The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1906-12-04
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day, are liars and burglars, he says
that which is not true. He doesn't ex-
pect by that address to reach the in
telligent men on this jury He thinks
that there may be a rogue among you.
You know some times men get on jur-
ias who have debts Of gratitude to pay
from away back years ago and they
pay them by violating the rules and
rendering verdict not in accordance
with the evidence. That is what is
called a rogue of jury, and he hoped
there might be a rogue among you.
Then they also seek to get a weak and
unintelligent man on the jury who
wont be able to put an act in one town
with an act in another town and so
connect the evidence. They hope there
might be a man Of this kind in this
jury and they would try to reach him
and thus effect a miscarriage of JUS
tice."
In this strain, so excited at times
that the big audience fairly gasped,
Mr.. Ward brought to a spectacular
close a day of steady speech making
with here and there a dramatic period.
Senator Mills contended that Grace
Brown committed suicide and that his
client had been unfairly dealt with
Gillette had, he said, been pitted
against the united powers of a persist
ent district attorneys department, an
INSCRIPTIONS sheriff's department and
a biased and unfair public press. The
district attorney had failed to show
any plausible motive for the terrible
murder laid at Gillette's door, he had
failed to produce the eye witness he
was expected to produce on the
strungth of his opening address and
he failed to prove that Gillette had
any sweetheart other than Grace
Brown, as he promised to do.
Mr.. Mills declared that every bit of
evidence introduced by the district at
torney was overdrawn and that moth
ing authentic had been presented to
the jury that was consistent with the
course a young man and a young
woman in similar trouble would have
taken in seeking relief and secrecy to
shield their regulations. He said the
district attorney might as well have
said that Grace Brown was struck by
bushel basket, as with a frail tennis
racquet and that the girls head had
struck the keel of the overturning
boat as she went overheard, if there
were such injuries as the doctors had
sworn to. Mr.. Mills averred that
Grace Brown followed the wish writ
ten by her in one of the letters to Gill
lette-that she drowned herself hoping
to be buried with her secret unknown
by the mother whose love and respect
she valued more than her own life.
He Chased with the attack on the ply
sicians, whom he claimed distorted the
report of their autopsy, that brought
the district attorney to his feet.
After declaring that counsel for the
defense had sought to find rogue in
the jury, Mr.. Ward continued:
They say this young man should
nave been represented at that autopsy.
How could he be represented when the
offlcers were in the Adirondacks look
ing for him at the time the autopsy
was performed? The district attorney
~ himself was not there. And then be-
cause he was not represented Mr.. Mills
attempts to dscredit the word of the
five reputable doctors brought here,
himself He makes himself out a doc
tor and tries to tell you what consti-
tutes drowning. He (this 'doctor) says
he has studied nights and learned med
icine in the past five weeks. Why,
gentlemen, he couldn't learn as much
about anatomy-this man who never
saw a lung in his life-by reading
nights as these doctors could learn of
law by reading his books nights.
Why weren't they represented ?
Why, gentlemen, nobody knew but
what the girl had been drowned until
they found that wound under the hair
and followed 1t to the brain And when
they found that bloodeclot they knew
in minute what caused her death-it
was a blow on the head
There was nothing in this post
mortem to mislead or deceive anybody,
and it revealed the fact that murder
had been committed; that the girl had
not died from drowning; that no water
entered into the mouth; that no water
entered into the lungs the lungs We're
normal and natural.
"Who does the counsel want to reach
when he speaks of the doctors testi-
mony? He had a learned doctor who
sat by him there; it would have been
competent for him to have put that
doctor on the stand and sworn to things
Mr.. Mills testified to in summing up
He wasn't under oath. Mr.. Mills told
you what constitutes drowning He
would bear evidence to that, but he
wasn't himself sworn. He knew If that
doctor got on the stand he would tes-
tify as the other doctors, but instead
of taking that course he says, I will
get up before that jury and will testify
that all the other doctors are wrong.
Wasn't that nonsense?
Nov, what insdious thing did he
mean when he told you about graft
that existed? Was there any graft
when that poor girl was brought III
into the woods to be murdered? Die
graft cause that? What did he mean.
II charge here and now that that lit
tie falsehood was put into the case foi
the purpose of prejudicing poor, fool
ish juror and to keep him from giving
proper consideration to the evidence in
the case.
"Then he made a great splurge OF
those medical notes. 1t was amusing
to hear him say, I haven't got the orig
inal notes No, of course not; there
were five doctors and only one ser O1