The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1904-11-17

| Mr.. Geaton claiming that on the night
of the alleged murder he stopped a
| Mrs. Davidson's boarding house Mr.
Scott also dwelt on the straightfor
| ward story told by Geaton on the
stand. Mr.. Scott made no appeal to
the sympathy of the jury but was viii
ling to rest his case on the evidence
1t was 8:17 o'clock when Mr. Scot:
closed his argument and District At
torney Hervey began his closing ar
gument for the Territory. Mr. Herpey
spoke for just two hours by the watch
it being 1917 when he concluded
His address was a strong one and
we'll delivered, and his friends were
gratified at his able effort. In begin
ming Mr.. Hervey disclaimed any at
tempt at oratory He would merely
review the material points of the evi-
dence that fastened the guilt on the
prisoner at the bar. He first took up
the identity of the body discovered
in Spring River. No one item of evi-
dence proved it was Henry Jones, but
the entire evidence brought out prov
ed beyond the scintilla of doubt
that the body was that of Henry
Jones, and that he had been cruelty
and foully murdered. Mr. Hervey
then dwelt on the horror of the crime
That it was without parallel in tiend-
ishness in all the annals of the Ter
ritory. In this case there was not a
single extenuating circumstance; the
deed was the deed of a fiend
and whoever he was "his place was
in hell" During the entire course of
the merciless excoriation the prisoner
Geaton sat unmoved Not a muscle
twitched, and one would have never
suspected to look at him that he was
the man around whom so much in
evidence was woven Mr.
Hervey next paid his attention to the
reasonable doubt" He described it
as the skeleton that the defense nad
brought forth from the closet, just
as in every criminal trial the defense
has done for a thousand years There
is little in a reasonable doubt. You
either believe him guilty or not gull
ty from this evidence If you as
reasonable men think him guilty you
should convict; if you do not think
him guilty, it is your duty to acquit
him. Do not become alarmed at this
matter of reasonable doubt" Re
where there was not possibility of
innocence. In describing the crime
Mr. Hervey exhibited the articles
which went to prove the crime to the
Jury He held up before them the
pants, the quilt, the handkerchief, the
hat of the deceased, and told how
these silent witnesses convicted the
defendant of this heinous crime in
more convincing manner than could
any words that would come from the
mouth of a witness.
The motive, Mr.. Hervey said, was
not a necessary element. But Gea-
tons motive was just the same as
led Cain to commit the first murder.
1t was the malice of his heart And
in addition to this all the fruits of
the crime were in the possession of
the defendant. Could there be strong
er evidence?
In regard to the talk that the de-
fense made of blood, Mr.. Hervey said
there was blood all through this trial.
Blood under the wagon, blood on the
dash board, blood on the mattress,
blood on the garments that Geaton
had washed. The case was full of
blood. 1t was not necessary to send
to London for an expert to examine
this blood, at an expense of thou
sand dollars, the jury knew too well
where all. this blood came from. Then
the defense's. own witness DR.. Kin
singer swore that human blood could
not be told from any other blood after