Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1912-08-16

Hall Of Records, Los Angeles, Cal,
Aug. 16. - Before night the twelve
good men and true" who have been
sitting in judgment on Clarence s.
Darrow the noted lawyer, humanita-
Tian and philosopher, on charge Of
jury bribery, will be locked up and
deliberating on their verdict Upon
the result Of their deliberation the fu-
ture of Darrow hangs, whether he will
be vindicated and his name cleared or
face term Of from one to ten years
in state prison.
District Attorney Frederlcks has the
whole afternoon for argument. His
time is up at o'clock. Judge Hutton
stated that as soon as the district
attorney has finished he would at once
charge the jury and place the case in
their hands
Trying to show, as he expressed 1t,
"a chain of crime perpetrated by Clar-
eace Darrow, withoot using cAe word
of testimony Of Bert H, Franklin"
T'redercl1s addressed the jury this
morning His argument was made al
most coldly, without emotion or en-
belishment.
Fredericks' Argument.
at is utter folly, gentlemen" began
District Attorney John D.. Fredericks,
in resuming today his argument the
last for the state, in the Darrow brib-
cry trial. ut is utter folly to believe
that any other person than the attor-
neys in the Mcnamara trial, attorneys
who had the handling of the money
committed the brlberies' Nobody else
would be wasting time and money
bribing jurors that might not be ac-
cepted when they appeared in court"
Fredericks confined himself strictly
to the evidence and witnesses who
testified in the trial, attempting NO
flights of oratory.
"I am going to look all the witness
es who have testified In this case
squarely in the face" he said. 81 don't
dent say that all the witnesses for the
defense in this trial have lied. Meth
er do say that all our witnesses have
told all the truth.
Some Told the Truth.
81 don't believe that all these wit
nesses, newspaper men and Others
who have said Franklin told then
Barrow was innocent were perjurors
That was Franklins whole attitude
Protecting Darrow, shielding the mai
who gave him the money
81 don't say Franklin told DarroV
everything he had done. Darrow fur
nished the money and Franklin TN
brains and ingenuity.
watt, Steinman and Pierotte, o
Venice didn't speak the truth, whel
they said Franklin after appearing
before the grand jury, told them Oar
row was innocent. think Frank 4
Wolfe didn't speak the truth. be
lieve Hawley didn't speak the truth
Wolfe and Hawley were the princi
pal witnesses in Darrow's alb
Speaking of Lecompte Davis, assc
ciate counsel for the Mcnamara
Fredericks declared that he was nc
protecting Davis, as charged by DaI
row. but IL the local man was guilt
of anything he would prosecute hin
even If he we're his own brother
Criticizes DarrOw.
when Darrow was on the witne'
stand he appeared to be speaking u
truth" Fredericks continued. "B'
you cannot tell. Question an old fe
low like Bob Balm, and you might |
able to tell whether he was telll1
the truth. Question Darrow for
while. and you can't tell whether he
speaking the truth or not
Fredericks then arraigned GeorI
Behm and declared that Behm's refu
ais to answer questions before Il
grand jury proved that he came to L
Angeles for an illegal purpose
make his nephew, ortie McManigi
rcpudiate his confession, which imp