Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1903-10-16
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
,wIessness In Lexington,


While the Tillman case was still un-
der argument last Tuesday night, E. l..
Asbill and T. G.. Stukie, two attorneys
for the prosecution went cunning for
friends of a witness for the defense.
There was a story to the effect that
Mr.. Asbill had offered M. c. Lorick $25
not to appear as a witness for the de-
fense, and Asbill and Stukie went after
"a man named Geiger brother-tn-law
of the witness. Geiger claimed that
he got the story from Wallace Lorick,
a brother Of the witness, and when they
saw Wallace Lorick on the road, ne
claimed that he was not armed. He
went to his house about two hundred
yards distant and it Is said that he
fired his shot gun time or two. At
terward Lorick had the two men ar
rested on the charge Of carrying con-
cealed weapons and tresspass after no
tice and they gave bond for their sub
sequent appearance.
Almost an Apology.
speech Wednesday, for the manner In
which he treated Witness August Kohn
recently, he came very near doing so.
He said: There sits Mr.. Kohn. I say
to you gentlemen, I say that I be-
lieved on the cross examination Of Mr..
Kohn, your honor, what 1 believe to-
day, that no gentleman who read the
editorials in the State newspaper, no
gentleman who had conversations with
Mr.. Gonzales could help knowing that
his feelings were the bitterest towards
MIR. Tillman. Mr.. Kohn has right to
his own ideas; but as God Is my judge
and you are the witnesses, believed
it and If had not tried to do my duty
would have been unworthy of my po-
sition. If I owed him an apology there
is no man who would give it more
freely. I pride myself that in thirty
three years Of my life I have not taken
advantage Of a witness to abuse him
wrongfully. I have been bold enough
when thought was right to advance
proper, but I think it would be mean
and contemplate to take advantage Of
any witness because you are a lawyer
and are not responsible for what you
say. 1 say now to him and say to
you that my relations to him are as
friendly, and I know from his own
fairness in this trial that he did not
feel the wrong which others have tried
to falsely create, and as to his religion,
I did not for a moment challenge that,
and you know it. The great God has
made mankind In thousands OF re-
ligions-the boast Of this great repub-
lie is freedom of religion, and then,
may it please your honor, could I for
get Sir Moses Montifioro, the great Jew
Of England, whose character is a mon
ument, who in the history Of man
kind stands out as a tall and bold cliff
OF charity and Of honor; whose life Is
a study of beauty and exalted man.
hood. Despise the Jew! No one but q
base and ignorant person would do 1t.
Take Baron Hirsch. No greater man
has ever lived. Take, may it please
your honor, Lord Beaconsfield Of Eng
land, who is an ornament to the great
nation. And then, to bring it home,
judah P. Benjamin, the secretary Of
the Confederate states, belonged to that
great race Of people, and I say great
race Of people, because, Mr.. Foreman,
they have given to us our religion and
our Bible and our institutions. They
are superior today-wherever not op-
pressed, they come to the front as a
great people. But while I admit that
gentlemen of the jury, ask you to
judge if have done any wrong to this
man? I believe now what I thought
then, Mr.. Foreman, and believed then,
and what you know Is the truth that
Gonzales had a personal enmity for
Tillman. Take Mr.. Talbird, who lived
in Beaufort. On his cross examination
he unhesitatingly says that he knew
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