Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1910-12-16

of 'vindication." Bilbo, the sill
toned blatherskite. responded t
the summons of the State an,
,hied him down to Yazoo City bi
the river side to garner whateve
was coming..to him,
Dulaney, the man upon whom
he had pivoted his swing arount
the circle; the man he had accused
of taking him for a rascal from
reputation and appearances, and
treating him on that basis, was
there waiting and ready.
And Bilbo and the woman Nea
took the stand, twin in every
thing but sex, and neither worthy
of the sex they personated; and
disgorged their holdings on lines
little varying from the tales they
told at Jackson, to a jury COM
posed Of six Vardamanites, four
Percyites and two who bore the
Alexander penant.
Twas said that "He Of old who
sought to rend the mighty oak,
dreamed not of the rebound"
and so it was in this case -Dula-
ney was a mere pawnin the''game;
the whole object and purpose of
his arraignment and persecution
was to fasten constructive guilt
or responsibility therefor upon
the peerless son of a peerless sire,
Leroy Percy.
And the game went on, and the
chief witness was made and
proved a self-accuser; and the
defense called witnesses to prove
him a confirmed taker and seeker
of brides-to prove that he had
gotten money for passing the bill
to create George county; that he
had set the price of $4,000 upon a
contract to pass the Stone county
bill. In the first instance a man,
high in station, put upon the
stand to prove the payment; de-
clined to testify on the ground that
che would criminate HIMSELF and
this was proof even to conviction.
And in the other case the Judge
ruled that the case was excluded
"by Imitation" but in both in
stances Bilbo stood convicted in
the eyes of the Jury and Of the
world as positively as if verdicts
to that effect had been rendered
and recorded.
1t was proven beyond the shadow
of doubt that several bills in the
bundle he produced and swore to
as bride money were issued from
the government plates many days
after he claimed to have received
them from Dulaney,
In the concluding argument the
District Attorney, who had all
along striven hard to protect him,
admitted that he was perjured
wretch, and while claiming that he
had been bribed by Dulaney, took
the position that the bride was
genuine and not in the detective
order; that he had intended to keep
the money but was baked by his
own imprudent talk and took COW
er under the detective mask that
he had spent portion of the bride
in debauchery in New Orleans and
replaced it with bills of recent is.
sue.
The jury only tarried long enough
in their chamber to write the yer.
dict of aoquittal that branded the
accuser as a criminal, and every
man on the jury signed it.
The friends of Bilbo (the basest
men have honest friends) claimed
that he should have been permit
ted to prove his character by
witnesses. The attorneys for the
State were too wise for that. They
knew that in rebuttal the defense
had a terrible array, including pho
tographic groups, taken by the
consent of the shameless accuser in
New Orleans, showing him among
his ribald female friends, and H.
Illustrative of the orgies upon which
he expended what the district at
torney claimed was the price he
sold for.
Another tour of the State on a
of Hvindication' is now