St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-03-06


religious conviction. 1 believe in Him
who breathed out his magnanimous
and divine spirit-upon God. / believe
that His pure, His loving, mild and
gentle and serene spirit shone for
three days through that poor, ignorant
and benighted soul, as he sat upon the
witness stand. And 1 saw genius +
such as conclude has no equal at the
bar of this continents child and toy
for days in the hands of that poor,
ignorant Claus A. Blixt. 1t was a
power of truth he dare not resist. i
trust that this power and
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shall keep him when he shall finally
argue this case, and lead him not be-
yond that spirit and conscience in,
which we both believe-upon which, I
am ready to stake my life. Who
ever witnessed such a scene in
court room? A bright and brilliant
man, even though comparatively hon.
est, might have faltered, might have
staggered, might have stumbled in a
thousand places under the ingenuity
OF my friends cross-examination
But the voice of simple truth, the
answer came as prompt and as ready
him in the hour of his peril and his
night to make him the instrument
him, the assassin-the man who had
done the deed which at first sight
horrifies and terrifies mind and con-
science-and still under the providence
of Heaven he was made the instru-
ment of truth and justice in this case.
Let his testimony be criticised, but I
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of the safety and veal of the common
wealth, all that is dear and sacred,
when argument is ended on both sides,
be perfectly honest, follow the intu-
itions and impressions which are
natural and just; and you will find
when you fairly and honestly consider
that what may seem to be incon-
sistencies, what may seem to be oral
misstatements, lies and falsehoods,
while partially so, will eventually give
place to the clear and absolute light
of truth. Why, he spoke once in his
cross-examination-th counsel was
questioning him upon the experience
which he had the night he was first
put under arrest; men who were pres
ent at the West hotel-and he finally
disclosed the fact that none of these
men had moved him in any particular
that he had given up nothing. My
friend says to him, eff all of these
men (referring to the men at the West
hotel who had pumped him during the
night couldn't make you change your
story, it will be pretty hard for me to
make you change your story now"
His answer was, II am a different
man from what 1 was then. I am sure
of that. My mind is not like any
other, because my mind was mixed up |;
L was not myself That is true"
@. Has that continued to the present
time, are you still mixed up? A. No,
sir, / am all right now and happy. O..
What made you happy? A. God in
heaven has made me happy. @. You
think you are forgiven? A. I am, I
am certain. Q. And you feel now
perfectly happy? A. 1 feel I have a
life with God in heaven; 1 am certain
of it. @. That takes away all the
horror of a murder? A. No, sir, i
have a sore in my breast that will
never heal up as long as 1 live, but /
am happy and know that after this
life l shall have a good happy life
with God That is the way [ feel. 7
In another place the counsel asks him
':Did you feel the dampness of blood
about your The answer was mo,
sir, I didn't" @. Got none on your
| hands? A. Not as know Of I might
have got a little blood must admit
that, but not to my knowledge, be-
cause my hands are not now the way
they were then, because they were
black and greasy all times; so II
had had little blood on my hands it
! wouldn't have shown. L couldn't have
had much because I would have
known it,
Gentlemen of the jury, the hand is
often used as the type of the sous
His hands, as he sat here in the witt
ness stand, were not as they were that
cruel and bloody night. Some power
the power which must sustain you
and me as we enter the valley of the
shadow of death-has given that poor
man hope and such a degree of re-
generation that his hands are not
only literally cleaner than they were
that night, but typically the soul it.
self is not what it was then. ,