St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-05-09
.ELOQUENCE OF Mr.. NYE.
1T IS POURED our AGAINST PRISONER
WHITE.
THE TRIAL is NEARLY OVER.

1no OOuOty attorney M0kc6
Strong Speech to the Jury
White Listens Attentively, but
Is Not Feazed-This Morning
MIR. Penney Will Speak in Be.
half OF His Client.
To-Day the White murder case will 90
TO the jury. The taking of evidence
was concluded yesterday forenoon, and
during the remainder of the day County
Attorney Nye occupied the attention of
tie jury by delivering his address, He
concluded at 4:30, and this morning At
torney R. j. Penney will speak in be-
half of his client. His speech will be
for the saving of q human life. and there
is no doubt but Mr.. Penney will uphold
his reputation for eloquence. He Will
likely conclude by noon, in which event
the judge will make his charge and the
case will be submitted TO the twelve
men in tine jury box. whose decision
will be for the better or worse. so far as
Joe White is concerned. William Ait
vein, the car repdirer, was called 10 the
stand at the opening of the morning
session. He closed the rebuttal testi-
mony for the state. He testified in re-
gard to the car epts ode. Mrs. Elms
then took the stand in surrebuttal, and
maintained strenuously that the wit.
ness, Mrs. Merrick, was mistaken ABOUT
the date at her house when Joe came
home.
Mrs. Merrick testified that ii was on
June 16 that she and her husband sat IN
the rooms at Mrs. Elms', and that Joe
came III about ii O'Clock. On the 18th
she and her husband went to bed at
about 9 o'clock. aud she did not see Joe
at all. Mrs. Elms stated positively that
Mrs. Merrlck was mistaken. 1t was on
the 18th that they all sat in the room
and played cards, and it was on that
night that Joe came home. Mrs. Mer-
rill, of Clio Fremont avenue north, testi-
ned that Miss Harris told heI that on
the night of the murder it was SO dark
that her father and mother could dis
tinguish nothing in the room. Miss
Harris also told her that her father
knew they were boys because the
burglars had boys voices. Mrs. Merrill
was the last witness. and, after short
recess, Mr.. Nye began his speech to the
jury. He made strong and careful
speech. one that had its effect on the
jury. He was but half through when 10
o'clock came around, SO he cut it of and
began again IL 2 O'Clock when court
reconvened. Joe White listened 10
every word that was uttered by the
prosecuting attorney. though none OF
the harsh things said about him ap-
peared to feaze him in the least.
During his speech Mr.. Nye said:
thing else that is not founded upon the
great and eternal principles of light,
justice and truth! Why, truth. it has
been said by Emerson, is the highest at
tai nment of being. Look for justice.
Set aside all these trit1ing disturbances
of trial and look for truth and nothing
else. and the state must and will be sat
iSfied. Witnesses, it has been we'll said,
must he weighed. There is something
more than the mere life oath of man
that pierces the soul. AS witness
leaves the stand it is not the words you
remember. 1t is something else. Is he
honest? That's the first question. If
you say in your Utmost soul. L don't
like that man. l have suspicion. He
is lying that ends that testimony.
I1SdNSu nSlp NOu W hlOW W uVlC 10 IliC
truth"
put on the one side Mrs. Harris, and
on the other Joe White, and find Were
the truth lies. Compare jim Sheridan,
if you like, with Feeley and brennan;
or. take if you Will, Olson on the one
side and Maiser on the other. Take the
witness Simons and compare him with
Hickson; or, weigh Carl Wingate with
Davis and Savage. Weigh Mrs. Her
rick, il you will, on the one side, and
against her place the VIII ole White fam
lily in the balance, and 1 will leave it TO
your own coEscienceS to find where lies
the truth.
MIR. Nye went over the evidence in
detail and painted vivid picture of the
murder of Mr.. Harris, ana how the
burglars stole into the house and shot
him. He took his jury audience over
their minds the salient points of the
evidence. Once he made mistake in
statement, and one of the jurymen
called his attention to it. He made a
strong play on the credltibility of the
witnesses put forward TO prove an aiibi,
and intimated that not one of them
was worthy of being believed. 1t lay
between Mrs. Elms and her family and
Mrs. Herrick and the array OF other
witnesses who had testified in reDuttal
as to which were telling the truth. The
White family had cunningly taken the
incidents of the 10th of June and trans
ferred them to the 18th. 1t was to their
benefit to 90 so. for it was on that night
that Joe was away from home, and his
family wanted to prove that he was not.
As 10 Mrs. Harris. Mr.. Nye stated that
there was no doubt 8 TO her being able
to identify White as one of the men
who entered her bed chamber and shot
her husband. A face like that of White,
he said. if once seen, could never be
forgotten.