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


5 Harlan did not know anything AZ hrst
l he had not heard anything: but b
i had his own ideas about things. He
! is a hne moralist. ms Harry Harlan
; Is His visit TO Columbia and where
! he spent the night. shows how com
! petent he is 10 pass upon the conduct
: OF others. Especially 70 Judge the
} motives Of ladies. and the propriety
Of their department. A fine specimen
is this Harry J. Harlan, 70 criticise a
pVre. innocent. sweet woman. as this
defendants wife was and is. And If
the defendant himself was as pure as
his wife is, he would go sweeping
through the gates Of glory. Nice men
to judge and criticise a lady; pure.
chaste lady, as defendants wife was
A lady against whom there was no
breath of scandal ever raised until
her husband and his cousin Harry
began TO discuss her conduct. 1t was
this defendant who brought all this
talk about his wife; it was he who
branded her and cast reproach upon
her name and drought shame and
disgrace upon his own children. You
are the only witness who have ac-
cused her of wrong doing; you are
the only witness in this record who
reflected upon the virtue ana the chas-
tity of your pure, brave and devoted
wife.
"Ah, gentlemen: he has sent her
away stamped with everlasting dis
grace and if you have tears TO shed,
place them with her-with the heart
broken little wife who weeps alone
with her neglected and deserted babes
in the black jacks around Centreville.
But there will be a reckoning bye and
bye; there will come time when
Katie May will appear before the
court of God and be allowed to tes-
tify of the injustice and the cruelty !
and the insults which have been |
heaped upon her, and she will get JUS
tice there; and the murderer will
stand there too, uncovered In the
presence of Almighty God and all will
be revealed and he too will have to
listen to the verdict of just and all
powerful God. The counsel for the
defense has told you in eloquent
terms of the command of God given
on Mt. Sinai, but a thousand years
before that time God gave another
command, one of the first after, the
earth was peopled, and He said then
"A man shall leave father and mother
and cleave to his wife, for they are of
one flesh How has the defendant
before you obeyed this command; how
has he treated this wife, God says, is
one flesh with him? AS you look back
over the testimony in this case you
see cruelty, neglect and abandonment,
followed by an effort to drag down
her good name That is your answer
to this one of Gods first Commands"
"Mr. Hughes has told you of what
a typical Southern gentleman is, a
term gathered from some of the st.
Louis testimony. A typical Southern
gentleman, Does a gentleman of our
Southland go around nosing out mig
ger news against the character of his
wife? Does man of that charac-
ter go to Chas Burnes and Tom Fet-
.er and Harry Harlan and Dr. Lene- .
han and Mrs. Frierson and say Have ,
you heard anything more against my ,
yife?' None of these parties went to
Cranberry. He sought them all out
Ind made his inquiries. He is the man
Who stirred up and circulated all of .
his malice. He made many Of these !
parties tell much against their will ;,
md others, escaped him almost entire
y. He tells you gentlemen that .
Burns, Fetter,, Lenehan and others ,
old him certain things and he had
hem here and placed them on the
tand to substantiate his statements. :.
lie testified also that Mrs. Frierson !.
DID him another thing, more impor. "
ant than all of these others and told :,
just before the killing when 1t
ould have great effect on his mind.
Irs Frierson was summoned and :.
worn and placed under the rule and :,
as at all times within the jurisdic- :,
on of the Court to testify to what :,
lie said. Did the defendant have :,
lis almost mother and sister and =,
usin and friend on the stand to tell
~ whether or not she said those i,
ings2 He did not, he did not dare -
(; and what are we to conclude g.
om this? There are only two al =.
rnatives, gentlemen. Either Mrs.
ierson did not say these things
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