. Dolan testified tuat this large
hatchet was adequate to inhict the
wounds were examined. Since that he
has never said IL was adequ,te. He has
cnanged his mind. as all Lonest men do.
lie does not think 50 now.
This hatchet Is apparently an ordi
nary hatcnet, but Is iti 1 would have
thought that any hatchst 81 inches
broad would have fitted these wounds,
you would have thought SO. yet my
learned tiiend brings here another
hatchet 81 incues broad aud asks these
learned experts to mt it to the wounds.
They Try, but in vain. They say, aud in
so doing with a solemn fac. it will not
II do not say that the little hatchet in.
hicted the wounds, but do say that 1T
might have done SO.
Returns to the Note Again.
II turn again to that note. Lizzie was
the only one who knew OF it, ana OF its
supposed contents. She alone knew of
her mother going out. Sne H. was who
suggests to Mrs. Churchill that she may
be killed too She alone thinks her
moi her has returned.
"Ah! That premopition o. de ath
"Ah (! This awful weight Of conscience
that speaks in spite of its owners judg-
ment!
"Ir she hearl her mother come in why
did she not call to her when she found
her father deadf
"Why did she call Maggie Her
mother was In the second story, Maggie
was in the third. She called to the far
thest Of the two.
"Oh, the words of the guilty one; how
they fasten the crime to the perpet rator!
These are the Facts.
"These, gentlemen Of the jury, are the
facts, il they are not plain to you, they
cannot be made so.
What We Find.
1--WE have jealousy.
ave find contradictory statements.
1--WE find false alibies.
ave find the hatchet where she alone
could have put It.
I'VE mud burned dress ana burned
dress and burned paper.
"We find this one woman there alone.
What has the defense in reply?
Nothing.
Il pause and think again and again
and say, Nothing
We can't measure the light that shoots
about US. We can't weigh the light that
may shine ia your hearts when you
decide this question.
"Give the defendant every possible
chance. II they prove her guilty. may
you say 30.
- give you. these facts aud ask you
to do your duty as sons OF good old
Massachusetts,. l do not ask YOU to
avenge these murders. l do not sink TO
that low level. raise you up to the dig
nity of Justice.
Let mercy be taken care of by those
to whom it Is entrusted. 1t Is not
strained In the commonwealth of Massa-
chusetts.
Rise to your duty, severe and hard
though 1t may he.
"Rise 10 your duty as yon would have
IL recorded when you stand before that
great white throne. Rise to the duty
which audits you when the final words
shall fall upoI your soul may it b. flied