The Green Forest tribune., 1906-02-24
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 the insurance companies. Mo- Nemar admitted that he had been turned out of the Baptist church for gambling, and horse racing but that he had been restored.
 On being recalled Butt ex- plained that he lived a neighbor to McNemar in 1903, that Mrs. McNemar gave a reception in the honor of Mrs. Butt, that McNe- mar himself was exceptionally kind to him, and requested him to introduce a certain bill in the senate, that he did so stating at the time that it was by request, that as soon as he learned of the purposes of McNemar he with drew the bill and exposed the scheme on the floor of the senate; that in doing this he incurred the enmity of McNemar. This closed the evidence both for the state and defense. The opening ar gument was made by Senator James A. Gray of Little Rock. He told the jury that he wanted to thank them as citizens of Perry county for honoring him as their prosecuting attorney and later for casting their votes for him for state senator, the office he now holds. He said he had been greatly honored by the citizens of Perry county but that he felt the highest personal honor that had ever been bestowed upon him was when the distinguished Prosecuting Attorney Louis Rho- ton invited him to assist in the prosecution of F. O. Butt for boodling.
 He then reviewed the testimony in the case and also told the jury how he himself stood on the var ious questions coming before the senate, that he voted for every bill that carried With it an appro- priation for any purpose for the reason that Governor Davis had said that there was too much money in the state treasury and he believed in getting it out among the people. He charact- erized Senator Butt as being very discourteous to brother senator, that he (Gray) had himself in- troduced bill in the senate for the annexation of the town of Argenta to the city of Little Rock and that Butt took the lead in voting to table the measure and did table the bill without the merits of the bill even being dis cussed. He closed by asking the jury to return a verdict of guilty.
 Hon. Vol Walker of Fayette- vile opened for the defense. He told the jury that he did not have the distinction of having been their prosecuting attorney, or state senator having served them in no official capacity, that he and his client were strangers in a strange land, but not withstand ing they had all the rights in the courts that any citizen of their county would have and all they could ask for was a fair and impar- tial trial. He analysed the testi- m ony of the state showing that it had wholly failed to connect Butt with the alleged transac- tion between Cook and Coving- ton, that there was not even a suspicion showing that the defend ant had ever received one cent of the S6500, that the defendant consistently, openly and of record tried to get various amendments to the state capitol bill, that while he voted for it on it's final passage his record was too we'll known for him even to ask any one to vote for it much less bribe any one, that Butt emphatically de- nied having given or received one cent of money in connection with the affair, that according to Adams' own statement he was bribe taker and hence was an accomplice and by the instruc- tions of the court that alone would not convict; that Butts talk with Holland showed either one of two things: that Holland was a corrupt man himself or the whole thing was a joke, in fact that anybody with common sense and reason could interpret it in no other way than a joke, and that this would be no corrobora- ton of Adams. MT. Walker spoke one and one half hours during which time he elicited the closest attention both from the jury and audience. ..-.
 Attorney Bowen of Perryville then spoke 20 minutes for the state in which he reviewed the the testimony.
 Col. Sellers then closed for the