Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-03-19


fully everything and to consider all and
then decide whether or not the COM
monwealth has proved the guilt of that
boy beyond reasonable doubt"
Denies Seeking "victim"
Mr.. Speiser began his final summing
up at II 10 o'clock.
1T Is not the law of Pennsylvania
asking for n victim. II is not your
act or my act, or his honor's act orr
counseIs act that brings this defend
ant here. II Is his act : it's what he
did.
We can't deny that man in the
flush of manhood lost his life in a mean,
low and contemplate way, and the
commonwealth has arragncd this de-
fendant and charged him with this
crime. And If you make your minds up
fearlessly. neither you nor ] nor his
honor are condemning him to felon's
death. His own act. his wantonness
and cruelty are what are sending him
to death
''Thc question has been raised that
there was nothing sinister about the,
way he was living under different
name. Ordinarily that makes no diff
ference to me. | don't care. ! don't
care anything about his morality. |
don't care IL he has a hundred guns
and fifty holsters. so long as his acts
are within the law. But if you have a
combination where a man has four false
names, and lives with woman not his
wife under mn assumed name, when he
is not working. and he has a holster
in his possession and gun. and con-
sorts with low companions. these facts
become very sinister. mysterious and
important testimony.
There has been an attempt here to
gild the lily. to speak Of young man
just entering manhood. innocent of
wrong doing. who mixed up with un-
fortunate companionship. That is paint
ing him in false coors. No such
youth appears. There is no evidence
here of good family. of stability or that
he worked for his living by the sweat
Of his brow and merely through unfor-
tunate circumstances was caught in the
net. You don't even yet know who this
defendant Is. You don't know yet ex-
cept through his own lips that he is
Peter Treadway.
Insists on Fair Verdict
Here Thomas J. Minnick. Of counsel
for the defense. objected. but Judge Au
denried ruled that Mr.. Spciscr hud said
nothing to hurt the defendant. and the
objection carried no weight. Mr..
SpciSer resumed.
''Gcntlcmen. don't be technical in
your Judgment. Bc fair. Don't think
of special reasons. Don't be credulous.
Don't let false sentiment sway you.
Use the fairness which God has en-
dowcd YOU with
~ want il distinctly understood. y
continued Mr.. SpCiSer. that ! am not
making an attack on this mans char
acter. | am making II upon his actions.
from the time when he took the rooms
| in the Walnut streets house. His coun-
sells inference that he is fine young
man with character. victim of cir
rumstanccS. is not borne out by his
own testimony.
S. ,,o -, c.,,.
c.oes VOC v, "'''""''
MIR. Patterson tells us that the tcs-
! timony OF what happened after they
lett i'hiladeIphla is OF no value; that
1rcadway was only trying to he gallant
and protect woman. lie was trying
TO protect himSeli IN danger, ana not
the woman; lie uSrd raise name; nc
tried to hide; he tried to send the de-
tectiveS on false scent after mar
he now says was guilty of no crime.
ndmlt ther" ar" innocent men lacking
IN good judgment who would Nee under
s'rts itself and the man says Here
am. nave Dcen toolish. Ihesc arr
But no innorcnt man would pcrsist il
using a false name: would continue t,
hide from the police: would assert III
did not know Philadelphia or the fact
of this crime Nor would he persist il
describing his comrades in crime unde
false names in order to throw the Law
of the track.
"ITc would not try to fix the crime OF
the shoulders of an innocent man. whom
he in his heart knew to be innocent.
These ideas of gallantry are from thu
brain of Mr.. Patterson. not from hi'
client. Mr.. Patterson said he was gal
antly defending Mraic. hold nC
brief either for or against her; | care
nothing about her. But ! ask you, II
the coolncSs of your brains whether the
inference which counsel tried TO gel
into the jury box to the effect that she
was not telling the truth on the StanC
here. in trying to save herself. was @
| truthful inference.
where in Marir's testimony is any
thing that Treadway la Snot COrrObo
rated act by act in his testimony from
the time the blow was struck To the
present time? Where does sh" say 4
,, 81 III 10 ioo.. 'nt a,,ro, "oU ,,'",
tho nhsoluto truthq
Defends STORY OF Girl
".\nd another thing: if Marie were
perjuring herself and was willing tc
conSign her soul to heIl and blame it or
Treadway. if she is subject to the wiIes
of the district attorney and the detcc
| tiycs do Won think she would have