The Washington times., 1922-03-17
Flood Of oratory Of contrastsd
Styles Marks Wind-up Of
Famous TriaI.
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Defenss Attorney Al MaeD Do,sa!d,
of ths FossSth Of July "ksart call"
and the Chaktanqaa addrsss--
Defense Attorney yNd Rush, Of
the ministerial intonations aRd tho
dramatic gestures- ,
Deputy Prosecutor Asa Keyes
and his modern American bttsiness-
man methods-
Which Of these men during The
past few days. when they have been
making their final pleas in the now
famous Madalynne Conner Oben-
chain murder trial. have most swayed
the jury?
Analysis and Oratory.
Such was the question to-day
dominant in the courtroom Of Judge
Sidney Reeves, as the case went to
the twelve good men and true" who
are to ultimately determine the fate
Of the elusively exquisite defendant.
From the intellectual appeal OF
Fricke to the whiriwtnd intensity Of
MacDonarld, from the sentiment
and sensuous elements of Rush o
speech to the conservative eloqueIce
of Keyes, each of these four men
have in turn presented masterful
specimens Of the four genres Of jury
oratory.
Keyes argued, Rush pleaded. Mac
Donald declaimed, and Fricke
analyzed.
which Of these four clever and
skilled attorneys best gnashed the
psychology Of the Madalynne Conner
Obenchain jury?
Will the emotional phrases OF Al
Macdonald prove but an evanescent
influence on the jury, fatigued and
exhausted in its effort to reacn a
verdict, when II settles down to the
grim business which today faced It?
Or will the "old-fashioned love az
fair" as outlined by Jud Rush,
arouse responses in the hears o.
these men and women who today
filed out Of the jury box into the
little anteroom to deliberate, which
will prove stronger I'm the end than
all the brilliant logic and common
And will the dignified earnestness
Of Fricke be swept away by the
fiery turbulence of Macdonald when
the big fight is on among the ju' ors7
Shouting Biblical references one
instant and the next utilizing the
patois of the commoners, drr.mati'
cally picturing the little shav.rs'
| who might have been that--p,Aying
about the defendants knees-had her
| love for the slain Bolton Kennedy
been contaminated in matrimcny
| and with bursts Of intensified ora
tory pointing to the woman In the
| case" and urging her speedy acauit
tai, Al Macdonald had his hour IN
the spotlight.
Charles Fricke played his "bif
| scene" in just the opposite manner
Quiet, poised. subdued, he slowly
yet powerfully built up to his china \
when he demanded the death pen
atty. His gestures. IL any, were
scarcely noticed, so completely did
his mind dominate his audience.
| Yet In that carefully controlled
scene of his. he hurled biting epithets
/ at the defendant in the case and
flayed numerically the defense.
Leaps at Jury.
Just once during his address
Ericke leaped at the jury from 9
semi-crouched position and shouted
the words which Mrs. Mabel Louise
Wilson, beauty parlor proprietor ant
intimate friend of Mrs. Obenchain's q
said to Mrs. J. ID. Kennedy. mother
Of the slain man, weeks before the
murder-"Your son IN soing to die
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