The San Francisco call., 1898-03-22
BLAMES THE
 WOMAN FOR
 HIS CRIME Sole Burden of the De- fense of George
 Clark. Counsel Seeks to Prove That He Was but
 an Agent. Points to the Victims Widow as the One Who Planned
 the Murder. CASE NEARING AN END. Closing Plea for the St Helena Frat ricide Will Be Concluded
 To-Day.
CASE NEARING AN END.
Closing Plea for the St Helena Frat ricide Will Be Concluded
 To-Day.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

NAPA, March 21-It was a day of words in the Clark case, and if words could save the murderers neck he would never mount the gallows. MT. Hogan resumed his argument in the morning and throughout the opening session devoted himself to showing how the woman was responsible for it all. He denounced the widow of murdered William Clark and declared that if murder was committed at all it was because of her. Clark, according to him, was a person easily led by the temptress, and to her MT. Hogan at tempted to trace all blame for the death of William Clark. He compared the plain, homely, expressionlesS face his hearers had all seen upon the stand to the glorious, still living beauty of Cleo patra; to the fascinating wife of Poti- phar; to all the beauties of history who have led men astray, and the defendant himself he compared to Joseph-who fell not.
 He called attention to the attitude of the defendant througout the trial-an attitude which has all the sprightliness of an intelligent clam-and asked if such man could be guilty of such crime. The construction of George Clark's head was also called into the case, and MT. Hogan declared Clark's appearance justied his reputation for peace and quiet.
 This same head is the talk of all those who have taken sufficinet trouble to come up into the courtroom to see it. It is all set forward of the neck. It seems in a straight line up from the shoulder blades and then the outline hurries angularly over the crown and down over the shallow lowering brow, until it leaves his eyes just on a level with the middle of his ears; and then leaving a dish nose and a mouth whose weakness cannot be hidden by the growth of hair around it, it wanderS off into a stubby growth of beard and there ends in the air. His eyes are Tack -luster," inanirrate, expressionless orbs, and altogether he looks a paradox "a man capable of nothing and capa- ble of anything.
 sThe woman did it. The woman did it," was drummed into the jury all day. "She lured him on; she led him first into the path of dishonor and then into the path of crime, if crime there was" reiterated MT. Hogan. She did it. She did iti" was the burden of the argument, and the man who, even granting that temptation was there, sacrificed his brothers honor, wrecked his brothers home and then took his brothers life, was held up as one fitted to be again turned loose on forbear1ng community.
 Hogan described the defendant as one who had lied to save his paramours honor and who would die if necessary to save her name and liberty, but the testimony shows that Clark was the first to assail the woman's attempts to lead a better life by a threat to tell the world all she had been doing.
 There was a point made about the absence of mud on the porch of William Clark's house and also the fact that no pistol shot had been heard nor had the fall of Clark's senseless body been noted by any one in the house.
 Mir. Hogan also showed how pistol might have been held in the right hand so a man might have shot himself in the left side of the head, and he tried to show that the woman might have pinned the message which asked the door.
 There is a growing sentiment in Napa and the surrounding country that the chances are there will be a verdict fix ing the penalty at life imprisonment. There is no ground for the belief, how ever except that George Clark is al- most an idiot and the jury may take that into consideration and so show some leniency. It is not expected that there will be any hesitation over a yer dict of guilty
 MT. Hogan will complete his argu- ment tomorrow.