Decatur Democrat, Volume 40, Number 9, Decatur, Adams County, 15 May 1896 — Page 6

ARGUMENTS BEGUN Colonel Nelson Gives Scott Jackson an Awful Scoring. ELOQUENT APPEAL TO THE JURY. ♦ I No Word* Seemed Too Bitter For Col- • onel Nelson to It ter Accused the Wit- j Messrs I'or the Defense ot Bring' Liurs and Perjurers Nothing but Death Can Attune For the Deed, lie Said. Newport, Ky., May 12.—The usual Crowd pushed their way into the court ! room yesterday morning, but the big rush of Saturday was not evident when court was called to order at 9:40 o’clock. , As soon as Judge Holm had taken his seat Jackson was brought in and Clerk read the minutes of the court as is rhe custom every Monday morning. It was rumored that it had finally been decided that Colonel Nelson would open the commonwealth’s case in the arguments, Colonel Crawford of the defense to follow, ami Prosecutor Lockhart to close, Mr. and. Mrs. Bryan and a number of . <> of lady friends occupied their usual ’ sea,|s Inside the railing, but Mrs. Jack- ; son and Mrs. Post were not present. ; Professor Post., however, cam • in early und ■ at beside Jackson during the morning session. A half hour was taken up in hearing I the regular Monday morning motions on I outside cases. ' At 10 o’clock the routine business of i the court had been finished ami Judge i Helm ordered the .jury in the Jackson case brought in, They had no more j than taken their seats when the court handed the attorneys soi 4 the prosecution and defense copies of the instructions which lie intended reading to the jury. > After this Judge Helm read 18 : instructions to the jury. When this was completed Colonel Nelson arose ami addressed the jury, during the course ol which he scor ’d the accused'unmercifully. In.part the able lawyer ..aid: _ , At 10:30 o'clock Colonel Nelson started • to make the opening speech for the Coin- | moiiweadHi. He,: said, in beginning: i "Your honor, I had not thought to make ! a speech in this case at ail, out fearing | that my silence may be m:scon.strue<l. I I decided to fulfill my duty to the family of I the muljered girl and to the ciimnrtm- j Wealth. My—position here; gvmttemen, is . unique. lam mit, the sworn olticer of tins j commonwealth and neither do 1 represent j any person. I stand hereutterly impartial. ' Against tlie prisoner at tlie bar I have no | personal animosity. I '’ can have none. I But 1 have against the perpetration of this 1 horrible crime that has stained our stale | with blood: against the human brute who j not only killed hi* poor .victim, and who | mutilated her body ami threw it upon the I public highway, as if it had b'emi carion. |. I feel it my duty to' say iiiat for.the aged ; mother who iiurt itied this defendant, woo | traveled down imo t iie dark shadows and I valley •>: death to give him birth, I have > nothing but •he greatest sympathy For the sister and for the brother-in-law who | have-stayed by :he side of this prisoner I : extend my m.epest sympathy. But our J syam .thy mu.-' not affect our duty, and i we owe it 1 o the p lilic to lio our f ull duty. ' He said that he was unable to recall an- , other crime which had so al tia ted the.attention of bile reading ..worid as this one that was soon .to go to the-jury. The Whole I oiled States whs looking this week to Newport to learn what tlie jury i in lids most awful case would do. He I said tire jury would .have b-it one propo. - i tion to determine. amt that was. was tu.e 1 murder ol a young woman, the mutilation i of her body, the dumping of'it upon the \ public road a crime? The jury -would ! Have no dill'.ctiity in getting at the facts i from tlie ma-.- of teclmivalil.' about volim- j tary and involuntary manslaughter. He ; said: "I speak lor the eiliz.eiis of rhe ; world, the whole civilised world .who has I watched this case wit h bated • breath. 1 tell you now. men of Kentucky, that I -■ shall not be.-at tst let], .1 tell you that Hie state of Kentucky wili not be satisfied, the civilized 'world will iio’t be satisfied, the parent’s of tins poor murdered girl will, not be satisfied witlT anything less than a verdict that .-avs that tins, human bijute I (pointing at Jackson, who turned pale) . shall-be hanged .by the neck until he be I dead, dead, dead. If J. he re is to lie a farce ’ about lids’, ;. this is to be a-n;,tiling.le-s than tire ! Ji penalty of the 'law I'orjlii/it roc: ent -v . i i i t.eli you f anklv, then of Kcciucky. : i.-u ! yr.-ier fur yo‘l tn turn loi.’i J<io-e'’npu:i this comm iiily .-md thus I tell- >eii; nslli.-o i -rlei’ i iy be.done 1 w ith impu ir ’u. '. -m . " ' . J’risonei- Severely s, I. CoTeiel Neld,n 1 lien described at length tic! li le ol . .U.l'.lil- I'-' ..I (It Gl’.’ill- < ~-1 ie ii Pea; I a- : hi-ir 'la-i 1 bl : :■’li 'I I I ’ 1..-- llpalli e- - t I ’ I • . 11. y had hi ill 11-11 IH the.).-itv.lii -nd. ‘: | m that lata! i-lih oj Anu i-i ii.-;i..-it imml’er i .i.it.is oonsiderid in lues;, -‘tvi- find man coming ; into that uiiieiowno! tiri-inc.i-i ie—a man ! who Im.- t r.. eie<l m ro- theb:my At hint ic,’ who lias bi , im i-diivateii m the east. He spok-'sol c-eotl .laekson’.- me -liiic witli tlie lit:sophist:.-. ;<■'<!./ .uriidmg. truslilig, iimo- ' cent filth ♦if ■ry ".irl., —living mm 1 the- 1~ pretty Imjirnia io-.', n. (.'(.loiiel .V' lson then beg in to/pick up i the l hi’e.'ids of the tesiinioi.v. He took up .first t in- stateim-nt of Dr. Gillespie that J.-wk-oii iioo i olddTnrrytrin lurlTnU ta'lm’mti quite tv it li Henri Bryan, and he argil. I that ihi- si.rt-ement.; made’by Jackson's f rieiid, i'ont; ailicleii.Scot t Jai-Kson s t -tijildiiy on the stand. Ffe then took irp JacxSOll's testimony and he dwelt 'at some length on t he,, latter’s efl-.rl to place the Blaine for Pearl Bryaii’s'Condition imon J Will -Wood. lie .-.fid’: ‘ Sci-tt Jaeksmi ( Bwiiii's” I hat this boy. Will W ood, kept ! writing.tp him. pleading to.him lo'-»help j himi'out of a serapgw ith Pi ayl-i’ry in: He | himself hayi mwur had atiyt liing to do with | I’e.-n) B’i'vi’m up to that, limn Yon saw i »iii,.i'im'ii vt-iwn his .own counsel asivert, I ‘Were ytrtl ever improperly bitrniate-wiih J'ear! Bryan. ’ . | -‘‘Willi a.i elfronfery that Beelzebub-him.-ell might have envied, before the I Ugrii parej.-ts of iliis gii-J, .before an audi- j cnee comp<’.-.e<l largely of ladies, he sa.ys m ( a loud voice, 'f-ib I.' That makes the man 1 promt of bi- ij-rmo -1 i.ell yim .Had comes . scorn ahv iri liti'mly black, unaiihcted by pangs of ° : ' --c'’.’iii e I slionid think that, after ; lint Ur blush of shame fvouhl ! cometbthi . man setu-ek and never leave ; it until he went til 'l.he gi-ive. 1 sal'.tbiiio wiiifioui in.ilic-’. wit:lio.uY-.ing'.‘.r--in ihe-in- ; ■ tere-i oTde ■>.' aitd i / zVccii-es. Witui sses of I’erjury. He I hsgj lii” 1 ed-.j.icksoir.- te-timbiiy. I lie -aid th.’ii • c i.-oil 1,.i . -w-n’ii that be hail pev r been in; imate \\ ;th p. arl Bryan ' until .afu-iu.be hid :ei-iwil .V- .4 Irma XVili \\ -lo’.i : i;.‘t IL-.irl l!i-v.i:i v. - in' irimble. He.- pmuti-d out that' Te u,orj' had tv.-,rif;r-<l that. ,’ißei' lic.-ufug ot I'earl Jjryim.s I riuilij”, he then wept out to the Bryan,lion-- and In ■ liny m imme with’ fhegiri. jle'-: ; d: I'Memcflbrs jiiry.', the •* MV MM Y* *-• *_•’ 4"-<•

Ils deep as the bottomless pa of hell, mid if yon believe that -lory. 1 wish to -ay that you have less Intelligence than | thought you had "hen 1 -e.e’te.l youyis jumrs,.” fie <■ >mp ip’il Ii- kson and It ill tV.’od, and -iid licit -1 ick-on was years Old. Will Wood 19 He - till the boy Was the pupil of the man, ami the darkiyi the defense painted tin- character ot Wood, i tlie blai ker they made theii own H<--<i: i that Scott. Jackson was a man 5-i years ' old in experience. Colonel Nelson then said that according to this testimony of Scott Jackson there was not a witness who had te.-tilied for the commonwealth ; who had net committed perjury. He dared Colonel Crawford to point out one i witness who had not beetupoitfradieted by I the prisoner. ''"’T Colonel Nelson held up the testimony of Scott Jackson on the witness stand. He picked out al) tlie weak spots in it, and commented strongly upon them He dwelt at some length on the inijirobability’ of Jackson’s story—that he had first seen Pearl Bryan in Cincinnati on Tuesday morning and the last time on Wednesday evening “Is t here,” cried Colonel Nelson, “any one that is expected to believe this? Does the defense think that there may be one juror on this bench who may .be so ig^LT l ' ant as to believe this:’' . He up the testimony of Mrs. Weeks, the spiritualistic medium, to whom lie referred as a matronly, sweet woman, who stands well in Cincinnati." “Do you believe her," cried Colonel Nelson, turning to Colonel Crawford “No, 1 don't." said Crawford. “Thank God for that confession. I say, thank Go.I for that." cried Colonel Nelson with a dramatic gesture. He said that Mrs. Weeks was supported by a host of other witnesses, ami should not be contradicted. She was backed by Dr Fortmeir, John W. Foster, old man Piukliard and others. He said: “The defense brings up Hub Schwartz, a reporter ol The y nquirer, to contradict Dr Fortmeier. Which will you believe: That honest doptoraud Mrs. Weeks or this newspaper reporter." Turning to Coldm-1 I 'rawtord and shaking bis finger in his face he said: "Was Mrs. Week'- a liar- Was Dr. Fortmeier a liar? Was J. W. Foster a’liar? Was Mr. Piukliard a liar? Were they all liars? Shovel tlie Bloody llress. He then passed to a discussion of the meeting on.tiie streetsbetween Scott Jackson, Alonzo WaHing and Pearl Bryan. He despribed Pearl Hrynn's dress, ami. reaching under t'he talde, he pulled up the checked dress which was found on the headless body. It whs dirty and covered with blood, ami as Colonel Nelson walked slowly toward the prisoner, saying, "This bloody dress, this bloody dress." amid the intense silence, the scene was so dramatic that a woman in the crowd cried out. “This is dreadful Os all the witnesses to this dramatic episode no one appeared more unmoved than the prisoner. A- < olonel Nelson moved toward him.holidngthe bloody dress high alo't. Jackson smiled and looked the artornev for t he com mon wealth squarely in the eye.' A few minutes afterward Colonel Ni-i;on took up the consideration of the witness for the defense, and he said that Jack-on was only too ready toaceuse the commonwealth of perjury because he was trying : > use perjury himself. Coloiwi Nelson then took up Allyn Johnson and the -tTorts of the defense to impeach hi- te-timony. lie said that the defense had employed John Seward, of whom the jury Inal heard, to deal with Allen Johnson, "And," said Colonel Nelson, "I supppo-e you know how .lofan Seward went out of rhe state of Kentucky on the trail of ihat other truthful friend of his, Wiiltain Ft. Trusty." Colonel R. W. Nelson concluded his argnmenr at 1.0 niinu es before five yesterday afternoon, having 'spoken foir hours and 20 minutes.' Attorney Hayes returned tw <^r< ■(•nt-astle 1. st night. He will return as assistant counsel in the Walling c.t-e. Throughout Colonel Nelson made the testimony r's Scott ,hick-o:i in his own defense the point of d<-( arture, pivot, and nixdeus of hi-argument. He never stT.-.yeiT fm from this -tarting point. Item by it> :n lie held up the testimony of Scott Jackson before- the jury and arrayed in contradiction the evidence of a m-ultitude of, unbiased reputable witnesses. Jlore than Once with consiimate. art he made reference to the John Si-ward conspiracy to silbt.q-dinate .witnesses v liich was consttfiiniated only in part by tim introduction of William R. Trusty whom Colonel Crawford dis- ■ claimed inlmedtarely after he testified. 1 Scott Jack-on, tin- ]. -isoiier. never before came so near-losing his self •Composure. ‘ ’ ■ -i LYNCHED A NEGRO. Mob Mol es Quick Work of a Man Who Cut a Kentucky Marsh il. r FCLTby. Ky., May 12.—One gjf the three )it,gi’o.-s implicated in tin cntthfg ; of City Mai-iial Walker Saturday was.arre-red by the at Arlington, K„v -a t l ’"' miles north of Fulton ye-i- may, who in aC'-mpting to arrest him shut him jlt-l above the left lung. "The m-gfo was brought to Fulton by Si.eriti PttrduQ, but the mob whi' h ic 1-. afhiTed at tlie depot ru-bed nuiuly npim-tl-i l ' negro ami swung iit'ii up. The ii'-gro confessed his guilt while, time . aiV'-.t at Arlington. Th*-oth--r two mg. s ii-iiair.it' it ar» still at large.

33 i’chan Town Destroyed. L’A-> :. Mim,-., Mat lA— Th? fire whici; swept through .this. jmK-e Siiturday u!'■ ■ -n>xfti and iii&ht burtutd itself out at ! l Aright .The' entire town ex- ; ci-pt a lev. ■ attercd houses Wh's de-| stroy'd. JulTy families, numbering alxi ■ll ,-’J ■<> ;> mi:-. :: I_. I*< jme less,: Tiny, . loss is roughly ' stimaied at from : 000 to : .."iO-.000. The homeless people are. living in sheds hastily erected or have found refuge at Baraga, across the bay. ' • , - ■ TELEGRAPH TICKS. Ext.en.-iKe wind and rainstorms did $50,000 damage in the vicinity of Augusta, Me. j Joseph B. i’oraker indigmintly denies that, lexis hacking the A.TA.A. movement ! against McKinley. Mustapba Bey, .under secretary in tin', l foreign ministery, has been appointed Tiirki-Ji mim-ger at. Washington. Henry t'uyler Bunner, editor of Pitck, j died ye-i ci day afternoon at his home in Nntley.. A'. J-, from tubercular consumption.. , . '■ Ex-Police [.'amain Sammoy of Bullald, found guilty-^,f Hits njurde'r of Police Ser- ( geani Cautlin, ha’s been sentenced to iui prissymient for life? Governor 'McKinley states that if he te the noiiiicr-e of t he Ifiipublican convention for pff- . Ivin carry on" the ca.ni•paign . '.a (on, (). Str’ ’I Kigers al Jersey City has Mjeen • :■ ■ the nien retjjtniiapa. I wor. ■ . ■ c'.vs uikftf Aiig. 1, w-heu I theii i'. .lum'i J ill be-granted. i Fierce forest fires, arc now raging throu .' io'il Go ar leld. Elk -and .leiferspn. CutitLli'. i’n. Xlahy ,-sawmiHs have beer , burm-d.i.id i-i'lij: : drnnhge to property.done. | A. J.eSuA'ckcrL„ul Loui-syilhi, presidei.it M the defunct German-American Till*. company which a.si-igned. last week foi, fijOO.Ooo and whose affairs were found in a. muddlv'l toiuh on,has disappeared. ‘

DON'T LIKE DELAYS I• x > j < Slowness of Supreme Court Incenses the People of Spencer. : WANT DECISION ON LIQUOR LAW. llenioustrances to Be Circulated Against Applicants For License- I’lot to Dynamite a Wheatfield Residence Thwarted. 'School Enumeration Falls Short -Second Attempt at Suicide Fails—Note*. Spencer, Ind., May 11.—There is much discontent here over the delay of decision in the Nicholson law appeals before tin* supreme court. Both the license and ant ilicense people are anxious for a decision, and they can see no reason why it should not be given before the remonstrance tight is on in the June term of commissioners’ court, i'At the March term three licensed sahsms were knocked out here, and an ap- | peal was taken to the circuit court; By agreement the cases were continued pending the supreme court’s decision. This was done to escape costs, which would accrue and fall on the losing parties. Last week notice of application was given by four person-, three of whom wish to do business in t ie places which were denied license at the last term of commissioners’ court, and which have been continued as quart shops. One of the applicants is a son of the former applicant, who was defeated "by remonstrance. One is the | brother of another defeated applicant I and the third is a clerk of a defeated applicant. Remonstrances will be ci re tn lared against all, commencing this week, directed specifically against each applicant. ] THWART A DYNAMITE PLOT.

Three Sticks of the Explosive Found Under William Koadabushs House. Wheatfield, Ind.. May 11. —Intense excitement has been caused here by i finding three sticks of dynamite under ' the house of William Roadabuhe. The officers claim to have -discovered a eon- ( spiracy in which JO persons are impli-. ■ cared, rhe purpose being to wreck the ! premises and sacrifice human lift*. I Roadabush,. it is stated, lias incurred the enmity of'a number of persons, which led to a plot whieh failed of executie in. — SNAKE IN AN FGG. Most Remarkable Story Verified by (Citizens of Goshen. | Goshen, Ind., May 11. —While pre-i paring the morning meal a domestic in ! the employ of Ma jor J. B. Cobb discov- ! ered in a large egg which she had just ; broken one of the greatest curosities in the shape of a light colored snake about four inches long, which soon showed signs of life, and is alive and doing well. | The truth of the story is verified by ! some of tin* best citizens of the town, who were called in as witnesses. Preparing l or the Fourth. Lafayette, Ind., May 11. —It is ox- I ported there will be a big time at the /. State Soldiers’ .Home On 4th of July, as it is intended to have an old fashioned dedication -on that date. Invitations have been sent out ti> the State officers, General Harrison, General Lew Wailace and manV of' er distinguished cit.i. ■ zens of the* Hoosier state, and the prospects are the day will be one memorable i to Indiana. Elwood l iieniaii Suicides, i I I Elwood, Iml.,_Mn.v 11. Charles Vanness, a member of the tire, department, while shaving himself, . fearfully gashed his throat, dying withiin ini hour. There is no known cause. ; for the suicide, as he had a good post- I tion and. his home relations were‘pleas- I . ,int. He leaves a widow and three ehil- ! Iron. School Convention Fallw Short. Indianapolis, May 11.—Superintendent Greeting hopes to have the official figures of tiie enumeration of -school children .ready for presentation to the state board of education at its nmetin:., ’ next Wed nesday. Tire total decrease in the state will not be less than ,’>(),(lot). d Second Suicidal Attempt Fails. “M'h.'Kirnrr.' Ind;. May 11. —fe. Ada t Ore; ger, ’’a years old, has njade. a see. ' Ond attempt to. end her life by-taking 'poison,. If is thought sheAvilFrei <e i f. ■ Tyo*.yea.r< ago -she made a-similar effort , "tb'end her existence. Despondency is ; tlii- supposed cause. . Workmen Overcome by Heat. AVap.a;-!!. Ind., May 11. Saturday ! was the hoi fi <f day o. t he. surijig here, ' , the, tlyrijio/neter rising to 91 >7 Four |e men employed on the rock cutting .attne Big Four yard 'were overcome by i the heat-ami are in a serious condition, i INDIANA NEWS NOTEST“~' I \ . y__ . _ Rev. Noah Zook of A In-line, Kan., was robbed of Stland ;rw;it.ch while visiting at South Bend. i Twenty hogs and 10 cattle had to he ■ i killed in Posey county bir account of liav- . , ing been bitten by a-maddog. I Tilden Dean was aecidentally killed at | ' Fairland. A number As friends were i shooting at a mark when t he’ accid'ent oc- • | curred. ! I Joseph Davis was badly burned at Logansport in ap explosion which/jpas caused - by a,sp.ark frbin a cold chisel igniting es- i cajiiirg gas. ■ • , | Edward Barnhill, a Shelby county farnii er, was kj!led while shooting fish Saturday. lie hail climbed a tree and in some way his rille was dK-liarged. The case against PJtiiip Hank for cans-I ing the deat ii of t.rar-e Ab t Tun rock will be on triffl »<><!.. before E '-'. 'S.nyder,.l Bpecia.l jjidgt-T M..G" "-fi.i-d-ivjih . . . - I An insane lytui .•■ . v, as locked lip -T i -■-Hebron ftp ally fractured Iris skull bybutting hie head -agai list the wall. .Nothing is kjrowiT a’s to-whodie is or where lie ' came ffonf. "" - ■T? a ircnry7Siifs, well known farmer of j poi-liT i-oiijity, wlpk* at Kent's -Litionex- : I pressed ul’feui-iliatjie'would'be murdered, imp .gave no particulars. ' Imm.i-diately -lift- i '■ lerward lie disappeared, arid, fie has li.eeti I 1 missing for several (lays. There is bar I 1 -that Irejias been killed and his body surifk | lu the Kankakee river. . . 1 » *«■ At- - - ’ ,

1 not se rttocr. vime. W’orlc Mnppr.il Out Io Be Done by ConThii Week. I Washington. May 11. —The indications are Ihat the house will drift along fur the remainder of the se—ion giving conference reports on appropriati'ii bills | the right of way ami il;-p> sing of such I incidental matters as it can. There js a good deal of presstire from certain quarI ters for the consideration of the Paeihe railroad funding bill and the immigration bills, and while there is a probability that the latter may be considered at the session the leaders in control of the ! house seem to have set their faces I against the funding bill for this session | unless it is prolonged beyond present anticipations. I This is District of Columbia day and ! I Wednesday is pre-empted of the special orde ' giving it up to the consideration I of pnzate pension bills. It is likely i that t. e contested election cases of Rin- , akor vs. Downing and Murray vs. El- j liott, which were to have •been consid- 1 ewd last week, will, with such eonfir-I eiieo reports as are presented, occupy ' the remainder of the time. The legis- i lative, executive and judicial, the sundry civil and naval bills are now in conference. It is not improbable that a resolution regarding the protection of | the two Americans sentenced to death by the Spanish authorities at Havana may be presented and furnish the text for a reopening of a discu—ion of (’ie entire Cuban situation. IN ’ MEMORY OF BARON HIRSCH. 1 Hebrews and Christians Yesterday Fill Temple Enianuhl Church. ' New York, May 11.-m Hebrews of all . shades’of belief and a goodly sprinkling of Christians filled Temple Emanuel at ' the special memorial services for the late Baron Maurice de Hirsch yester- : day. Tlie services were opened by the ’ singing of the anthem "Cast Thy Bur- , den Upon the Lord’’ by the choir. Rev. i/Stephen S. Wise, rabbi of Bnai Jeshu- , run, delivered the opening prayer and : I was followed by Colonel John B. Weber, i late commissioner of immigration, who : knew the baron intimately, and who t delivered an address. Hon. Oscar Stans and lion. Simon W. Rosendale also paid ( glowing tributes to the memory of the j deceased. Rev. Kaufman Kohler of Temple Bethel pronounced the benedie- . tion and the services were closed. Forbid Dead on Hi- Wife's Crave. Avilla. Ind.. May 11.—Lying across ■ the tomb of his wife in the cemetery j here Saturday wa- found the lifeless j body of John C. Se’neurick. aired 73. I Scheurick was a wealthy t.erman with- ! out near relatives. Nt ar him was found . 'an empty htorphine bottle. The coro- . ner’s inquest showed that lit'had been ' despondent for weeks, and had taken ' the drug to end his existence. I ’ 7 Methodist Conference. Cleveland, Muy 11.—Tih' delegates to the Methodist general conference are 1 beginning to discussthe coming election I of bishops,“which will be the business | next in importance to the disposition of ! ; the woman delegate question. It has . j been decided that no noiniiiatibiis will | be made, the list being open to aS fnany i candidates as desire to enter. Killed by a Train. Elkhart, Ind., May 11. —Teolil Cobbens was run over 'ey Slfore pas- 1 seliger train ami in-taiitly killed at , South Bend. The coroner rendered aj verdict that Cobbens metL.-Jits death while lying upon the truck in a drunken stupor. } ELECTIONS CONTEST Dupont Case Will Follow the River and Harbor Bill. RESULT DEPENDS ON POPULISTS. District of Columbia Appropriation Bill ’ Is Jjlxpected to Arouse Debate In tlie ■ Senate -Cuban question May Come I' |» ■ Again — House Will Work on Appropriation Bills. WASfJTNGTON', May It.—The probabilities, are that the consid ration of tlie, : river and harbor appropriation Inll will ’ lie concluded tofhty. According toagrec- ■ meiit this bill will be followed by tlie re.-olutam to -• a! Mr. DofsniT as a senator from Delaware. AVith’ the Dupont resolution disposed of the bill making appropriations foritlie Districtol (Jolum- ' bin will be considered, ami it will probably consume the remainder of the ; week. i Only the provision, in the river and i harbor bill for the (■on-rruetioti of a 'breakwater at Saul a Alonica, Cal., re-nmin-.io bo acted, ‘upon. Itlsfuot expected to remain long in conference, as : there is a disposition iqanit'est in both i houses to get the hill to the'presitlebt us ' early as practicable - This is due, to the ! fear of a..veto and to the determination to remain in session long'emmgli togive I congress time, to net m case ol stieh adverse indorsement by the president. ' The agreement i.i regard to -Hi DuI pout case is that it shall bo taken up for I debate immediately astir the disposal of the river and harbor bill and that a * vote shall I t::Le.ii not later than a ' o’clock of tlie second day after th< “de- | bate begins. It is dbuhtfiil whetlierthe ! entire time al+ovved for oebate willdie i required. T-h Ti- dt of ihp vo: ei- -Uli ;in doitf t. : t.ileiie'mls upon one or two i Populi-i u’s. wim nav not made He ,r | iooo known so far as ’can bv aseertiiiiieij. ■ver.'. 1 f qf'nr s in Hi <lisj trici J 'I! which ■ are exp* < tjxi to arct se I debate, but .i ii -.a■ > '■ ■ l< ■ m ■ : '*'i l the. CIO of tlie W'.’CK til. co. : .i;;l ico OH i appropriations will have tlie lorldicafion appropriation bill ready to tainnTp and will press.its consideration. The-re will, however, be strong pres-irre in. that event to work oil flio<’;i!<.'ij'iar. The Uiitian'situation as pia-seiitcd . by. the impesil ion ot. the iliuitli senteqcc upon the members of the. .t.'on>p< liter -■ party brings forxiard— a .'iw.blejiU ii,' ■ •fasting < oiiditibn, which may result in j tin alf-ianpt at action on I liis (jir.-t iym. I by the somite during tlie. xveek.. In Eupg I the out look in this direction is full of possibilities. ". .. , ~g;'

'CRAWFORD ARGUES Pleads For Scott Jackson's Life and Liberty. ATTACKS CINCINNATI POLICE. I - ___ i Vse* Vindictive Word* In Dl— .‘■•ling tllo Speech ofColonel Nelnon Snystlie I’r.Mecutlon Conducted Its C.—e <m Die** Parade -Arraign* Will Wo.nl ami Call* Him a Dirty Little Scotmdrel. Newport, Ky., May 13.—Yesterday i morning Colonel Crawford returned th« i tire of the enemy, who is thoroughly in- . | trenched in the fortress of public opin- . i ion, with a keen, steady fire of argu- , j meat that only a mail making on up i hill fight can make. His guns were long ' and slim and deadly; they sent the prol jeetiles of legal points, well made, straight to the bull’s eye. Oecasionally tlie speaker waxed eloquent and left the even road of clean argument, and when he did the artillery of the defense was just as loud and deafening aiql thunderous as that of the prosecutiun the day i before. I Just before the time of opening court ; Mrs. Jackson, mother of the prisoner, leaning on tin 1 arm of her daughter, j Mrs. Post, came in and took :m easy chair reserved for her. Mi's. Dr. Lewis was in the party and they all took seats about the prisoner’s chair. Jackson was lirought in a moment later and court was called .to order. The jury tiled in and there- was a short delay’ : caused by the uon-appearanceof Colonel Crawford. j Shortly before court opened Deputy Circuit Court Clerk Reuseher brought i in a handsome bouquet of rose- aud ■ placed them on the table for Colonel , Nelson. At 9:40 Colonel Crawford entered the , courtroom ami was told by Judge Helm, as he was late, to hurry. , Calls It Unjust Prosecution. i Colonel Crawford turned’at once to . the jury, and said: “After four weeks lof unremitting labor, 1 stand before ! you on behalf of this most unhappy I student as against the most selfish, most ; bitter, most unjust pro-eention of mod--1 ern times. When the police force of I Cincinnati lays down a theory of a j crime, every circumstance, every net of I the prisoner goes to confirm them in ; their hypothesis. In the present in--1 stance you have a young man who was convicted by. Detectives Crim and McDermott at Greencastle, Ind., without the slightest* iota of evidence. They telegraphed to Cincinnati to glace him under arrest. From that time to this no investigation has been made in any i other direetiou. No effort lias been j made to seek another offender. “Colonel Nelson asked some question which he wanted me to answer. I Unasked you 'are yon a set of asses?’ I. ’ say ‘UO,’ He asked 'are. you ;.i jury of ’ idiots?" I say 'no.' He wanted me. to i say whether there was a witness for the , prosecution who had lied upon the stand. I will say that Plummer told the truth, and so did McDermott, so j did Crim, so * did Caldwell, so did ■ Deitsch. Whv. the family o f the mur- ’ dereil girl was not even eross-questioir <1 ■ by me. I have said no word against them, nor shall I. 1 have talk, d about Will Wood because it was necessary. The old mother,, father, brother and sister have my sympathy. There are two sides to the question, and the old mother of tlie prisoner, hi- family, yea the prisoner himself, has my most sincere sympathy in this hour of their percution. ' I “Plummer tells stand the Signe story of’ the an'C-t ,'Jac’kso'ii told, so does Caldwell, so does Crim, so does McDermott. When it comes, to the point about Jackson having thrown his coat into the sewer hole, it is contradicted by Chief Deitsch, and his statement is borne out by Judge Caldwell. ; \y h ile this is fresh in'iny mind Lam go--i ing to read from the record what Judge I Caldwell said on that point,’’ He then devoted a few -minutes to roasting Detectives Crim and 'McDermott, who he said are "characterized by an almost insane desire for notoriety.” • Coiitinuing, he said: "“Now .I viant to say another thing: The common- ■ ■I wealth has founlit this case upon stilts, i They have acted as, so iqany giraffe.-. I Their lieiiils have been in the. air. Did ; not Colonel Nelson say that if you could 'irqt-'tiiid the jifisonTT—gfrifty-of Ttnrrrterr- : }o‘ wanted you to turn hini, loose.i W-hai docstlial jneii'ii? It mean- that i the coiamoitweirltii iias liut one idea; I tlie idea iiiat. the, prisoner alone is i guilty. ' i I *l < fl<’i’s of Hie l.’j:i*<>ner. « j “Why did they not read those letters | of Seoit Jackson's?-. Was there pr<>i sanity in them? ,Js'ot a bit. They were betters—minly and fulLof beauty. ’ 1 say, unless their minds were intliuiied with prejudice and lilleiT with bitter-” ness and Tate, they would have rend I those letters, which' spoke-in terms of I eloquence in his favor and proclaimed , him a gentleman. , ■ " j Colonel Crawford then emphasized I the fact that although the defense had i 16 peremptory challenges of the jury, he j had '-exercised onlybhe. “Now, gentle--1 men,” he continued, “Colonel Nelson . starts out |iy trying to dig out a motive, ami he challeiigoiT me to- defend this man against the,' charge. 1 say to you ; that the testimony of Dr.' Gillespie is in ( his favor. Dr. G-illesuie says that he. j asked Jiu'kson H" he had ever nad enjnina.l iniiinacy with ’.Pearl Bryan, vid i Jackson said he It ad not.. Dr. Gillespie says again that Liefoi'O Jackfeori left Greencastle he asked b.:n the same i question, and this time Scott Jackson i admilti’d that.he had. Ido not thin ■ that a ina.n who ba- •:;<! ititimy’.v v. ,l;i a worn:;n t.-., a ban ■- a- 1 ’ 1 ■ • Lt it * were a i r:nr to be ‘intimal’’ with a women.. God 11 g "-'l' !;!' I, VI. I <(on t. I- nd St-1 n .Jacksoil io: litis. . But I ; to sa-y that he,was strm k by i-I’timer.-e Torltis tlqed. He says.to his old friend: :‘..Yul I was intimate with Pdarl Jlryap, and I am in gji'eat distress ti'bout ■ ■ . j. . . “It is an old story tor a innii.who- is m , a -crape wit h a gif-1 .to ini i 1 'dii".‘ a trii-ltd to her gm p.la'.aJTAlio trouble on tlie ■ - -IritmdN-fdiouluers.— Wooil’s lulerest In the Mattei'. “I don't say this is tin' her'-'. I only know that Will W<>od introduced Ji.tekson to the girl. In the light of I U<j

evidence about. WtskTs own statement to three respectable people, cun you i doubt that ho is the seducer of Penil ! Biynn? That infernal little scoundrel denied it on the stand, and said: I might have been foolish enough to say something of the kind.’ He, the cousin of the girl! Scott Jackson says that * Wood had been imploring liinitojdo something lor him in his dilemma. lj that strange? Jackson was a student • | some branches of medieiim. “Another thing, Colonel Nelson say*: He said two or three times, that I would not dare to support my client in his statemoiif that he had not seen Pearl Bi'yan since Wednesday. Jackson gons to the depot on Tuesuuy, Walling goes I to another. The girl does not come, I and the first they knew of her arrival is the note they received at the dental col- • lege saying she is at the Indiana House. 1 say that in his. statehient of these facts Jackson did not contradict himself i at all. i “As to the Indiaiigpolis episode. In conipaiiy wit h three or four boon cotnwont out for a good time and landed in a house of ill-fame. Stu- r dents are noted for such acts as these. They should be consider 'd as acts of boys’ folly. The house was pulled and the next morning he was fined $lO for • visiting the place.” Turning back to the story of Jackson’s life. Colonel Crawford-fsMtlrit Tip detail by detail and showed how it was corroborated. Colonel Crawford took up and contradieted Colonel Nelson’s argument about Jackson's tirst visit ta Greencastle. He showed that when Jackson went to k town, instead of loafing, he entered the office of Dr. Gillespie, ready to work for his living. He she,well that mit one , witness had been called to testify that Jackson’s reputation in Greencastle was bad, while a dozen had testified that his reputation was good. Jackson Not a Loafer. He said: "A hardworking boy—if ho ■ was dissipated, why have we not hud the witnesses to prove it? Only the detective from Jersey City, who had his own idea-, and who formed his opinion of Jackson because ot tlie Letts embezzlement. The testimony ot Doyle does not bear upon this case in tlie slightest degree.’’ | Colonel Crawford then called to the clerk for tlie letter written by Scott Jackson to Pearl Bryan on October 14, 1595. He read it to tlie jury, and called their atteiitimi to the fact that it was written two months alter Colonel Lockhart said that Jackson mid -educed Pearl Bryan. Beftire reading it. he said: “I don't blame the newspaper boys. They couldn’t stop to sift tins rumor find that. The defense had to keep quiet as tof its case. If we had said what we intended to prove the pojjce, t would have been after our .witnesses, and they .would have been threatened and badgered ami our case destroyed.” j He I lien discussed Colonel Nelson’s attack on Notary Collins of Cincinnati. | "But L have got away from this letter I again, this letter that Colonel Nelson I read to you with stieh dramatic’furor. I Colonel Nelson is dramatic or he is noth- I ing. He is either looming or he is ,8 standing still. You heard the miserable J rot and noii-cnse4ie got off about hanging by rhe neck until he is dead, dead, dead, and he went on with half a dozen more dead-. More play to tlie galleries. Now then, for the letter." Colonel CiTtwj'onl then read the letter which lias alrc.urv been published m these (li-pate)ie-. H then said: "Is 'this tin" letter of a lover? Where are th*) —tan'nis of e.ideariiienr? Where, are the_ references to tlie sinful part? Is this tlie letter of a man to a. gij'l whom ho had infatuated and seduced? .Fie upon such methods! It is of a piece with ; their whole stilted ease. There uro I oi lier letters written by Jack-on; tlify | liaye-,been placed in eyidenee: lint this is nothing more than it letter that any . gentlaman might write to a lady. "Wny, gentlemen, an incident that J ' shows how far they-go to twist the e.vi-’ ' deuce to their own ends was the letter I read from Wood to Jackson, in which o he said: ‘How is your friend in Ken- 1 tucky? ’ Colonel Nelson insisted on I knowing who the 'Kentucky’ friend k Was. ami when Wood said it referred to I Miss Blanche McCoy of Ludlow, Ky., | that matter dropped out of sight forever. As I said before in this case, g there has been but one scapegoat. The <' police found tlie victim, and they spent their efforts in building the fire around . him, ami the real offenders have been . allowed to. eseiipe.” How the Was Treated* During f i e afternoon argument Col- • onel Crawford -aid: "1 said something L tills morning about’ the merciless char- | acler of this prosecutioil I want to I snyjTisy one tiling, i:n>i'<‘. _“Jackson’s I iiiot’iei’, V’oii ■ re'll oai; r, -gave inni a l Bi'n’e, aud when-out sheriff told him he fl 'was going to iv-ntm-Kv tie picked up fl the, tiible. "Put that, down, you d—d f Jiyin'icrfte!’ tlie slierill'. told him. That | ■ gives some idea of the way he was a treat’‘il. Ihe quality of iiloTey is not g strained.sain ‘he speaker, as lie re- f peated the rest of tlie quotations from j Sliakspeare. - -- "... t ’The letter of July.2o, 189.-), which | Jackson wrote to Pearl Bryan, sending g Cicuioicncec.'.i'-’tit ii of her sister M ■ Miiuiie was read. "Ciin any niinWtW of the many who t;| have sat here day alter slay write a let-1| ter to a member of hjs firtek breathing |l F more of sympatliy'afyd purity than this I Jetter Scott Jackson wrote?” demanded *1 Crawford impressively. “It does not (J follow that because the poliec of Cincin-|M i natidiaye saddled tills on Scott Jacksopjj i tharhe is guilty.” H U “Is that the only time when Scott|| i Jackson showed tenderness? Mayorfl ' Caldwell testified that-when he wasO I brought iiffo the ,presence of the author-fifl ; ities he walked up and down the floor;! i and asked. ‘Qh, God, what will . becomeffl ■ of my poor mother?’ Conchiding Argument. ■ f Colonel. Crawford having exhausted® ■ his voice at a. quarter before 5 o’clock,'fl court- adjourned till this niorniiig:® UrflAvfiird tin:.-lied this mornr.iir and is® i being follow cd by Commonwealth .At-® tbrm y i.ockhart who will conclude torw the pro-i-ciite o. so as to give tlie casojj 1 to the jury i ' afa jonriiing hour this aft-ifl jer noon. (,'0.0i..4„ Crawl' til’d’ devotedM I much of his argument in an attempt tofl ■ discredit the test.inipny .of the two ne-M ; grot-' Alien Jolni-mi amt George llfl I Jackson, tiioi.h lan, but is greater es-H • io'rt was to ei’e.i.i" a i((iulii as to wht'thei® tire girl was ki.iic.l in Ohio or Kentucky® unit 1-" 111 i-.-lai.li-ii an alibi for Scot® Jackson. ■ may be the merits of hi 1 fl case ami of bls argument it is con® ceded by all that (’olonel CraAvfoffd r® i K making :■ stdin it Lghf i’ol' his client. ,®