The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-03-07
BLxT PAINTED VERY BLACK.
HaYwARD's ATTORNEY MAKES A
SAVAGE ASSAULT on HIM.


Judas and Hung HimseIf-Hay-
ward Put in. the Light of Miss
Ging's observation-disclosures Penitence
called "a sham.
Minneapolis, Mimi, March 6-The won
derful renown Of the Tall Pine" was the
magnet undoubtedly that drew to the Hay
ward trial in the criminal court room
This morning the enormous crowd that
poured up and around the attorneys
and reporters tables and threatened even
10 swamp the sacred precincts of the ju-
dicial bench itself. 1t was in brief un-
ouestionably the most dense, unruly, SEN
sational loving. unreasonable crowd that
has yet gathered within the criminal court
room Of this city.
Mr. Erwin began his speech to the jury
at 80 o'clock. He said: IF this were an
ordinary case. I could not resist the temp
1ation to satire before 1 should attempt to
define the red-handed murderer and per-
jurer, Claus A. Blixt. The doctrine adopt
ed by this defense regarding Claus Blixt
that because a murderer repents, and that
now his penitence is to become the cri-
terion of a jury's judgment is to effectu-
ally destroy all the laws Of the human
mind-sucn a proposition is unnatural and
monstrous."
Mr. Erwin. in a fowery burst of speech,
drew picture of Claus A. Blixt as a red
handed murderer, and, pointing dramat-
ically, he arose on his tiptoes before the
jury and cried. "And from the mouth Of
such creature they say comes the voice
of Cod"
Then came a talk to the Jury. He con-
tinued: In the last few years OF these
modern times, every effort has been made
by past powers and classes to make the
jury simply one of the aids Of public pros
ecutiou. a deep movement has been going
on for the past twenty years to destroy
this most ancient bulwark of public lib
erty. Public need, public opinion und-
igested. the creation of public journal
ism, the Informed judgment of passion
has been used to give them greater
weight and power This is the unspoken
movement in this case to-day. Why. we
have tried this case before two 1uries
One that has not spoken and will not
speak before it can declare its conscience
before itT Go6-careful ard deliberate"
''And here Is anothe- jury, not devo-
ted to the inVesLsation of truth but
given to the most sensational parts Of daily
life
This jury tears down civilization?"
shouted the tall attorney, turning and
gazing into the faces of the reporters
Iheh a long finger was solemnly raised
and the attorney cried: Every time it
dlps It's pen in the ink, it is to write hasty
and undigested fact"
Then followed a historical disquisition
upon jury trials showing its encroach-
ment upon by barons annd mobiles while
Today 1t Is trespassed upon by greed, hy-
mOrricv
What is a jury? Is it an arm of the
slate2 No. Is it an arm of the defendant?
Ne. Is it an arm Of the court? No. 1t
Is part of the court. 1t stands alone in
its responsibility. The court is absolute
Judge of the law. You must take the law
from the court and the court must take
lhe facts from you. How are you to ap-
proach judgment. For the verdict is not
Your prejudice, not your belief but it is
your Judgment. And judgment upon what?
Not upon chances, not upon the desire
10 secure victim for some horrid crime
cut upon the evidence weighed by you"
Mr.. Erwin was bitter in his arraignment
O1 BIiXt and made a savage assault upon
ms character. Continuing, he said: Now
at first blush in the ordinary cares of life
N reference to aAman of Blixt's charac-
Ter II he should make charges against
one Of your neighbors, you would not or
uiharily believe word of it. Whoever
Ihought of using Judas as a witness after
the betrayal of the Master? That was the
true penitence, and from such penitence
forgiveness came. He went out and hung
Hlihselt. He contemplated his own useful
ness. That's what your man ought to do
turning to Assistant Attorney Han) l
would take this penitent by Cardinal Eus-
Us 70 another confessor than that of Friar
CueH 10 another church, not presided over
py Elder Hall or Elder Stewart l would
= hot 70 h
tnls world could he get forgiveness and
tieley. You scoundrel, only after you have
nuus yourself. That's the forgiveness of
Nol have got to take issue with the
peHIence of Claus A. Blixt. I've got to do
~, ~ ana | might as well begin it. 1 think
pix has proven himself to be the most
"Stohlshing and daring perjurer l have
yer seen on the witness stand. And one
SHlHs have to thank the Almighty for
tG- my skill did not bring it out-that Blixt
illHiseH has demonstrated his character
~ MS perjury. Blixt's testimony is a vile
Lagrlcation He built it well, and when he
nao hnished it the attorney for the state
- -. splre upon it and called it the church
oI the living God"
,Inen he turned his attention to Adry
tlay ward and directly charged him with
Oglag one of the murderers
~ lie green goods story was scoffed at and
M. Erwin asked if the whole Jury had
- uaEt 10 believe such piece of testi-
ayny as that, that she had gone into a
s'IeIne to go after green goods with such
g.. iooklng thing as Blixt. 1t was shame
OH cannot believe" said Mr.. Erwin, "by
f ~ mats in me, that he was ever in the
tssy with Catherine Cling. 1 repel it
tSl her sake and so should you It is
,uoush to turn down the father and
W,o'aer and the witnesses, but the dead
o. o. 1atherine Cling did not deal in green
r.. marry Hayward stood on the stand as
+I,Herlne Ging's best defender; her most
He-.dAt friend. He viii even 20 out from
- tt the hangman's loop as her defender
T.. 's1eVe that if you could see the spir-
60. u the dead you would see her spirit
iral"alng there between that man point
y = 70 Harry and you. She would be his
ness Whose attitude would you
Ut s,ier De in-the splendid attitude Of the
f.oler as her friend, or the lying, per-
T5..Ae nypocrite that defames her?''
an, Erwin claimed that Blixts story
I9oI Harry consulting the doctor to
" Nv where to shoot was an invention
~ when BliXt found out that Harry
IN, edIked with doctor al Anoka
fraHe me hypnotic theory first emanated