The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-01-23
John F. Robbins Makes E|o-
quent Argument for Jones
And Tells of the Curse of
Old "Demon Rum"
WITNESSES FOR STATE
ARE RAKED OVER GOALS
Instructions to Jury Given by
The Court Included Ten
Typewriter Pages Simi-
lar to First Ones,

At three o'clock this afternoon the
jury in the case of the state VS.. DR..
Arthur Jones of Whitewater had not
reached an agreement. 1t was pre-
dicted about the court house that a
disagreement will be the final result.
DIR. Joneus is charged with violating
the liquor laws of the state of Indiana
under what is known as the blind
tiger" section. The case has been on
trial since Wednesday and has created
considerable interest. The crowd in
the court room this morning complete
ly filled it.
Get Case This Morning.
The jury was given the case at
about II o'clock following the argu-
ment of Wilfred Jessup former prose-
cutting attorney. who has assisted
Prosecutor Ladd. Jessup made strong
presentation of the claims of the state
and endeavored to induce the Jury to
believe that the tate had proved Jones
guilty as charged in the affidavit. He
claimed the witnesses the state offer
ed had not been proved liars. as
charged by John F. Robbins in argu-
ing for the defense. Jessup made the
assertion that Jones had violated the
statute in all that it meant.
Robbins Argument.
The argument of John F. Robbins
in behalf of Jones was the first thing
presented to the jury this morning.
He took particular pains to refer to
the temperance cause and it's relations
to the case at bar He declared a
preacher acts beyond his calling if
he comes to such a trial and sits down
and thereby tries to influence a juror
to convict a man charged with crime
but whom the law and evidence shows
is not guilty. The attorney said he
was not upholding the liquor cause
but that in the present instance the
law had not been violated and Dr.
Jones had acted within his rights as
practicing physician and pharmacist.
Whisky is Curse.
Il may be a temperance man, and
perhaps / know too much about whis-
ky. What l do know no matter how
little is sufficient to make me believe
it is the greatest and most monumen-
tai evil, but We are trying this case
on law and evidence and we have
proved to YOU this man is not guilty.
as charged" declared Mr.. Robbins in
frenzy. He put up a strong argu-
ment in behalf of his client and exert
ed himself further than he has in any
case in which he has argued in the
local courts for many months. He
ridiculed and denounced and declared
as absurd the claims of the state re-
garding Jones. as the operator of a
blind tiger"
Refers to Missing Booze.
Robbins made frequent referencesto
the disappe pearance of a portion of the
whisky confiscated after il was placed
in the custody Of the sheriff. Waving
over his head bottle containing
about a quart of whisky. he shouted:
Here's this bottle of whisky. By
their own admissions about two
quarts are missing. That shows to
you more whisky has been taken from
this bottle since brought into the tenn
pie of justice and placed in the hands
of your officers. than they have shown
to you was sold during all the time
DR.. Jones was running what they call
a blind tiger That's the kind of evi-
dence they offer. There's NcManus.
of the police force Now I don't want
to eat him up. but must say he was
mistaken. He brought down this keg
from Whitewater and said there was