The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-06-14

verdict:
We the jury find the defendant
not guilty
If the jury find that the defendant
was insane and, therefore, not guilty
of the crime charged in the Indictment
then the form of your verdict will be:
I'VE, the jury, find the defendant \
not guilty by reason of his insanity"
In either event your verdict, in one
of the forms given above, must be
reduced to writing and signed by one
of your number as foreman.
Argument of Prosecutor Craig
County Attorney Craig delivered the
closing argument for the state Tues
day afternoon. He made mastereul
review of the evidence introduced and
the verdict justifies the conclusion
that his argument was convincing to
the jury.
MIR. Craig called attention to the
Importance of the case and the fact
that jury and attorney should per.
form their conscientious duty. There
YVES llIlS WHSn JllSIS w do uo law
but now all questions were settled IL
! the courts through the machinery of
the law. In this land the people rule
and today the people of Lee county
were trying this man. BY your COM
bined Judgment you could come near
err doing right than any other man
! He did not assume to know from what
4 the evidence showed than did the
jury; he did not want to take from the
defendant any single right. In these
days they heard much Of the miscar-
riage of justice. 1t was the people
you men-who are trying the case
and shall decide whether Justice shall
1 prevail.
| Mr. Craig said he was surprised at
some of the things said by Attorney
Hartzell, who had absolutely failed
to prove some of the things that he
said he would prove. All through the
4 case he pleaded the sympathy act,
4 though he said he would not If he
were a juror to serve without fear
or favor, he believed he would try it
that way. When man pleads for
sympathy that is the plea of a guilty
man; every man that is IN the peni-
Tertiary has father; why not open
the doors of prison and let them all
go. If those things are going to decide
cases We might as well close our courts
houses and penitentiaries and refuse
to punish crime. He never saw man
= charged with crime who did not hide
behind father, or a mother or sis
ter, or a brother This case has
I practically resolved itself iutJ ques-
ton OF the sanity or insanity of the
: accused. 1t is true that the defense
of insanity is viewed with suspicion.
You never saw the defense CT insani-
ty interposed only when 1t was the
I only means of defense; insanity was
the last resort. We have a right to
say this defense is suspicious de
y Tense. We know there are unfortu
l nate people in the world who are he
reft of their reason. Whea mar
comes in with such a pitabiy small
l amount of evidence as in tits case
: the state has right to be suspicious
VI lIe uelenSS. MI Ilcti tES1l Sdlu llS
would prove that the Cook woman
was one going about running homes
but the evidence did not show it. The
trouble in this family began whei
Joe Samuels forgot his vows and raj
away with another woman.
Z Mr. Hartzell says lay aside the fac
that the woman who was killed was
mother. Why should we do that? H,
I would have you lay aside all the fac.
4 that are against him This is on
s of the facts proven in the case. Sl'hi
I case should be tried upon VIVA. is gis
Z en- on the witness stand. Mr. Hart
Z zell says if he has given a reaso nabl
3 reason to follow him that he shoul
2 be followed in the jury room. VIVA
y evidence has he presented that Sam
q uels is an insane man. The evidenc
3 shows he got drunk, had to be take
y home and ran away with q woman t
Z Kansas City If YOU believe wha
Y much attention to his fatner and SIS
y ter that he had no time TO visit hi
u wife and children
"a Mr.. Craig reviewed certain POI
II tons of the evidence which he sal
q did not indicate insanity on the PAL
of the defendant
Y Mr. Craig claimed there was nothin
Il to show that the fall from a scaffol
q was occasioned by fit of epilepsy.
Il Mr.. Craig referred to the testimon
u of DR. Coffey. who based his opinio
u on the statement of Joe Samuels tha