The Rich Hill tribune. (Rich Hill, Mo.) 1903-1911, 1904-02-11

heart OF sympathy goes out tot
Folk, ltls no wonder he walked
into the r'yault' al Fulton when
the verdict was read, and remain.
ed there sometime, / am no part.
isan OF Mr.. Folk bat / kno " how
he felt. | can imagine what surg
ed through his soul, have, in q
smaller but exactly similar way,
trodden that w%ine-pfcss alone, II
he can stand up against It, unial
teripg TO the end he Will prove 70
the world that his IS an heroie
soul, not east in common mold
Then 70 be twitled with the sug-
gesrion that che talked 10 the
crowd aud not TO the jury. That
is the -unkindest cut OF all. II III
were in his place | would n%sverI
address a jury in a Doodle case
again. | would merely presentthc
case, hand the Instructions OF the
court to them and take my seat 10
await the next call.
| cannot refrain from stating my
own experience ia a small way,
the results Of which led me to make
the foregoing suggestion.
In trying some liquor cases in u
circuit court case after case went
agains, the State IN spite of all the
argument and eloquence / could
command / saw il was useless.
The brethren Of the bar began to
ijeer An nnfriendly court seemed
10 enjoy my discontinue. l resolv-
ed TO talk to that hostile jury no
more. The next case was called
and the evidence put in, the court
instructed, and | waived the open.
ing; aud counsel for defendant
made an eloquent and persuasive ar
gument and sat down. ! sat there
with my back to the jury and when
the court noticed the Situgation he
asked me to go no with the argu-
nlent. l got up and remarked 10
the court within the hearing of the
iurvmen thar / had nothing TO say
to that jury" and walked into a side
room. The boys in the side room
ljoshed me a good deal and took II
/, good naturedly. la a few moments
this same jury which had been rem
dering verdicts mot guilty all day.
returned into court with a verdict OF
guilty. Then the boys in the
side room laughed at the counsel
for defendant and told him it he had
; talked ten minutes longer that jury
would have found his mln guilty oil
murder and a lot more such loshing,
This incident is literally true; and
E before Folk gets through with his
D doodle cases he may be driven &C
= the same expedlent. Il worked
well in my case and il nigh, be Sc
IN his.
OF course there were reasons
= not in the evideuee-but outside o
Il for aequititng Mr.. Butler -jusl
= as there was in my liquor cases
, but the reasons will never be avon
ed. am CASING no reflections up
> on that jury. | have been throug.
Q the mill, and other people will a.
nve at conclusions But this lette
e is getting too long The awful
e the solemn fact ia il all Is, ,hat eve
q one jury Of IL respectable citizens @
any county ia this state could b.
found willing 10 declare. IN etfec,
= by a solemn verdict that neihe
5, the giver nor the taker OF a hnb
r can be punished IN our courts an
.e hy our laws
We often hear the children an
the good people at Sunday sehoi
singing When the mists have toi
e ed away" etc. When will The
II roll away at the rate they have bee
a gathering for many years IN ih.
blessed old state II is now a y.
tied tog. aud nothing but The .pf
: tight Of truth and political uehttos
d ness will ever dispel IT,. Many goo
II people are even O cropping with
= these shadows. Let as work an
watch for the rays, destined soon G
I. late, in one way or another, 20 /
= the pail.
% VIII Folk be visible them {
Ie shall we see Col Ell Butler sti
-e sitting on the lhtoae' Good might
=, ". o.. ArkESoN,