The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-02-03
DEVIL FOUND GUILTY.
FORMALLY TRIED By ORDER OF
THE SALVATION ARMY.
The Charge Was "Hfgh Treason
Against the King of kinss"-Hear-
ing Followed by Verdict of Death.

New York Sun.
Large posters that covered the side of the
old courthouse at Seventh avenue and Twen-
ty-second street announced a Salvation
Army meeting last night in this fashion:
Trial of the Devil
BY Judge and Jury.
The Court VIII Open
At 7:45, by order of Judge Perry
The lower part of the building is used as
q stable, and the audience that gathered In
the hall above half an hour before court
opened could have guessed that fact with
their eyes closed. The admission to the
court room cost 10 cents, and that was
really cheap, considering the entertainment
About two hundred people, many of whom
were boys and young girls, filled the hall
and followed the trial closely.
A judges desk and a jury box had been
erected at one end of the. hall. When the
hour set for the trial arrived, Major Perry,
in his Salvation Army uniform, took the
bench, and Captain jenkins as clerk called
for any one who had business with the
court to come forward and present it. Adj
jutant Caygill arose and said that he rep
resented the prosecution in the case against
the devil for high treason against the King
Of Kings. Ensign Damon was counsel for
the devil, and the judge being willing, the
case was begun.
Clerk Jenkins called a dozen jurors to the
box. Two were challenged on the ground
that they were prejudiced against the de-
PENDANT, and others took their places. They
were mechanics, clerks, and small tradesmen
and none of them wore the Salvation Army
unif mra.o 40 ,,ve9. asked AaiOtant
G. ygill of the first juror.
'In Ninth street."
What is your business
Clerk"
Are you related to this Defendant"
Each juror was examined in this way and
Us the defendant here?" asked Judge
Perry.
answered Ensign Damon, his counsel. 1T
was impossible for him to be here tonight
and l ask for an adjournment"
night will you promise to have him here in
person. asked the judge.
Il can't promise that"
Then let the case proceed"
OPENING STATEMENT.
In his opening address to the jury Adju-
tant Caygill said:
Il shall prove the case against this de-
PENDANT by reliable men and women. His
victims do not know him until they are in
his grasp. He appears in different forms.
Two of our relatives were placed in a beau
tiful park many years ago. The defendant
appeared to them as a serpent and persuad-
ed them to eat food that was forbidden.
One of my witnesses had a comfortable,
happy home until he met the devil. The
devil told him to go to pool rooms and to
the race track. In less than three years he
was separated from his family and was an
outcast. l have among my witnesses a
woman who was a true and loving wife until
the devil met her and she fell. There are
thousands of peODlo whom the devil has sent
to the insane asylums and,
do you intend to call them as witness
eS?" asked the lawyer for the defense.
Il do not" replied Adjutant Caygill. II
will call Irving Latino as my first witness"
in the audience. walked up to the witness
chair,
In Venice, Italy
What do you know about the devil?'
said Latino. MY mother ordered me to
stay at home and play with my young
brother. The devil came to me and told me
to go out. He told me that / needed recre-
alton. / went out and slipped on the ice.
1 broke my leg and had to have it am
Wasn't it your own heart that told you
to go out?" asked Ensign Damon on the
No." said Latino; sit was the devil that
told me to disobey."
Mrs. Wontling!' shouted the clerk.
A large woman arose from a rear seat
and worked herself up to the witness chair.
She said that she was born in England.
;, .As one %svt tine IN. in your r life, asked Ad-
BILE woman and a good wife?'
And then you met the deviI?"
when did you meet him?'
II met him first in a hospital" answered
Mrs; Vomiting; Il was a nurse, and the
devil told me to drink the liquors instead
Of giving them to the patients. I did, and
1t was three weeks old, and while it was
dying l was drinking in a saloon. I was
arrested for being drunk. The devil had
window when a Salvation Army procession
went by. The saloon keeper said that he
go out and grab one of their banners. I
ran out to win the gin. and the Salvation
Army girls received me kindly. L then
drove the devil from my heart.
A PERSONAL ACQUAINTANCE.
William Wallace" called the clerk.
A little man with a silk hat, of which
he seemed very proud, climbed into the
witness chair, and said he was a Scotch
man, and that he had met the devil in Scot
land.
= was personally acquainted with the
defendant for twenty years" he said.
Before you met him were you a good
MANI"
II was"
After you met him were you ever in
JAIL
frequently. I became a miserable, dis
IepuJdDie IelIOW.
The audience enjoyed Wallace, and some
times they laughed so loud that his replies
could not be heard. When he was cross
examined he objected to being called a Jail
bird. He said that he had reformed when
he met the Salvation Army.
Louisa Rasimus, who was the next wit
ness. was a disappointment. She had known
the devil, but not much had come of it.
When did you meet him?" asked the
prosecutor.
when 1 was fifteen years DID,, said
Louisa. He came to me and asked me to
go to theaters and balls. L had always
raging lion. He knew that he couldn't get
me in that form, for 1 didn't like raging
lions. He took a more pleasing form. We
didn't get along very well, anyway, and I
drove him out of my heart"
James Duffy said that he sold groceries,
and when he met the devil he learned to
sand his sugar and give short measure. He
learned to put the big potatoes on top and
the little ones at the bottom. The cross
examination confused him.. He wasn't quite
sure whether 1t was the devil or his assoc
eiates in business that taught him these
tricks.
The star witness of the evening was Ka-
trina Lyons, a good-iooking German wom-
an in Salvation Army uniform, who wanted
to make out a hard case against the devil.
when did you meet the devil?' asked
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