The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-11-14

| called out "G- d. you, wish you ] could feel it."
 l And, pointing at the defendant, he | exclaimed, Hang him, hang him. He's
 none too good for burning, he and his
 infamous brother with the putrid 1 heart" @ ] First for the defense, P. E. Jones. I the junior counsel, spoke. MT. Jones l spoke for less than thirty minutes. His
 time was given over to a close analy- | sis of the evidence. He took up first
 the question of conspiracy. He argued that the State had utterly l failed to establish the existence of con- l spiracy between Bob and John or be- l tween the two and the old man. They had introduced evidence to show this | conspiracy, but the evidence was not | sufficient.
 He pointed out the many contradfc- | tions made of testimony given by the witnesses of the State. These contra@ dictions had been made not only by tp witness for the defense. but State witnesses contradicted other State wit l nesses. He showed when these contra dictions between States witnesses had been made.
 He emphasized the statement of John Andrews as to the happenings at the
 Andrews home. And, in closing. he att
 tackled the testimony of the two chill
 
 clared the testimony showed them un-
 der the domination of Martha Andrews. Argument of Colonel Jones. In the opening the second address. Colonel E. N Jones addressed the court saying that the defense was unwilling
 to agree to the legal proposition sub | mitted to the court by Colonel to concede that any unlawful act had
 been proposed or suggested by the An drews boys. Something had been said of taking old man Jim Andrews's chil- l dren away from the house, but the | suggestion had come from Jim An- drews, the father of the children and | their legal guardian. | After pointing out at length the dis crepancies between the statements statements made by another States witt ness, Colonel Jones took up the evil dence given by the two children. Agee and Annie. He read the first state 1 ments made by the children at the coro- ner's jury the day after the murder. This statement agreed with that of the | prisoners and described Bob and John
 as being on the railroad with the chii- | dren when the shooting occurred. He described the arrival of Martha An- drews. her shaking the children that | they tell the truth and say that Bob | and John did the murder. because no body else could have done it. He said l that when this firm, strong woman took the children to the railroad and had a talk with them, they changed their testimony and tried to fix the crime on Bob and John.
 Strength of the Prosecution. I Colonel Jones argued at length that l this old woman had been the strength | of and provided testimony for the pro- secution. Ft
 Hon. J. N. Miller. in closing. drew | attention, too, to the contradictory evil dence by which it was sought to fasten the crime of murder upon John An- drews It's weak spots he indicated. l What conspiracy there was MT. Miller | argued was a conspiracy made by Jim Andrews with himself to get rid of his
 wife. a conspiracy of which the boys knew nothing. kss D,
 MT. Miller declared that this con I spiraey had its inception on the night | of December End when shots were fired at the Andrews home in McWil- l Hams and Rama Andrews and her mother ran out of the house in their night clothes. The old man had been | informed that his wife had been dis
 covered at night with man away from 1 his home
 He was arrested, tied and carried to Camden for the shooting, and when he returned he announced that he was going to get rid of his wife. He moved | to Schusters, so, as he said. what he did would not be seen and known by | everybody. Then his intention of kill 1 ing his wife was confirmed and he set about carrying it into execution. The Old Man Responsible. | Mir. Miller severely criticised the 1 responsiveness of the brutal old mans | life and held him. together with the | Mcwfiliams incident. responsible for | all tragedy and horror.
 Solicitor Thompson closed the argu-
 ment for the State. He opened by im- pressing upon the jury their duty in this case. that the citizens of Wilcox , County expected every man on the | jury to do his duty.
 1 The solicitor then took up the evil | dence and in a very eloquent and im-
 pressive manner discussed the differ
 ent phases of the testimony. He said
 that the defendants counsel had raked l the whole county over and had failed l to find any witnesses except the An. | drews. He vividly drew a picture Of 1 the scene that fatal night of the mur-
 der, and portrayed the terrible scenes | enacted on the night of December IT.
 1904.
 "Every circumstance" he said. | points to John Andrews as the perpe- | trator of the crime"
 | Asks Jury to Do Duty. The solicitor closed by briefly re- 1 viewing the evidence and the argu- i ments of opposing counsel, and, with | an eloquent peroration. left the case
 in the hands of the jurymen, enJoining them to do their duty, and that they
 would be heroes and deserve the com
 mendation of all justice-loving people.
 Judge B. M. Miller then ably charged
 the jury and gave the law applicable
 to the case. He gave a brief history
 of the finding of the indictment and
 the duty upon the State as to proving
 every material allegation of the indict-
 ment. The judge then impressed upon
 the jurymen their duty in regard to | weighing testimony so as to arrive at l the truth. and that it is the duty of
 the jury to arrive at a true verdict af. ter weighing the evidence carefully. He then gave the law in regard to a
 conspiracy and the elements of murder 1 in the first and second degres.
 Several written charges were given bv the court at the instance Of the de- | fendants' counsel and the attorneys for | the State.
 The case was given to the jury al
 6:30 o'clock ?. m.
 1 At a late hour tonight no word had
 come from the jury room.
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