The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1903-08-14
ARGUING FEUD CASES.
Atty. Golden MaliciOusly Scores
Witness Even.
The Brother of the Murdered Man,
Who Resides in Indian Territory,
Spoke Several Hours For
the Prosecution.

VINO heSioeS IN inoldn territory
Spoke Several Hours For
the Prosecution.
Cynthiana, KY, Aug. lin the case
of commonwealth OF Kentucky
versus Curtis Jett and Thomas
White, now on trial in this place for
alleged assassination of ]. B. Marcum
at Jackson. Breathitt county, KY, on
the 4th day Of May last, Judge LAT
ferty, who finished his speech Mon
day morning, made telling one. He
referred to instances in the history of
crimes where innocent men had been
executed. He pleaded with the jury
not to inf1ict the death sentence, as it
was not in cOnsonance with the high
est principles of Christianity as taught
in the Scriptures. He referred to a
case which happened in this county in
1S4S, where an innocent man was hung
within a quarter of mile of town for
the alleged killing of his wife, and in
which in after years on his death bed
a neighbor confessed his guilt of the
crime.
member of the national democratic
committee from Indian territory, spoke
for about three quarters of an hour,
until dinner hour. when court was adj
iourned. Mr. Marcum started his
speech again at 1: 80 and at 3 p. m. fin
ished His morning effort was fierce
denunciation of the criminals and OF
the crime of assassination and he
spoke with telling effect in answer to
i Lafferty's' argument that the infection
of the death penalty was wrong in
principle Marcum referred to the BIZ
BILE where he claimed God himself had
declared that who so sheds mans
blood by man shall have his own
blood she'd" His speech was mag
nificent effort for his side of the case,
hut at the afternoon session he seemed
drowsy and hardly spoke above whis-
per to the jury, so that none OF the
audience could hear him. He spoke
slowly and quit at 3 p. m. At this hour
Capt. Ben B. Golden started his argu-
ment and he has made a good impress
sion on the jury. The effort OF j. 5.
Webster of Saturday for the defense
seems to rankle in the hearts of the
defense, as all of the attorneys who
have spoke since that time on the op-
posite side to Webster have taken
great pains to answer him. Golden
was merciless to Even, the main wit
ness of the prosecution, whom it was
proven on the stand had been talked
of in connection with lady of his
home town Golden, in moment Of
great passion, said that he wanted the
gentlemen of the papers to tell to the
world on the morrow that new word
was coined in Kentucky by this infa-
nous scoundrel of a witness and that
word was Ewenism, which signified
everything dirty. low and which main
object was the debauchment of women
and the destruction of happy homes.
In a dramatic moment he crossed the
side Of the room and, holding Curtis
Jett's hands, said to him: They
charge that you have bloody hands,
that you are bloody murderer and a
red-handed assassin.
Cynthiana, KY, Aug. 12.-In the Jett-
White trial Tuesday was taken up in
the concluding of the speech of Capt.
B. B. Golden for the defense and Of
A. F. Byrd, the prosecuting attorney
for the district in which Breathitt
county is situated. The main feature
of the day was the speech of Byrd, of
the prosecution. Bryd got down to
hard facts at first and from first to last
he closely followed the evidence and
summed up his case in mastery way
at the close demanding for the COM
monwealth of Kentucky that the. de-
PENDANTS be hanged.
Mr.. Byrd spoke for 25 minutes Tues
day morning and the whole of the aft
ernoon session consuming in all about
hours and 35 minutes.
Wednesday morning James D. Black,
lately a candidate for the democratic
nomination for governor of Kentucky,
sill address the jury and at the close
of Blacks speech Hon. l.. P. Fryer
will address the jury when 1t will be
given to the jury. 1t is thought that
the jury will get the case some time
in the afternoon of Wednesday.
Cynthiana, KY, Aug. i3.-Judge
Black. for the defense, and Judge Fry
er. for the prosecution, occupied all
of Wednesday in their arguments in
the trial of Jet and White, charged
with killing j. B. Marcum at Jackson
last May. Judge Fryer finished up his
argument Thursday morning and after
the judges charge to the jury the case
was put in their hands for their de-
cision.
The Chicago Suicide.
Chicago. Aug. 13.@The cOrOner'S