The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-02-16

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crazy DIR Brooke, the defendants at
tending physician, testified that she
was suffer ing from '13 different and
able bodied diseases" but she was still
strong enough to hold a gun against
her victims breast and pull the trig-
ger. The doctor also said that she was
insane but that the acts of insane per-
sons were generally motiyeless. The
act of Mrs. Baptiste had a motive. Her
greatest motive was to kill the man
who, she thought, had wrecked her life.
Hatred. jealousy and revenge We're her
motives. When a woman is wronged
or thinks she is wronged the first thing
she thinks about is to kill the person
who has wronged her. Jim Baptiste
scorned her, and hell has no fury like a
woman scorned. He scorned her and
she killed him. Let her suffer for it,
In conclusion Mr.. Stivers said:
Gentlemen Of the jury. at the time
Of your examination as to your qualifi-
cations to serve as trial jurors in this
cause, and then being under oath to
speak truly, you, one and ALL declared
that you had no bias or prejudice for or
against this defendant; that you would
accept circumstantial evidence if the
same We're sufficiently strong to con-
vince you beyond a reasonable doubt,
that the matter of the sex of this de-
PENDANT would not cause You to swerve
from your sworn duty. This being the
case, If you aequit this defendant from
sympathy, from pity. through compass
sion, through prejudice or from a senti-
mental chivalry, then. gentlemen. you
are false to your OATH false to your
selves, false to humanity and false to
the people of this community. who ex-
pected you to do your duty. under the
instructions of this court regardless of
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this defendant Is woman sufficient
cause for her to take into her own hands
the enforcement of our laws? Is her
sex any reason why the penalty of death
with its accompaniment of agony and
pain-should have been meted out to
this man for his infraction of moral
law She had at her command the en-
tire machinery of the law for the right
ing of her wrongs, and, gentlemen, that
process is sufficient when officers and
iuries do their sworn duty Would the
shedding of this mans blood atone for
her wrongs? What crime had James
Baptiste committed that he should so
forfeit his life? Simply the crime of low
ing another. Whatever ne may have
done towards breaking the law, the law
would have punished him for, and
through its proper agencies and through
the agency of this self-appointed ayen-
ger of her fancied wrongs.
And, in closing this case. gentlemen,
| desire to warn you against the elo-
quence and Establishments of defendants
counsel Do not permit them to warp
your better judgment or swerve you
from your sworn duty. 1t is the province
of defendants counsel to plead to you
for mercy, to work upon Your sympa-
thies and compositions, to invoke in be-
half of their client the natural and uni
yersal sentiment of chivalry which
should animate the breast of every man
toward the weaker sex. This is the de-
PENDANTS right. and il Is her sole refuge.
If then, gentlemen, you feel that wo-
mankind should suffer no punishment
even for SO grave a crime as foul muir
der. that she may revel unrebuSed of
the law in a saturnalia of weakness,
vice, sin and crime. and that your SYM
pathies and sentiment and compassion
and ehiyalries are entitled to pre-emi-
nence over your SSorn duty and over
the laws of this land. then, gentlemen,
you may acquit this woman on those
grounds. but upon no others consistent
with the evidence in this case. The
wages of sin is DEATH The Almighty
has declared it-it Is the Divine law,
proclaimed of heaven and endorsed of
earth Is this crime of foul murder such
a sin? 1t is for you TO say. The soul of
James Baptiste looks down upon you,
and his blood shrieks aloud to you for
justice. Will you then be deaf?