The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-02-04

"Every body comes into the postoffice and
there must be much talk. Yet he never
told It until last Tuesday; never told
What he must have told II he was human
nature. Randall idenv Flies this horse and
defendant four months after. Give this
testimony full weight also give Black
ley's testimony its weight. He Is O
licensed liquor dealer and doubtless
wishes TO conciliate the authorities.
You cannot give this testimony weight.
You have heard much testimony OF
heard in a court Of justice, all ready to get
into the case. Fanny Oatley fell into the
current. Identifications practically ad-
yertised for through the newspapers. Yet
Fanny Oatley will not positively inden-
tify the defendant. Gentlemen, II some
other witnesses were as frank, II they
could divorce themselves from
the influence OF the prosecuting officers,
they would not identify Keegan as they
do. Fanny Oatiey sees what the govern
ment would have as suppose was corpse,
the corpse OF q
Woman Murdered In the Carriage.
"I can see no reasonable place for this
murder TO occur except In the wooded
land before you reach Fanny Oatieys.
"Fanny Oatley says she saw square
box buggy and man with dark whiskers.
Then came two ladies in buggy follow
ing the carriage with the bundle. Ihey
have never been produced. They nave
disappeared. This is as mysterious as the
disappearance of Emily Chambers. The
horse, we are told, when 1t was returned,
was covered with dry sweat. VINO were
character of Emily Chambers. She
may have left the horse because
she was afraid to return 1t. We don't
know whether she could read or write or
know what was in the papers. Where did
these two women come from? When cid
they reach the carriage ahead?
They must have followed the
some time. Surely you must suppose
that these two women must have been far
behind when the shots were fired. Yet
they could not have been so far behiS't
that before he could have followed the
natural instinct to free himself from the
load he must have heard the approaching
carriage. He would not have kept that
load IL he could have disposed OF 1t.
He did not know that the body would
not have bled.
"Then Mrs. Othwait and Mrs. Evans
pass the same procession. The man is on
the left side. Doubtless he charged his
position 10 get better aim at
His Victims Heart.
ave are told about cart wheels and
horses hoofs, but this case is not going
to turn on tracks which were not meas
ured. This Is the spot where the body
was found. But where are these. missing
women? They might be a BILE to clear away
this dream OF the prosecuting officers.
They could tell you where they met The
carriage with its bundle and where they
left II. Now, IL you could only have found
these two women, how the character of
this case might have changed
Now DIR. Palmer has testified. Mr..
Gladstone likes TO be calico an old Parlia-
mentary hand; perhap DIR. Palmer likes to
be called an old police hand. Never un-
til the trial have we heard about the black
and blue spot on the woman's abdo-
men. The blow DIR. Smith tells US
which caused this spot must have
been before death. IL would have
been strange for the assassin to have first
struck the woman when she was riding in
the carriage and afterward have shot ner.
! will not speak Of the theory that she
might have fallen as she was shot; you
can judge OF its probability. 1t was re-
served for DR.. Palmer to state that the
woman was ~snot three times in the head
and that she was sitting down.
q DIR. Smith tells you that the woman's
skin was not blackened; yet DR.. Palmer
tells you that pistol shot will blacken at
a foot and one half. Doesn't the mystery
deepen ? The defense needed no medical
expert after this testimony. Could Mrs.
Chambers have been shot in the team?
"Spatters Of Blood
on the buggy and large spots which looked
like bloodl Well, few spatters OF blood
can be reasonably explained without sup
posing murder. The doctor could not de-
termine whether this was recent blood OF
not. Ii this woman was shot three times
tf.y h. I,.A 49,. ~. kss.
blanket? There was blood on her ears,
not a copious flow but blood. Yes, whore
is the blank ct? Can you find the defendant
guiltyon such testimony in face of his alibi
A theory more inconsistent, incredible,
more unbelievable, was never invented.
Shooting was heard at hslf-past 10 o'clock
at night. do not say that that murder
occurred there; have no right TO say It,.
There was woman going TO North Scitu-
ate, and she asked her way. She
did not drive the horse 'Nettie'
We are not trying to prove il was. Where
Is this lone woman in black? Where Is
the person who fired the pis oil shots Oh,
gentlemen, this case is full OF inexpicable
mysteries. We do not know whence the
murderer came, or how the body of Emily
Chamber was brought TO the spot where
was man or woman.
"But, gentlemen, we have Mr.. Mowry.
He Saw keegan.
at 1855 on Market Square. Can you
imagine that Marquis ID. 4. Mowry would
commit perjury7 He is an attorney and
knows the nature of an oath. OF course,
II Mowry saw Keegan at the time
he saysAhe did he-eould not
have been on the Hartford pike at a. 10
o'clock. SO il Mowry's testimony is to be
relied upon, Keegan cannot come into
the tines of the governments all
seeing lie. Then Coleman saw the wit
ness Mt 4:10 o'clock. The Attorney Gen.
eral could not shake his testimony. Mowry
knew Keegan and so did Coleman. 1t
matters not that these witnesses did not
tell the government circumstances favor
abe TO the defendant.
Charles II. Smith, a manufacturing
jeweler, saw Keegan, and the Attorney
General will wish you to believe that he
shook that testimony through that of his
Dookkeeper. That is not SO, gentlemen,
for II was on the same day
that Mrs. Smith saw the horse
on Broad street that Mr.. Smith
saw Keegan. That settles it. His wife
made the memorandum and it was on the