Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1917-11-02

a 1lerce arrangement OF the lawyer Tor
| his yellow dogs when he at the same
time was acting as attorney for Nc
Cormick He said the case of the
state was one of suspicious circum-
stances. He mentioned some of these,
among them burying the garbage in
| the back yard, the wife's sickness due
| to her years and condition at that age.
| He reviewed her life, her illness and
| her death. He spoke of the states
pitiful attempt to show that the de-
veterinary's office in Hands livery
| stable.
Dramatic Picture of the Tragedy
In dramatic picture Of the death
scene, he closed with the climax of
| theatrical detail of the words attribut-
ed to Mrs. Hewitt. There was silence
in the court room-dead, intense 81
lence.
Now came the sobs from the witness
not on trial, protesting she had never
said the words attributed to her.
Mr.. Stebbins said there was no evil
dence Mccormick had poison, no evil
dence his wife took the capsule, no
evidence that a capsule was ever taken
out of the box. you cannot convict
man. he shouted, for murder be-
cause he has a baby out in Washing
tom
Mr.. Stebbins said Mrs. Mccormick
ctrnnu minded woman and 1atar-
mined, and what she willed she did.
She had willed to kill herself and she
did. He produced the picture of Mrs.
Mccormick to show she was strong
| minded and self-willed.
There was an evening session with
the court room packed to it's sardine-
| like fullness at Z 80 and Mr.. Stebbins
closed his argument at s 80.
Last Words of the State
Gen. Strrdevant rose to speak the
last words the jury would ever hear i'll
this trial from the attorneys for either
state or defense He was viSibly dis
turbed by the attack which Mr.. Steb-
bins had made upon him as the great
est criminal lawyer, who had come in
| to the case in hopes of hanging an
other scalp to his belt.
Gen. Sturdevant with voice some
what affected by the earnestness of
his emotion. said Il want to say to
gentlemen before / begin to discuss
the case that I know my duty and
know the duty of the district attor-
ney 1 have been appointed by the
court to present this case. / have no
scalps; am not hunting them. | am
not criminal lawyer. | have not had
criminal case in years. | do not
want to go from here with the blood
of an innocent man on my hands nor
to leave anything undone that will
fail in sending criminal to punish
ment We want to know if man can
go among us as a pOisOner-the most
dastardly murderer is a pOisOner-
without effort to bring him to justice.
You are not trying the district at
tOrney nor me, nor Mrs Hewitt. From
the speech of Mr.. Stebbins / thought
you were trying the Hewitt family.
Who Shall Be Believed?
"Who is he, this Milwaukee attor-
ney who comes in here to attack the
Hewitt family? He wants them to be
so cold blOOded as not to punish the
murderer of her dead sister. God help
the country of her story isn't entitled
to more credit than the man sitting
there" And he pointed and shook
his finger at Mccormick, who with
| flushed face was sitting, head half
| bowed. watching and listening in
tently.
"He'-and Gen. Sturdevant still
shook his pointing finger-"He puts
his word against the evidence of Mrs.
Hewitt The only clean thing in all
| this outfit is his immaculate highness
over there"
But let us get down to earth; I am
not going to soar. Who is this John HI.
Mccormick I'm AstOr Harrison
Blake Mccormick What is his
name He has so much name as to
make it easy to have an alias"
McCOrmick's Mis-statements
| Gen. Sturdevant reviewed McCor-
micls early history as told by him.
self and pointed out discrepancies in
| the statements made in his several APP
pearances in various courts and in
quests.
a man with good character in a
criminal case is thrice defended. He
| lived in adultery, and brought the
woman to this court room to testify
she had so lived" He stated that the
defendant could not have met Mrs.
| Matheson in 1911-that it was physi-
cal impossibility. In showing this
Gen. Sturdevant produced map to
show how much time it took to go from
| Salt Lake City to Seattle.
'tMcCOrmiclx SWOre to a Lie
WAS that woman, with her husband
dead only nine months parading
around with that jacknapes there y