The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1912-08-14
ATTORNEY APPEL, FOR BARROW.
SAYS PROSECUTOR is "LlARr
AND BASE FALslFiER.p
FOR CORRUPTION CHARGE
Statement of Monday by Assistant
District Attorney That the Noted
Case "Reeks With Corruption Is
Taken up~-Tears, Explctives. Ep,.
thets and Obiurgations Features.

Los Angeles. Aug. Summing III
today the evidence adducea by the
state .against Clarence $. Dnrrow,
former attorney OF the convicted dyna-
miters. John j. and James H. Me-
Namara, who Is on trial for alleged
jury hrihing, Earl Rogers chief counsel
for the defendant. told the Jury that
the prosecution Ind failed to connect
barrow with the corruption of Juror
George ", Lockwood through the In
strumcnialiiy Of Bert II. Franklin. the
former detective, who confessed 10
having passed the hrlhc money.
The state only had proved. Rogers
asserted, that Franklin had been In
troducod ns Il spy into the ranks of
tho Mcnamara defense and that any
one Of $4,000 other persons intertesd i'm
tile great war between capital and
labor would have greater interest and
Il more impeliing motive than Darrow
In brihng Juror to acquit the Me-
Namaras lie asserted the state had
not traced the alleged bribn money
farther thun Olaf A. Tyeiimon, n inbnr
leader of san Francisco, and that Dar-
row had been named directly In con-
neetlon with tho alleged brihing OF
Lockwood only by two detectives
Franklin aud Harrington of Chicago
whom he described M the most
precious pair Of seoundrels thai ever
smirchod their souls to betruy q
friend
To get" Darrow.
He also tainted the prosecution for
falling to examine Tyeitmoe after he
! had been called as a witness and then
| added that Harrington had been hired
by Detective Foster OF the National
Erectors' association to "get" Darrow.
Rogers assailcd Assistant District
Attorney w. ]. Ford. who. In the OPEN
ig argument for the state, asserted that
the district attorney would investigate
The entire Darrow case, which Ford
said "reelSed with corruption"
Rogers became 80 bitter at times
that First Assistant District Attorney
Arthur Keecher. and later Ford him.
self. appealed TO Judge Hutton to re-
buka Rogers for atraylng outside tho
issues OF the case. Tho rebnke was
administered.
argument tomorrow and barrow will
close his own defense.
Liar and Falsifier."
Opening the arguments today for the
defense, Attorney Horace H. Appel de-
clnred that the United States prose-
cutting officials In Los Angeles assisted
the county district attorney to intro
duee Bert II. Franklin as a spy In tho
camp Of the defense. Tears, epithets.
objnrgations and bitter excoricntions
pnneiuaied the impassionea address of
Appel 10 the jury and ut ono climax
lie shook his fist In the face of AS
aistant District Attorney Ford, who
! opened For the state yesterday. and
j shouted liar" and base falsifIer."
| Appel asserted that the states case
against barrow rested on the word nf
| Franklin, who was not only detective
= hui a confessed criminal, and other de-
teeiives.
And the uncorroborated testimony
Of detectives aud criminals, you know,
IL Worthless lie added
Appel's attack OH Ford WAS occa-
stoned by the assistant district attor-
hey's statement yesterday that not only
were criminal tactics employed in the
I Mcnamara defense, but that the pres-
/ ent case was reeking with corruption.
Franklin was compared to coyote
/ by Appel, and taking mp Fords nlu-
sions yesterday to Judas and other his
torieai traitors, he declared that
lscarioi was better than Franklin or
John X. Harrington. another principal
witness against Darrow, for Judas was
repentant and hanged himself"
Appel told the jury that Franklin was
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