The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1908-09-04

: Of Mrs Long while she was prostrat
sick IN the bed
Mr.. VOORHEES, rfdicu1ed the idea tina
Washington Longs being found SIT
ting in Mrs. Granbery's room BY n,
IRE was a suspicious circumstance
He described the close proximity o
Mrs. Longs and Mrs. Cranberry
room. This and one other similai
circumstance was all the defendan
says he ever saw. Would this have
aroused the suspicion Of any reason
able man? There was absolutely moth,
ing in this conduct, said Mr.. VOORHEES,,
TO have cast the slightest aspersion
on Mrs. Granbery's character If this
man had been suspicious Of his wife
he would have spoken to Long or his
mother.
Mr.. VOORHEES, caustically referred to
Granbery's excuse for not telling
Long to stay out of his room For
twenty days this defendant says he
suspected the relations between his
wife and young Long; he allowed this
to go on, both of them remaining in
the same house and yet not one word
did CRANBERRY ever say to Mrs. Long
or Washington.
Mr. VOORHEES,, commenting on the
testimony, called attention to the fact
tbat fba 6rot sto1l-v Iofonla.4 lo.,l
of, was just the talk he was seeking.
He got it, said the speaker, from his
friend and cousin and tale-toter, Har- |
ry Harlan, who said, Il don't know
what you think about it, but it don't |
look right to me- to see a married |
woman running the streets with a
boy" IT, said Mr.. VOORHEES,, "this
defendant had slapped that little up
start in the face, and then stopped his
own suspicious prying into his wife's
every moment, there would never
have been another word said reflect
ing upon the character of his WIFE
Why, If he was a man of courage and
honor, did he not resent this insult to
his wife? But instead of resenting it;
instead of putting a stop to it, he ]
began to help circulate and agitate
by going to others to know If they
could give him any talk that would
reflect in any way upon his wife, He
was not willing to take the honest,
straightforward, indignant denial of
his wife when he had brutally ac-
,used her of infidelity, and had defied
him to cite a single instance; he was
not willing to accept the reasonable,
sensible and truthful explanations
made him by Mrs. Long, whose testi-
nony stands before the jury unim-
)eached and unimpeachable; he was
lot willing to accept any reasonable
statement or explanation that would
lcquit his wife of any wrong doing,
tut he preferred to take niger talk,
md send out other emissaries and
employ detectives to dig up every bit
If scandal they could hear and keep
he talk a-going. 1t was the talk he
it was this scheme he was
in order that when he Il
lied his bill for divorce, as was his u
purpose, or If he murdered the boy u
Vho had driven him fron@ the very
resence of his wife, rather than to
tand and hear him curse and abuse Il
er; it was to prepare this scheme :"
hat he was hunting up all the talk L
e could possibly rake up, to fan his ~
ealous rage and produce this brain ~
torn the learned experts from Nash y
lille tell you about IL
"The defendant, gentlemen, tefrs az
GU what the negro Annie said; but re
e stopped there and did not tell you 10
hat Mrs. Long said, and how she ex- 10
lained and contradicted what the ne q
70 said; he did not want you to a.
now that; he preferred for you to
elieve what the negro said, rather ~
ian for you to hear and to know and g
haI;ava ha,;ono 10, A. haI,o, du
Dell0FS, DIS DSllSf0 you 10 DelleF0p
hat a respectable, pure and good ~
like Mrs. Long would have to ~
" about it. When he told you what "
nnie said, why did he not tell you u
wv Mrs. Long denied, explained and nc
the negro. No, gentle ue
en-, that was not the kind of talk he
anted. But, he did not even dare to Sp
ing the negro herself here; or the "
her negro Sallie; he was afraid to =
TX them upon the witness stand;
was afraid they would not say what
and his emissaries and detectives
d sworn they had said. Would you