The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1907-02-18

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The point as to Mrs. Mangrum calling
DR.. Feist's telephone number was
mentioned. Mr.. Bass argued that Nit.
chell's testimony fitted so well with
the other facts and speaking of Mrs
Mangrums haste in leaving the car
riage at the Union station, said she
wanted to get into the station to see
if the defendant was there. The sor-
rel horse and buggy was at the sta
ton, the driver first crcling around
on Broadway, peerng into the front
and going to the corner.
Mr.. Bass stated that Mrs Manfrum
did not intend TO catch the s o'clock
train was everything as packed in
her trunk, not even gown being left
He figured that it was arranged that
afternoon in Feist-s office that she
would take the early morning train
and meet him that might. Mr. Bass
went into a defense of Conductor
Stall, who had insisted to the last that
Mrs. Mangrum was not on his car at
Chicago. The statement that a man
and woman left the train at Evans.
vile, which was repudiated by viii
Foster a colored porter, was ridiculed
and Private Detective Jordan came in
for touch Of sarcasm. The testimony
Of Stall was a monument TO truth,
and should be beacon light TO the
jury in arriving at a true verdict. MT.
Bass stated that the diagram record
kept by the Pullman conductor.
offered by the defense, showed that
no passenger left the car between
Nashville and Chicago. which de
stroyed the claim of the defense that
he body was put into the Ohio river
at Evansville
Mr. Bass said there was only one
man under the sun who could have
influenced Mrs. Mangrum to leave the
Union Station and get into buggy,
and the name Of that man is Feist,
declared the attorney general, point
ing his Guger at the defendant. The
fur collar and gauntIets worn by Or.
Bean were discussed, Mr.. Bass calling
attention TO the fact that this point
had been ruled out when the State
had rebuttal Witnesses Irwin and
Dowd and Mitchell, however, ahd |
testified as 70 seeing this part of the /
garb.
Mr. Bass argued that the corpus
deficit had been established going
mo The testimony of the experts, and /
,aia while the defense had contendet /
counsel on the other side had used |
the word murder" throughout their |
arguments, and knew that Mrs. Man I
grum was murdered as did every I
member Of the jury. The attorney gen I
eral next went into discussion oI |
the deposit of $500 in the Fourth Ma
tional bank and to the inconsistencies I
Of the defense
THAT Aaron Bergeda business /
won't do" said Mr. Bass "The idea /
of man having hundreds of dollars !
Up there, and borrowing $50 from an
t|iilbl IMAM y VILE NJ IldU Ol tue lllIF ]
and no man on EARN with any com
mon sense. would believe the state
ment of Ycatman Alley. If you want !
TO trail that money gentlemen don't !
90 10 Bergeda's bank; don't go TO the
little theatrical company in West
Tenne ssee, bat follow the horse win
The laXen name 10 the banks of the
river What does This
mean? 1t means that they have
attempted 10 explain away this money
transaction and have failed"
MI Bass said that the testimony re-
sarding the defendants conduct in
his case is appalling The defendant
lad tried TO drive Mangrum from his
own wife, telling him that she had &
errible disease, and a man that vas I
mean enough to do that would lill 2
thousand women The defendant
statement after Mrs. Mangrums
leath was a SANDER and lie on dead
name Think about an limo
cent man heaping those vile dirty ,
SANDERS on a dead woman's name. !
aid Mr. Bass. The defendant was ar +
aligned in graphic style for his state
nent to Mrs. Trousdale
Attorney General Bass closed with
/ terrible arraignment Of the defend
mt. stating that day after day The
state had made out a chain Of iroop- ,
rovertiblc proof Of the guilt e :he de- !
endant The attorney general asked ,
he jury 10 look at the couutenauca ~ +.
he defendant and see If they could !
lot read there the destroyer Of home \
ma murderer Of defenscless women. q
'lr. Bass appealed 10 the jury in The II
lame Of wOmanhood. justice and hu-
nanity not TO turn the defendant 81
oose. He closed with remarks that e
ie had tried to perform his duty faith :