Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-07-14

"Mr. ToWnley neednot be within
1000 miles Of this county to b. In,
this conspiracy"
Court Ovcrruo ob3eceou.
Attorney George Hoke entered an
objection and Nicholas answered that
court In his charge would say the
same thing.
Now it is our contention that this
crime has been proved AZ nearly to a
mathematical accuracy Al any crime
car be proved. II we have not proved
guilt in this case, then q conspiracy
cannot be proved.
Although the state may charge a
great number Of overt acts. 1t need
prove only one
1T Q find that Gilbert came to
jackson county and did what we
charge, the crime would be complete
whether or not Freitag committed ar
over act.
Opportunity Cited BY State.
You must consider whether these
men had an opportunity to be togeth-
or and talk W this conspiracy. We
have shown you that their offices adj
joined each other. One. mar was presi-
dent Of the concern and the other the
general MANAGER. or the organization
manager, Al the defense claims. You
AaA Ab0 ~ 49, SShS -
speeches, and I think 1t has been
proved that these mon we're very
closely associated. They were at Glen
coe together, where Townley's disloy-
atty speech was made. You And they
were engaged in q common enterprise.
when Teigen had his contract
made, Gilbert could MOI function
without Townley. He said he consult
ed Townley about it and Teisen said
T4-HAv Il otHs1rfAd CjIhnNt "a ~eok "a
hat contract. This shows who was
the directing mind Of that organixa-
ton"
Glencoe Speech Quoted.
Nicholas read numerous excerpts
from Townley's Glencoe speech, which
was referred to in the trial.
Here in a speech which Townley
made at Glencoe July Fl, 1917. Itsis
u contention, gentlemen, that in all
these speeches he same general plan
was followed. First. an effort to go
into the community where there were
a great many men Of German blood
men, If you take these speeches into
the jury room and analyze them that
one method was used by Gilbert and
Townley was to say, ooh. yes, you
must support the government, but
but
Because, gentlemen, If a man came
to you. If you happened to be a man
Of German blood and you were trying
to forget those national instincts and
were trying to be loyal to, the United
States-these men had something
hard to dol say that that kind OF
poison that these men. poured into
their ears was intended to stir these
men against the country of their
adoption.
GOOD Gamblers" Blamed.
II will read some of the things they
said
"'You have already raised billions
and billions of tons Of food for your
boys across the water and o are 60
ing to buy millions OF tons back from
the food gamblers
You will not find anything in these
speeches about the horrors that Ger
many prccipitated on the high seas
but you will ind that all the wrong
was in the United States.
"In all Of these speeches Townley
divides h people of h United States
into two classes-you and the garnb-
ers-and he goes on and tries ia
show that the gamblers r the only
ones who are talking n patriotism
and that you are the ones who are
sending the boys into the army
lieve that the farmers are the only
patriots in America, because you
know better. You do not deny thai
the rest Of the citizens of this country
are patriots also and that some.of the
rest Of. the people were doing .whaa
they could.
BTlioaas Of Debt. Menttoned. =.
"Ycu can tell by reading this Ian.
guage there was an attempt to pou,
that poison into the audience and yei
escape the hand of Justice. 5ss'h Wy
81 am a little bit afraid thers