The Detroit times., 1914-10-28

foreside and taste the serene sweets
or friendship and home once more.
But the man who blasts my char.
acter with the lying. whitening tongue
of slander without cause or justinca.
ton. is more dangerous than the
cobra. deadlier than a pestilence, a
greater menace than q murderer--a
man compared with whom the liar and
the thief would be princes In the
realms Of crime. Against these latter
we may guard ourselves. But the
ASIA sin Of character commits a crime
which neither industry nor charity
nor time itself can ever repair.
"A good name il rather to be chos-
en- than great riches. Is q proverb un-
known to Burns. He L. the great
magazine detective. the mick Carter"
OF the moving picture show. His crook
ed. un-American and illegal methods
have gained him the condemnation
OF the highest legal official In the
United States-the odium and con.
tempt Of every law-abiding, self-re-
specting. liberty loving and upright
citizen from California to Maine.
And this II the type of man who
framed the wabash Cover to trap
Tom Gilman, whose lawless methods
you must sanction and approve before
you can conscientiously vote to con.
Wet In this case"
At this point the Judge halted Mr..
will continue his argument,
II they cared to 90 to lunch, as II was
after IL o'clock. The jurors. interest
ed In the eloquent speech being made
by Mcnamara, ckook their heads, but
the court insisted that 1t was time for
them TO eat ard adjourned the case
until lao In the afternoon when Mr..
McNamara will continue his argument
consuming the rest of the day. Eat
Her IN the morning the Jurors refused
q recees while Mcnamara was talking.
y. orrsecutor Fraxec viii likely mako
his closing argument Thursday morn
ing.
Attorney J. Shurly Kennary, con-
tinuing his argument before the
Gilman jury, Wednesday. again called
the attention Of the jury to the pur-
pose OF the aldermanic investigation
Ito get" Aid. tom" Gilman.
On July 8, 1912, when Gilman vot-
ed favorably on the Wabash petitions,
Kennary argued that Brennan then
knew that the alderman from the
ward was not one OF the
who. as Mayor Thompson
had charged. were blocking necessary
Kennary declared that
on July IL, when Brennan offered
him $3.50 for his vote, he did not
specify how he wanted the alderman
to vote.
And then they say that the pur-
find out who the corrupt aldermen
were" said Kennary.
Then Kennary called attention to
the fact that Gilman insisted on the
opening Of Lafayette-blvd. and the
OF two pedestrian bridges
across Harbaugh-aye., saving the city
like $4,000 and making
the railroad take precautions for the
protection OF life and limb on the
crossings
Does this look as IL Gilman want.
ed any dirty money from the Wa
BASH" continued Kennary. Brennan
used all his powers Of persuasion to
corrupt an honest man.
1T Is strange that the most inn
portant proposition Of all that was
talked about in Brennan's once on
July IL. was not heard by the dicta-
graph operator"
Then Kennary passed to the meet
Ing In Brennan's ONCE on July 26.
Mr.. Brennan says that he counted
the money out to Mr.. Gilman who
placed II In his outside coat pocket;
then they talked about a position.
The talk about the position was only
D blind to get Gilman into the once.
Brennan told Gilman to bring up his
letters OF recommendation. That was
the subterfuge to get Gilman into
the once on July 26, the day that
the stage was set and the day that
j. Burns was coming TO De-
troit.
III Brennan's testimony is true,
then he knew that Gilman was go
Ing to get the money on that day.
He practiced his voice on the dicta-
graph. Every subject that was talked
about was Just as on the 18th, heard
by the dictagraph operators, but no
part OF the sentence Brennan claims
he used--"Here Is the $1,000 prom
lsed you for your vote on the Wa
bash petitions"--was heard by the
operators He told the operators that
after he counted he would PASS the
money. Having practiced his voice.
why did he say anything to the die.
tagraph operators about passing the
Why did he not pass over
the money, and let the dictagraph
operators catch the conversation?
Why? ! say that Mr. Brennan never
said TO Gilman: Here Is the 81 900
I promised you for your vote on the
Wabash petitions and that he knew
before he went into the room that he
was going to say IT, Do you think
that IL Gilman got that money for
his vote, he would be so careless as
TO place 10 I'm his outside coat pocket?
Why didn't he put IL In his wallet.
in his pants pocke., or his vest
pocket?
IF Gilman had been a man OF Inn
mense wealth. they might be able TO
say that he was careless with a.: but
Mr. Gilman is poor man. Men OF