The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1912-08-16
ACCUSED ATTORNEY MOVES
EVERYBODY, INCLUDING HIM.
sELF, TO TEARS At END
APPEALS FOR SYMPATHY
Testimony es the Prosecutions Wit.
nessss 10 Compared With That Of
the Dsssnss In Every Ostail-Dis.
triot Attorney Frsdsrieks Then
Opens the Final Closing Argument.

Los Angeles, Aug. 15.S-Two word
portraits OF Clarence s. Darrow. wholly
different, were held before the jury
today In the Darrow bribery trial.
The first, by Darrow himself at the
close OF remarkable plea In his own
behalf. painted him rs the lifelong
friend OF the poor and oppressed
ready to sacrifice himself TO better
ta,eir condition. The other, drawn at
the beginning OF the final argument
by District Attorney John d. Fred.
ericks. presented Darrow as an enemy
Of society, melting class hatred. and
shedding maudlln tears of sympathy
for murderers and dynamiters." Tho
prosecutor will consume all OF to-
morrow In concluding.
Still under the spell of the defend
ants cloqucnce, hundreds thronged the
courtroom at the afternoon session to
hear Captain Fredericks make the
closing argument for the prosecution
IN the trial which began It's fourth
month today. He said he would not
attempt to compete with the oratory of
and pathetic plea had caused jury,
Souv oiiNiaiS anu SpetihtoTS 10 weep.
Marvellous Address.
"You have listened" said Mr.. Fred
ericks. Ito one of the most marvellous
addresses or orations ever delivered
In any courtroom when you heard Mr.
Darrow. But that only reflects upon
the ability of the man and has mighty
little to do with his guilt or innocence.
History teaches US that the most
brainy men have gone wrong. This
defendants unfortunate predicament Is
the result of those peculiar philo-
sophical views which go to make up
his nature. His indisious hand en-
tered into bribery from the very be-
ginning of the Mcnamara case;
bribery Is In his very nature. He had
the idea that there was no integrity
that could not be bought"
After reciting the substance OF the
principal evidence introduced by the
state, Fredericks declared that no one
but Darrow could have been the man
who provided the bribe money. He
secuted the theory that the Times
dynamiters did not intend to do mur-
der. by quoting from statement said
10 have been made by J. Il. Mcnamara
In which he was reported to have ex-
pressed regret that he did not kill
Harry Chandler. the general manager
of the Times. He lauded w. J. Burns
as having done more In the last 10
years to uphold the cause of civic
righteousness. civic decency and civic
honesty than any other man In
America
A. to Harrington.
Referring to John r. Harrington, the
prosecutor said the actions of Dar-
rows former employees might not have
been ethical but they savored of hon
esty. Il believe Harrington's duty to
the state" he said. ito have been fully
as great as the eoncealment of the
Thought. however, that Harrington
should have left Darrow's home before
he turned from him.
Captain Fredericks for the most part
kept close to the evidence, many ex-
tracts of which he read to the jury.
The McNamara case figured strongly
In the closing argument OF Darrow.
II KNOW" he said. II could have
tried that case ano a large number
OF people Of America would have be-
lieved honestly. II these men had been
hanged, that they were guiltless.
know 1t and you know It, And |
could have saved myself had done IT.
and could have made money. know
II you had hanged those mon and other
men, you would not have changed the
opinion OF hardly a man In America,
except TO settle In the hearts of great