Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1912-08-16
TRIAL NEARLY Completed
DISTRICT ATTORNEY FREDiGR-
ICKs WILL COMPLETE AR
GUMINTS TODAY.
A VERY REMARKABLE PLEA
Darrow Declared lie Only Did His
Duty As lie saw II In the Me-
Namara Case.

LOS ANGELES. Cal. Ang. l5.--
Two word portraits OF Clarence =.
Darrow, wholly different, were held
before the jury IN the barrow brib-
cry trial today. The first, by Oar
row, himself at the close of a re-
markable plea In his own behalf,
painted him as a life long friend OF
tho poor and oppressed, read to sac
riflco himself to better their coi<l-
tion. Tho other drawn at the begin
ming of tho final argument by Dis
trict Attorney John ID. Fredericks.
presented DarrOw as an enemy Of so
cioty, "inciting class hatred and shed
ding maudlin tears Of sympathy for
murderers and dynamiters."
Tho prosecutor win consume all of
tomorrow In concluding. Hundreds
thronged the court room at the ar
ternoon session to hear Mr.. Freder-
icks make the closing argument Tor
tho prosecution in the trial which be-
gan its fourth month today. lie said
he would not attempt to compete in
oratory with Darrow, whose persu-
asiye eloquenye and pathetic pleas
had caused jury court officials ana
spectators to weep.
you have listened" said Freder-
icks, to one OF the most marvellous
addresses or orations ever delivered
in any court room when YOU heard
Mr.. barrow. But that only reflects
upon the ability of the man and has
mighty little to do with his guilt or
innocence His story teaches US that
the most brainy men have gone
wrong. This defendants unfortunate
predicament Is the result Of those
peculiar philosophical views which
go to make up his very nature His
inslduous hand entered into bribery
from the very beginning of the Nc
Namara case; bribery is in his very
nature. He had the idea that there
was no integrity that could not be
bought"
F'rederlcks declared that no ono
hut Darrow could have provided tho
brIbe money. Scouting the theory
that the Times dynamiters did not in
tend to do murder, he quoted from a
abatement said TO have been made by
lanes II. Mcnamara in which he was
reported to have expressed regret that
he did not kill Harry Chandler, the
general manager of the Times.
Referring to John II. Harrington,
the prosecutor said the actions OF
Darrow's former employe might not
have been ethical. but they savored
of honesty.
81 believe Harrington's duty to the
state" he said, "to have been fully as
great as the concealment Of the Grim
inaI acts of his frie<ls." Fredericks
confined himself principally to tho
evidence many extracts of which he
read TO the Jury.
The Mcnamara case figured strong
" IN the closing argument of Dar-
row
"I know" he said. "I could have
fried that case and a large number
Of people of America would have be-
I,eved honestly If these men had been
banqed that thew were guiltless. And
7 conld have saved myself had | done
! n and could have made money.
Lro,, 70 vou had hanged those men
and other men vou would not have
changed the opinion of hardly a man
in America except to settle in tho
hearts of a great many Of mon a ha-
trad so deep. so profound, that it
would never die away"
go n would have ended and what
could have been the result? Men
would have taken their lives in their
hands TO avenge a wrong of their
class"