The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1913-03-07
CASE GIVEN
TO JURY
Continued From Page One)

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rinaton, the two principal witnesses
called to testify against him.
But" said Ford, mostly I pity
barrow because, gifted with such a
fine mentality, he stopped to a crime
so low.
And you are not here to administer
pity-you are here to administer jus
tice.'
Ford then began a long discussion of
the question of possible motives Oar
row might have had. He also dis
cnssed DarroW's philosophy and de-
clared it did not recognize certain
crimes as such.
Among other things, Ford said he
hardly believed that Franklin, the con-
fessed jury briber, who declared he
had committed his crimes at Darrow's
~instigation, had told all Of the crimes
he had committed.
Discussing an obvious failure of the
prosecution to connect certain Incl
dents in the bribery of Balm by Frank
lin, Ford declared that either some
one was mistaken or Franklin had
Wilfully sought to discredit himself
in order to aid barrow.
Darrow's Plea.
They would send me to the peni-
Tertiary because / am an enemy to
the rich"
This VAS the plea today of DarroW,
as he renewed his arguments FOR an
acquittal.
Many women Wept as DarroW plead
cd for his liberty before a crowd even
larger than listened to him yesterday.
I'd die before l asked mercy of
the gang of brigands Who have been
seeking my blood. | can still fight"
continued barrow, shouting at the ar
ray of witnesses who had testified
against him.
l followed my duty as a lawyer and
forgot all except those ] had sworn
to serve. Some day when l am known
as | truly am it will be written that
my settlement of that case"-the COM
promise by which the McNamaras en-
tered pleas of guilty-'Was one of the
most successful ever accomplished by
a lawyer. l am willing to be judged
on it by God and by men.
Il know something of what the
world calls criminals-they are much
like other men. They have the same
warm handclasp and their skulls and
rains in them We're Fashioned by the
same oWe You and ] may have
criminal instincts and it may have
been our good fortune never to have
had temptations thrown in our paths.
when see a nan placing himself
upon a pedestal and calling his fellow
men criminals, mistrust that man.
we all fill Il places in life, play
ing the game until we go out for
ever. | know the human side of GRIM
inalS n | know that human lives
are much alike, l did what | could
to save the McNamaras-did it hon
estly; | did it bravely.
Il am growing older. l have grown
weary and tired of life. But it is not
fair. it is not just; it is not human
that | should have been tried again
upon a charge on which had been
once acquitted. If my enemies had
any sense of justice, I would not have
been called to defend myself again.
Il am ready for the eternal sleep. ]
have loved peace and | have loved
hlN LtiitN men. L nave belitNeu IN law
and love. Yet almost from the time
| first opened my eyes, | have been
Observation-Disclosures for my
felloWmen. | have practiced kindness
and g~entleness and mercy the best ]
could as the years have gone. That's
why | am h~ere-hecause | have loved
not judged-my fellowmen.
"Gentlemen, there is nothing to this
case. Where men toll with their hands
where women, worm, weak, weary,
are sewing tears into garments to be
worn by h rich, I know there ar.
prayers going upward for me today
prayers that this jury will free me.
"Gentlemen, | submit to you my
fate-thc fate of my family"
barrow finished his address to al,
accompaniment of sohs from the many
women in the courtroom. Tears
coufsed down the cheeks of man,
women and among the men there was
considerable significant using of hand
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