The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1912-08-17
DISTRICT ATTORNEY FRE0ER.
,cks MAKES TIE FINAL,
CLOSING ARGUMENT.
ASKS FOR CONVICTION
"Yeu Can't Make Any Mistake II You
Find Clarence 3. Darrow Guilty"
Says the Prosseuter-Pisads to
Jurymen Not 70 Permit Personal
Sympathy Enter Into the Decision.

Los Angeles, Aug. 16.-The case OF
Clarence S.<Darrow, charged with Jury
bribery, will not go 10 the jury until
tomorrow morning. District Attorney
Ffedericks did not conclude his final
argument for the prosecution until
l:lo this afternoon and Judge Hutton
announced that because OF the late
mss Of the hour ne would not deliver
his instructions to the jury until to-
morrow
District Attorney Fredericks closed
his argument. which had extended
through a day and half. by urging
tho jurors to convict the Chicago
lawyer, to set aside their sympathy
for him and. by finding him guilty.
put an end forever to the corruption
o. juries.
III by reason Of his age" he said.
''or for any otner reason you think he
- entitled to consideration, or
Clemency, let the court extend It.
Can Make No Mistake.
Gentlemen. leave It with you and
your God. You can't make any mis-
take n you find Clarence S. Darrow
guilty"
In the final summing up of the
evidence Captain Fredcricks read n list
of 22 alleged crimes which he said had
been committed by Darrow In his de-
Tense Of the Mcnamara case.
These included the telephone warn
ing 10 several Jurors considered hostile
10 the defense and the procuring of
$4,000 in currency from San Fran
cisco bank tor alleged corruption pur-
poses. =.
The chief prosecutor declared that If
Darrow was not convicted, jury bribing
would be made safe forever. No jury.
he said. could ever get stronger or
clearer case than that which had been
presented In this instance Speaking
of the manner In which Darrow's clos
ing plea had affected the jury. Cap
tain Fredericks called upon the Jurors
to be strong men, "in the name of the
state and In the name Of decency."
George Washington wept when he
signed the death warrant Of Major
Andre. You men must do your sworn
duty even though II affects you like
wise"
The prosecutor was interrupted fire.
quently by attorneys for the defense
or the defendant himself, who COM
plained that he either misread the evil
dence to the jury or made statements
outside the evidence. Fredericks de-
clared the attorneys were "badgering'
him because they did not want the
Jury to hear what he had TO say, and
asked the court to silence them.
Much time was devoted to the Oft
discussed peace negotiations In the
Mcnamara case. the speaker declaring
on one occasion that had George
Lockwood accepted the bribe Offered
him instead OF reporting 1t to the dis
trict attorney there never would have
been settlement. as the defense
would then have had two men on the
jury.
Tho testimony of defense witnesses
that both of the McNamaras were
willing to plead guilty week before
the elimination of the trial was de-
nounced as absurd.
",They were willing to let the poo
wretch, j. b. Mcnamara, go to tn
gallows II necessary" said Fredericks
but they did not want to throw Il
J u. McNamara because that wou
have meant the throwing In of unio
labor and they did not want to thro,
organized labor to the wolves, as the
have termed IT.
The entire negotiations for tn
compromise pleas, according to tn
district attorney, were merely
scheme of quitting to sleep" tn
authorities while the friends OF tn
McNamaras got whom they wante
on the jury"