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Opal Etoet wpire flashy clones fair beyond the meads rdt fher pc^(?apiilythat the: deferse0/sho wed!; ftunt er's i to•• ■.}lt;lt; .-r-o.f?:srmgi'r ?\ :; )£?bity '• •*he. . . . V. • ; • : - TAfte/ the testimony, was . ^all ; Inboth ; sides agreed on one . hour for■** 'V -jf ..•- , . v- . r .J ’ .. *’ * * ' • ” ' I. •.each side to argue and Deputy Prose: cutor Brown opened with thirty mln-jiites for the state, citing law. goyern-ing such procedures. , _,Mr., Brown was ;followed by Attorney Murphy for the, ..defense, who.gave twenty minutes* talk to the jury in behalf of his client. Mr. Murphy was followed by Attorney Bernetha, also for the- defendant, who devoted -forty minutes of sob story introducing his poor, widow washer woman .with- -• fX * ■* * 'z 1 • m • - #jher three innocent children.,and• an tW®?.n ^f^tbr.pken mother,£ll j o£rwjxpni effectively sobbed during. ;bp€hf. Bemetha’s argu#ep|and secured., from the jury the. desired.** ' *' * f * . W I ‘ . ! Z • • • j ** i . iri... State’s Attorney McKesson closed the, argument. with a denouncing iyolley in which he classed Townsend, Good, Kessler and Barrett as “old libertines.” He soundly flayed Attor-• i * % # .ney Bernetha for the action , he had taken in the case and wiped up the earth with everybody connectedtherewith. •By those who heard McKesson’s argument it is stated that the Prosecu-tor covered the ground, clearly whipped the defense to a frazzle and that the state ,won the case except that the jury was swung by sympathy.
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Rochester Weekly Republican
Rochester, Indiana, US
Thu, Oct 07, 1915
Page 5
Full Page
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Anonymous
OH, USA 08 Oct 2018
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