The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-05-15
viii Hereafter Plead Her Own
Cause in Court.
WOMEN ON THE JURY.
She Will Demand That They
he Represented.
Says an Appeal From Verdict
Will Be Taken.
Never Consented to a Defense of
Insanity.

Mrs. Nation is not pleased with the
verdict of guilty in her case She
wished the decision of the jurymen to
be not guilty Neither is she pleased
with the defense relied upon by her at
torneys in hopes of clearing her. Airs.
Nation has three days in which to make
an appeal. which she is determined to
do She is living at 500 Van Buren,
street When asked what she thought
of the verdict, Mrs. Nation said:
81 think I had a lot of anarchists on
the jury and the only excuse for the
verdict was ignorance or viilainy. i was
very much shocked when / found out
that my attorneys winlSed at the plea
of insanity. / had no idea they would
make a plea. of insanity. did not agree
to it and knew nothing in the world OF
it. wished my attorneys to plead my
cause for 1 am a laW-abiding citizen,
and only have done what the law OF
God told me to do; that is. to destroy
the works of the devil, and what the
law of Kansas says / shall do when it
positively says in its statutes that when
a nuisance is established and the OIL
GERS of the law refuse to abate it any
person or persons shall meet and abate
it. The law of Kansas says that where
there is gambling and drinking of in
tOxicating liquors that all such places
are nuisances. Those men on the jury
knew very we'll that if a viper should
bite their children I would be justified
in killing it, and now they denounce
me for trying to kill something worse
than a viper which is biting and poison
ing their children. When I listened to
Mr. Hungate I thought he made the best
speech made in my defense. 1t is in
material to me what the verdict was.
I see more necessity now than ever for
smashing when a poor defenseless Wo-
man does not dare defend herself
gainst the outrages perpetrated upon
her and her children. We would better
pray for death to end our existence
I now truly believe that woman win
never receive justice in court until
she is tried by jury of her peers, by
II women. I shall plead my own
cases from now on and demand women
TO sit on the jury. shall certainly de-
mand that.
1.-The jury ought to have brought in a
verdict of my destroying malicious
property. A nuisance is not considered
property I didn't want the jury to
think I was insane and then bring in
verdict of not guilty on those grounds.
I prefer the verdict of guilty rather
than a verdict of insanity
i was somewhat amused, but more
disguised. at Judge Magaw who svore
that he thought me insane because
insisted on him doing his duty and TAX
ing a complaint from me against law
breakers of this town when he is paid
by the people and swore that he would
do what 7 asked him to do.
How would it do to call such people
malicious paupers? Also one evidence
Of my insanity was that 7 was not will
ling to sit in his office and look at the
naked pictures that he had on a screen
to the shame and modification of every
decent man and woman who should
come into his Office. Should such a mind
as this sit in judgment on the purity,
sanity or decency of any woman? AS
long rs our courts of Justice are pre-
Sided over by men whose perceptions
are below the par of a brute. what
hope is there for the protection Of men.
women and children? Like poor in7de1
France his reign Of terror will call for
q revolution and that now.
Il shall appeal this case if I can. I
have three DAYS TO appeal and to work
for a new trial If this case can not be
appealed I'll make a case that can be
appealed. I intend to attend to all my
other cases myself. am only fearful
they will be dismissed
1.-THE plea of insanity weakened the
prohibitory law. It has a. general bear
ing and pressure on the prohibitory law
People viii say that this is an insane
movement 1t was a scheme against
me.
They tricked me. these prohibition
lawyers, they will now say all prohibi-
tionists are insane. 1t was done at my
expense in hopes of saying they won it
by fair OF foul means