The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-10

| MT. sternfeid, '.he turned to the jury and
 read every bit of this statement except. l gentlemen of the jury. the life-giving part cf 1t that ought to have been read" As to Mayor White. Mir. Sternfeld asked why did Mir. White go to Columbus to see Mir. Dunbar and | come to Montgomery in his own interestf Why did he say he was afraid of being indicted? He showed MT. White did not deny these things while on the stand and that Mir. White was also in Montgomery in his own interest,
 He said that he knew that Dunbar was
 as guilty as hell. but he was not willing
 to stand in that court room and see all of this miserable business dumped of on
 Dunbar whan the real. prime movers of
 this terrible situation in Tallapoosa and
 Coosa counties-Pace. Turner and others
 were actually responsible for 1t.
 MT. Sternfeld closed after speaking one
 hour and forty minutes and at o'clock
 the court recessed until 4 o'clock.
 Lackey Speaks for Turner.
 Mir. Lackey for the defendant began his
 argument when the court reconvened at
 A:l5 o'clock.
 He said he would undertake as briefly as possible to state the facts in the case and to answer the argument of MT. Stern- field, He ridiculed Mir. Sternfeld's quota tons from the Bible and said 1t seemed to him that Mir. sternfeld had been read ing an almanac or modern newspapers
 instead of the Bible:
 Taking up the indictment and reading 1t to the jury Mir. I.ackey declared that this was a matter of grave importance to the defendant, to the government, to the jury and to every citizen of Alabama. The in- dictment, he said, charged Turner with this act on April lb when it was shown that the negroes were arrested on April W Tllrnar had urQ "a by the seat of the brooches and had
 thrown them into his stockade then he
 would have been guilty but he had mere-
 ly paid their fines at their solicitation.
 MT. Lackey declared that Turner had
 been charitable in taking the negroes Goodwater and wanted him to work out
 their fines. It was a voluntary contract
 on the part of the negroes. But. said MT.
 Laekey, they say that the fne and costs
 was but S6 GO in each case and that Turner
 paid Sl750 each for them. He asked if
 that was Turner's fault. If Turner had
 known the fines of the negroes was s6.6O tracts for $17.50 each then Turner would be guilty. But the evidence showed that the negroes and Dunbar told Turner the fines and costs were s7.50 each. Are you going to brand Fetch Turner as a convict" asked Mir. Lackey. Ion b0CAA te1tAn0lN IEoth huEHt utkEQNE Alll one sorry white manf'
 Dunbar is Denounced. Mf. Lackey said if the jury believed Glenny Helms and Dave Johnson then the jury was bound to believe that the wit ness Dunbar had lied showing that their evidence was contradicting. This was a harsh term Mr. Lackey said, but he didn't know e better word to use. 'If the jury believed that the three wit naaaaa had fnlat0ad fhafx axrfdonon aho,.il be excluded entirely according to law. Especially was this true since the liberty of citizen might go down under 1t. There was not one syllable of testi- mony, Mir. I4ackey showed, that Turner had whipped either of the negroes and
 Turner was not responsible. for acts of his agents, The negroes he said had sworn that Allen Turner and Bob Brown had whipped them but Mr, Lackey said the witnesses had falaified about other things and he did not believe them. MT. Lackey then took Up the 'confiden-
 tial statement" which. he said, ''the im- maculate Dunbar" made to the District Attorney. He said he had feared when the confidential statement" was drawn from the District Attorney that the law yers for the government would have heart
 failure. He then took up the contradic- tory statements of Dunbar on the wit ness stand and in the ''confidential state- utSulb anu nOL HltLiC6 WOTOS III ms allusions to Dunbar. He said if he told the truth in one instance he lied in the other when he was on the witness stand and stammered like he did not know what was best for him to say. MT Lackey said there was no other term to meet Dunbar with. 'srhe Knightly Dun bsr," he declared had lied.
 Referring again to the "confldential
 statement' of Dunbar MT. Lackey said the prosecuting attorneys were not near ly so much tickled over the production of the statement" as they pretended to be.
 He began to read the letter of Dunbar to
 Mir. Reese in which. Dunbar thanked the
 District Attorney for his 'TkIndness' and
 spoke of the contTition and repentance of Dunbar.
 At this tuncture Juror A. r. Warren of
 Lee County, announced that he was too
 Ill to go on with the trial and the court
 recessed until 9 o'clock this morning.
 MANEGOLD'S IRON BREW