Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-12-24
URD PROPOSITION.

natural. was p''iee''!
AN ABSURD PROPOSITION.
81, neaVing Mr.. wendenburg foy time.
'he Attorney-General plunged into dis.
cusSion OF the evidence arer,ng ooch
point IN the testimony as he came to :,
re started with the quarrel AT the sleeel
uouSe' and emphasized Carter's love for
money asserting that as the root of tho
nere eVlL Coming down TO the claim
.""t carter had been told that Moore
was bad man, Mr. Montague asked the
jury Gentlemen. did YOU ever hear of
such proposition as. that because Moore
was bad man Carter was Justified in
hiiing him? Such doctrine Is repulsive
10 the laws OF high Heaven. and OF this
country OF ours. Carter. the Attorney
1eherai continued. had quarreled with
hVVte-hGd, so TO speak. tested him on
ms own stamping ground. and found he
Would not Tight. He had hurled the lie
~ hlm' and seen no resentment and vet
ne afterwards thought he was a DANCE
rous man. Mr.. Wendenburg. the speaker
sald, had told the jury that thousands OF
men Tor whose blood prosecuting attor-
heys mad cried had been acquitted. and
ne hoped another would be added TO that
Hst This utterance the Attorney-Gene-
raj characterized as superlative audacty.
ana, then expressing his sympathy for
carter personally. he said: 81 would to
COD that / could see my duty clear 10
say TO you turn him loose. but Carter
is not the one to be considered now We
must uphold the laws OF our land wa
must protect your homes. my home: we
can't AFFORD to turn such a man loose on
the community"
RAISE THE STANDARD.
The Attorney General appealed TO the
jury 20 raise the standard of convictions
in virginia, and cited the case in which
the slayer of Robert Lee Atwell had been
given five years in the pententiary and
the same punishment had been meted to
another man who stole a calf.
The eloquent lawyer then inveighed
against the practice of carrying concealed
weapons and said that this custom waf
more productive of murders than any
other one agency or factors He then de-
in round turns the attack made
by'Mr. Smith upon COmmissiOner-of-th the
Revenue Childrey, and said that if ever
had been done a man Charley
Children was that man. He asserted that
Mr.. Childrey had in no wise committed
n breach of the trust reposed I'm him. and
then said: Men are put upon the wit
ness-stand where they are absolutely un-
able 10 defend or protect themselves, are
then bounded and abused by lawyers who
have desperate cases because they have
obeyed the mandates of the law and done
lis bidding
"These gentlemen are accustomed TO
abusing witnesses. They even abused |
poor Cyclone Samuels their own wit |
ness; they put him on the stand and then |
asked you not TO believe him. Mr.. Smith |
I'LL l.
nOnwealth had a desperate case i'm Hen
'ico 1t said, Send for Cyclone" Samuels,' |
lnd turning TO Mr. SMITH you only fol- |
owed suit, my friend, for a desperate |
,ase you certainly have"
THE GIRLS TESTIMONY.
Coming on down TO the evidence of the |
little Guerrant girl, Mr.. Montague said |
hat the testimony Of the witnesses put |
IN to break her down was too exact as |
o minutes and other minor details TO |
lave the elements Of truthfuness in them. |
md he asserted that not one thing had |
,een adduced to show i'm any manner that |
he child had not told the truth the whole |
ruth. and nothing but the truth.
Coming on TO a discussion Of the con-
roversy concerning the number Of shots
fred Mr. Montague criticised the defence
or its implication that the evidence con-
erning the hole in the buggy was manu-
aCtured, and then, ascending to the wit
less chair, illustrated how the shots were |
ired. He then took up the evidence of
1iss Carter and discredited IT, though he |
poke somewhat commisseratingly Of the
-oung lady. He disliked he said. 10 attack
T criticise the young woman. "but." said |
e. Justice shall have my hand before
ny sense of chivalry 20 any woman shall
uppress the truth"
Reverting to his connection with the
ase. Mr.. Montague said that this was
be first time he had appeared as prose-
utOr in a murder case, and that he had |
My done SO now at the earnest request
( Mr.. Sands. "butff the case goes TO the
upreme Court" he continued, "it will be
~ duty TO prosecute IL there. and | will
o So"
WORSE THAN A DOG.
Mr.. Montague referred in eloquent Ian
uage to Carter's failure TO 20 to look
fter his victim after ne had slain him.
nd said: "They tell us that bloodhounds
hen they overtake their victim and he
es bleeding on the ground. lick his blood
nd endeayor 10 soothe his dying agonies
10 we find that the nature of man is less
lerciful than that Of a dog?
"Self-defcnce is innocence. and both |
aTter and his daughter concealed this in
ocence which, upon every rule of human
)nduct, they would, had it have been
ue. cried aloud from the hOusetops. Oh! |
D. gentlemen, we cannot believe this"
The naughty contempt. the supreme in
ference, the great distain which Carter
-idenced for his victim when on the wit
and his denuncietion of those | {
no testified against him, was made a
cture OF by Mr. Montague He then
,oke of what he termed the cruelty of
e defence i'm dragging from Mrs. Moore's ,
Is that which must have increased the ,
ignancy Of her grief. and again attack , ,
2 Mr. Wendenburg, characterized his
lestioning as impudent impertinent and
flair. But" said he, what does Mr..
care for law? All he cares
r is to get his man off; that is what he 4,
employed for. He said. think, that it
my ambition which makes me appear in
is case. Well, he must think my ambi-
IN is very low, or that / am very cor
pt man. May be he does; | don't know, :
Il l dent care what he thinks.
DIR. WHITE CRITICISED.
Mr.. Montague, I'm referring to DIR.
aiah Whites appearance, said that he
me with his fat capon-lined stomach ,
,d double-breasted vest and city airs,
I'd posed as the great am of the occa-
on. IN warrant" he continued, that
is sore now from the working that
gave his arm and the ,
inches ne administered to his side in
curing his evidence from him.
At this juncture Mr. Sands donned the
ad mans coat and ascended TO the wit ,
ssstand while Mr. Montague, with the