The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-07-26
A SEVERE DENlNj|AT|ON
TT. RiSs'S TGTTiJl; ATIaIGDReHt Of
GII. plaSSGu.
4 CYCLONE OF V,TuPERAT|0N.
Ills BIOCkbO0Td Argument Ond Conclusions
were RyeI
TIE GaSE NEaRlRG TfRJaIHRTIOH.
the Plaintiff Will Have Another Hear
ing To-day, and Then the Case
Will Go to the Jury and
Verdict Asked.
The GHSE NEaRlRG TfRGllHRTloH

When the City Circuit Court con-
yened yesterday morning ut the usual
honr the crowd was packed,in the buildE
ang like sardines in IL box. The report.
ers, VINO came Mt an early hour, were
forced TO so around to the side of
the building and climb into tueir sents
throngh window.fE
This vast thronR came to hearsthe
closing remarks of Judge NeeIey for
the plalntih, who SO eloqusntly pleaded
lIis clients cause on the previous day.
aud to listen to the terrible invectiye
OF Capt. Wise. who 1t was known all
along would denouuce Mr.. Massey
bitterly.
Never In the history of the courts OF
She oity OF Norfolk has there been n
eeverer denuncintion of any man than
khe ou0 auditors heard Yesterday in
she summing up of the evidence by
MIR. Wise. With all of the energy of
ais nature he eeemed to invent words
TO express his ideas, and those fearful
words were hurled through his teeth
ct the plaintiff Rs he lowered above
him, with hands erect and eyes ex.
pressing the most intense hatred.
While this perfect Cyclone of denun
clatlon was being directed, MIR. Massey
cat like piece of marble. He never
took his eyes from AIR. Wise, eye met
eye and there was not for once u
flinch. This bold front of the plaintiff,
It appeared, only stimulated the able
lawyer, and severe prosecutor to re.
0ewed effort, and again and again we're
attacks made upon Mr.. Massey's per
eonal character and integrity, and he
was compared to all that is low and
vile.
The courthouse, as said, was denselv
packed, and when Mr., Wise concluded
nis fearful arraignment then was an
effort to applaud, which was quickly
checked by the court officers.
Mr. Wake was notlceably absent
when the court convened III afternoon
session, and 1t was stated that he had
Oeen suddenly taken sick. Judge
Neely and Mr.. Thom were present and
took notes during Mr.. Wiso's speech,
and one OF them will close the case this
morning.
Yesterdays SESSION.
Judge Neely, in the commencement
OF his argument, called attention to
she fact that Mr.. Massey's high char.
acter had been fully attested by per.
sons from his home, Notwithstanding
shat Judge Heath does not think his
statements command respect. MIR.
Nicely also called attention TO the let
tera from Messrs. Baldwin, A. Ii. Ii.
stuart. John Letcner and others, vim
slicating MIR. Massey from charges
brought against him in reference to the
marriage brokerage and will MIR.
Nicely said: "What you (the defense
were after was not Mr.. Massey's pun.
lshment; from beginning to end it has
been an effort to make the School
Boards afraid to deal with the Amer.
lean Book Company because of the
charges, that have been brought against
1t of brlblng public official. The
process OF his prosecutors. said MIR.
Neely, has been that being afraid TO
take the risk of trying to have Mr..
Massey indicted, they libeled him in.
etend.
When the defendants entered upon
this case, said MIR. Neely, they did not
have one.tenth of tho information
respecting 1t thst they now have, and
most OF this information came from
the plaintiff himself, and from this in
formation, which the piaintin himself
volunteered, and which, if guilty, ho
could have withheld, the defendants
counsel now proposed to bring out
this mass of figures in their attempt
TO convict him.
Counsel then proceed to show what
the record demonstrated. that Mr..
Massey had legitimateiy received from
ais resources and how it had been dis.
bursed IN expenditures, in losses and
IN presents to his sons. There had
been no charge that the evidnnce as to
those figures WAS not correct, and vet
counsel on the other side now gave ont
fhe astounding announcement that
they proposed to prove that tho
took from which many of those
hgures we're taken was lie and had
been concocted. In order for that to
be true this plaintiff would havo boon
compelled to have been a prophet; to
haye been endowed with an imagine