The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-08-16
DEFENDANTS PLEA
MOVES AUDIENCE
Prosecutor Brushes Away All
Thoughts of Sympathy and
HurIs Accusation After Ac-
cusation at Prisoner.
OS ANGELES, Cal, Aug. 15.-
Two word portraits of Clarence
I S. Darrow, totally different, were

- DarrOW, rOtalIy nlllcTenC, were
held before the jury in the Oar
row bribery trial today. the first by
Darrow himself, at the close of re-
markable plea in his own behalf, paint
ed him as the lifelong friend of the
poor and oppressed, ready to safrifice
himself to better their condition. The
other, drawn at the beginning OF the
final argument by District Attorney
John D. Fredericks, painted Darrow as
All enemy of society, melting class
hatred and shedding maudlin tears Of
sympathy for murderers and dynamit-
ers." The prosecutor will consume all
of tomorrow in concluding.
Still under the spell Of the defend
ants eloquence, hundreds thronged the
court room at the afternoon session to
hear Captain Fredericks make the clos
ing argument for the prosecution In
the trial which began its fourth month
today. He said he would not attempt
to compete in oratory with Darrow,
whose persuasive eloqucnce and pa
thetic plea had caused jury, court Off
cials and spectators to weep.
Comedies Darrow's Ability.
"You have listened,'' said Captain
Fredericks, "to one of the most mar
velous addresses or orations ever de-
livered in any court room when you
heard Mr.. Darrow. But that only re-
fleets 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 defendant unfortunate predica
ment is the result of those peculiar
philosophical views which 20 to make
up his very nature. His insidious hand
entered into bribery from the very
beginning Of the Mcnamara case; brib-
ery 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 no one but
Darrow' could have been the man who
provided the bribe money.
Theory Is Secuted.
He secuted the theory that the Times
dynamiters did not intend to do muir
der by quoting from a statement said
to have been made by j. B, Mcnamara,
in which he was reported to have e1-
pressed regret that he did not kill
Harry Chandler, the general manager
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"having done more during the last ten
years to uphold the cause of civic right
eousness, civic deccncy, and civic hon
esty than any other man in Amer
ica.''
Referring TO John r. Harrington, the
prosecutor said the actions Of Darrow's
former employee might not have been
ethical, but they savored Of honesty.
81 believe Harrington s duty to the
state,' he said, "to have been fully
as great as tho concealmeut Of the
criminal acts OF his friends" He
thought, however, that Harrington
should have left Darrow 8 home before
he turned from him.
Extracts From Evidence.
Captain Fredericks confined himself
principally to the evidence, many ex-
tracts of which he read to the jury.
The McNamara case figured strongly
in the closing argument Of Darrow.
81 know he said, 81 could have
tried that case and largo number of
people of America would have beloved
honestly, if these men had been
hanged, that they were guiltless-
know it and you know it. And / could
have saved myself had done it, and
I could have made money 1 know If
you had hanged those men and other
men, YOU would not have changed the
opinion Of hardly man IN America
except to settle in the hearts Of
great mass of men a hatred 30 deep,
so profound, that it would mover die
away,
$50 it would have ended, and what
would have been the result7 Men
would have taken their lives in their
hands to avcnge wrong to their class.
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