The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-07-10
CONFESSED GUILT
BUT ARE FREED BY
CITY COURT JURY
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tend to place Gordon in a strong and
| favorable light with the jury. Never
did he assume the antagonistic air so
common with him, when some poor
devil accused of minor offense. sits
meekly before him with head bowed
in shame and chargin. No, not he.
The characteristics of Jessups ev-
cry day prosecution were never more
forcibly illustrated than when G. S.
McCool came to the stand to testify
in his behalf Jessup stroked his
Samsonian locks, peeped over the rim
of his ''specks." glared at McCool,
and the usual police court prosecu-
tion was on. Not a single question
was asked but what would further in
criminate McCool on the charge
which was placed against him. Nc
Cool is the circulation manager of the
Evening Item, and what cared Jes5up
for him. Nothing. He was an I'M
derling and was therefore subject TO
the full limit of the Jaw. The change
of positions of the prosecutor when
the respective defendants were on
the stand would have run a lightning
change vaudeville artist into the cor
ner, feebly calling for a settler bot
tie. When McCool entered the stand,
Jessup assumed the attitude of a
prosecutor for the first time during
the day and proceeded ito go after
him. with the big stick
Was Fully Established.
The examination of several wit
nesses Tuesday afternoon showed
that the testimony was all the same,
in the main, that both Gordon and
McCool had struck Darby, Gordon
once and McCool twice to their
knowledge.
Jessup in his closing speech said
that if he were on the jury he would
not find Gordon guilty, but character
lied the assault of McCool as vicious. |
McCool should be fined and was in
no wise justified for the attack he
made upon Darby. McCooi, he said, |
was a man who had no business to in
terfere in the trouble between Darby |
and Gordon but was swayed by a
strong emotion to hit some one, and |
therefore rushed in and struck the de-
fenseless man. McCool he said, by |
his actions was apparently itching for
a fight and therefore had made the
savage attack. Darby's actions were |
not directed against McCool and |
therefore the latter should be convict
ed-with a fine.
Johnson's Fireworks.
Henry U. Johnson followed Jessup |
in a vociferous, misunderstanding |
soI1 I, l1fN
McCool, whom Jessup had character
ised as making savage and brutal at
tack He would acquit the man for if |
the jury did not it would show that |
an Item attache had been fined for
scrapping and what a shame that |
would be. 1t would be an injustice
to the people of Richmond, as the
good opinion of the sanctum on North
Seventh street might be Jared. An
acquittal of both defendants was
asked. notwithstanding the assault,
that the reputation of the Evening
Item might be sustained. 1t was not
whether the men were guilty or not
guilty with the ex-congressman from
the sixth district; it was boosting
the Evening Item and protecting its
editor and circulation managers fair
names. that he was after. A lily of
unusual wilderness was a withered
flower compared with the men who
had assaulted a man whose health is
all but gone.
With few more eulogies, a few
more balls of fire, Johnson then
drew a very pretty picture of the
Good Samaritan, allowing his mind to
roam along through religious and
pastoral fields. An appeal for smy-
pathy and the trial was closed al
though the jury had not left the
room.
The jurymen acceptable to both at
COULDN'T KEEP IF