The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-04-09

(Continued from Page One.) ! perhaps not improper to say that shall make no attempt to influence your pathizers, nor influence your 5udg- ment.
 No Unwritten Law. q shall not call on such fimsy things as the ''unwritten law" This defend- ant finds his Justification in the writ ten law, in the statutes to this State In the written law he finds 1t necessary to protect his life and his liberty. 'In the performance of my duty 1t will be necessary for me to refer to the dead. I will do so In all respect possible, but there are cases where the memory of the dead must give way to the needs of the living. For those who are left behind. for the widow who mourns. for the son. I have noth- ing but words of sympathy. Gladly will admit the law that the sins of the father must descend for three and four generations. The story is that of two young peo- pie. who, by the rate of an inscrutable decree, had determined to link together. | to be united and walk through life in the company of one another. The story covers only a few years. It Is the sad dest, most mournful and most tragic &hC tohbuC Ol iiidh hdS SNCL uI- tered or ear of man ever heard. Let me begin briefly with her story-one filled with incidents with which a vol ume might overflow and which might come from the most vivid imagination of the most gifted novelist. She was born on Christmas, 1884, in the city of Pittsburg Pa
 her lose her father and natural pro- tector. and left her in charge of a mother who early manifested that char acter of frivolity and extravaganza which were to lead to such deplorable circumstances. When the girl was 10 years of age, the family found itself in strengthened circumstances; they began to feel the bangs of want.
 Became Family Drudge.
 "At thirteen she became the family drudge, assisting her mother. And. thus the family continued moving from place to place without any fixed habi- tation.
 But nature had endowed her with the fatal gift of beauty-a beauty which manifested itself in early youth, a gift with which the mother soon saw means of support for the family.
 At fourteen she was in Philadelphia already embarked on the perilous sea of an artists model But New York, the great metropolis, was the market where such natural gifts are most sought and most dearly paid for. and to New York the family came and by the procurement of the mother the em- ployment begun in Philadelphia was renewed here and the beautiful child wended her way through the streets from morning till evening, from studio to studio and from artist to artist and at the end of the week the scant earn ings were carried to her mother for the support of the family.
 Brave and courageous went this child at fifteen or sixteen years of age, rushing in the day time from studio to studio and at night appear ing upon the boards and earning an equal salary.
 At this time we find man whose hair was tinged with grey who had an excellent wife and accomplished son, fixing his eyes upon the fated child and determining to make her his. To win her he had none of the graces or principles of the honorable suitor. He ingratiated himself into her family in the guise of an influential friend. He won his way into the confidence of the mother and established himself in a paternal and protecting attitude in