The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-10-13
1t was now a quarter past one O'Clock,
and court took recess until three o'clock.

It was now a quarter past one o'clock,
and court took recess until three o'clock.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
Court met again at 8 o'clock and Mr.
Ryan continued his speech.
He proceeded to show by other witnesses
on the other side that Hocutt and Schmltz
were corroborated w. r. Warren says
that after the second shot was fired he
looked through the wheels OF Ned Barnes
carriage and saw Mr. Skinner coming off
the sidewalk, and when he got around the
carriage he had his left hand at his hip.
Mr. Satterfield was four or five feet from
the window with his back toward it, in
the office Of the Interstate Telephone Com
pany. BY the time he left his work and
raised the window, he saw Mr.. Skinner
midway between the curb and the car
track.
Poor Sauls! He is like the sparrow that
stitch alone upon the housetop, without
anyone to see the tears that he sheds.
No wonder they deserted Sauls for not
a word have we heard of him.
Mr.. Ryan then took the clothes worn
by MI. Skinner to refute the theory that
he ran after striking the blow. Mr.. Ryan
through his clothes, and declare that it was
North Carolina man to North Carolina
man that met there. and stood face to face
after the blow was struck, that he did not
turn his back to the man he had struck
That was no little speech manufactured in
Loge Harris office to be spoken by
little boy. If the dead man were to come
here and speak with his own mouth in be-
half of the defendant, could it be any
more definite than the language those
clothes speak? Witnesses may testify
that the dead man was on the run, but
the clothes testify that it was North Caro-
lima blood against North Carolina blood
1t was just question of which man
should shoot first, after that blow was
struck and one was reaching for a weapon
to destroy the life of the stricken man.
Not from the lips of a single solitary
witness is there any evidence that the man
was shot from the front The bullet rest
ed under the skin on the right side, an
inch lower than the place it went in.
That shows that if the bullet fell one inch
in eighteen inches, the elevation of the
defendants hand was considerably above
the other man. If Mr.. Skinner was out
in the street and Mr.. Haywood on the
sidewalk, there could have been no such
elevation.
Mr. Norris has made much of Mr. V. c.
Tompkins' statement that he could not
see Mr.. Skinner at all, with his vision
limited to eight or ten feet only. That
could not prove anything.
The defendant has brought out every
bit of evidence he could. He has kept
nothing back. Light was what he wanted,
and he has let it in on all sides The bars
have been taken down.
Mr.. Woodland would have had the jury
bring in their verdict according to the
best public opinion. What is the best
public opinion? Mr.. Woodland or the
speaker? Along the line of the best public
opinion lies the wreck of the law. Along
that line is mobocracy.
At half-past three Mr.. Ryan concluded
He had spoken about two hours and ten
minutes
SENATOR DON GILLIAN.
Mr.. Gillian for the State addressed the
jury Immediately that Mr.. Ryan finished
He began by giving expression to his
observation of the strict atten-
ton, unlalling patience and deep sense of
! The responsibility of the situation felt by
this jury. 1t was a solemn hour, and the
functions we were called on to perform
were fraughts with the responsibility Of
life and death. After dwelling upon the
condition OF the Judge, blind and deaf to
all things but the voice of truth and the
stern commands of the law, Mr. Gillian
went on to say that if ever we were forced
to write the word failure over our jury
system, it would be when iuries allowed
themselves to be influenced by appeals for
mercy. Our people have always been jeal,
Gus Of bestowing power, and for that very
reason have bestowed this great power
upon that part of the court that was
nearest to the people themselves. This
system of trial by jury should be tho
proudest triumph of our race. 1t was
fashioned and moulded by the English
speaking people. The speaker appealed
for the preservation of the institution.
that it be preserved from all assaults. of
power, of position, of wealth. of passion
For in its preservation to its true purposes
is involved the hope of our country and
its citizens. He looked to our own nature
and the weakness of our own nature for
| the worst foe of the jury system. He
knew there were those who ascribed TIE
miscarriage of justice to the corrupt meth
DDS of the legal fraternity and to perjury,
and to corrupt influences in the jury box.
But the trouble lies with the public itself
There is in this day sentiment fast de-
vcloping and permeating the masses and
invading the sentiments of the people that
awakens the sympathy of the public for
the accused. It is sickcning sentiment,
and it's doing more to undermine and weak
en- public justice than all the corrupt
methods practiced by lawyers and from
other sources. It's but moment after
the victim of foulest wrong has gone to
mother earth that the public is casting
flowers upon the offender. He referred to
the case in England some years ago, of