Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-04-10
LEWIS w. MOULTON.
BY WILLIAM r. PATTANGALL.,
WILLIAM H. CULVER.
IRVING e. VERNON,


Mr.. President, 1 would like to have
the motion made a part of the record,
and also made part of the record as
TO its allowance or otherwise.
The SPEAKER: The secretary will
make the motion a part of the record,
also the fact that the motion is de-
MED.
Mr.. PATTANGALL: And from the
denial of the motion We respectfully
ask an appeal to the convention.
The SPEAKER: The secretary will
make a record of that appeal. and also
the further fact that the appeal is re-
fused for the same reasons previously
given by the Chair in similar cases.
Mr.. Pattangall then addressed the
convention in the way of argument as
follows:
Mr.. President and gentlemen of the
convention. / realize only too well that
this INVENTION is anxious to COM
plete it's wori. and adjourn, and that
to listen to any argument of counsel
either on behalf of Mr.. Moulton or on
behalf of the State is perhaps even
a more disagreeable burden to you
than it is to the attorney who is com
PEELED to deliver the argument; never
theless, l should nor feel that l was
doing my duty toward my client IL
toward this case if | did not ask you
to bear with me for a brief time at
least while / presented to you some
matters which seem to me to be
worthy of your serious attention, even
in these late days of the session.
Ill lnt xa-hi
yention as a whole sits as a judicial
body, and while as a whole its men,
bers take unto themselves their du-
ties as jurors and judges seriously.
that there is a comparatively large
fraction of this convention to which
it is folly to attempt TO address any
argument. / do not say that in criti-
cism of the convention. l have the
usual senses possessed by man; my
hearing is good; my sight is good;
and no man having his senses, in the
ordinary term, and possessing ord1-
nary intelligence, could fail to know
that the minds of many of this con-
vention had been closed to argument
long ere this.
| regret that, but, nevertheless, /
this convention / have no argument
to address; it would be futile to ad :
dress one TO it. To the members of
the convention who state, as has been
stated in the hearing of many Of us
in at least semi public places long be-
fore the evidence closed in this case.
that they We're anxious only to vote
because their minds We're made up, it
would be useless to address argument;
but to that large body of the conven-
ton who are fair minded and who sit
here with the full sense of their re-
sponsibility upon them, and who de-
sire to do no injustice to anybody but
to fulfill to the highest extent the
, duty which they owe to the State, Mr..
Moulton, and all of us, l do desire TO
address some argument, today.
/ want to call your attention first.
| before going over the evidence here
or even addressing myself to the gen.
eral principles involved, that in your
action, today, you have no right to be
| guided or influenced by anything ex-
cept your desire to render as true and
| just verdict as though you We're
sworn jurors, sitting in regularly
constituted court of law trying a case
| of great Importance involving money,
reputation, involving all that is of val
lie to the man against whom charges
have been preferred here; you have