Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-01-19

WATCHING THE EFFECT oN THE Jury.
But Michael Reilly, Jr.. has heen said
10 be bad boy. Who said sol Why this
denented and deluded old man. who swore
out a warrant for his son for coutending
with loud and angry words and then aban-
doned the charge so openly and publicly
made, and on top Of this he sat as Presi-
cent of the Board OF Commissioners and
saw that body pay the costs" &.
My friend the Attorney General has said
what he would do il be was Michael
Reilly. My friend does himself an injus-
tice. If he was Michael Reilly he would
not have been here, cudglinE his brains TO
make excuses for the acts of a crazed and
ueluded father. Can not my
that there Is something in this case besides
money Can he not understand there is
SOMETHING MORE ~ rms CASE
besides $1,000 a year to the executors!
Can he not understand that Michael Reilly
knowing OF the 81 gina cast upon him by
desuded father, saw ht In his manhood 10
come back TO the city OF his birth, ami TO
submit 10 jury Of twelve men, selected
from among those who knew him in his
childhood, whether or not he was the bad
boy or the bad man that mis- father branded
MIN. ] glory in the manhood of
Michael Reilly i'm thus coming back
Disinherit him II YOU dare for being
man"
He asked the jury TO bear ia mind that
no witness, no sane witness, no witness
subject to cross examination, had said that
this boy had ever shown disrespect, had
ever been upfaiIhiul, or mad ever failed i'm
his duty. They had ALWAYS borne them
selves as though their father had been the
most loving and kndCst Of parents.
He asked the Jury 10 think Of being
from whom there mad gone out ali sem
blance OF ancctiOn for his own offspring. lie
mad gone down among the beasts. Ave, ne
had descended lower than the boasts He
was below the horse or the hog. He had
fallen TO the Level OF the tsh or the oyster
lie was below u! tEiurs. even the inseus-
ate rock. The love of offspring existed
whilst reason reigncd, anu when the IN
splred poet had sought Tor words in which
10 picture the acme VI human love and at
lection, Dc had lhcued % 10 me love OF
man Ter his children. Aud when this
..X,sss..s tdI5o VINO had clustered
knees was utterly wiped ont.
ause, then reason mad fled her
rOne, md the faculties no longer existed
Ie referred to the letters written uv
James Reilly To Dir. Parks, and SAID his
friend the Attorney General had said he
was glad TO see them ia the case IL re-
minded the speaker OF a friend Of his who
used 10 be very agreeable when he was
sober, and very disagroeaOle when he was
drunk, and whenever, the speaker said, he
sometimes met him in that condition and
when he would be trying 10 get any from
MIN as hard az ne could, while appearing to
be cordial, his friend Robert would saw.
y on don't seem to be glad 10 see me. " aud
me speaker would say ION, yes am, " and
thcn Robert would say Then why the
ID cont you manifest it.n II was that
way with the assertions OF his friend, tina
Attorney General, ABOUT the letters. ] ( be
was
GLAD THEY WE'RE ~ TIE CASE,
why 10 the world didn't be manifest it,'
lie referred 10 the remark Of Mr. Riley
about there having been delay iu the Ming
OF tue application for the appeal, and said
the attorney was laOOring under q rnisaD-
prehensi0n of the facts. The will was not
here under the provisions OF the CODE MIR
Riley supposed 10 10 ue but under the pro
visions Oi Cuap us OF the Code and 10 was
here just as it was in the County Court.
win every feature Of the matter oueu for
Investigation He thought tho proponents
bv this time were ashamed Of the assertion
that the heirs 0uEAt not 20 contest because
they had accepted money from the exeru-
tors. He referred 20 influence UPON MIR.
Kelly, and saic be could be i0tiuCnced upon
any other particular save and except that
OF Just-ce 70 ms children. There he was
opduraut, ana was lmmOvaDIe as r0et
aud when anyone wanted TO get him To- DO
q thing be t1ld him his sons wanted 10 do
tue opposite That settled 10 W Ga him. and
ne was 40 the mercy OF every designing
scbemer who came along. Tue opinions OF
MS sons, sk-ltui ana experienced business
men that they Were counted for nothing
win him, aud Mr.. hubbard quoted from
the evidence OF Witnesses e,eamOu Day
Bowler and others - show be- was eas..,
Influenced. He referred 20 Mr. Riley
argument uDOn the point OF influence uuou
Mr Reilly, and said he bad made an areu.
ment far stronger for the contestants than
anything the speaker could have conceived
or Mr. Riley had said t1at Judge kogsrs
hdd SAID ue could not influence SIR Reilly
i1 regard % tuc terms OF his PROPOSED will
Dld roi Tue Attorney General see be had