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opening speech. He occupied the floor
nearly five hours. AT times his argu-
nent was ingenius and at others repe-
titions. The burden of il was IL
would have been a fool or a crazy man
to have taken these strange men into
a conspiracy, and | am neither. This
Is all a conspiracy, q persecution by
That little Yankee carpet Dagger Peer,
his pal Calvert, Pointer and others.'i
OF course District Attorney Murphy
came in for a share Of the defendants
notice, and even the Court did not
escape. Mr.. Murphy had tho closing
argument, occupying about forty min
utes. He ven over the evidence adj
duced and pointed out the salient
points.
Judge Brawley's charge was short,
concise and to the point. and was very
impartsal. The jury retired and re-
turned the verdict OF Guilty" Judge
Brawley sentenced the defendant to
two years in the penitentiary at Co.
lumbus, Ohio, and 81, 600 fne. Barrett
asked an arrest of judgment and was
granted thirty days in which to file it.
w. .. Evins. who was a fellow-con-
spirator of Barrett's, plead guilty and
was sentenced to eighteen months in
1000.
Majors sentence was left open and
suspended until mex August. This
action was taken on account Of the good
character given Nabors' by his neigh
bors.
! 1t was n noticeable fact that Barrett
seemed to lose sight Of himself during
the conduct OF the trial. To q specta-
tor who might happen to drop in it
would have never occurred thai Chas.
+. Barrett was defending himself, that
he was his own client. He succeeded
completely in separating himself from
the crtme. 1t was a are instance Of
the truthfulness Of the famous story Of
Robert Louis Stephenson, "Dr. Jekyl
and Mr.. HYDE" in which the dual
nature or man is so wonderfully de-
| picted.
Barrett moved around in the court
room with as much sang froid as any
other attorney. He was much more
careless and less nervous than the Dis
trict Attorney, whom he frequently
Interrupted with an objection as to the
admissibility OF some plea he was MAX
ing, or to protest to the Court that
there was no evidence to show any
such facts.
The great strain under which Bar
rett labored began to tell on him as the
trial began to terminate on Thursday.
during Judge Brawley's charge to the
jury he relaxed tho solemn vigilance
he had so long exercised, and dozed
and nodded in his chair for u minute or
two at the time. This sentence will
begin when the first one Of eighteen
: months expires. As he has moved for
I a new trial in each, neither can yet
become operative.
Judge Brawley in his charge to
the Jury took occasion to defend In
spcctor Peer against the %insinuation
OF blue bellied Yankee" carpet bag
ger" etc. He told the jury that Peer
was an officer of the government, do
ing such duty rs was assigned to him
by tho Postmaster-General, and that
such a~ppellations were in no sense
proper, and could not apply to Mr..
Peer in the commonly accepted mean
ing Of the terms.
Great sympathy is manifested for
the Innocent parties who must suffer
Tor Barretts wrong doings, but for
him there is q general belief that the
verdict is just.