The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-01-12

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writer of the New York Journal, said
ITO those who sat for twelve hours
i'm the gray-walied court room while
the three fates slowly and inscrutably
spun the fabric of Annie Nj. Bradley:
future, three grim facts will Away:
stalk in memory.
Zone was the fervid tear compelling
oratory of Judge Orlando w. Powers
who pleaded for her life. Another, the
pitiless insistence of United States At
tcrney Bakers demand for her death
The last, the dreary six hours hopeless
wait Df the watchers for the verdict.
I'm Judge Orlando w. Powers adj
dress one had taste of moving ora
tory, an engulfirg. overwhelming. wave
of tremendous earnestness.
His power lay, one soon OWNED, In
the velvet, almost purring quality OF
his voice, with the high bell tones that
ring in il in moments of tense emotion
I'm the force and beauty of his thoughts
and the pure gold of the speech with
which he adorns them.
"She Loved; She Fell"
Judge Powers, though an American,
goes back to his Irish ancestors, to that
large-eyed, glib tongued De Poer. who
was seneschal of Kilkenny castle in Ire
land. His thoughts, as his speech, are
dipped, according to his moods, in gall
and honey. His the sunny and cloudy
extremes OF temperament. He knows
no middle grayness of mood or manner.
His the swift-fiowing, high-mounting
Celtic blood that, surging In the brain,
makes great actors and great orators.
His passion of oratory was akin to
frenzy.
- why did this woman sin p he cried.
=. 1t is a story as old as the world
a. She is a woman
She loved. She fell
"Flinging his gaunt figure about with
startling suddenness, he faced the
United States attorney and, with Ses-
ture of denunciatory arms, cried:
And let him who is without sin
cast the first stone
1T was an oral thunderbolt. Persons
in the crowded court room gasped and
paIed. The official half rose.
Your homer he began, I object
to
"shriek of a Soul Going Mad"
" 1T is a proper answer to the argu-
ment OF the government slowly and
coolly replied Judge Stafford.
% 1T is the Bible Numbered Judge
Powers. and proceeded.
Wisely he read the love note from
Mrs Bradley. that was eloquent as any
words he could utter. He read ii i'm
pressively. as a Garrick or a Webster
might have read:
90 Love seems no more than mock
cry tonight. l wanted to see you, oh.
so much, but it was in vain. l shall
kill her or l shall hate you, or go mad
before long. 1 think l am going mad
Tow. l saw your lights in your bed
room windows, so I go home. I hope
TO die and end this suffering that is ex-
circulating. But I must write or / will
rave, as / am prompted
- This letter was no threat pleaded
Mrs. Bradley's advocate in laundering
tones. 1t was the Shrek of a soul go
ing mad
"a Sometimes the bullet from a pistol
held by tender hands is thunderbolt
sent by God
Greater Than DeImas' Address.
The Pittsburg Gazette, after the YER
dict. paid this editorial compliment to
Judge Powers;
1T is proper, before dismissing con-
sideration of the Bradley verdict, to
say word of compliment for the de-
tense. regardless of the merits of the
case itself Judge Powers, the defend
ants chief counsel, has won a note
worthy victory. His methods. his man
ner, and, above all, his closing address
to the jury were so far superior to
those of Delmas. that other far western
lawyer recently in the limelight of the
east, as to compel admiration. There is
no finer test of a mans caliber-his
mind, his capacity, his genius and
poWer-than when he fights to save a
human life. and wins. And there is no
finer field, or profession for this test
than at the bar of justice. And there is
no court like the oyer and terminer to
bring out the best fruits of a lawyers
experience and the most gratifying tri-
umphs of his resource and research, his
fighting qualities and legal attain
ments. Judge Powers defense was
broad, skillful and ample, but the fin
ished product of his effort was in his
speech to the jury. Now soothing, now
stirring never maudlin and never alb
surd, il was an intense appeal to the
judgment of plain human beings.
moved by ordinary measures of what is
right, wrong and objectionable, and
limited only by the individuals esti-
mate of what ought to have been done
and was-in the case at bar"
Text of the Address.
Judge Powers argument was as fol-
lows:
If your honor please. and gentlemen
OF the jury:
My able and eloquent associates who
have preceded me have expressed to
some extent the thoughts that | would
like to express-evidencing appreciation
of your attention, of the fairness of the
court, and of the courtesy of those by
whom we have been opposed. And vet
I would not be doing myself justice if I
did not add as strongly as ] can my
appreciation of the fair trial that has
been given to this little woman.
l am here TO do what l can for her
She is a citizen of my state. 1 am here
in the capital of our nation, surrounded
by memories most historic, but I am
not a stranger here; she is not a stran-
ger here. This is a city in which she
and ], as we'll as all the other people
of this magnificent country have a
common interest. This is the capital
city of a government founded by a
great people upon tie principle of
equality and of JUSTICE people that
always, throughout all the ages, have
been so careful that no wrong be done
TO those accused of crime that it has
become q part of their life that lit is
better that ninety-nine guilty men shall
escape than that one innocent man
shall be punished"
First Public Appearance in Capital.
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