Sunday Washington globe., 1902-01-26

blood stains were washed of the garment,
ought to be sufficient to relieve even her
sensitiveness In this respect
Passing Mrs. Bonine, however, and any
sensitiveness she may feel over DT.
Shafts disproven testimony, the GLOBE
would again resume the subject matter of
expert testimony We emphatically disagree
with the leading member Of the local bar"
who favors the enactment of a law land
predicts it, too cou6ning expert testimony
10 a single individual summoned by the
court. II such law were on the statute
books and the writer was accused Of the
murder of Julius Caesar, we would plead
guilty and throw oursell on the mercy Of
the court Standing trial would be a farce,
as the single expert subpWnaed by the
court and paid out Of the public treasury
would convict as beyond the shadow Of
doubt notwith standing the number of cen
tnries that have elapsed since the great
Julius fell at the base Of Pompey's statuel
Experts any more than Witnesses test-
flying for the stale in murder cases are no
more infalible OF worthy Of belief than ex
pefts and witnesses for the defense, but
there is a decided conviction in certain
quarters that instead Of the prisoner re-
ceiving the benefit of any doubt the state
and its experts and its witnesses should be
the recipients thereof
When it is considered that the state has
unlimited financial resources in addition to
the sympathy Of the press and a manufac
ture public opinion against every indiWd
ual put on trial for his or her life, one
would think that going into the case with
such advantages over the prisoner the state
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the addition Of some Dr. Shafer expert
from whose expert opinions there would be
no appeal or contradictory expert testimony
/ allowed. The prisoner charged with muir
der is alone fighting for his or her life
against tremendous odds. Financially he
or she has TO bear the expense Of the de-
fense, lawyers fees, experts, witnesses,
trips here there and everywhere hunting
up testimony, and all the other incidental
expenses which such trial imposes mean
while he or she is under the mental inAic
tion of the yellow and the colorless press
and the physical torture and discomfort Of a
prison.
Anybody with the least bit Of charity OF
human justice in his composition must be
ready TO concede that prisoner charged
with murder and who becomes acquitted
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indeed, been innocent, and proven the same
up to the hilt When to this again is added
the national notoriety attendant upon
Mollineaux or a Bonine case it is next to
miracle when the prisoner secures his ol
her acquittal against the positive state o.
government experts of the DR.. Shaffer type
and the power and inexhaustible resources
OF the state OF government with its atten
dant train Of detectives, witnesses, etc
With such formidable array to fight TO
one s life or chastity the woman who ha
been declared both chaste and guiltless o
murder leaves heritage to her childrer
they can we'll be proud of, and merits th'
love, affection, and loyalty Of her husband
And this the GLOBE emphatically and once
for all declares Mrs. Bonine to have earneS
by the ordeal she so successfully passed
through to a triumphant acquittal and resto
ration to the arms Of her husband and he
children government expert or experts t
the contrary Notwithstanding.