The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1897-07-24
taking Lillian on that fateful car ride
TO Ocean View
THAT BIG BAND BO%


ing to Mrs. Westc). did permit his wife
70 take the fide, did Institute divorce
proceedings and did make divers state
ments to people about said proceedings
but II there is anything else to connect
aim with a conspiracy the speaker
couldn't find It. Referring to Hall ca Sc
Mr.. Ncely asked who wove into the
warp and woof Of the gilded uniform
or the Chief Of Police the right to say
to a young man that he cannot appear
on the street with ladies. Recurring to
Cannon's case he asked was his client
10 DE forever damned as the perpctvator
OF the henous crime OF inStigatng de-
bauchery Of his own wife because he
permitted her to take ride with a
fricnd-was he for this to become the
Kissing and the byword and the scorn
OF the generations? Cannon had a
right 10 say who should cross the
threshold Of his home as Il visitor. Why
was MIS-. Cannon 50 anxious 10 take this
trip to Ocean View? She said she had
cause to be worried with her husband
FOR his cool treatment. She first said
she wouldn't go without her husband
but subsequently, she substituted his
permission for his presence.
CONFIDES IN HALL
She goes to Ocean View and there
made contidant Of Hall as to the most
secre, matter Of her eXistenceLthe rela-
ton OF husband and wife BY some re-
markable and mysterious power-the
ncwspa pers have called 1t the hypnotic
influence Of Hal-7she unbosoms herself
to him as 10 her affairs--tclls them TO
a stranger. There lis no man so cold
that his feelings will not respond 10 the
grief or youth and beauty. Notwlth-
standing the circumstances, this man,
who Is placardcd by the Chief Of Police
as though he were n mad dog, treats
this woman with the Difference that he
would have shown his sister. She should
have telcphoned to Norfolk that she
was left at Ocean View, but she lidn't
do H. L have never understood how that
r"trograde movement on that Tuesday
night In Norfolk at the suggestion Of
Mr.. John Pitt, resulted in I stroll be-
tween Mrs. Cannon and Hall, and I want
IL understood that l do not here make
any suggestlo TO reflect upon the char
acter OF this lady ur TO suggest any In
discretion on her part that would result
from anything else than ignorance
Hall took her to Il respectable house,
and che was discreet enough ia sleep
with married ladies while there. Would
he have carried her TO Il house Of this
character if he had any improper pur-
pose in his mind? She has vintlicated
herself, Notwithstanding she was in the
coils Of a. man who is said TO have been
hired TO dcbauch her. I don't say that
Cannon should have Initiated Sickles
and gone and killed Hall. l don't say
that he should have committed such an
act, and the fact that he 9cnt her clothes
after she had taken herself from his
home is no, other than the act of an
honorable man.
WHERE DOES SMITH COME IN2
How is Smith to be connected with
this conspiracy? Certainly the CONVEX
sation heard by Eastwood between Hall
and Smith can't incrimiRatc the latter
II; there anything in the Mariner con-
veraation TO make Il connection with
this alleged conspiracy? There may be
any number Of divorce suits which he
might have been working up. His car
rying that band box to Leo Myers store
lis the only thing he did. The evidence
agdist him IL ni0onshne. TO convict
Smith l., to strike down personal liber-
ty and degrade us 10 the lowest depths.
r desire TO call attention 10 the case of
Tucker Vs the Commonwealth In Viz
sinia (Which dwells upon the proposition
that circum stances OF mere suspicion are
not sunicien). Caunon's permission for
The ride taken by lIali and his wife may
have bcen given because OF his conf
dence in his wife, or il may have been
given because, desi:ing q divorce for
reasons which he thought sufficient, he
was willing that She should Of her own
accord compromise herself. You can
take your choice OF these theories. Either
one is consistent with his innocence OF
implication in q conspiracy to dcbauch
her.
Mr. &ecly closed his speech shortly,
after O'Clock and court then adjourned
t;l ,f col
fnr prosecution, rose for the final sum-
ming up OF the prosecution.
MIR. THON'S SPLENDID EFFORT.
AS Judge Neeiy remarked after the
trial was ove". 81 had the hot end Of
the poker 1t was hardly TO be expected
that he could put into his work his full
force and earnestncsS. On the contrary,
Mr. Thorn, confident that he champion-
inG the cause OF right and outraged in
nocence, threw his entire heart and soul
into this trial, and his splendid address
was the effort of his life. at one point
in it his auditors We're 20 affected that
they broke into spontaneous applause,
but His Honor steTnly rcpreSSed it, and
said that on 4 rcpititioN of It, he would
clear The court room OF spectators. Here
with we give his remarks in part:
At 3:0S O'Clock Mr., Thorn began his
argument. re Silu, III I'lii uesSlTe
that we shall all have a clear idea Of
what this charge IS and what evidence
is necessary TO subStantiate II. Mr..
Wharton says: a conspiracy Is a con-
federation to effect an unlawful object
by lawful means or by unlawful means
a lawful object"
IIe read from the notes Of the Anar-
chis;S' case as to what constitutes q
conspiracy. the citations being to prove
that IT Is not necessary for the con-
sDiratnrs to meet together" in the ac-
complshment Of the conspiracy, hut
that 1t Is only necessary TO show that