The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1905-03-24

vile trip, and though that all the eiscans-
stances of the case, considered togethe ~
made it quite evident that there was too
great an intimacy between the defendant
and Mrs. Reeves. If they did net kaOwE
where the Taylor's lived, the journeys
did know Bud could have told the M
Why did they not inquire. and go. to, her
pare1ts? Simply because that was N OGs
! the programme; that was not what theys
wanted to do. Not only did be balievep
/ defendant was guilty of the crime zitha
which he was charged in this iEdictn1H1a. !
but he believed him guilty Of eve1s -
greater otfense than that; the offense.aff
rohblng home of its virtue. In thms
catalogue Of crime there was no sin sea
black and damnable as that of man.,
under the guise of friend would invade,
the sanctity of mans home and rob ia
OF Z virtunuS wife and mother. Such .,
crime was 80 black that murder was
white beside it; and the Captain Gen..
eral of the Devil himself could not ESQ.,
ceive OF crime more dastaIdly- The
defendant had asked for the motive for
this crime. The motive lay in the i'm
fatuation of the man for the wORAanA--
and the woman for the man. IL she wnss
not infatuated with Rountree; il shs,
was true and faithful to him as She
should have been, why should she insist
on gong with Rountree to NasAvilrsa.
rather than to wait and enjoy the cons
pany of her husbandf 1t was a hard
thing to say. and the speaker regretted
to say it, but the evidence in this case
pointed not only to the guilt of the ac>-
cused, but also to the guilt Of tho wife
as party to this murder; and he, the
speaker, suspected very strongly thaks
whe~ Rountree went to the keaves home.
the afternoon before the killingit was 10
plan with the doomed man how tina
wicked deed would be done that nighk.
Who was the last man seen with thas
deceased before bis death? 1t was this
defendant; and they were riding together
on their way home. Now suppose the,
question of the wife came up, and they
quarrelled; is it not reasonable to snp-
pose. under the facts and the circum-
stances of this case, that the defendant
finding out that he had been discovered.
in his jealous rage, slew the husband z
Aud imagine the next morning, when, y
he raised her bonnet and looked into here
face, their eyes said to each other. 'she is4@r
out of the way now" And it woud BUE
be surprising that a woman Of that
CudChCVE COulQ IUOh III bO buc IhCb D&
the man who did the deed and smile
pleasantly at him while they were yea
filing the grave of her dead husband
Mr.. Haynes discussed Miss Ragsdale'ss.
testimony; and, while he did not wish 10.
make any sc 7ere reflections upon her in
tentions, he was compelled to say EaAka
she had made at least two, and perhaps
three different statements about the
clothes defendant wore on that iatMA
night. And if she had made difFersnk-
sta tements, then the jury must determines
which of her statements they would be-
lie. q, In considering these statements
the jury should bear in mind that since
her fist statement, when she said de-.
PENDANT wore the light vest and coat TO
match, it had become necessary to &C
count for and explain many things; anh
among other things it had become very
necessary to account for the blood stains
On that light coat, and to prove that her
did not wear it that night.
suspicious circumstance, and q very
one, Mr.. Haynes said, was the
absence of Mrs. Reeves from the witness
stand. Why had not the defense put her
on the staIdy He could account for it i'm
40 other way, than that they feared
something might crop out on her cross
examination to connect her with this
murder