The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1915-04-30
Ferreting Out
An Injustice
Il Was All Done by a Young Law.
yer For an Attractive Widow.
BY WILLARD BRAKEMAN

There has been the same develop
ment in jurisprudence as in everything
else. From the time Of trial by battle
to trial by jury there has been con.
tinued progress, and, strange to say,
there are more reforms being consider.
cd today thar ever before. In other
words, confidence in the justice dis.
pensed In our criminal courts Is dying
out.
The reason of this is that legal JUS
tice Is mechanical, and mechanical con
%trivances do not always work The
many ingenious happenings that have
been conjured up by detective story
writer's have doubtless helped to make
people chary Of believing in the inlaili.
Dility Of courts. |, as a criminal law.
yer. have often, by thought and energy
alone, turned the results Of Il months
trial into an abSurdity. In the first
place | judge of an accused persons
innocence from intuition. After that
| think and work priu"ipHIIy the lat
ter.
was in a criminal courtroom one
day when Il young woman was CON
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h''''' 10" h''@ N'''' III j''i '''l'
from 'i'''!'''' tA|"'N>'"i' ""' II =
often the basis Of my Efforts in nay
profession. If yuu ask NE low cam
Ten lill'''"'" from gum ny Sh'l /"
process am '"Er"h I" A"ili' '''a' I
cannon rhIl@'''h N""
Inc 'lN' | nave ''I"'ied I" Is III"
rum A'N3''f HlartI'u' through '''
ll'l"cl'' 81 "'f ii'"'i"r' AArt'1l lay
Wool an "'''I'! man. WI" VAS
"eal'h! II WIS " May 'nl i'"'P'll"'i
hlttrh, ana i""rrllIh"r N""ll 'Fo|e the
sap OF Way. Inc coupe lI'ed uilillp
PLY t0gcll"t. Haywood was Il chronic
Invalid. ana this with age made him
peeviSh. lie WAS very parSihlohlous
and would not have Il doctor, constant
~ experimenting with remedies Whlch
he procured himself.
The usual way Tor a young wife 10
get rid Of an old husband is by poison
and the favorite poison is arsenic.
The arsenic Is always discovered IN the
deceaseds stomach. but this does not
seem to deter candidates for widow
hood from using 1t.
Old Haywood died nde very suspi-
ciOus circumstances. These were that
he was Ill for some ime and no doctor
was In attendance. No druggist In the
town where he lived and died had sold
him any medicines. How could a man
die without a doctor or even a druggist
to help him.? The idea was prepoSter-
Gus. 1t was the neighbors who noticed
these incOngruities. and their tongues
wagged at n another accordingly.
The rumors came to the knowledge Of
the police. who exhumed the body; IL
chemist made an analysis and found
arsenic.
This was sufficient evidence in itself
to convict his wife OF having poisoned
him. Blu the courts. which are in
stituted to give al! accused persons the
the same machinery for the innocent
as for the guilty. insist upon putting
both through the legal mill. n person
brought up in refinement md morality
Is ground out through the same mill
as a Black land murderer who, by a
signal, informs a witness that If he
tells the truth his life will pay the
forfeit.
Mrs. Haywood was brought to trial,
and' as have said. was In the court
room when she was sentenced. She
mad been convicted by the law ma
chine, twelve good and true men being
Its spokesman. n was sentenced to
lie imprisonment. knew that she
was innocent. How? nave told you
that cannot tell you this. Scoffers
nave since said that l mistook sym
patny 1or INTUITION. Let them soon.
! Will ADMIT that l went away from
the courtroom with a heavy heart and
that the agony OF despair In that
beautiful face unite me. 1t con-
timed TO haunt me. When Mt the end