The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-18

1t is only to wrong me that he has done this. but he will regret 1t.
 You know IL is not me that is to blame for not going. if it had been i! wouii never have said was. or pack cd my trunk to leave.
 MT. Wilkerson asked me at dinner why didn't go and told him my hus- band wouldn't let me.
 This Is all have to say You can believe me. or not, just as you sec 1t. To say Pm hurt does not express f.:
 sBernice."
 The defense. 1t is said. expected to build up feature of their case about this letter. They would have contend. ed, 1t is said, that Gordon Reddoch had prepared to leave Euverne for St. Louis. the morning after he was killexS and that Mrs. Bishop was making arrangements to visit a sister at Tsf- ford But Judge Richardson ps< 3tly ruled that all the proposed Aence was Illegal
 Clothing as Evidenc
 The shot riddied clothing worn by the dead man was introduced as evi- dences early this morning They were Identified by Horace Reddoch as the clothing worn by his brother on the night of the killing. The narrow brim- med straw hat had large piece shot out of it. The blue serge coat was torn with shot as well as the gray trousers. They had been washed of blood since the killing.
 The arguments began at s:30 o'clock MT. Parks opening for the State.
 MT. Parks spoke impressively, calm ly and dispassionately. except when he described the defendant Slipping to his office, and lodging to his home, where he lay in walt in the dark with shot gun in his hand He first argued and cited the law to- show that there was nothing In tho self-defense contention raised by the defense. He set forth that no man could create the necessity for murder and then invoke the law of self-defense. The evidence, he con- tended, plainly established the fact that Oscar Bishop had contributed to the making of the situation in which the murder was done. Nor did the law make it anything else than murder for one man to kill another to prevent the commission of felony.
 The defendant, Mir. Parks, argued went Into that situation freely. wilI- ingly and voluntarily and that he went there with the premeditated design of committing murder. In reaching their verdict MT. Parks begged the jurors to divest themselves of all outside ipflu- ence, to decline to hear the voice of any public opinion in the jury box.
 
 character of Gordon Reddoch and his standing in the community in which he lived. He was the man shot down by his friend, his friend who lay in wait foF him with the darkness, who had slipped through the darkness with q Shot. gun In his hand and had went with murder in his heart. He intimat- ed that there was an understanding between pr. King and Bishop on the night of the killing.
 In beginning an eloquent argument for the defense Judge Terry Richard son said:
 Terry RIehardson Speaks.
 Only a coward would have refused to do what Oscar Bishop did no man, no true man could have failed to do as he did. Behind the attorneys of the State you sec the relatives of Gordon Reddoch But Oscar Bishop sets alone. No wife sits st his side It has been my experience that when man stands before a jury charged with the terrible crime of murder the wife of his bosom | sits at his side through the ordeal l But where is the wife of Oscar Bishop1 ! She is not hers7 Why Is this? An, gentlemen. ask yourself that qpes- l tion2'
 Judge richardson argued that q man did not kill his best friend without a motive.
 He quoted Mir. Parks as saying that if the spirit cf Gordon Reddoch could hover over the jury. It would join jus tice, not vengeance"
 But say to you. gentlemen said Judge Richardson, If the spirit of Gordon Reddoch could hover over thls l jury it would say. Turn him loose. Turn him loose. I was to blame" He asked why was the wife out there. -k,,. hn ta al Ia1t of. the night? Why were the two of them, Gordon Reddoch and Mrs. Bishop meeting at that hour of the night? Turning to the defendant at the close he said, tand to you, my unfortunate cliant I have this to say. I do not l know what this jury will do but the God above knows that you are inno- | cent"
 The law for the side of the de- fendant was presented by Senator Pow ell Mir Powell had fortified hmiself behind a pile Of authorities, bearing upon the position of Oscar Bishop at the time of the murder. He quoted authorities from the Supreme Court to show that, the home of Dr. Knight was the same as his own premises. He argued from those authorities that Bishop had the same right to defend those premises as though they belong | ed to him.
 ,"To claim that Bishop did not ] have the right to defend those prem ises with shot gun Is absurd and sill l ly. To claim that man Is lying in wait. in defending his premises is silly and absurd.
 Powell Anaiyses Evidence. Hr Powell then went deeply into the evidence. He challenged the State to explain the presence of Gordon Red doch in the yard that night. He chal- | lenged the State to show why Gordon Reddoch was at the spot when he was | killed He asked them to explain why Mrs. Bishop was on the steps.
 "Gentlemen of the jury, you have the right to draw your conclusions as to why the two of them were there" said MT. Powell. 'T ask you gentle men, must a man permit thing like thate Must he permit a man to steal Unto his house and meet his wife?'
 oscar Bishop came before you with | a good name. splendid name from his friends and neighbors. I ask you to give him back to those friends for friends are all he has now, with that good name untarnished."
 | The concluding argument was made by ex-Congressman J. F. Stallings al the afternoon session with the court room packed and iammed. At every session of the court the room has been | crowded, but not single female has been In the room since the trial start ed Mir. Stsllings took mp the unwrit- ten law for an impassioned denuncia- ton. First and last in his speech he compared the present system of juris- prudence, which he pictured as the collected wisdom of all the ages, witt the unwritten law He felt confident ot the nature of the charge that Judge Richardson would give. for he haC learned the law on the case in his hon