The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-11-17
MYERS IS DOOMED TO HANG.
The Jury COnViCtS Him Without a
Recommendation TO Mercy.

Father Quivers as Though Shaken by
Chill-Moyers Makes Fine Closing
Speech.
Atlanta, Ga, Nov. 16-WilHam J. Myers,
the boy stiI in his teens who was charg-
ed with the murder Of Forrest Crowley,
was found guilty this afternoon. There
was no recommendation to mercy
Judge Clark concluded his charge at
o'clock this afternoon, and at 4:2O the
jurors filed into the court room and few
minutes later their verdict was read.
Scarcely any one left the room while
the jury was out. Five hundred specta-
tors were present They felt that they
would not have long to wait. Many
women were in the crowd. When the
verdict was announced some of them
sobbed They sympathized with the Is
year-old murderer. Myers is a fne-look-
ing fellow. He was a member of the city's
crack military company, the Gate City
Guards, and in his uniform presented
dashing figure.
The prisoner took the verdict without
apparent emotion. His father, who sat
beside him. held the boy by one hand.
The elder Myers quivered as though
shaken by chill when the clerk of the
court read; 1--WE, the jury, find the de-
fendant guilty"
The son looked once into his fathers
face, and then his eyes seemed to be
looking into space. lie did not utter
word. His lips did not trembe He
seemed to be prepared for the verdict
When the case was resumed this morn
ing, Mr.. Meyers, the leading counsel for
the prisoner, began the last speech of
the trial Having introduced no witnesses
other than the prisoner, the defense had
the closing argument Every lawyer who
had preceded Mr.. Meyers made strong
telling speech. When Mr.. Meyers had
finished even the lawyers who We're op-
posed to him declared that his was the
greatest speech ever delivered IN that
court house After a brief review of the
case, Mr.. Meyers said: when this boy
made his statement, he told the truth
and nothing but the truth. lie tells the
truth when he says, 4 had no idea that
Forrest Crowley was to be killed
GLOW do 1 prove this? Why when
Myers and Crowley left old man Crow
ley at the car shed, who objected to old
man Crowley's going out to WestWood
al r. II was lipl NY tlof 1ul II rest
Crowley. Old man Crowley said so him
self on the stand. Did Myers intend to
butcher old man Crowley too.
And yet these men want this young
man hanged. Was there anything more
natural than for Myers to carry Crowley
out there? He wanted to swap the mules,
and that was the place Brown Allen had
told Myers to bring Crowley.
He is hunting for a secret place to
Kill this man and takes him out to West
wood Park-a park divided into lots, with
a keeper. What poorer place could there
have been for such a deed?'
Mr. Meyers took up the question
of the tracks and recalled the evidence as
to the tracks. Seaborn Crowley had said
that one track led from the back of the
buggy and the other from the front Of
the buggy.
How, / ask you, could one of the
tracks, if two men got out Of the buggy
lead from the front of the buggy and the
other from the rear?
Mr. Meyers said that the mud on My
ers trousers was below the knee.
"And Solicitor Hill holds up the clothes
with all the dramatic feryor of Mark An
tony holding up the bloody garments Of
| Caesar, and cries Behold the mud is on
| Myers clothes!
How is it that there is no blood on
| Myers clothes!
| Mr.. Meyers sent out for the pistol in the
! case and there was a pause pending its
/ arrival.
''They tell you that It was with
( that pistol that this boy shot
! Forrest Crowley 1t was In the
/ power Of the state to have post mortem
/ examination. You could have found the
! ball in the face or head, and you did
not do 1t. You could have fitted the
/ ball to the pistol. II IL did not tit who
! could say that this man committed the
/ murder? Were they afraid to mutilate the
dead mans face? Were they afraid the
/ ball might not fit and this man be ae-
/ quilted? is it possible that this state
| would refuse to mutlate n dead man 3
/ face for the sake of risking hanging a
! live and innocent one2
And what are you giving us about this
! Brown Allen sign? They tell us that the
/ murderer hurried away and poised him
/ self in the doorway Of a store, squinted
/ around a telephone pole and invented the
/ name of Brown Allen Why, Myers
| knew the name Brown Allen as well as
any one. There may be no Brown
| Allen, but as sure as ! stand before
YOU that man was certainly a
| nersonalitv that Brown Allen Is
the man that killed Forrest Crowley.
1--WE did not introduce any evidence
| either? You don't wash a clean towel
| We did not introduce any testimony be-
cause the state failed to make out it's
/ case.
paint the defendant the blacltest liv.
ing liar and VIII you hang him2 when
was the law passed that hangs men for
lying? If that were so every man within
sound of my voice would hang, for all OF
us since the time of old Adam have been
] liars.
"There was never case without q
woman In II. A messenger came to the
Sultan Of Turkey and said Sire an Off.
Ger has Just fallen ont Of the barracks
window and broken his neck
Find the woman IN the case
There as no woman in the case
" Find the woman in Tho case insisted
the sultan.
"The messenger went and returned Hf
ter awhile and said: you are right. sire
"a beautiful woman was just passing alona
the street and he fen out of the window
and broke hlH neck
80 ] believe iu this case. The law o.
that ~ any other reasonable hypothesis
can DE built explaining the murder. you
must turn the defendant loose"
Mr. Meyers built the hypothesis that
"a personal enemy had used Mycrs na ID
cats paw and hnd reYcnFrd himself upon
Forrest crowley
~ say 20 you outside of me detective.