The Dickinson press., 1910-04-16

this claimant is really Daniel Blake
Russell.
Poor old simple William. he was as
plastic as clay in tie hands of the
nloulder. he is as plastic as old Dan
Russell in the hands Of Horace Whit
more when he was buncoed out there in
the vest
Referring to the letter which Dan sent
from the Dickinson hospital when he
though he was dying, Simpson charged
that his brother William never received
it. He charged that Upton had forged
Williams name to postoffice order
for Williams mail; that Sarah Almy
lad part in it.
Perhaps poor William did not re-
ceive these letters and did not know
that his brother was seriously ill, but
Upton and the others did.
Turning next to Upton's partner, John
J. Berry. Simpson charged that he had
submitted the exhibits in this case to
experts alone before the case opened.
fearful that forgery be discovered and
it must have been the result of guilty
conscience criminals sometimes be-
come criminals through necessity. AS
some of these men who have been hand
ling the estate without giving bonds,
had misappropriated and diverted the
money for unlawful purposes, wouldn't
there be necessity to commit crime to
hide crime.
An attempt at applause swept through
the court room at this implied charge
and the court officers had hard time to
restrain the women of Melrose who
crowded the court room.
Simpson today lashed Theodore Hayes,
a neiehborine ranchman of Dams, who
testified against him.
Then Simpson referred to evidence by
butable witnesses that the real Jim
Rousseau has lost part of one ear in
a row with an Indian squaw in the
Adirondacks. lie pointed TO evidence
of the doctor who attended him and of
the man who saw the deed.
This evidence has never been dis
puted in these long months. Then it
must follow that Dan Russell, no mat
ter who he may be, is not Jim Rous-
seau.
! Before leaving the Rousseau bunch. -"
as he called them, Simpson laid stress
on the lock of hair Dan received from
his mother and which Sarah Rousseau
claimed she sent her son. Simpson
charged that the Pinkertons' ''school
for crime had kept her busily engaged
in writing the words, ''your mother, ,"
which appeared on the paper accompany
ing the hair He pointed out that when
she appeared next in court she was able
to write ''your mother. but failed
miserably to write your father" at
the words on another paper which Simp-
son had carefully kept back from the
Pinkerton 8 view.
Simpson continued all day to flay
Doctors French and Davenport. the
handwriting experts for respondents,
declaring their microscopes were of the
vintage of century ago and with scorn
showing that they were unable to detect
erasures and foreeries that stood out
where all may. see. He called the
Rcusseaus the most disreputable scum
of the universe. brought together to
cheat Dan Russell.
Thousands fiocked 10 the court house
today to see Dan Russell and the little
senator whose address to the court has
stirred the entire east. Judge Chamber
lain of Plymouth county, came to Cam
bridge to sit with Judge Lawton today
10 hear his western Oratory.
BOSTON, APRIL 8.
Il would scorn to ask Mrs. Russell
or any other decent woman to refute
the testimony of a thing like Jospehine
Bennett, declared Senator Simpson in
continuing his argument today.
''Mr. Mason has suggested that if
had wished TO refute the Bennett woman
l should have put Dams wife on the
stand. 1t is magnificent tribute to the
constancy of a woman that the ini-
quitous acts of respondents; the arrows
of slander that the tongues Of their
witnesses have waeged were not sufi-
cient to drive that woman from her
husband 8 side. = &
Simpson went the limit this morning
in his denunciation of respondents.
Eugene Upton, whom he roasted yester-
day, appeared in court together with
William c. Russell, the recluse. During
a heated moment in his argument. Simp-
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