Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-03-21
ATTY BAILEY
PANEGYRIST
|creates a Sensation in Sullivan
Trial by His Address
To Jury.
UNUSUAL FLIGHT INcouRT.
,s ,be accused Murderer In Pure
Colors with a Monster Brush OF
Peculiarly ooratory.

I, Joe sullivan goes to the gallows,
t will at least be with the reeoilep-
t,on of as fulsomc panegyric of him-
Et,lf uttered by his attorney, j. H.
Epoilev Ir MS was ever pronounced
n mon any man, accused or not. For
| = bour and three quarters yesterday
fternoon, Mr.. Bailey poured out an
flmpassioned, disconnected appeal to the
iury. many times TO individuals in the
Hurry box, to release Joe sullivan from
a fate for crime which, declared the
lttoiney, Sullivan was no more guilty
'ithan he was. with great deal more
Aarnestness than judgment, Bailey
bicked OF, William n. Davis, one of
ihe Jurors and addressed him person
AIN. reminding hime OF the times when
fhey preached the gospel together IN
England, and declaring with his face
haame. that he knew Davis would hang
but for two years before he would
BEND sullivan TO the gdiloWS Tor the
Killing of Ford.
I'D Bailey also read portions of the Doc
9frine and Covenants to the jury, and
tlikened what he called the persecution
or Joe Sullivan to the persecution of
Jesus Christ and of Joe Smith. He
declared he would mortgage his ranch
and his home to carry the case to the
limited States supreme court should
the jury find defendant guilty. Bailey
.declared that Sullivan was q good look
ang man. even better looking, said he,
.than the lawyers OF the prosecution,
MIR. Hanson and Mr.. Loofbourow He
Said that Sullivan was worth 100 acres
batch Of such men as john Owen.
whom he designated as All yellow"
He further said Sullivan had brains.
Pile has more brains than both the
lawyers of the prosecution and all
THE witnesses for the prosecution put
together said the attorney for the de-
Tense.
Mr.. Bailey described the death of the
Prophet Joseph Smith, and of Jesus
Christ, and dramatically declared, AS
the rabble clamored for the death OF
these men, so does the rabble today
camor for the death of that innocent
man, Joe Sullivan"
STORY OF A GIRL.
He told of an incident, in his add
dress to Juror Davis. which occurred
IN this city severalryears ago. in which
the story OF a young lady and "a young
man was concerned. The young peo-
pie had kept company for some time,
both living in a village not far from
tAih A-eNfNNs Nut ItNN TIE lIlplutT OIL inc
girl took the girl to a dentists parlor
Pin The city; then one day she let her
lgo alone. The dentist persuaded the
ielrl to take u drink of Intoxicating
liquor, and that dentist ruined that
|girl You knew that girl" said the
attorney to Mr.. Davis. you knew
ithat girl, and that her mother took her
across the ocean. Yet whom did the
public accuse of that crime? To the
attorney who Is now addressing YOU"
|said he, ito myself. And yet / am as
Innocent of that crime as a new born
babe, and Joe Sullivan is just as in
nOcent of the murder of officer Ford"
Attorney Bailey placed his little g.
year-old son Russell, on the chair next
10 Sullivan, and placing a hand on |
leach, told of the expectations he had
for his own son, and the hopes and ex-
Ipectatons Sullivan's parents had for
him 29 years ago in New York.
BROKEN CHAIN.
Bailey placed before the jury a brok-
en- chain, supplied with shreds of c1otn |
as missing links, which he likened to |
me chain of evidence produced by the |
prosecution. There We're many missing |
INKS IN that chain, said the attorney, |
and the tattered cloth represented the
INKS as attempted to be supplied by \
The prosecution.
me attorney referred to the politi- |
Sas situation in Salt Lake city. which |
he declared was much more rotten than |
that OF New York or Chicago. and said |
thal this town needs a house-cleanIng. |
ana needs it badly.
ne tola the jury that when Sullivan |
should should be released from custody by the |
Jury ne was going to work ON Bailey's |
lern' He win cut my hay and mix
,mS COWS said the attorney, "and /
NV c LruSt MN with my hay, and with
tE'oHsyhs, and with my ducks"
O'clock Mr.. Bailey's address had