The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-11-02

lie IS gwen great credit for the verdict.
from the fact TINT the evidence was entire
Is C.rcums-sntsaI
The case will he appealed to the supreme
court. Sad II Is expected that nearly
year WI elerse before decision VIII ne
obtained. Whle y is not thought that any
error has been committed. the defense has
embraced every opportunity 20 take eNcef-
tons 70 ths rulings Of the court. Mr.
Dickinson took exception 70 three features
Of the district attorneys argument today.
he also took an exception 10 the Judges
charge.
The close Of District Attorney Barnes
argument WIS particularly forceful and
eloquent. He said: Gentlemen. the de-
fenSe throughout shows that this defend
aat had bat one story 20 tell. X has
been a general denial of All that was told
BY the witnesses. for the state. lie
stands alone. his story Is ccrroborsted
hy none and denied by his own witnesses.
There he sits. the murderer OF a century.
the weakest and YET the strongest as
saSsin that God ever put the blood Of life
into
In conclusion. can truly say that in
opening the case for the people en-
deavored 10 the best OF my ability 20
state without exaggeration and in their
proper chronology the facts upon which
the state relied 10 prove beyond a rea-
sonable douht tho guilt of Theodore Dur
rant. I strove 20 perform this most re-
sponsihle task fully. fairly and without
prejudice or passion. official or personal.
My obligation as a prosecutor required
OF me such an effort, and I believe that l
have done nothing more or less than my
duty as God has given me the power 30
discern il. | may add that SO far as my
personal feelings are concerned have
struggled. not without difficulty. all
than fair 10 the defendant; to lay aside
for the moment my sentiments OF utter
horror or dctestation Of the man OF
whose guilt the proofs absolutely con-
Vinced nay Judgment. sentiments which
have daily more and more oppressed and
hindered me a. in no other criminal case
in which | have heretofore participated.
on the other hand. ! may say that moth
ing has been or is asserted by or on be-
half OF the people which has not been
and is not now completele established by
competent evidence. Link by link the
unhroken chain has been providentially
welded. Step by step YOU have slowly,
but surely advanced 10 the necessary
and inevitable conclusion and conviction
beyond all reasonable doubt that Theo-
dore DuTrant was the wilful murderer Of
Blanche Lamont; that on "Wednesday
afternoon, April 3. 1S9a. he took her life
by means of strangulatiou in the Emau-
uel Baptist church. Ii by your solemn
verdict ne shall he pronounced guilty of
this fearful crime. / shall know in every
fiber and particle of mind and conscience.
official and individual that IL is in every
sense a true verdict. we'll rendered by a
jury which has faithfully discharged the
obligations IL Is under to the law and to
the community that anNiously waits 10
hear its announcement. VI. on the other
hand. you shall be induced to pronounce
him guiltless, I shall equally he assured
that the responsibility of so dreadful a
miscarriage OF justice does not rest upon
ny shoulders and will not rise to re-
preach me in the time to come.
This horrible murder or young girl.
perpetrated under circumstances exhibit
ing such unparalleled and extraordinary
depravity. has drawn to this community
the attention Of a great part OF The civil
.zed world. an attention which Wa might
well have wished 10 be spared. and which
has accorded 10 our city bad eminencs
wholly TO be deplored. I trust you Will
prove 10 mankind that while such crime
may be perpetrated N San Francisco. II
cannot avoid detection or go without pun
ishment You have II N your power 70
prove that here, at least. that spirit of
rude Justice which uHdefiies the often
righteous Indignation Of the mob. borne OF
d,struSt or court and the apparent unwill-
ingness Of jurors 20 punish crimes Of
blood can have no reason for existence.
because there Is no cause for doubling
the administration OF the law or the devo-
tiou of Jurors % their plain duty TO man,
and with reverence say q. 10 their duty
10 that God who Numbered from Sinai
and spake as with the voice OF many VA
ters. Thou shall not KIN
witnesses have brought You thelr
facts. their observations. their experience.
Separated facts. each Of no great siGnif-
cance N itself, are borne 10 you by many
persons. The structure you are building
depends upon the truthfulness. the dis
cernment. the motives OF no one man or
one woman. Each part fits with It's COM
p1ulon part without doubt. hesilancy or
Jar. Slowly has this monument or patient
investigation and treless search been ris-
ing. each day stronger each day more ir-
reSistihle as IL has nesred completion.
There is weakness nowhere. There is on
every side and a all heights that ahidn
conviction. that moral certainty which fhe
law SAYS must bind together and cement
the entire frame and substance of The
case and brings the candid aud honest
nttnd 70 the conclusion that this defend
ant. and none other was the slayer of
Blanche lamont. Tho structure whch
has thus been huilded. cemeuted with
mass Of fndisputable facts consistent with
hts gu3t and absolutely inconsistent with
any reasonable hypothesis of MS inno-
cance. .- IS nov before YOU II ts for yon
to finish y. VIII ton Crown it v III ~
sublime form ~ justice. robed ~ her
g,rn Of lsw. her forehead bound with tho
lamtfent purity ~ truths white diaden.
ar9 tn her hand the flaming sword which
furnishes tho doer Of unutterahle SIN. or
v5r you leave - 70 the usurpation ~ an
incarnate he'll. 70 a grinning and feridinF
ssna mockIng ~ the paralysis ~ human
intelligence. and huEginE - rs devifa
breast the crime ~ this dreadful mur1Fr,
-e~nefr9fe9 under the shelter of = chrroh
30 ftos and saturated n ~ unspeakahle and
rneasureless deprsvity7
gentlemen Of the jury. 50 f7r as ne
oeople ~ the state af California are con
,erne9 I'm the exposition ~ this most
tragic story. the case is with YOU