The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-11-14
I6S1ERLY SUMMING up Of
entire CASE AGAINST SULLIVAN

Because 81 the clear and master
" way In which Attorney Frank c.
No6ertson summed up the entire
case against John r. Sullivan, The
Press believes the public would be
Interested sufficiently to read the
entire argument made before the
city council Saturday night. The
address 10 too long for newspaper
publication In one Issue, although
Mr.. Robertson delivered Il In IS
minutes. The first part follows, and
Il will be continued in tomorrow's
Press:
Gentlemen of the City Council:
will but briefly review the facts
in this case, because of the fact
that you gentlemen are used to
dealing with important matters,
and probably understand better
than the force of all of this testi-
mony that has been heard by you
with such patience. In the first
place, the members of the city
council, in one of the most impor-
tant municipal hearings that has
ever taken place in the west, have
each day listened to the details of
testimony of the witnesses, one
after the other, in support of these
charges. It is useless and frivolous
to say that man acting as chief
of police, in full charge of the
safety of the city, in full charge of
the moral welfare of the commun-
ity, in full charge of the suppress
sion of vice and crime, when he be-
: comes derelict in his duty, may not
be tried by a tribunal which under
the charter is authorized to remove
him. Now, we will admit, for the
purpose of this argument, that John
T. Sullivan is here for the purpose
of being dealt with according to the
will of this council. The testimony
in this case has been somewhat
prolix, but it was necessarily SO.
On the head of this unfortunate
girl, erring though she may be, l
am willing for the mantel of char
ity to fall, because it is not right
that the unfortunate should be op-
pressed, even by accusations of
acrimony. This girl, no matter
what her past life may have been,
SO far as this testimony was con-
cerned, came into the city of Spo-
kane, where the maternity of the
child was unknown, and where she
could have been a ladylike and re-
spectacle girl. But into her path
and before her came a minion of
the law, dressed in the uniform and
wearing the brass buttons of a po-
liceman, leaving the beat where he
had been assigned to perform duty,
to meet, night after night, this girl,
until he and she, according to this
testimony, for the period of nine
and more days, occupied together
in improper relations, room. This
matter was brought to the atten-
ton of John T. Sullivan by Captain
Clark, by Mrs. Elliott, by Mr.. FL
lott; and the plainest obligation on
his part was to go out there and
determine those facts for himself,
and / attribute to these men the
part of running this unfortunate girl
and his unhappy old man and old
lady, who in their closing days
hoped to lead the girl along the
paths of purity and goodly life.
At this time. we refer to the tes-
timony of Judge Mann. He made
a full and careful examination of
all of the facts. He came to the
conclusion that there was no wrong
between that girl and old Mr.. FL
lott. And time went by criminal
n1 In
child had been murdered. Glider,