The record-union., 1894-08-11
ssaaia. to the REcoRp-UNIoN.

Special to the REcoRD-UNIoN.
WOODLAND, Aug. 10.-Carrol Cook
commenced his argument against the
motion of the defense for the discharge
of the defendants at o'clock this morn
ing and consumed nearly the entire day
in his methodical and merciless arraign-
ment.
Counsel had evidently made careful
preparation for his speech, and in logi-
cal. lucid manner, IN their proper order,
brought together the scattered ends OF
testimony-the little things in proof-and
lnassed them in a marching phalanx OF
circumstances that, he said, convicted
the Mediation Committee of previous
knowledge and of criminal completely in
the crime of July 11th.
CRIME OF MURDER.
1.-THE effrontery of this notion" said
Cook, "based as it is upon the evidence
in this case, is on par with the conduct
of the defense from the commencement
up to this time. The defense themselves
and their counsel have, from the outset
OF this examination, seemed TO lose sight
the crime of murder.
The evidence as it has come from the
mouths of the witnesses here has been at
their hands treated with i'll becoming
levity, and the proceedings of this court
have been made to appear more like an
arena where buffoonery and clownery
were permissible than court of Justice.
They have evidently failed to appreciate
the force of the various circumstances
that have been established by the evil
Genee itself, and it is about time that
those facts and those circumstances should
be gathered together and should be so
arrayed before them and before your
honor that they should be brought face
10 face with the terrible and awful posi-
ton in which they stand.
II am not prosecutor; on the con-
trary, my experience in the practice of
law has been altogether upon the side of
the defendant. feel therefore that l am
not imbued with that spirit which often
actuates the prosecution and hich
causes them to see guilt where, perheps.
no guilt exists. / feel that my experience
in that respect is such that can look at
the evidence and regard it with the eye of
thedetendant himself. I have listened To
all tle evidence in this case, and have
carefully considered it as late as last night.
/ tried TO examine it in broad, fair and
impartial II1uuner, TO discard any prep
dice. any feeling, or any mere suspicion
that might exist in my mind, and to
come TO a conclusion solely upon the evil
dence and in an entirely impartial light,
and it shall be my endeavOr now to pre-
sent that before you.
1.-The question is not: Is it established
beyond u reasonable doubt that these de-
fendants were connected with this crime?
on preliminary examination all that is
required is that it is probable that they
HYpro COnnnQfoH with the crime
''Circumstantial evidence was often
stronger than direct testimony, because
circumstances cannot lie."
CONNECTING KNOX WITH THE CRIME.
After tracing the testimony that con-
nected Worden and Hatch with the
week, counsel proceeded to develop the
connection of Knox and the other defend
ants with all Of Worden's unlawful mis-
sions.
who did this? Who was there that
had committed other depredations upon
railroad property. We are answered by
what is now common public history-the
strikers. WefiDd large bodies of strikers
congregated together under the head of
the committee, tathered by that commit
tee and by the kilograms sent by Knox
and Mullin on behalf of that committee.
''The men who did this deed were not
tramps. Tramps don't carry Winchester
rifles. Then all the guns of the Bersaglieri
Guard were stolen from the armory. Are
guns stolen for the purpose of protecting
properly? Then we find those guns in
the headquarters OF the American Rail-
way Union.
''Who was the daredevil spirit that
could have led the gang that perpetrated
this crime? The man who was the trusted
agent of the defendants, who stole trains.
who killed engines, who was in the crowd
when the United States Marshal was
overpowered, and who, because of his
loud-mouthedness and offensive conduct,
was ordered under arrest by the Mar
Shal.
KNOX ISSUED THE ORDERS.
sit was Knox who issued the order for
the rig that took Worden and his con-
federates upon their devllish errand, and
it was Khox who, after Sam Clark had
been sent TO his death, paid the bill for the
instrument that was used in the coDsum-
nation of that damnable deed. All this
was in pursuance of the threat thai Knox
had made that mot a wheel shall turn D
GONE BEYOND STRIKE.
Counsel declared that the Knox con-
spiracy had gone beyond the orders for q
strike He had announced that they
would win "by any means"-even by the
resort to violence and assassination.
Counsel would not attach TO the Ameri-
can Railway Union as an organization the
responsibility for the unlawful acts oi
which Knox and his conspirators were
guilty.
DEADLY PARALLEL.
Mr.. Cook drew the deadly parallel
Supposing that he had openly threatened
that General Hart should not return te
Sacramento. While Hart is on his way
he is followed by an intimate friend and
associate of Cooks, who murders him.
Cooks friend and confidant is arrested
lie denies ne followed Hart, and imme-
diately calls for Cook "What court
under heaven" asked Cook, would re-
fuse to hold me equally responsible with
my pal for Hart's murder?''
I'm that meeting in the caboose on q
dark night, between Knox and Marshal
baldwin, Knox ordered all out who had
no business there Worden remained
and at that conference was conspicuous
and noisy. Throughout all the strike
Worden is closely associated with Knox.
ssIf Knox sent to Dunsmuir for armed
forces to steal train and come TO Sacra-
1nanto to resist the military, is it improb-
ohIe that he sent Worden on his unlaw-
All mission to Stockton and Lathrop, tc
steal a train and bring other armed rebels
To the scene of impending conflict for the
same purpose?'
STOLEN GUNS.
The stolen guns found in Knox's head
quarters, the orders signed by the com
,,,;ttee for l.000 rounds OF ammunition
the army of men IN the Headquarters o
80 r. u. the sending out of men a
.,idnight to do assassins' work-al
nroyed that this peaceful man Knox was