Evening journal., 1896-11-10

there is-that OF a confession from the
accused, jeopardizing his own interests
Now we have proved to you that he
confessed that he killed this child. and
that he did IL because the child was a
burden to him.
Now, gentlemen. my learned
friends on the other side will charge
you against expert testimony and will
endeavor to belittle the state detectives,
whom they charge with exacting a con-
fession. But you must remember that
the so-called expert testimony in the
tw refers principally TO the testimony
OF special detectives paid on con-
tingent fee.
Here. however. we have regularly
paid officers of the city and state, men
who live in our community. and who
couldn't possibly have gained anything
or have offered anything to have se-
cured these confessions. To my own
personal knowledge the state owes
more TO these men for the protection of
society from crime than any class Of
men in the state.
And, now how unlikely it is that a
child, whose bones have not yet become
brittle, to fall from a carriage and
break its neck
PLEADING FOR THE MANS LIFE.
Josiah Marvel made an impressive
address, Of thirty minutes duration.
before the jury pleading for the pris-
oner's life. He declared that the state
would have the jury believe that this
prisoner did an absolutely idiotic act
took his little daughter to a place only
fifteen yards from a public road, 100
yards from ahouse and, leaving
his team standing in the road delib-
erately, in that public place, choked,
struck and drowned his child in that
open place IN two feet OF water.
This man Willis has testified to you
in most straightforward manner that
he entered the woods, neglecting to tie
his little child in the carriage. He saw
the little one kick, cry out and fan out
of the carriage striking on It's head.
He rushed TO where It had fallen, raised
IL and saw the bruise on the side OF its
head, and then listening and watch
ing. found that it was dead. Willis as
he has testified. loved his child-the
only one left to him, and whom he
/ looked upon as the loved one who
would grow and attend him In his old
age He looked upon It's dead form
and was almost overcome with giiei
and excitement. In his excitement he
began to reflect that his neglect had
caused this child's death, that If this
became known the law would blamehin
for its death, and I'm his high tension
Of feeling. concluded 20 place the it'll,
body in sack for its shroud and ther
bury it In a quiet place"
Harry Whiteman. OF counsel for de.
E..II NJ n.
ed that the state had offered no evi.
dence that Willis had killed his child
no evidence OF intent, no evidence oi
violence absolutely nothing but an
alleged confession Of Willisunder som,
hope. and surrounded by blue-coats
! whom he held I'm mental awe. Wha
more could we expect. McVey cai
easily be mistaken. He made sevcra
mistakes before the coroner's jury, an
then tried to correct his mistakes
Would you send that man to the gal
lows on the testimony OF Barney Nc
Vey? / think you will agree that IN
is too dear TO be sacrificed on the mis-
taken and corrected evidence of a de
tective, who would have the world L
believe him astute."
MR. COOPER CLOSED.
In closing for the state, Deputy At
| torney-General Cooper said.
Il am no orator, gentlemen. and
will not indulge in honeyed phrases o.
love and the parental affection OF this
father who buried his beloved chilC
in a guano sack in six inches OF earth
II the child had fallen on a stone II
the road n could not have killed itself
The crime of infanticide is most fre
quent and hardest to detect
I WILLIAM TORBERT HENRY's
TRIAL.
UDon the retirement OF the Willi
jury, William Torbert Henry, an intel
ligent-looking and well-dressed col
ored man, was brought into the docl
between the life-and-death tipstaves
and re-arraigned for shooting and kill
ing William Virgins, colored, at Ebe
nezer camp ground, near Odessa, ol
August %. He again pleaded mo
guilty, and to be tried "by God an
my country"