The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1910-07-19
lYENS CASE On
IN LOCAL COURT
.MANR GLRNN COUNTY JURORS
GO DOWN FOR
CAUSE.
Father and Son, Surrounded BY
Wives, Daughters and Other Rela-
tiVes, Ready To Answer Murder
charse-Many Additional Jurors
Summoned.


tie city of Jesup on that fateful
twelfth of December, 1908, when the
combined fusilade from the guns of
the two Lyens, snuffed out the life
of NJ. Fleming Smith, the two de-
PENDANTS, father and son, are now for
the third time at the bar of justice
fighting with all the instruments at
their command for their very lives!
Few killings in Georgia have ever
'occasioned such a Storm of public
condemnation as has been the case
with these pitiable prisoners, who
like pariah's were forced away from
their own homes in the search for a
public mind untainted with prejudice
that might deal out justice to them!
But Father time, who heals most
wounds and ripens into emllowness
most of the arts, has not dealt kind
ly with these men around whose
.heads torrent of littler invective
has stormed for well near two long
years. Bent and gaunt with a brow
Wreathed in deep burrows, indicating
sleepless nights and never ending
days of anguish, the once straight
arrowllike sheriff of Wayne county
made picture of misery as he was
arraigned in the Superior court yes
.terday morning. No trace of the one
time bouyant, animated man was left
and from the dropping head to the
iunkept feet, there was only that de-
lection that comes as a toll on those
who traHsgress the supremest law of
God and man! An occasional smile,
as an old friend was greeted, was
only the outward sign that there was
a scintilla of tranquility now left in
that once stole heart and ever and
anon that melted away again in the
froWns and furrows of an unhappy
facet
With the boy, half imbecile as he
Is said to be, it was different. His
incarceration has sereyd to bring cut
the better lines Of his face, the orig
inal hues of deep red, due to the out
door life of the young prisoner, has
given place to natural color he was
in the other trial and attired in a
gray suit of well fitting clothes, he
looked more the part of a country
swain, than of a man who had made
play thing of life and had We'd
with his father in the game of killing
luman beings. But for an express
Sionless face, and an uncanny smile,
from heavy lips adorned with
heavy black mustache, the disorders
said to exist in his mind would not
De apparent. Unlike the grizzled
and bent father there was no ner-
vousness in the lad he talked ami
matedly to his wife during the long
hours of preliminary work of strik-
ing the jury and very often was con-
vulsed in outright laughter, while his
attorneys were busying themselves in
every possible manner to save his
neck from the noose
The scene was one of real anima-
tion, as the Sheriff sounded the gavel
for order, every seat in the spacious
court house was occupied and the
"io'Co "SAC PAoSCu luLO uSe ny JHOS0
unable to secure seats.
The two galaxies of legal lights
were of corse, the next center of at
traction, and like two contending
armies in the drawn field of battle,
these forces clashed in their respec-
tive contentious. There was John
w. Bennett, leading attorney for the
state, careful, slow, but alert as
panther, w. w. Bennett of Baxley,
who plays in similar roll for the
defense, wirery, quick as a flash and
ever watchful of an opportunity to
land, behind these two leaders there
is for the defense J. Il. Cooper of
Macon, noted as a criminal lawyer,
Judge Max Isaac, of this city, bright,
watchful and a student of the law in
these cases where he is employed, D.
M. Parker of BaXley, youthful lCok-
ing though a wheel horse in the Grim
inal practice, J. R. Thomas, of Jesup,
thoughtful, and quiet, but said to be
one of the best cross examining law
yers in the circuit ana L.. l.. Thomas,
of Jesup, who has been in the case