The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-12-21

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road some distance and over the bank.
oh! but was not Bourquin's death in
Simultaneous. Did not the old negro
jump from the buggy when the shoot
ing occurred. Oh yes! death was in
Simultaneous with Bourquin, but when
the gun fell from his nerveless grasp
did it gallop down the road too? Oh
no, there it was right behind the buggy
and that's when the killing occurred.
He couldn't move it an inch try as he
might"
Twelve Circum stances.
The solicitor outlined his discussion
of the circumstantiaI evidence. There
are twelve circumstances, he said,
which pointed their spectre fingers
mutely at the accused. Certain it was,
that the man who killed Bourquin was
hunting deer: that the man was hunt
ing deer on the Horn place; that he was
intimate with Bourquin; that he was
in the Immediate vicinity: by a man
who made peculiar tracks; by a man
who shot low mould buckshot: who
used a ten-gauge gun; whose gun had
no choke; who bought shells from Roc
ca; whose steps led in the direction
of the Bedford house, and by a man
who was with person whose shoes
We're Identical with those which the
younger Potter wore.
The solicitor then took up the rea-
son for each conclusion and discussed
it earnestly with the jury. He ridi-
culed the idea of fox hunt gave rea-
sons why Potter should have gone to
the Horne place, told of the great en-
nifty between Potter and Bourquin, of
| the probability of his being at the very
spot where the crime was committed
| at the time it was committed. Then
| he pictured the scene so graphically
| that for a spell the large crowd were
| taken to the quiet Dean Forest woods,
and when the solicitor ceased and the
panoramic impression made on the
mind paled with the quiet in the court,
it was a grewsome feeling which had
hold of his audience.
Diseceted the Evidence.
He took up every particle of the
evidence Of every moment and discuss
ed it. In. his opinion he said, the rea-
son why more gun wads couldn't be
produced from the scene of the crime
was because Potter or his friends had
gone to the scene of the crime on Tues
day morning and gathered them up.
He rediculed the persimmon plantasy,
characterizing it as an after, thought of
a perfervid imagination, similar to that
about the fox hunt.
Inexplicable he said II was that Pot
ter. when given an opportunity to
vindicate himself before the grand jury,
made statements thoroughly inconsis-
tent, and at variance with statements
important in particular, which ne had
before and has since made. There was
but one explanation.
POtter's Trip to Town.
why did Potter hurry to town."
asked the solicitor. "Why, oh why? He
had done a cruel crime. He did just
as every murderer has done since the
time that Cain killed Abel. They boy
came UP there with him, but he left
first. He left first! Was there any
significance in that? All! way back
in the forest they had left the cold
frame of poor old Gugie Bourquin, sit
ting in his buggy, doubled up and ST.
lent-with sightless eye, the cold blood
clogging his white and wrinkled face
that was the horrid visions that made
father and son hurry on to town. It
was frightful fiend that pursued him
to town. 1t was the piteous, hideous,
dying Shrek of a helpless old negro
began to lay his plans for
an alibi. That accounts for the
return Of the wheel, for his
seeking the company of lot of small
boys, by no means his companions.
that he might be SCENT accounts for
his not eating any dinner despite a
5 O'Clock breakfast and tramp
through the woods and fields-Oh, yes,
gentlemen 1t was that frightful fiend
incarnate. that voice from out the
wind, the shrill and shrek of the dy-
ing darkey which had pierced the rail-
road cut as he took shelter beneath
the bank and was bounded down and
assassinated by a cowardly and blood
thirsty bastard.
Having fully discussed the circum-
stantial evidence adduced at the trial,
the solicitor turned his attention to the
question of the eye witness.
Candace KeIIy's Testimony.
"Candace Kelly Candace Kelly! Oh,
gentlemen do you not believe her state
ment? Did she not see Potter kill
Bourquin? At. least she saw that the
buggy was at the railroad outright
where the gun was-and not up on the
bank of the canal where the learned
counsel on the other side would have
you believe. Why did she keep silent +?
Why would she not divulge the dread
ful truth. Let US do her justice, gem
tlemen. Let me picture to you a scene.
1.-TWO old people living in their lit
tie cabin In this lonely, lonely. spot IN
the virgin forests. where even the
hunted and the hurried deer finds re-
pose In its sylvan shades. Three quar-
ters Of mile distant from any hui
man habltation. Now stop and medi-
tate on that. Think on that. gentlemen
Of the jury.
picture this old woman gathering
fire wood on the railroad cut--can't you
see herr She sees a heartiesN and
cruel murder An old man 50 years
old. shot IN the hack BY an assassin.
Shot from behind and from the side.
What a wreelliess disregard for hu-
man right nhen that man--thaf
man Potter shot down bis
zbnehnR and his fleeing victim. The
same hand which had hunted him 10
horrible death, the same hand which
shot him d0Wnrpo0r. defenEeiaen Oh
man, running tof bic life AZ fast ~
biz Ole, eiaad foot would lst him