The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-08-01
WILL FINISH TODAY
Alexander testers Fate Will
Soon be Known.
PRISONERS CHIEF COUNSEL
Tells Why Old Man Was Not
Put on the Stand.

| P. H. Cullen OF Mexico, Mo-, chief
| for the murder of Gilbert Gates, made
| the closing arguments for the defense
yesterday. He reviewed the evidence in
detail, and, in explaining why Jester did
not take the stand In his own defense.
| referred to the silence Of Christ when ar
| raigned before Plate.
w. o. Forest. for the prosecution. will
close the arguments today and the case
| will then be given to the jury. The YER
| dict Is awaited with great interest and
| there is much speculation as to what it
will be. Some are confident that the
jury will disagree. others that it will &C
quit, while still others think Jester will
be convicted.
In connection with the Jester trial the
New York Journal thinks it mas diScnT-
cred a wonderful parallel between the
case and that of Eugene Aram, the fal0-
Gus English case. The Journal says: "An
extraordinary parallel is presented by the
trial of Alexander Jester, at New or
don, Mo-, and the historical case of Eu-
gene Aram. in England, over a century
ago.
Eugene Aram's crime and fate lave
exercised an undying fascination ever
since the day he was executed, more than
a century ago. Bulwer Lytton, the great
romantic novelist, weaYed the events CT
Eugene Aram's life into a famous book,
while Tom Hood, the most gifted writer
of short poems in the English langu9 ge,
has dealt with them in verses which will
never be forgotten.
Alexander TESTERS case is not only
strikingly similar to that of Eugene
Aram, but in some ways more remarka-
BILE. Eugene Aram's crime remained IN
punished for fifteen years, while Jester
lived in false security for thirty years.
The lives Of both men after the crimes
were remarkable for piety and respecta-
bility. Eugene Aram was a schoolmaster,
while Jester was a preacher. Eugene
Aram was devoted to science and Htera-
ture. while Jester constantly studied his
Bible. Eugene Aram was betrayed by
his wife, while Jester was betrayed by
his sister,
The poem by Thomas Hood, called 'The
Dream of Eugene Aram,' is as follows:
Twas in the prime of summer time,
An evening calm and cool,
And four-and-twenty happy boys
Came bounding out of school;
There were some that ran and some that
leapt,
Like troutletS in a pool.
Away they sped with gamesome minds,
And souls untouch'd by sin;
To a level mead they came, and there
They drave the wickets in;
Pleasantly shone the setting sun
Over the town of Lynn.
Like sportive deer they coursed about
And shouted as they ram
Turning to mirth all things of earth,
AS only boyhood can;
But the Usher sat remote from all
melancholy man!
His hat was off, his vest apart,
To catch heavens blessed breeze;
For burning thought was in his brow,
And his bosom i'll at ease:
So he leand his head on his hands, and
read
The book between his knees.
Leaf after leaf he turned it Ger,
Nor ever glanced aside,
For the peace of his soul he read that
book
In the golden eventide;
Much study had made him very lean,
And pale, and leaden-eyed.
At last he shut the ponderous tome.
With a fast and fervent grasp
He strand the dusky covers close,
And fixed the brazen hasp;
80 God! Could I SO close my mind
And clasp it with a clasp"
Then, leaping on his feet upright,
Some moody turns he took
Now up the mead, then down t5e mead
And past a shady nook
And, 10! he saw a little boy
That pored upon book
MY gentle lad, what is't you read
Romance or fairy fable?
Or is 1t some historic page
OF kings and crowns INSTALLER"
The young boy gave an upward glance,
1T is The Death of Abel"
The Usher took six hasty strides.
AS snit with sudden pain
Six hasty strides beyond the place,
Then slowly back again;
And down he sat beside the lad
And talk'd with him Of Cain.
And lang since then. Of bloody men.
Whose deeds tradition saves;
OF lonely folk cut off unseen.
And hid IN sudden graves:
OF horrid stabs. IN groves forlorn,
And murders done in caves:
And how the sprites Of injured men
Shrek upward from the sod
Az. how the ghostiy hand Will point
To show the burial clod:
And unknown facts OF guilty acts
Are seen in dreams from Cod
He told how the murderers walk the earth 1
Beneath the cure OF Cain
With crimson clouds before their eyes,
And flames about their brain:
For blood has left upon their souls
Its everlasting stain.
And wall" qpoth he. "I know. FOR
truth,
Their pangs must be extreme
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