The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-08-15

Il feel" 20 the man from 0teele's;
said, like any other goo6 citizen does.
feel that some OF these men are,
guilty. We don't know which ones, OF
course. We have formed this opinion,
By general report from the newspa-.
pers. Now. with that feeling 1t would,
take some very positive evidence to
make me think that these men were
not guilty II I should acquif them.
But should act entirely upon thestes-
timony."
.But" said the defense. you say
that 1t would take positive, evidenre OF
their innocence before you could .con-,
sent to return them not guilty."
Eyes, should want some strong evil
dence."
well, II the strong evidence ofetheir
Innocence was not introduced. then
you want to convict themY'
Certainly"
Then the Judge took him In hand.
and after q time his honor got him to
say:
II believe could Try the case onsths
evidence alone fairly"
And % they took him, and they took
ne IN the same way when it came sny
turn.
This Is scarcely the place to tellAthe
story Of that famous trial. It has kept
me too long as 1t Is. The trial ofAthe
anarchists was an odd accident insmy
life, however, which. coming as it'did
when I had my foot placed on the dad
der Of fortune. had something to do
with making me what am today. Up
to this time had never reflected much
upon the deeper things of life. The
word seemed good to me-a stout.
hearty place to fight in. 1 had made
money in the scheme Of things as they
are, and I found 1t good. I wanted to,
make some more money, and had lit
tic patience with the kickeEs who tried
to upset the machine. But I had not
reasoned It out There In the court,
room and later shut up In the jury
quarters day after day. cut or FROM
my usual habits. thought over some,
Of the real questions of our life and,
made for myself kind OF philosophy.
Today. after the lapse of eighteen
years, Gun SEQ 1t all as saw 1t then
the small. dirty courtroom. the cold.
precise face Of the Judge. the faces OF
the eight men whom the police mad
ferreted out OF their holes for No to
try. There wasn't much dignity in the
performance. Some pretty. fashionably
dressed girls sat up behind the judge.
almost touching elbows with his honor.
They came there as though to play.
whispering and eating candy. There
was the wrangling among the lawyers.
snarling back and forth to show their
earnestness. But my eyes came back
oftenest to the faces Of those eight
men for whose lives the game was be-
ing played. Two were stupid. three
were shifty. but the other three had an
honest glow. II kind Of wild enthusi-
asm. that came with their foreign
blood maybe. They We're dreamers of
wild dreams. bu. no thugs.
From the stast it seemed plain that
the state could not show who threw
that fatal bomb nor who made it nor
anything about> 1t. The best the state
could do would, be to prove conspiracy,
The only connection the lawyers could
establish between those eight men and
the mischief OF that night was \ lot OF
loose TAX His honor made the law
afterward he boosted OF it-as he went
along. He showed us what seditior
was. and that was all we needed to
know. Then we could administer the
lesson. Now that eighteen years have
passed that looks to me like mighty
DANGEROUS law. Then T was quick
enough to acceptit.
When we filed into the courtroom
the last morning TO listen to the.judge's
charge. the farst face Esaw was that Of
Hillary Cox. A big red scar branching
Ike q spiders web disfguredsher righ
cheek. It drew my eyestright'to her a
once. All her color and the plump
pretty look Of health had gone To-
good. She looked old and sour ant
excited. And wished sheshadn't com,
there. Il seemed as though she wa.
wait,ng for her revenge for the loss O.
her youth and good looks. She wa!
counting on me to give 1t to her. Et
eat beside her. holding her hand In /,
protecting way He was an honest
right feeling sort Of fellow. and
guessed that her loss of good, look
woald make no difference in his mar
rying her
Near the district attorney sat MI
Orouue> He listened to the judge
charge very closely. nodding his hea,
~ his honor made his points and ram
med conviction into US.
I'm behalf OF soeisty"- His phras
ran in my head all through the trial
That was the point Of 1t ALA strue
Gle between sensible folks who wen
about their business and tried to &c
Ill there was In 1t. like myself. an
some scum from Europe who Aidn'
like the way things are handed out Il
this world. We must hang these rel
els Tor an example to all men. To b
SUR the Do'icn had killed a score o