St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-03-09
MIR. ERWIN FINISHES.
End of the Address Of the Attor-
ney for the Defense.

ney for the DefenSe.
Mr.. Erwin completed his address
yesterday morning. He first referred
to the loan made Miss Cling, then di-
lated upon jealousy, spoke at length
of the movements of Harry Hayward
about the Ozark in the early part of
the evening of Dec. 3, rebuked Horse>
man Wilson, poked fun at Jenks, gave
Blixt a few more home thrusts, ex,
piained the absence of tenderness on
the part of Hayward toward Miss
Cling after the alleged discovery of
the third man, and closed as follows:
I have endeavored to analyZe the
testimony in this case, believing that
before you would commit yourself to
verdict you would analyze the testi,
mony, and have endeavored to assist
you. My responsibility in this case
ends here. 1t has been a fatiguirls
matter to me, for two days here. te,
conf1ne myself entirely to analysis of
testimony, and not to permit myself
even the relief of the exercise OF
imagination while speaking for over
eleven hours to you upon the subject
matter. l have, as far as 1 could,
kept myself, my ambition, and every
thing, back, in order to assist YOU.
and l feel, although 1amely and uii,
fashlonably, l have done the best I
could. l have brought to you analysis
as far as I could
L cannot help but be impressed. gem
men of the jury, and 1 will be respon-
slbie for my opinion as long as 1 shall
1--we, that this case is the most mon
strous prosecution which has ever oc-
CURED in the annals of criminal iuris-
prudence. That it is chargeable to the
evil intent of no one man, or set of
men, but rather to the errors and mis-
takes of many men, L can plainly see.
L am not here at this time to criticise
anyone in relation to the mistakes or
emotions which have permitted the
growth of this hellish tidal wave iof
rage and anger which sweeps away the
minds, the intellects, the consciences
Oh men. am here to protest against
IT, TO set my feeble face against this
coming breaker of iconoclasm, dashfng
forward under the leadership Of he'll
itself, and assaulting the growtheof a
Christian civilization. If the wave of
fanaticism and brutality shall bear me
down, my last cry to you is, Fight on.
my merry men, fight on for con
science, for mercy, for intellect, for
Him. Out from the fall of Warwick
sprung the commercial age, and the
foundation of the government. was
reared for the purposes of human
peace and industry. God in. His
mercy may have purposes
to subserye by the martyrdom: of His
human creatures. He seems to sacri-
fee one of His sons to advance a moor
weak brother. If you will, in obedience
to the tremendous pressue which has
been urged upon you, tear down all
the rules of law, all of the elements of
common sense, all of your ordinary
actions, and become blind creatures
ike chips upon the storm wave to the
wave itself, then is the only bulwarlx
OF civil and American liberty washed.
for this time at least, out from its sure
foundation If fanaticism and the mon
strosfty of this union between the. per-
5urer, the highway robber and the vile
murderer, conducted to the witness
stand with all the pomp and power of
governmental. these things are to
move you, instead of your calm. delib-
crate, analytical mind, presided over.
by the angels of justice and of mercy.
then tell yond artisans to take down
from the dome of your court houses
the figure representing the angel Of
justice, holding in her right hand the
scales of truth Tell them to put in her
place the figure of a broken, terrible
wanton, hag of hell and incoherence
in the struggle of honest minds and
honest intent and aspiration. Let
: her blink from behind the dis
torted folds of her bandage, put
on her eyes only to dupe