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

he says. The only man who denies
. is moulding in the grave Now. her,
you have a pure and upright wife;
because a drunken boy says some
thing. calling no names, you say he
meant your wife Poor washington
Long, brought here and filled with
whiskey and pumped by a paid
detective. We all have been nine
teen years old and you all know how
careless we are in our remarks when
we are nineteen.
Tom Fetter is a sleuth too, sent out
by the defendant to find out about his
wife. If ever / want to kill a man,
and such evidence as that will free
me, think l can find a few people
that will get little evidence such as
that and swear to it on the stand.
And l can get G. T. Hughes and
Walter Stokes to weep and plead for
me, and l or any other man can kill
Yhomsoever we please and go Scott
free if you, gentlemen, set the pre-
cedent by letting this defendant go
unwhipped of justice. Defendant
didn't trace these reports. Some
one told him that a little niger
nurse told her that some one else
told her that some one saw some
thing on the piano STOOL They take |
all sorts of turns and twists. turn !
loose here and grab there and sub
stantiate nothing and then ask twelve
men to free you on such evidence"
The speaker, continued in scath-
ing terms to score the plans followed
by the detective and the use of this
hearsay evidence, which IN many In
stances he said. was never traced
down.
Now gentlemen, is there in all this
evidence anything TO give this defen-
dant motive for his deed?
Now come down to the brain
storm. / never heard of a man hav.
Ing brain storm without having a
pistol in his pocket. How about these
experts anyway. Were they honest,
DR. if they were honest, were they
capable? Look at what DR.. Glenn
says about David and Job. Can {
you credit man who testified about |
.hese Biblical characters like he did?
Look at the hypothetical question.
Vas it fair? Didn't they put in facts ?
hat were not proven and didn't they G
cave out other essential points? They g
lidn't put in the question that defen- q
liant said he shot him nine times. e
they knew no insane man would be q
BILE to state exactly the number of |
hots he had fired. / wonder what r.
hose doctors would have said if they e
ad had true statement of the case q
4 the question. My conscience may
e black, but may God strike me
cad if ever try to convict man in y
lese courts by hired testimony and 9;
aid witnesses. DR.. Padgett is a B
onder, but he showed on this stand Ell
lat he was hired witness Let man
1t me in the face and it will be IT. r
for me to keep from hitting i
m, but I'll know it was wrong. If
man should spit in my face, I'd
loot him if I had pistol, but
ould know that it was wrong. Every
ct shows that Harry CRANBERRY knew =
hat he was doing Harry himself
lis in his testimony OF seeing and
lowing people in that pool room.
Ike Alexander, the defendants own
Itness swears, and | believe every 81
ord he said and know he would not ~
rear falsely about any material or h'
portant thing; and he says that =
9 defendant when he entered the -
oil room appeared calm, except 81
Id look in his eyes, and that this p
PENDANT was careful not to shoot 'u'
ybody but Washington Long. If he On
IS calm and cool and careful was .ns
crazy? For God sake, gem -.
men, don't clear him on the
FUNDS that he was crazy, for he
s not crazy. He knows he was not III
zy and you know it. First he says
ng separated him from his wife, and
has been shown that he separated
lself from his wife. Then the al
ed slanderous statements are told
and then the crazy plea" ~
They have failed on the brain ex- s'i'
sion, and now the unwritten law. pid
m not saying what would do IL l oei
nd a-man embracing my wife Il Guy
tly. But L would do, this, am noi
e. l would have a brain explosion ins
! lawyer got UP and slandered my sur
?, after had denied on the stand aug
| knew. of any immoral conduct
her part. and had testified that / !
eyed in her innocence. There nc. :"
IN unwriftnn law In thfa oaaa -