The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-09-16
w. S. Barnes for the Prosecu-
ton Will Argue This
Morning.
CAMPBELL IS VERY CONFIDENT
Sure of Convicting the Man Who
Lured Him to the California.
Street Cottage.

Winthrop will have reached its conclu-
sion. All the testimony has been pre-
sented to the jury, the prosecution has
mcde its opening address and the defense
has offered its argument. All that re-
mains to be done now is for the prosecu-
ton to close the arguments this morning,
when Judge Wallace will charge the jury
and they will retire TO agree upon a YER
dict.
The Winthrop case is one of the strangest
ever presented to any court in this State.
Ii is entirely built on circumstantial evil
dence and the defendant accuses his chief
accuser of being the criminal in the al
legged kidnapping and robbery of Millionaire
Campbell.
The defendant was again placed on the
stand to re but the testimony of Sergeant
Taylor, who testified at previous hear
ing that he had known Winthrop under
aliases while in the army.
Winthrop testified he first enlisted in
1876. He was discharged in 1881. The
document produced corToborated the state
ment. The witness never at any time
gave a fictitious name, according to his
testimony.
Assistant Attorney Black opened the
argument for the prosecution, reviewing
the case from the time, according to the
testimony, that Winthrop laid the plans
to kidnap Campbell, followed him to San
Jose and finally landed him in chains in
the Californla-street cottage.
Attorney Black outlined the case with
out going into the details, leaving that TO
w. S. Barnes, the District Attorney, who
is expected to close the case for the prose-
cution this morning.
Attorney Bell, for the defense, attacked
the veracity of Urquhart, the man who
claimed TO be Winthrop's friend, and to
whom he was said to have conhded his
schemes to kidnap people OF means for
the purpose of ransom.
This man Urquhart," said Bell, "claims
he had knowledge of the proposed kidnap-
ing of his friend Campbell. He rented q
house in which the deed was to be con-
summated and waited for a victim. He
saw this victim and Winthrop walking
along Montgomery street to the cars on
their way to the cottage, and still he never
raised his voice against the crime.
"Such testimony, gentlemen of the jury,
should be regarded with distrust
ut is improbable that Winthrop, SO well
known in the neighborhood where the al
legged crime occurred, would have engaged
house there for the purpose, and it is
still more improbable he would have gone
to Agent Speck, q man whose acqualnt-
ance has been his for years.
The testimony of the landladY of the
bers, at first, that man named Archibald
came to her and paid a deposit for the
rent after he'had visited the house and
been in her company many minutes, per-
haps an hour or more, on couple of occa-
sions. Subsequently she was confronted
with the defendant and failed to recognize
MIN. Later, when under the persuasive
influence of the police, she managed to
remember that the man she could not rec
ognize Immediately after the crime was
really the villain the police depicted him
to be.
GAS for the testimony of Campbell, the
Hawaiian millionaire, it is contradicted by
that of several witnesses He claims th at
on the night of August 8 he saw the de-
PENDANT at his bedside in the California
street cottage. Three reputable witnesses
testify that at the very moment Winthrop
is claimed by Campbell to have been with
him he winthrop was in the lodgerooms
OF some fraternal societies or on the streets
of this City with them.
'As to the defendants inability to ac-
count for every moment of his time,' con-
tinued Bell, Il will ask YOU gentlemen
of the jury, which one among you can
think over period OF days and state ex-
actly where you were at given hourP
The testimony given by Samuel G.
Taylor is entitled to no credence whatso.
eyer. Believing his statement that the
defendant was a member of the United
States army under two aliases, Winthrop
must have enlisted when he was mere
boy OF Ia years of age. l say that it is a
pure lie.
There have been ship captains with
the lives of hundreds of passengers de-
pending on their judgment to bring them
and their ship safely into port. Their
ships have gone ashore and harm has come.
No one can possibly say with reason that
these captains maliciously wrecked their
vessels. No, an error of judgment was
made. So is it with this defendant. He
made an error of judgment when he went
out of this City at the suggestion of
Urquhart, who told him to keep in hiding
until the trouble should blow over.
Winthrop had previously been accused
apprehended and placed in jeopardy for a
crime of which he was proved innocent.
He did not want TO be again prosecuted
by the police, leaving his wife and chill
dren to suffer for months on account of his
unjust incarceration; hence, he removed
himself to where he believed he could be
safe while still near enough to them to be
their provider."
w. S. Barnes will address the Jury this
morning.
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