The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1908-09-11

=AAr " NAAAe- nov Vas not ina
an awful thing? II she was the pure
true and good woman that he saw
she was, how was it that little gami
Of cards would arouse his Jealous
J suspicious. He says that he foun,
them in the room together and tha
the deceased skunk away. Now is tha
believable? Can any reasonable mar
believe it? Was it possible for thi:
boy to have done so much with a del
icate sick woman pregnant with child
in the little brief period of two
weeks? There is not a man within
the sound of my voice who believes
it. The defendant says that Long
and his wife looked at each other.
Stokes tells you that I cannot under
stand that look He is mistaken
about that am not so ugly
that women have not looked at me
that way. But l tell you right now, if
l ever shall be the husband of a good
true and pure woman, it will take
more than look from her to
some other man TO = forfeit
my confidence and esteem. 1 will
never lose faith in my wife because
she sits beside "a boy and eats pick
les with him. Never; no never.
The defendant went home but five
times while he was boarding with
Mrs Long What does he see or
hear that causes him to suspect his
wife? He takes the little negro nurse
and according to his proof she volun.
teers a lot of information about some
brandy that his wife mas. Now who
believes that story? Who would be-
lieve that Mrs. Granbery's little nurse
would volunteer to talk SANDER to her
husband about her mistress? If there
is one single virtue that a negro has
it is loyalty to the master or the mis-
trees. l don't believe that the nurse
ever told him anthing of the
kind; and don't believe you
believe it. But any way Mrs.
Long gave very reasonable ex-
PLANTATION of how the whiskey got
here. Now this is all that happened,
and yet the defendant says that this
S all he killed Washington Long for.
There must have been some other I
'eason. Is there any reasonable man
who would have cherished suspic-
on against his wife on such flimsy ev- !
dence as this?
"But before one word was said by
nybody, this defendant goes and {
eeks Harry Harlan and asks him
What he knows. He wants to know q
the people blame him or If they S
lame his wife? In the meantime his t
rothers and his wife's father and b
rother had met at the Bethel House il
nd agreed upon a final separation. b
he had gone from him to d
e away forever. But in spite of this t
let in the next three days he is p
skiing who the people say is to blame v
the matter Certainly you were Il
ot. Why should people blame you? h
good and true and brave and devot- r.
| man. n
Then there are the statements of
etter and Harlan and then some idle
sgro talk, and this is all there is in :"
e case. These witnesses are not =
disseminated by any one except the
'fendant, who swears that he may :
We his life. No sane man could
I'VE ever believed these statements. -
2 wants to believe something about
Is pure and true and noble wife
at he tells you about. And he is :.
anxious to hear something =,
at he goes around and tries =
find gossip and evidence of Z.
lnder. He knows that his brother
s hound of the law on the trail
his wife and he ratifies and APP -
ives it. What report did that de- "'
tive make? He knows, but we -
MT, and this court don't. If it had -
stained these lies and ISLANDERS
1T you suppose that we would have -
lrd it? The idea of this man being y
Toted and madly in love with his
e, sending around a hell hound to -
l proof that she was a bad woman.
Every report that was made to =
] was voluntary one. He was al -, !,
rs seeking for information. If he
leved this lie the negro told about p'o
wife and Long and the piano stool, :
Y did he, not go to the negro? And ~, -
MS wife had separated from him 80
he believed her to be false as he
charged on the night of the sep -
ton, why in Gods name did he W.
it further evidence? But Aunt ~"
/ tells him that Mrs. Long says ~
ind so; but Mrs Long comes here ~