The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-02-19

reflection that a human life was hang
ing in the balance, the spectators were
orderly and not once was a demonstra-
ton made requiring the authority of
the court officials to suppress
MIR. BOARDMAN BEGINS
The defense having waived its privilege
TO call one more witness in rebuttal Mr..
Boardman commenced his address to the
jury Immediately after court convened.
He said in part:
Leonard R. Day was killed. There is
no denying that fact. He was the dead
man killed in the West hotel billiard
room on that fatal November morning.
and the man who killed him was one of
the eleven men who were there at the
moment of his killing Who were thew?
Canfieid, his dearest friend; Fred George,
Charles Force, Mr. Geary Mr. Evans.
Mr.. Bennett, Mr.. Barbe and Hamilton.
O'Mally was there later and Mr. GRAY.
Gentlemen, while it appears that
something has been held back by wit
nesses, I leave it to your common sense
as to whether it has not been kept back
in the interest of Hamilton. Nearly
every man who has gone on that stand
is a friend of his George pushed the
two men apart. 81 am CUT he said
and started for the Mushroom He did
not know that Day had been stabbed
at that moment, but he went to his
room in the hotel Fred George did Lot
kill Leonard R. Day. 1t was absolutely
impossible.
Charles Force was there He was
away from Hamilton and Day during
the entire fight Mr. Evans was here
indicating on the chart) Forces time
was taken up wholly with Evans
Charles Force did not kill Mr.. Day; no
man will claim that.
HAMILTON SHOWED REMoRsE.
When Hamilton found what he had
done, gentlemen, in his mad jealousy he
was remorseful-there is always a sense
of remorse which comes to a man; that
remorse which impelled Brutus to throw
himself upon his sword after he had
stabbed Caesar. [ can picture Hamilton
after he saw his dead victim lying on
the floor, how his better nature asserted
itself and he sat there with the officer,
gloomy and peculiar, before his coun-
sci or Mr.. Francis, his employer arrived
and told him to keep still. I can see
how he confessed his crime to the Of
f1cer He did not realize then that a
defense can be put up for any crime,
no matter how, when or where. Why,
gentlemen, If a man was stabbed right
here IN this courtroom at this moment,
you would find q hundred men, and 1
doubt not two hundred women who
would come In here out of sympathy
and work their minds into that condi-
ton that they would testify falsely. They
would say, There was a great rush, L
saw some one injured, but the man they
have charged with the crime could not
have done it, They could put up a
better defense than you can here.
After Day had been killed and gone
down there to the floor Hamilton comes
back into the billiard room, back by the
body of Day, and goes to cha1jng or rub
bling his feet. 1 explained that in my
opening remarks. He went out of that
billiard room after the assassination of
Day. Then it dawned upon him that he
still had the bloody knife in his possess
sion; then Hamilton closed up the blade
of that knife; he walked back into the
billiard room and had that overcoat on
with the side pocket, where he carried
his hand; he walked out to that billiard
table and leaned upon it; he got down
beside the body of Day with that drunk
en- witness, Bennett, who was hysterical
he got down, and, they say they offered
a prayer All, gentlemen. 1 would ike to
believe that when Hamilton came back he
did it for the purpose of bringing back
to life the man he had slain, but he went
back to that dead body for the purpose
of laying that bloody knife beside it.
quietly and steathily.
Mr. Boardman made much Of the testi-
mony of Gray, who, he said, was per-
fectly sober-Gray, the man who discov-
cred the body of Day after every one had
left the billiard room. He also repeated
with dramatic fervor Bennets sudden
ejaculation when he turned to Hamilton
who was leaning against the table, HE
is dead, and you have killed him.
Continuing, Mr.. Boardman said:
1--WE have shown you by Greet testi-