The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-11-25

served at, or performed official duties
for the government at that establish
ment up in Yadkin, and under their
oaths they tell YOU every requirement
Of the law was observed, Driven from
every position by the uncontradicted
and unanimous evidence of its own
officials. deputy collectors. store keep
ers, gauSers and revenue agents, the
government puts up a great show of
Indignation about pump. The dis
trict attorney spends days and hours
talking and asking about that pump.
Every witness here has told you what
il was there for and that ii was not
used TO secretaly convey whiskey; that
il could not be thus used. And who
Of all men but Minor the Kentucky
gentleman. discovered that pump, or
made the suggestion of its illegitimate
use The whole matter is too puerile
for further notice
The speaker asked what did the
government offer as evidence TO con-
tradict the most reputable and re-
spected officers of the government who
told of the correct manner in which
the disullery and rectifying establish
ment were conducted. 1T has against
mat class of it's sworn North Caro-
lima officers imported Minor. and
Jackman and Redmond. and John
son, from Kentucky these four Ken
lucky wizards, totally irresponsible
and unknown Kentucky whskey men.
headed by Minor. to get YOU to con-
Wet not only these defendants OF
crime. but its own officers of per-
jury These wizards. who went out
there. took possession of that diStill-
cry and by their Wiles and wizard
ness produced such an unheard-of ana
such an impossible WELD of whiskey
that even Mr.. Price in his speech yes
terday admitted il was something mar
Vicious"
.'Nhen Chaschzards Yawn.''
Judge Bynum proceeded next To
describe the actions of these men on
Williams premises that night in en-
tire charge of the property. roaming
and creeping With dim lanterns
through the cob-webbed passages of
the dstillery. He told of the evidence
of the defendants witnesses, of the
beer having been n1eddled with dur
ing the night. then charged that these
men, headed. by Minor inspired With
hate of Williams. put some foreign
substance in the beer to make the
marvellous" yield of whiskey next
day. He dramatically described them
approaching the beer tubs and as Il
climax, which was painfully tense.
quoted the witches brew from Mack
beth
II was scene to be remembered.
AS he presented With sepulchral tone
and appropriate emphasis these
words of awful images, concocting
a hell broth" his hearers, With men
tai eve saw in the witches and their
horrible brew. the Kentucky wizards
with their dark lanterns.-l the sub
terranean passages of the distillery.
bending over the beer cauldron and
10 be distilled as test next day.
The court room was as still as death,
but for the voice OF the speaker, and
there was a wrapt and strained eX-
preston on every face, the jurymen,
many of them perceptible, bending
forward. with eyes riveted on the
speaker. Several ladies present in
voluntarily put both hands up to their
eyes, thinking TO shut out of sight the
nightmare before them.
Judge Bynum closed his argument
by showing that the case had its in
cipicacy in the maze 01l SPITE of
Minor and Jones. and asked the jury
TO condemn by their verdict: such
towards
Judge Moore'S Argument.
Judge c. \. Moore. of Asheville, was
! the next speaker, beginning at twelve
-
! tention of the jury TO the fact that
! the prosecution proposed to convict
on suspicion, without substantial proof
I or reasonable circumstances.
Who of all the witnesses introduced
! by the government, except Minor and
| Jones, had given evidence comprom-
| Using defendants or casting shadow
! Of reproach on them as citizens or
| in q sense agents of the government
IL n II, h.
| Indictment charging defendants with
| the offense Of "refilling," it being
/ based on the gauge of whiskey by
| Jones With his inaccurate gauging in
| strument and which was shown to
! have been wrong by the testimony of
! four separate and distinct witnesses,
/ three of them being officers of the
government and themselves witnesses
| for the prosecution.
Equally unreliable he urged was
! the testimony of Jones relating to the
! charge that Williams had attempted
/ 20 bride him. He showed how he had
/ been fatty contrad cted in an essen
| tial factor in this charge, to-wit.:
| The date of the alleged attempt, Mrs.
| Sharpe Colonel Bergh and Others
! showing that when he located it on
/ June 25th he knowingly Swore to
! what was not true or what was more
! likely it never happened. and that it
| was manufactured to save Jones from
! being discharged for his inaccurate
I work as gauger.
Discussing for some time this
| branch of the evidence, Judge Moore
| recaDitulated the testimony, referring
! TO that of character witnesses who
| had told the manner of man Jones
/ was, and that all the circumstances
| went to prove that Jones had waited
Il month before even mentioning the
! alleged attempt to bride and this after
several subsequent visits to Williams
| home. and not until he had become an
enemy of Williams because of his own