The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1906-06-29

the name of Womanhood l protest
against that. This woman may have
been guilty of some indiscretions, gen
tlemen, but the greatest folly she ever
committed was the day she left the
home of her parents to live with this
man. will not attempt to fathom the
depths of a woman's love No man
! can fathom or understand a woman's
| love: how she will suffer and endure
and cling to the object of her love.
1t is one of Gods best gifts to man.
And I imagine. though l cannot eX-
press, how this young woman, then
mere girl, must have loved the man
for whom she left father, mother and
home. And what must have been her
hopes, and how they perished how
the seeds her husband sowed crum-
BILE her idol; what misgivings and
heartaches she must have had all
these years of heartaches and tears, OF
weary watching and waiting, OF dread
and neglect and cruelty; and l can
imagine how one by one her heart
strings broke And then at last, hun
CRY hearted and sad, see her confide
her troubles to an old school boy
friend; and I see how his pity for her
ripens into love; and then | say to
myself, and as the states attorney ]
say to you, gentlemen, this is the hui
manity of this case.
, Don't talk to me, said the speaker,
about this defedant being robbed of
his wife; by his own neglect and cruel
: treatment he drove her from home him
t self Don't talk to me about anybody
! robbing you of your wife when this rec
> ord shows that you sold her for two
D thousand dollars in cold cash. Don't
\ talk to me about the preservation OF
home. unless you tell me what home
S YOU mean. Do you mean the home OF
S the harlot or the home of the woman
S who up to that good hour, according
o to his own statement had been faith
n full. affectionate and true to him. Do
d YOU mean the home of the woman he
It had sworn at the altar to love, honor
J. and protect, or the home of the pros
% titute he unblushingly admits to have
!. visited. Do you mean the home and
7 the sick wife he went to after his night
d of debauch and made a confession
" which no decent man could ever make;
and then, to add the browning insult
10 of all, that his poor sick wife smiled
IT her assent to it all; which last state.
q ment. gentlemen, l believe to be as
=. false as hell itself What home do
IN YOU mean, gentlemen, when you talk
o. of a home being robbed?
or Mr.. Garner then proceeded to a
+. discussion Of the facts of the case. He
ba ridiculed the defendants story; said
to he had made three statements, ant
at neither of them agreed, and that the
i'm last one especially was unworthy o
10. belief because of its unreasonableness
nv He said. however that even accord
iii ing to the defendants own statement
nv he was guilty of attempted voluntar.
,o+ manslaughter, for firing at the prose
an cutor after he had abandoned the dill
- fculty and was retreating along hi
80 porch. making for the door He SAT-
that his Honor would charge the lay
49, to be that way. (And his honor did S
of charge.) He said that fowler had
- right to arm himself that night. Vile
- man has such reasons as he had
expect a difficulty that he could nc
avoid he had a right in law and goo
morals to prepare to defend himsel
vie, He said fowler had a right to declin
vas an escort home; no man need to HI
lal, initiate himself by asking or accep
and ing an escort home He had paid h
me money to settle all wrongs, so the r
old ceipt read. and he had a right to wa
ror the streets unmolested, just 9s al
uld other citizen. After a further SUI
nan mary of the facts, the attorney gene
and al concluded with these words &C
an tlemen of the jury. l demand z. q
no at your hands according to the Law Al
r of the facts: | do not ask your synp
Ease thy for any one; I do not ask w
But, dict based on sympathy but II 20
any considerations shall be moved b ~
at pathy at all. then I ask your conf
man sion and sympathy for the wrong
,een and suffering little woman he betri
sail ed. and not for the husband who
light trayed her
st. His Honor, Judge Holding,
anne began Immediately his charge 10
be- jury. AS his charges always are
men. was SO fair impartial and exhausti
here that when had finished neither 81
cent had any questions to ask or any
you quest to make, and the jury re'iIeu
Hood consider their verdict.
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