The Portland daily press., 1895-02-12

facts of that autopsy. And DR.. Weeks
corroborates him III every particular.
And vet. my brother speaks Of a guess
ING school with John f. Thompson at
stands at the head of the medical pro-
fession in Maine-a second. Is it q
guessing school when my brother en-
blows his high professional learning in
the affairs OF life and death? 1t would
be as reasonable to deuract from his abil-
titles as from those of Drs. Thompson and
Weeks.
1t having been shown that crime was
committed, who was the criminal? And
first. let us turn to Martin j Monahan.
1t is insinuated that he is the great
offender. Well, if Martin j. Monah an is
the father of that child, if he brought
| Mary B. Dunn here for criminal opera
ton. it throws food of light on the
case against John B. Hughes. An effort
has been made to create the idea that
| Martin j. Monahan is the greater crimi-
nal. But if he is guilty. he may De tried
later. Now, John B. Hughes is ON trial,
and, if acquitted, cannot be tried
again. Suppose Martin j. Monahan is
guilty, should we, therefore, exempt
from punishment the abortionist,
THE THUG OF MODERN CIVILIAN
TION,
whose profession is murder, and who
trades and traffics, for bloody money, in
human life. If. in trying to destroy
the life of the born child, a second
life was sacrificed, John B. Hughes Is
none the less a murderer for that.
The Attorney General then recalled the
circumstances of Mary Dunn's visit. At
| her call on DR.. B. b. Foster, it was found
that she was pregnant, but, as has been
el, '. !, npin nj g
at thai time an abortion could not have
begun. The counsel for DIR. Hughes has
tried to let it be understood that from
his digital examination by DR.. Foster the
poisoning might have resulted. That is
not probable or reasonable. She went
next to DR.. JohpsR. Hughes's Office. Why
did she go there? The counsel for the
| it was to be treated for constipation !!
There may be men gullible enough to
believe that, but have rarely seen them
sitting on juries.
The next day was Sunday. She walked
about considerably, but this was, I'M
doubtedly, one of the very things rec
commended by the doctor to assist the
pains of labor. Sunday night she goes
again to the Office of DR.. John B. Hughes,
and on the following MondayKshe is found
sick with awful pains. And Martin j.
Monahan goes to the Office or DIR.
Hughes, where a memorable converse
ton takes place. To the truth of that
conversation you have on the one side
the testimony of Martin j Monahan,
and on the other the argument of the
counsel for the defence. Only two men
knew of that conversation; Martin J.
Monahan and John B. Hughes. Mona
han has taken the stand; he has teet1-
fed; he has not been afraid of cross-ex-
animation. The man who should con-
trad1ct him is not Joseph w. Symonds.
great AS is his ability and ingenuity. but
Dr. John B. Hughes. But. instead of Or.
John B. Hughes's testimony we have the
argument of counsel.
The Attorney General then reviewed
THE TESTIMONY OF MONAHAN
as to the conversation, wherein DIR.
Hughes is represented as saying that the
girl herself knew what allied her, etc.,
and analysed this, first, sarcastically,
on the defence's theory of the admins
tration of cathartic pills, and then on
the governments theory of an abortion.
The Wednesdays conversation of Mon
ahan with Hughes was next referred to.
wherein Mopahanr testified as follows as
to what DR.. Hughes said when he heard
OF Mary Dunn's death. He said The had
been doctoring for twenty years or more,
and never had a patient die" The At
torney General repeated this sentence
four times to the jury, ending by say
ing Think of it, gentlemen. This
statement rises here to condemn John b.
Hughes. 1t will arise against him Oh
the day of judgment, before the high
court of heaven. For it shows that for
twenty years his business has been the
Infamous secret murder of unborn
babes. That statement let's food of
light on this old citizen of Portland who
is "rooted to the SOIL" In practice
twenty years, and never had patient
die! Everyone knows what has been his
practice; that of the professional aboI-
ZIONIST. In the light of this, gentlemen
visit of that poor girl to the office of
John B. Hughes. on that gray Novem-
Der afternoon. AS my brother has said,
Mary Dunn has come here with Martin
!. Monahan; she knows that she is in
trouble, and wants relief. She goes TO
the Office of DR.. John B. Hughes. And
whom does she fnd in that Office? A
professional abortionist.
The disappearance of DIR. Hughes was
next referred to. Was it usual for doc
tors to disappear when their patients
died? Was such conduct consistent
with innocence? Whatever doubts my
learned brother may have had as to
whether crime had been committed,
John B. Hughes had no doubt that
A CRIME HAD BEEN COMMITTED,
and he had no doubt as to who was the
criminal.
q When he heard that coroner's inquest
was going on he disappeared. It is true
that after he had deliberated, after he
had found that every avenue of escape
was closed, he came in and delivered
himself up. And he would have you
understand that the reason why he had
kept away was because he wanted to
smoke on Sunday! Does that look reas-
enable?
The subject of the pills. their analysis,
and the directions with which DR..
Hughes is said to have accompanied
them in giving them to Mary Dunn,
was next taken up. The Attorney Gem
eral claimed that the ergot pills were
given only to assist, and not to cause
The result; and showed by the mum Der
taken and the mum Der, left in the box
the probability that they came from
In conclusion. the Attorney General
SUNNI arized briefly the salient points of
the governments case, coming next to
the reference made by the counsel for
the defence to the family of the respond