The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-16
REMARKABLEP[EA MADE BY DARROW Accused Man Pleads in Self
 Defense COURT ROOM IN TEARS Fredericks Begins Final Argument in the Famous Trial and Hopes
 to Conclude the Case
 Today
COURT ROOM IN TEARS

Los Angeles, August Is. Two word DOT traits of Clarence s. Darrow wholly diff ferent were held before the jury in the Darrow bribery trial today. The first. by Darrow himself st the close of a re- markable plea in his own behalf, painted him as the lifelong friend of the poor and oppressed, ready to sacrifice himself to better their condition. The other. drawn at the beginning of the final argu- menc by District Attorney John D. Fred ericks. presented Darrow as an enemy of society melting class hatred and sbed- ding maudlin tears of sympathy for mur- 6erers and dynamiters.
 The prosecutor will consume all of to- morrow in concluding. Hundreds thronged the court room at the afternoon session to hear Captain yredert6s make the closing argument for the prosecution in the trial which began its fourth month today. He said he would not attempt to compete in oratory V lth Darrow whose persuasive eloquence and pathetic pleas had caused jury, court officials and spec tators to weep.
 Fredericks Lauds the Orat0ry
 
 "Yon have listened" said Fredericks, or orations ever delivered in any court room when you heard MT. Darrow. But that only reflects upon the ability of the man and has mighty lttle to 1o with his guilt or innocence. His story teaches us that the most brainy men have gone wrong. This defendants unfortunate pre- ,tfs, fa ha <,f philosophical views which go 10 make up his very nature His insiduous hand en- tered into bribery from the very begin ming of the MeNamara case. bribery is in his very nature He had the idea that there was no integrity that could not be bought
 Fredericks declared no one hut Darrow could have provided the bribe money Scouting the theory that the Times dyna- miters did not intend to do murder, he quoted from a statement said to nave he was reported to lave expressed re- eret that he did not SjIl Harry Chandler, the general manager of the Times.
 Says Harrington Was Honest
 Referring to John R. Harrington. the prosecutor said the actions of Darrow's former empoye might not have been flnlCtll put they SdNpftu UT D9nF'>t1.
 'I believe Harrineton's duty to the state. he said. "to have been fully as great as the concealment of the criminal octs of his friends
 Frederici<s confined himself principally to the evidence, many extracts of which he read to the jury.
 The McNamara case figured strongly in the closing argument of Dairow.
 ''I know" he said. "I could have tried that case and large number of people of America would have believed honest ly if these men had been hanged. that they were guiltless. And I could have saved myself had done it. and could have made money. I know if you had hanged those men and other men- you would not have changed the opinion of hardly man in America. except to set tie in the bearts of a great mass of men hatred 90 deep so profound that 1t would never die away. So 1t would have ended and what could have been the result Men would have taken their lives in their hands to avenge a wrong to their class.
 Darrow's Responsibility
 rAnd took the responsibility, gem tlenlen. Maybe l did wrong. took it and the matter was eisposed of and the question set at rest Here and there act. although I did not deserve the praise. followed the law of my being that is all. But where I got ore word of praise I got words of blame, a .thous- and words of blame, and I stood under that for year.
 This trial has helped to clear 1t up. It will be cleared up if not in time for me to profit by it, in time for my des- cendants to know it. Sometime we will know the truth, but have gone on my
 
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