St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1914-05-23

scription of the outsider.
Charley Chachere, chief dep
Iuty, denied the testimony of Mr..
Johns, saying that at no time
during the time he had charge
of the jury did he see any out
slider address any OF the jurors
except through him, in the pres
ence of all the Jurors
r. Lee Garland, district attor-
ney, stated on the witness stand
that he remembered seeing Mr..
Johns on that par ticular morn
ing near the screen door in the
| lobby Of the hotel which leads to
the barbershop. Mr.. Garland
claims that he saw the jury 60
ing into the barbershop and be-
ing d3sirous of avoiding all pos
sibie chances of the defense ap-
pealing for a new trial he eau
toned Mr.. Chachere not to al
low any one to address the jury;
at that time there was man be-
ing shaved and it was on thatac-
count that Mr.. Garland spoke to
Mr.. Cnachere. The district at
torney is confident that Mr..
Johns had reference to this par
ticuIar incident.
Five jurors were examined,
all of whom testified to practie
ally the same thing. They all
claimed that it would have been
a hard matter for them to COM
municate with the outside world
from their rooms in the La
Cornbe hotel; that the deputy
sheriffs always paid close atten-
ton to them and that although
the crowd was large in the
courthouse they had no trouble
in getting into the courtroom as
the deputy sheriff would lead
the way.
The other jurors were not e1-
amined for the reason that Mr..
Dubuisson admitted that their
testimony would be in harmony
with that already produced by
those who had been examined.
On Tuesday morning Mr.. Du-
buisson filed a motion for an ar
rest of judgment which was
overruled by Judge Pavy. Mr..
Dubuisson attacked the consti-
tutionality of the act under
which William G. Walters was
indicted.
When the defendant appeared
before Judge PaVy on Tuesday
morning for sentence he was
asked if he had any statement to
make, whereupon he replied that
he had not been dealt with fair
" by the people of this city as
he had been taken away from
his friends, his witnesses and
his little boy, cast into prison
and was not allowed to make a
statement, whilst he was being
tried for his life. He stated that
the people of Opelousas will
some day be sorry for his con-
viction, when God viii be reap
ing his vengeance upon them for
the blood of an innocent man.
For while the prisoner was
severely criticizing the friends
of Mr.. and Mrs. Dunbar, stat
ing that 0pelousas must be COM
posed of crazy people. He called
Attorneys Garland and Veazie
crazy, Whereupon the audience
went into an uproar Of laughter.
The Judge before passing the
sentence on Walters stated to
him that he had tried all in his
power to give him a fair and i'm
partial trial, which in his opln-
ion, he had gotten. Judge PaVy
said that he had appointed one
of the ablest lawyers in his juris-
diction to defend him in Opelou-
sas, where he had no friends nor
relatives, and that Mr.. Dubuis-
son deserved unbounded praise
for the noble manner in which
he conducted this case, sparlng
nothing to liberate the prisoner,
despite the fact that he was not
receiving a penny as payment
for his trouble and work.
After the sentence OF life I'M
prisonment was passed on Wal
ters Hon. E. B. Dubulsson made
it known that he would take an
appeal to the Supreme Court and
it is expected that the famous
kidnapping case will be dealt
with BY the highest court in this
state within the next thirty days.
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