The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1897-09-08
FRONTIER ORATORY.
Polished Arrangement of Witness in
Oklahoma Murder Case.

Oklahoma murder case
! When Grace Allen, Kansas girl, was
on trial at Chandler, O. r., charged with
the murder of her rival, she was defend
ed by Attorney L. Z. Payne, says the
| Topeka Capital. In his speech to the iu-
rY Mr. Payne administered the following
me"ited and blistering word-castigatiC n
to the lover in the case, who, it seems,
loved not wisely, nor yet too well:
owe will now contemplate for mo-
ment the Kansas Jay; the creature who
was engaged to two girls and true to
neither. | expected from what | had
heard of these two wOmen's infatuation
for him to see an Apollo Belvidere, a
glass of fashion, and a mold of form,
some magnificent specimen of grandly
developed manhood, such as men might
be envOus of and women might rave
over. But when this insignificant, red
headed specimen, who, with his speCta-
cleS, reminds me of horned toad, Jump
ed upon the witness stand | confess that
| was disappointed. And we now have
the honor to stand in the presence of
the lah-dedah of the lah-dedahs, the
beardless Adonis without any signs that
L can see of manhood about him, and to
feast our eyes upon his physical graces
and beauties, his weak eyes, and to re-
joice in the sound Of that sweet little
lisp of his-ta ia. This is the thing. We
have seen it at last. Engaged to one
woman, with the day appointed for his
marriage, he entered the widows home
in the state of Kansas and sought the
heart of this poor, innocent, pure and
trusting girl, and gained it-fearful
fhnt1nht This -,
that gave away the secrets of his sweet
heart and turned her love letters over to
rival to be made the subject of her
sneers and jeerS; who plighted his troth,
his fidelity, to one girl and then in his
duplicity said he hoped something would
prevent him from marrying 50 he could
marry another, and spoke the words of
promise to the ear of that other only to
break them to her heart, and laughed and
danced to see the tiendishness of his own
treachery pinch the lily-tincture of that
others face and starye the roses on her
cheeks. This is the moO-Calf who took
buggy rides with sweetheart and lisp
ed in her ears the dulcet strains If his
peurile passion, then said he took the
drive at her request! This is the doub-
le-faced hypOcnte who, two weeks ago,
held the lily-white hands of this pure
girl in his claws and told her that he
loved her, and is here today writing
notes to the prosecution and aiding in
every way possible TO him to send her to
the penitentlary. He says be advised
the Eckes family not to drop this prose-
cution. He says, L never mentioned
marriage to Grace Allen and then, in
the next breath, he says, L told her that
if things were different [ would marry
her, and that l would like for things to
be different Think of that. Is it not
the language of a subtle, false, perjured
and disloyal VILLAIN? If | had a son who
would engage himself to one girl while
engaged to another, tell their secrets, ex-
pose their letters, and then come on the
witness stand and attempt to swear one
OF those girls into the penitentiary
would shoot him as l would dog: |
Wouldsthrow the lousy cur headlong into
a well filed with scaly snakes, that they
might hiss at and bite him from now I'M
til eternity"