The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-12-23
WILL GO TO THE JURY TO-DAY.
TRIAL OF SWEAT FOR THE MUIR
DER OF O'NEILL ABOUT ENDED.

Evidence in Rebuttal OF That for the
Defendant Brought by the state.
Or. Harmon Denies the Sensational
Charges About Seven Grains OF
Morphine Having Been Given
O'NeiII at the HOspital-Arguments
for the Defense Nearly Completed
The trial of Harry Sweat for the muir
der of Patrick o'Nein is still pending. 1t
continued through the morning and after
noon sessions of the Superior Court yester
day. A recess. was taken at o'clock I'M
til this morning, when it will be taken up
again.
At the adjournment the argument for
the defendant had not been completed.
Mr.. w. NJ. Hayward, counsel for the ac-
cused, had talked for two hours, but stat
ed that there were a few points upon
which he desired to further address the
jury. His concluding points viii be made
on the opening of court this morning, and
he win be followed by the solicitor gen
eral 1t is understood that Mr. Osborne's
speech will not be so lengthy as that of
Mr.. Hayward or that Of Judge A. H. Mac
Donen, who is associated in the defense
The latter spoke for about an hour and
a half. The case should go 20 the jury
before the dinner hour.
Ii was 10 o'clock when the case was
taken up. Evidence in rebuttal Of some
that had been brought by the defense was
brought out by the state. Dr. Harmon.
the house physician of the Savannah Hos
pital, was called. Ii was desired that he
should rebut the evidence Of Mrs. NARROW,
a sister of Sweat, who had sworn that she
had heard nurse at the hospital say that
O'Neil had been given a dose of seven
grains of morphine. This he did and also
said it was the wounds he had received
at the hands of Sweat that had caused
O'Neills death, and that he had made no
dying statement, as the O'Neill woman
and Mrs. NARROW testified he had as the
man had been unconscious for a day be-
fore he died.
The ONeill woman had testified that
she did not recall having given evidence
that the records of the coroner's inquest
showed, and Coroner Goette was called
TO testify as to this. He identified the
language of the records as that she had
used. The principal point of this was the
woman's denial that she had said she had
been drinking with her husband all day of
the night of the killing. When she was
on the stand the solicitor pressed her
closely about her own inebriate habits,
and she admitted that she sometimes got
drunk. LAS a matter of fact" he asked.
didn't you get drunk more often than
your husband2" "He used to get drunk
more often than l." she answered "He
always had money and 1 didn't" This
was the reason, the inference was plain,
that she allowed him to get the better of
her in this respect.
The solicitor himself took the stand for
a few minutes to say that a statement
of Sweats, made a short while before, as
TO his having been induced by O'Neill TO
settle a case the latter had brought
against Sweat for assault committed last
May, upon the payment of costs, was I'M
true. The solicitor said O'NeilI had been
anxious to prosecute and was only pre-
vented by his leaving to join the army.
Judge MacDonell opened the argument
for the accused A portion of his speech
was delivered before the recess for din
ner and the rest during the afternoon. His
address was forceful and made an impress
sion. One of his efforts was to show that
the fact of ONel having gone to war
should weigh no more in his favor than
the fact that's Sweat had tried to go and
had been thrown out on account of ply
steal disabilities should in his.
Mr.. Hayward then took up the evidence
and went carefully through it all. Both
he and Judge MacDonen are making a
strong fight for their client, and they be-
lieve that the finding of the jury will not
be for murder.
There was quite a crowd in the court
room all during the day Considerable in
terest seems TO be displayed in the trial
The case continues to be as revolving as
during the first day.