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re-om-ni un's gun; Berry Thompson- mixed in. There: was a loud ..report and allhen was over. .The tragedy was enactedthe arid the victim brought it-on himself.f.heTheantireethe*nitsHo spoke one horn* and five minutes, iiiflge V, R. (iardlnor.■ Followin'? Alvar Padgett, Judge Gardiner arose to close the ease for the state and eiul tiro argument. He ini- add rested the court and the jury, be-r ginning in a. low voice, with hands in pockets,, uiing ilijently that correctflasHeVasL li otnor y theand elegant English which he always ui;employs, putting the ‘right word in the right Place every time, he held ouJ 0SI* alt°iUion of a full housefor. lt;.no hour arid forty minutes. He proceeded lu a voice as seductive us the lyre of Orpheijs whose power was fo great that,, descending . into hades after, his. wif£ Enrydicc. he sp nf J charmed Phtto that he allowed the lvi woman tn depart from his dominion.• He mg rotted exceedingly counsel on the side .of 9lie defense -had gone out of. his way fo say thnf he had been “employed t.i- e.onvic't” the prisoner at the bar. He fiaxl searched*m-wardly to find out if lie bad/given cause for any Midi unworthy/suspicion but coiild find nothing/f n ’ wur-rant stp*h suggestion. Vmyho if from him to st rive-.to convict7 any one hegoCObottiide;11r\wiidr. in I ho hehisIds l ‘is lat1 vo at Ir. od lerrato'edu:O’i'1be*mildo*hn wri Id 4 can fordid rtat conscientious!/. believe gull* ty.» [Here his hands-Tarne out of hisir-•n’ktsonuptnipockets arid his ybice was pitched higher.] , O'ne otlier regret he had, which was 1 fiat/th rod big men should strive to- muddy the waters so that the divert y^ter truth could not see clearly, \lucli had been made of the fact thar. tlic young defendant h^d• ’ * i , 1 |established h good character .up to the jHmp ofi the regretful affair for which he wps indicted, There nevera , lived a criminal who could not showbe:schslidsh^theth£.foiltainonijI eta tenli clt;rjitrus-\uj^up ;i*vgoo'd character 1111 to tlid time [ lie com mitred his first crime. The | elder HeaIy ! wli0n first a3ked to explain how t;hc fatal ,■accjdgnt,, occurred said he : '•‘dldn’b know aeninIVir-rc?.idd—d thing about, it. that/be was in a buck room for behind'' tlie counterwhere he: couldn’t see.” SubHcpuent-n^jiy you liafe| seen how lie figured In .the accident) after it had been dramatically staged following undoubted Hx*hearsals. The morning after (lie boy went to work us usual; the :father was losing no sleep, and thetilw-*rxo-Is,*11stricken widow must weep with herIaIL«r*dr-teteniitslittle child tin her knee 011 defcpuntof the' dastardly act. It Ipxs lieenrStated: that jthe defendant 'scarcely could recognize a revolver. \% he met .one lir the road. Now whiit do-you ;think 6t that? And in Montgomery, u!*boy.;,6f eighteen not /familiar, with .fire .urine. • do you, believe it? • Tho state in this) case pimply asks justice. The la-w is/hot predicated onSnt\Chrthefilialgemofespepin’} ** i.be -r leas ning S. port the'diphtendtovvrVindictiveness 'or/revenge. It.is not:to compensate ,/a weeping wjdow or placate ah offended Deity, but an^[example should . be made to deterI
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Daviess County Democrat
Washington, Indiana, US
Sat, May 04, 1912
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