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

came II between this deienddaat an
his wife He tells you thar this dea
boy separated him from his wife.
more damnable and outrageous Ii
was never uttered than this Thi
gOOr Dos never did anything but rr,
TO help biz poor mother run a board
.ng house"
Mr.. Fieuers then proceeded to define
murder in the frst degree and De
clared that he would show that thfs
case included every legal element Of
murder in the first degree.
1T was wilfully done for the de
feGdant himself dramatically OK
claimed on the witness stand: I
would have killed him ordied." Was
{it deliberately done? Listen, he
walked to the door and paused until
he saw his victim. and then cooIly re-
moving the safety from his pistol. he
fred: and to be sure that there was no
mistake he continued TO shoot and
shoot. and if the pistol had contained
enough balls he would have been
shooting till now if some one had not
stopped him Was there malice?
His own evidence shows his deep
malice and hatred Was it premedi-
tated? Certainly il was. He never
approached that boy when the latter
was looking at him. All this time he
was filling himself, with niger lies
and rumors and premeditating over
this crime God deliver us from the
man twenty-eight years old who walks
up behind boy nineteen
years old. and shoots him
without warning or notice. But they
say yes, we killed. we would have
done it or died. You will ask your
self when you go>to deliberate on this
case, for what was this killing done?
The Wilcox case is like the one at
bar and it shows that our Courts say
there is no such thing in Tennessee
as the unwritten law. 1t is no law at
all. 1t is as Mr.. VOORHEES, said, law
written only upon the heart of a MUIR
derer.
Gentlemen what do you say or a
man who having committed murder
and every other avenue of his escape
is cut off, then goes and traduces and
ISLANDERS the fair name and fame of
his pure wife? This defendant stands
in that plight. He is the cold-blooded
murderer of a poor boy, but he finds
that he must have an excuse, so he
says this boy separated him from his
wife. But l am going to show you
that it was Harry CRANBERRY who
broke up this home. 1t was his own
misconduct that broke up this home, !
his mothers home and Mrs. Longs
home. He broke up three homes by
his own cruel neglect and outrageous
conduct"
Talk about your southern blood and !,
said Mr. Figuers, lyon do !
not find any of 1t in this record in
with the treatment of Har-
ry CRANBERRY to his poor, sick wife.
You do not find it in the testimony of
Mrs. Long, as respectable, heightened,
Christian woman as there is in Maury
county. You do not find 1t In the sad, Il
sad story detailed to you by Mrs. For
gey, as cultured, chaste and pure
as can be found anywhere,
and one no man can doubt or ques-
ion. You remember their testimony;
where was the chivalrous knight
hen, and what was he doing? Talk
o me about the Granberys' kind
reatment to her. Is it not a little
TRANCE that during her weeks of So
ourn here in Columbia when they
ay she could not be invited to his
1other's house because, forsooth, she
ad no cook; is it not strange that
one of the Granberys could find
lace or kind word for her, or even
me to make her a visit? Is it not
TRANCE that none of the seven
or the sister, could even
lake her a little short visit; to her
nd her little child. But if they would
ot, is it not stranger still that this
aragon of husband, when he called
see her, did not try to explain it
way? Is it not strange that this de-
tied, loving, self-sacrificing husband
d not take her in his arms, and say,
v dear, am sorry for all this, but
just cannot help it; wait and be
tient, and we will get home of our
IN some day?
But instead, what did he do? The
,st endearing term he ever used, the
ly attention he paid to the child,
8 to say, hello, kid; he never gave
. mother or the child a kind word