The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-10-19
FIREWORKS DAY
IN AMES' TRIAL
High Tension oratory by Both
Sides for Benefit Of
Jury.
THE TWELVE GOOD MEN
RETIRE THIS AFTERNOON
"A Vital Issue in the Case Is
the Completely Of Wit
nesses.

With unquenchable enthusiasm and
his last effort to raise a reasonable
doubt in the minds Of the twelve
jurors as to the guilt of former Mayor
A. A. Ames, whose trial on the charge
Of receiving a bride Of $40 from Bessie
fore Judge A. M. Harrison.
How well he succeeds will soon be
known. Judge w. "A. Kerr completed
hls argument shortly .aaser IL. Mr..
Cary will finish this afternoon. Judge
fate of the four-time mayor Of Mime
apolis will for the third time rest upon
the determination Of jury Of his
peers before night.
Judge Kerr Closes.
Without preliminary fourishes Judge
W. A. Kerr this morning resumed his
closing argument where it was inter
rupted last evening. Step by step the
prosecutor took up the evidence in the
case and with keen and striking analy-
sis showed up the flaws in the defend
ant s story, which is al there is left
for the genial doctorH to depend upon
to cause reasonable doubt as to his
guilt. With cutting sarcasm Judge
Kerr showed how entirely inconsistent
the laws were the mayors official and
unoHlcdal acts-even those admitted by
himself upon the witness stand.
lie panied graphlc word pictures OF
hesitating. compelled to ' go mon the the
witness stand and under order of the
court to give damaging evidence against
the defendant. He told of other wit
nesses, reluctant to detail their shame
full part in the nefarious transactions
OF the Ames graft regime, who thru
me power OF the law had been forced
their Lifelong friend.
The speaker alluded sarcastically to
the defendants attempt to deny the
statements OF the men whom he himself
mad led into trouble and into the peni-
sentaary ana 4pa asked the Jury Which
STATEMENTS tney were gong to belleVe.
Il ms af,,.,,,aas nro,.,,aa,-
Eng He 'ale o1 'll NoroecK.
ssCan man never tell the truth
again after he has once committed a
crime9', demanded the prosecutor in
speaking Of the evidence Of Norbeck.
FCan q man never renent9 Can he
never AGAIN live rioht life, even after
n he hos naid the nanaity of ohny;ner bis
superior's orders by serving time in the
nThat Is what the defense wants Won
to believe in this case. Will Won he-
iieye it or will Won believe that this his
man without interest in the sending Of
a man to the Mace from which he has
been released is. under oath. telling Won
!. the truth becanse he is comnelled tosj
80 -. ~ = = 80 po-teu -
cary Talks Tor Ames.
When .Jndoe Kerr had fnisbod Mr.
Cary rose. 4 fer an anoInov For h;s
sometimes annarent1W disresnsscc+f, cnn.
, duct toward the court. the attorney be-
gan nv emnhasizing the fact that = man
rohnrateG eVidence of pccomniices and
then with. littIe raoard for The evidanoa
and the law he dec1ared .tbat at this u1 r1'ie
If law and the cnnstitutionaI r;ghts IF
the defendant would exclude the
evidence given by Gardner, Norbeck.
ssAnd what have Won left9u asked
The sneaker His answer was ihat
), Hills information of craft taken tn the
mayor and Mr.. Boutell's testimony Of
town being overtaxed were the onIy
pieces of testimony left to connect the
defendant in any way with the graft
and the statement was followed with
an. attempt to explain away the sig
nifcance Of this testimony.
mha no,,r+ =, Aa.a,,..
LUG oouie Oh 1Acconpalces.
The law. as it will undonbtedly he
laid down by the court in his charge
relating to accomplices. defines an %.
complete as Zone who knowingly. VOL
: UNFAIRLY and with common intent with
the principal offender. unites in the 1a
commission of a crime. - The crime
in this case is the receiving Of $40 from
Bessie Lee.
: Upon these premises Gardner, and
! possibly Norbeck, must be found to be
accomplices, but there is absolutely no
. evidence in the case making Fred Ames
= or Tom Brown accomplices. The evil
f dence OF these two will, therefore, serve
) to corroborate the other state wit
s negses;,
8 Furthermore, the testimony of .ac-
b completes Is proper and must be taken
y sne July TOT nJ JUST Nv What asney thlnk
II Is worm. gPon gnls interpretation
t or the Jaw, and IN view OF the case as
q put IN by Ine state, there seems, In the
genera OPINION, little chance OF ver-