The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1898-03-15

OH. lhcli punishment Is with Ills Honor
Did they steal ANY Of these goods? When
man is innocent he can give You a sym
. metrical defence. If a man kills another
, and he puts up sclf-dcfcnse he stands o,
, falls by il. ia man is charged viii
arson and lie undertakes TO prove an alb
! he stands by it, An innocent man always
/ has a symmetrical defense, but this defense
| falls all around and catches a, everything
i'll sight. First old man Riser put it OIL
Albert. Then Albert put it OH Willie a nd
then that theory was abandoned and Viii.
lie undertook to put it on Bundricl;. II
You think you can buy goods in the night
time and i'll the big road and at your house
trc:n . "!e..; II 80 cents on the dollar and
that a jury or Il sensible man can be made
! tnhclicvc that there was no conspiracy yo,,
are mistaken. Gentlemen, the chcin is bro
ken. liatton says, sold the table cloth to
Albert Riser, Albert says lie bought it
from llcn,z. Ilcntz and Holloway swear
that there were two pairs of shoes in AL
bcrts trunk. Albert says he had only
one. Gentlemen, whom are you going
to believe? | ann not unkinu 20 Mr.. Riser
would not say an unl;ind i'.nr about
him, but we mus, S.'c;t to thc facts and
hew to the line let the chips fall where
they may. ann soiry Chat that old wo.
man has been brought in here. ] wish for
her sake that she could have been left be-
youd the walls of this coult room
Now as to that flour Old man las. \.
Riser says he bought four sacks from
Miller. Miller says he did not sell it.
Who arc You going 10 believe? am
soy to say gentlemen that old man Riser
haS the biggest cloud OF suspicion hanging
around linn that ever saw hover around
man.
As 20 Albcl,'s running away and get
ting married claim to be an cXrr:t on
chat subject and there is only one thing
tnT which ] condemn him amh Chat Is
lie did not carry his resolution into effect
and possibly ii he had he would not be
hctc today with this charge against him.
But hc changed his mind about October
and YOU will notice That he places the
dates OF the purchase OF his goods prior
TO that time, for after Chat time Mr. W. T.
liatton was no longer in David HipD's
store.
My eloquent young friend who has lust
preceded me undertakes 60 i'm ir5s upou
YOU, Ecntlcu!cn, that You are the ones
VINO are TO doom these uicn 60 some da.l;
duh%coh, but, gentlemen, | want YOU to
remember That 1t Is their own sins chat
brings YOU and them here and brings
down upon them this condemnation. We
also SAY that ,hat whoever steals, breaks
III houses, receives stolen goods, must be
punished.
AS 10 character. No one esteemed Mr..
Riser more than i, but the fall makes tilc
p;nS To ne Che more sharp. y hen Judas
betrayed his Lord he was one OF Che
chosen disciples. Because he has lived
and fed upon christening ,hat yaiirot save
tory are stained with blood shed in the
cause OF Christianity. We ask YOU in
the presence OF Almighty God and your
oath to let your verdict be iii accordance
with the evidence aud then il YOU can
give 10 that MAN his libc.,y aud to
that woman her boys yuu SAY chat the
proof of gull, is impossible and tilc white
people OF this State arc licensed TO COM
mt crime. But, gentlemen, let your vcv.
diet announce to the world that white
men can find white men guilty.
~ ihc conclusion OF MIR. Wclch'S speech
I'll" court took 4 recess for dinner.
When the court rcascmbcd in the If
trrnOon
COL. w. II. HUNT
addressed the jury it, behalf Of the de-
Tense. He made an rlOuucnt and ,ouch.
ing appeal to the jury Ill behalf OF tic
prisoners and 4 careful! analysis of thc tcS.
Imony. In short, lie presented the side
OF the dctcnsc as strongly as it was posi-
bic TO be done. He spoke for an hour and
twenty minutes. We can therefore give
only ncaIrc synopsis. He said The
Court, the counsel, The defendants aud
the jury a"c to be congratulated that the
most tedious case ever tried in Ncwberrv
Is drawing to a close. For four long days
we have all been Oh strong tension and
every he connected with the case is al
most broken down. From carly in the
morning until late at nigh, We have
thought of nothing but this case and now
1t Is about TO draw to a close and in q few
short hours the liberties of these defend
ants, gentlemen of the jnry, will he in
your hands. can go further and say
that the life OF at least one of fthcs dc r.nd-
ants WALL be i'll your hands, for ifvou convict
that old man i'll all probability he will
never see his liberty again When Won
go to write your verdict | want YOU 10 r..
member some things that the State didn't
do. In the first place the proScCu in
TINS case was David Iipp, whose store it
Is claimed was broken III and robbed. and
VINO employed the detective to work ND
the case, and yet, gentlemen, this man
uld not 80 upon that stand and give us an
opportunity to cross examine him. And
again, want you TO remember that Clar-
chcc 'undrlck was not put upon that stand
so that we could have the opDo. ,unity to
cross examine him. And | ask YOU why
they secured that country for witnesses
and brought every clerk III David Ilipp's
store, and yet did not put Clarence Bun
drck on tue stand except in reply so that
we could not examine him on the facts i'm
this case. And the testimony shows that
Joe We.,s WAS thc officer appointed bv
the magistrate to make the search Of this
house Tor these goods, and yet lie was not
pnt on the stand. Why was it that hon
cS, Joe Wcrts was not put on that stand to
tell what he knows about this case.
| am going to show you that this man
who claims to be detective, if he be one,
did not do single thing as a detective.
lie was employed in Columbia by Mr..
llipp after conference. lie came to Po-
maria on Thursday. On Friday hc took
ont the search warrant aud on Saturday
thc defendants here were al iested, and he
did not do ono particle Of work as de-
tective. Did he ever go to the Riscrs'?
DID lie ever peep into this house? lie
came to l., maria Representing. himself to
be a picture agent. He came there with
lie on his lips. How could lie have sus-
pcClCu there were auy goods i'm tlc - &c