The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-12
TO THE JURY TO-DAY
END TO THE NOTORIOUS PATTON
SPADES CASE APPROACHING.
tackled by Ex-Judgc Cox-The
Plea for Spades.

The Spades damage suit will go to the
jury at o'clock this evening. Attorney
Henry Span, for the defendant, will talk
the greater part of this morning, and
Charles Cox, for the plaintiff. will close
this afternoon. Ex-Judge Cox resumed his
argument at the opening of court yester-
day morning. He spoke until 10 o'clock,
referring. in conclusion, to the alleged
Judgment taken against Spades in Law
renee township
Gentlemen of the jury" he said, why
did Michael III. Spades give that s175 if he
had not debauched this girl? Business men
of his caliber do not scatter their money
in this manner. The witnesses produced by
the defense in this case are of a class who,
like Judas of old, sell out for money Spades
has testified that he went into bankruptcy
and settled with his creditors at a reduc-
ton, and six years later he was worth
quarter of million dollars He has made
a business of settling with his creditors at
discount, and that is exactly what he at
tempted to do, and thought he had done,
in this case
Attorney Mccullough followed ex-Judge
Cox in a long argument for his client. In
the course of his remarks attorney Nc
Cullough said:
Il am not here to depreciate the virtue of
women. We should all love virtue. am
not here to offer excuses for any man who
would tear down the fair fabric of wom-
ans dearest possesson-her virtue. Now,
let see whether the Inconsistencies of
this evidence piled mountain high are the
mistakes of an innocent, confused child or
the statements of a bad, designing girl,
seeking to wiring blood money from a citi-
zen on trumped-up charge. Gentlemen,
Of h,,, - ole
the journey of life when your heads have
become silvered You have passed the hey
day of life, and can talk to you in sober
common sense. You and /, if we good
citizens, if are inspired with the highest.
hottest love for our children and hope for
their future, are careful to secure for them
those surroundings which will tend to make
their character perfect. l say to you if
you searched the great cities of Indiana
from end TO end you could find no worse
school in which TO educate your daughter
than in the locality where this chids'
mother made her home. Over saloon dive,
a disreputable house not two hundred feet
away, the very air heavy with the influ-
ences of immoral conditions. On the street
in the day, on the street at night-this was
the school-these the environments in which
this girl was allowed to learn her early
lessons of life. They say that the mother
of this girl was poor, and that was why
she lived there. / say with all my heart
God bless the poor; but does God bless the
poor who will expose these little ones to
such influences as those to which this good
mother exposed this grip
Attorney Mccullough referred to the set
Element which the plaintiff. made with
Spades through attorney Rocker.
This woman" he went on. comes into
court with lie in her mouth for the pur-
pose of getting rid of a Judgment as bind
ing and as sacred as If it haa been taken in
the Supreme Court of the state. She is
ready to swear that Spades wronged her,
but here stands Judgment that is bar
to the suit. She undertakes to strike poor
Will Rocker with her lying tongue and vile
Great God, gentlemen, how are we people,
lawyers, physicians and professional men
of every class who are compelled to come
into contact with such people as these to
be protected: This girl comes into this
court from the bls1thel, and the resort where
women scheme and lie, and plan black
that she never signed this paper produced
in evidence. What do you call that? is
that childlike? Wading through mountains
of evidence nothing deferred her from at
tempting this raid upon this mans pocket
book and reputation. A man owes to So
ciety duty to fight these dirty black
mailers. Mr.. Spades came to the conclu-
name, for the sake of his family, to pay
this pitiful $175 He had right to buy his
peace. In the history Of the courts in this
county there was never a worse piece of
blackmail and wholesale lying and fraud
and scoundrelism attempted.
Attorney John j. Rockford, on behalf of
the plaintiff, spoke for an hour and quar-
ter. In that time he. covered the case en-
tirely. He denounced Spades the one
man who had sent the girl to the bad if,
his employment. He arraigned the evidence
brought out by the defense as testimony
elected from people SO wholly bad and low
down that no honest man should give 1t a
moments consideration,