The evening times., 1900-01-31

be a reasonable doubt before you make up
your final verdict and convict this defend
ant of a crime for which he NAV be ire
sponsible All the innocent blood that was
shed on the horrid morning in August can
not tinge this mans hands and soul so deep
a crimson that he shall be deprived of that
solemn doctrine of reasonable doubt
The attorney then went into the details
Of the crime and the circumstances leading
up to it. He continued:
The distinguished Assistant District
Attorney arose here yesterday, and in tones
and with an eloquent utterance which /
can never hope to achieve, related TO you
the horrid details of the crime. You, sir, "
he said, turning and facing Mr.. Anderson,
you whose acumen has so often Wrung
from unwilling juries a verdict for which
YOU stroye, you are responsible if this man
shall be convicted of crime for which be
is mentally irresponsible. You, sir. have
done me more than a courtesy, because you
| have brought here upon this stand thirty
or forty witnesses who all gave testimony
that this defendant was a man OF peace
fuI and quiet habits.
rs this the man who carried, according
to the District Attorney. the thought Of
cruel murder in his breast?'
Mr.. Turner then reviewed the happy Ie-
lations Of the families of the defendant
and the Weisenbergers He referred 10
the modest circumstances of the Weisen-
berger family, and said:
Il do not refer To their circumstances
disparagingly, for / would rather guard
the meanest pauper than a millionaire"
He went on 20 illustrate the friendly re-
laiions of the two families, and claimed
that il was impossible for certain things
TO have occurred 10 which witnesses on the
stand had testified. He referred to the
fact that conversations between Smell and
Lizzie Weisenberger had been said to Rave
occurred when Mrs. Duval swore that the
child was at her home. and that she was
there on the night before the murder.
IF ever perjury blackened the court
room. it blackened this with its foul
breath, in the testimony of Kate Kraft
for when this talk of Lizzie WeiSeuberger
was sworn to by that witness the child
was at the home of Mrs. Duval, and you
know as well as l do that that converse
tion never occurred. and that the whole
testimony was the most damnable per-
jury on the part of Kate Kraft, who has
not told word of truth. And Mr.. Dis
trict Attorney, if you can make any evil
dence out of that, you are a master
sophst, better than all the schools of
Greece ever produced.
There can be but one deduction, gen
l1tllPU Oh tue jury. IL NdS luC uttu VI d
maniac. Much has been said about the
fits OF the defendant having occurred in
the preesnce of his faithful wife whose
lips are sealed by the mandate of the law.
Much has been said bearing upon the pu-
Fity of that dead child. Would that she
might be here to give the lie TO that ac-
cusation against her honor; would that
those mute lips might be opened to speak
the truth. Why could the defendant. in
the presence of this awful crime which is
said to have been the motive for the trag
edy, sit down quietly and play game of
checkers? Because his conscience was
burdenless, there was nothing on his
mind Did it not strike you as curious
that a mother whose child had been abus-
ed as Mrs Weisenberger swore she had
known hers TO be. would merely order the
giant from the house. and was not suffi-
ciently interested to see whether or not
he went?
Gentlemen. there's something wrong