The Sentinel=record., 1918-11-17

state, as the prosecuting attorney of
 tho district lis closing an2ument was
 "a brilliant effort on the part of a man
 who. had given weeks of preparation
 ito the presentation of this ease He opened by referring to the malice that
 was necessary in order 10 establish
 a first degree murder charge. He
 spoke of he charges by Dr smith of
 ncestious relations between his wife
 and her brother Mon l-lnderman. the
 elest of inc jurors, and walking direct
 to his seat. Mr Randolph said Mon
 you'd suffer your tongue to he cut oEt
 of your throat before you would make
 that accusation a2ainst the wife you
 love; and you'd kill the man who did
 make it The prosecuting attorney
 spoke or the discrepancies in the evil
 dcnce that had been given SD much
 criticism by the defense and attributed
 these discrepancies to the excitement
 that had followed when three cracks
 of gun had aroused the people and
 q man had been hurled into eternity on
 the ground This he said was in
 elined to agitate people and make for
 some confusion, hut that in the main
 all the evidence that had been offered
 by the state was truth and nothing loss
 fin so far as he knew. and he called
 on God as his witness to judge that he
 was not acting in the lieht of q perse .
 cutor. tha. he was merely doing a sol emu duty he had sworn to perform
 and that few other things in life would
 give him more satisfaction than to
 hnow that the accused was not guilty
 of the foul murder laid at his door oy
 the evidence Ol the state Speaking of the Graham testimony. Mir Ran
 dolph said that on the night of the
 9th of August a man was shot down
 on Central avenue, chat people talk cd it that nieht. and the next dey, and the ccroner's jury was held to In
 vestigate the circumstances and that later grand jury investigated the affair that an indictment had been re- turned, and change of venue in the case taken, all occassioning comment
 on the case and tha1 yet James l.. Graham had kept his mouth shut a5 to the part he claimed 10 know in the case until he took Eis seat in the wit ness box in the trial Mir. Randolph said that in so far as he had been able te ascertain there was not man in Hot Springs who knew that Graham was at the scene of the killing until Graham had sworn it in the trial Speaking of the witnesses who had ! impcached the testimony of Graham Mir Randolph said that if ever in any community that he lived such men a. | Tom h. Martin F. L. Hewlett, r F 1 .atta. Bob Sieman, and that type o men. swore they would not believe him on oath, be would turn his f4Oy | the other way and never go to that ] conmunity again. Referring 10 Dr 1 Charles Dake, l)r Frank Dalle. Peter i Bentz, John Baldwin. and w w Lee witnesses who just on the close fol 1 the state rebuttCd the impeachment 0 ] Graham by swearing his reputation ir Hot Springs was good and that he va; 1 worthy of belief, the prosecuting at l torney recalled how Drs Dake were a the iail the night of the arrest, thel and Peter Bentz were at the moreu' 1 the next day viewing the body of th' slain young man to find out whether wound on a hand would fit in with ; l hip pocket defense. that they wer' all witnesses later in all the proceed ines, and that 1t appeared wheneye
 she defense needed evidence, thes'
 men were called in the order named
 "The last words that rang in the ear
 of Danny Shannon in his lifetime were. 'you broke up my home,
 and then the shots one. two. three
 Then while Dan shannon was lyini prcstrate on the ground, his life 5ioc
 ebbing away, Dr. Smith said 10 tn officer who arrested him. He broke III
 my home. l couldn't help it. And ye
 said the prosecutor, they would nov