Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 July 1894 — Page 9

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THE XKWI.AM) Ml'HUKIl C ASi: III;. CALLED iiv m: o. iiii.i:v. MaJ. J. M. (nnlou'K )Iaiilliccnt Speech Ifor th Mnle UfTort of the brilliant Advocate Keuardeil n Ihe ftrentest f Ills I.reI limit r t the I. tt Iphelri Ja Mulrlilt ()ralor rhratti Thnt Are Considered n the Urteiltest Uema of t'orrnlp I'loqafnce ETfr Vltmd by ort American I.arrjer. The Indianapolis bar us well as every advocate in the country respects th memory of MaJ. J. W. OnMon, who died ten years ago, after having reached the summit of fame an a criminil lawyer. His reputation was national, and It was said cf him that ho defended fc uccesi fully mo re men charged with murder than any other four men in the United States. Never in, all his career was there tut one- of his clients hung, and his. case was taken to the supreme court of the United States three tlme3 on errors. In- the celebrated Clem murder case llaj. Gordon secured five trials, two reversal. i'.i the fujirrme court and finally tlrcl the ftaie out so completely that his .cheat wad freed. MaJ. Gordon was a man of vigorous and determined manner with a wonderful ekill In analyzing lmn,n actions. His great forte was trying fraud and murder cases, and In t.Veo he was known as the "Great I leJendrr." After n. careful election off the Jory he would address one man at time like Choate, gradually passing to every eine cf the panel with a Joke, story, illustration or reason peculiar to the trad' or employment of each. This, added to Ms aenarat perception of character, rendered 1dm aJmost invincible "before a Jury and accounted for his wonderful BUOCCSS. Leon O. P,alley, wh was nssodatod with MaJ. Gordon In the practice of law during the latter part of Ms career, was asked tha other day ni f what MiJ. Gordon regarded as his m-'St satisfactory piece of work, and rolled that hi had often hard the brtlllaut advocate speak of the Newland-Hvana ca.-e with greater RAtUfactlon tlian any other of hla many interesting criminal cases. "In that ciue," fiM Mr. Tlilley, "MnJ. Jordon wag not for the defense. lut represented the ttate. Tho tWendant, Pr. ilflasnificenf

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Hnjamln Ne-wland. was one of the most prominent men in the state, his daughter having1 married a son of Governor WilI.ud. It was a murder case in which the defendant shot down the betrayer of his daughter. The facts wer not disputed; there w.Li no contradiction of the evidence; it was a. rase where th Jury wat call upon t decide whether a man should be punished for avenging the- desecration of his homo." Mr Italley then told the following story of the calibrated case: "It was shortly aftr the el-se of the war, and there lived r.ear each (..her in Iledfor I. Ind., two nun, both of whom were prominent and widely known throughout the stav. One of them was Dr. Benjamin X Irland and lh other Prof. Madison Kvsns, the latter bdng a teacher and a minister of the rjsu-1 jn the Christian church, Uoth were men of families and had lived ;.! by hide for years: their fandile had grown t i j toother, although tha children of Dr. Xewland were the ollr. hi hejng seeral years tho Konlor tf his neighbor. Helen .Netliind' Con fesMlon. Th-i fdles-t of th doctor's daughters was Miss Helen Xewland, a beautiful, brllliuit and highly educated young lady of nineteen years, who had for four years ben attending a board school near Terre Haute. In the month of February, during t ho fourth ye ir ie had been attending the boarding pehool, sh; returned home upon ono of her vacations and the name evening lmjrted to h-r father uHiie Informi t Ion tliat drove the blii from his c!vk an-1 tile d his heart with 51 deadly hatred nr.d d- slre for revenge, Amid tear a and appeals for inrcy, hat fair daughter bad told ber father that not only was the then ruined, 1 t 1 1 that for four years, dnee she was a thlld of fifteen, she had been maintaining Improper relations with his frK-nd and nelnhbor, Trof. Madison Kvans. T-o hours after the daughter had called her father to th- parlor to impart to him the terrible wertet, Dr. Xewland left hl homo, walked with nervous stride to hhs offlee, dropper) a revolvy Int'j his len ket, tM,k from his amputating case a k'-en-edg.d knife nn 1 Härtel for th. ho-iHM of Prof. K;m. Mrx. Hvans, then in very delicate health, men him at the ...r and after the visitor had declined to come in, told him that h r husband was In town on buslneHS, hut WOUld be Kiek Wltllll (1 tl hour. There lay b. twern the tmoi and the profrwyor's hollMe a deep ho!,iv, hl h rerpilred the do.-..r to 1. sei-n.l ne hill aril a--eo'd another. II" was h. ard to piss down the Kill with rapid t rides und loud bie ithi:i'.'. II- h. .1 p.ts. . d the Smill, m-plllig Kirealll th'tt flowed fenlly b-tW'-etl the J 1 1 1 1 - i:,d .'f.l rtliUC lO oerid the other Mil wh t In the .1 lrkn -.'s, wbl.'h ti e f. , M- ,,f the moon were unable to fen.-i f.ite and d!-pd, there

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were heard the pounds of approaching f-wtstep.. The desperate man stopped, clutched hLs dewdly knife and revolver and shouted: "TMjo comes there?" "Kvans" The next day the body of the murdered man Vas found where it had been left, th damp hair ting washed hy the waters of the lVt'tl- brook that ran by. Dr. XVwland was awakened from his fevered Hep and simply said: "N'hen he came lip, I told Mm I was going to kill him and why. He begged me to ppare his life, but I laufb.efi nt hWn. He' dropped At tb first shot." Th wounds upm the body of the derenn were numerous and of the jno?t ghastly and deadly character. Dr. Xewland on Trial. The case was transferred from Lawrence to Floyd county and trld at New Albany. There were no disputes as to the facta. The murder was confessed, the excuse bein pleaded ns nufUclent and Justifiable cause, although Insanity was claimed by the defense. The defendant was acquitted, not because ho was believed to have been insane at the time, but because the Jury regarded hin as so wronged in his paternal rights and affections by his victim, tht he hal a rieht by a higher and an oldr law than that of the land, to kill the reducer of his daughter. The 5trange5t part of It all. though. Is thati It was subsequently developed that MI'S Helen Xewland was not in the condition fh feared she was whet; rhe madrs her confession to hor father, and it has since been a matter for doubt as to whether the tale Kho told h"r father was true In any cfn.. The truth cf the ftory was not allowed to be gone into Oy th stat as the court hel l that it was sufficient that the father believed It to be true when he slew Hvans. Concerning this feature of th case MaJ. Gordon used some of his most powerful eliquence. 'I had hopd." s,4ld he, "that there Fhould be no oeeaslon to assail the character of Miss Xewland. According to h-r own testimony she is now nearly nlneten years old and was four years ago as nearly flft"cn. She was a member of the church, the bright daughter of a go. h1 mother. She was even thn of marriageable age. She held a high position In society. According to her own Ftatcmetit vht must have fallen Into c soon after that time and kept it tip during all the time Intervening between then and now. She clothed forrde itlon and adultery In :he habiliments f virtue, morality nnl religion, and lived In lie? le-aits of her parents, the to.m of t'-a church and the social circles of th" town a- a pure, chaste and religious girl when she had no tiht to any other character linn thit of a vlcl .u.s and wicked woman She il.'o iu .l all who apsoeiate I with hT

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or were related to her. Father, mother, church and general so let y all b!leved her hart thr. ehrln of purity, when. In fact. It was the stew of the most UJthy passions that degrad- and ruin mankind. What right has phe now to claim the confidence of the courts and Juries of tha country? Deception's . ca Ii I n g Helmke. "Can deception go further or be maintained longer than she has already carrleq it? he never connected the nam of Madlon l'vans with her fall until assured by her father that If fhe w&ukl glvo up the name of her reducer lu would not dtlvo her from his homo. Here then was motive quite Ru'llvienl t) luvo apf-älM strongly to a better nature than this girl possessed. Who can tell the eff-ct of such an appeal on such a ghl? Would she not upon the. inspiration of the moment, with an absence of truth in her heart, fhlell ht real lover an 1 mention any name to prevent being thrown Into the ptreet? One name would serve her purpose as well as another. If she really loved the man who had seduced her, as nearly all who aro reduced do, she had the most powerful motive that ever appeals to woman's heart to slve the name of another and save tho real author of her downfall from the terrible consequence of her father's vengeance. Well can I Imagine how the whole nsjey:t of the cae" ndght have been dunged had tho victim be! allowed to speak. I can conceive th eft-repeated lewd advances on her part, the resistance ct continual temptation on his. even his final triumph, and then her settled malice Hnd revenge; for 'hell hi no fury like a woman acornM, all culminating in her fall and his death, cruelly Inflicted upon her worthless word. Call up from his grave the pot, murdered victim of this strange trial, give hin n seat be.le this defendant and l"t him direct the examination of the witnesses so far as their testimony tend to his crimination, and who shall not sav that his reputation might be vindicated? The statement of this bright, bad rlrl who alone accuses him Is ns near perfect fabrication as was ever Invented to pubserve a falling cause. Th re 1. not a man In this country wlis, fair name mlaiit not he blighted and destroyed In the Mtne way. First sanction his assassination and then when Jei Is gon- tuikii tlie necessities of his assjsaJn the measure of his Infamy, and tho foul Work l.s 'f easy acco'iipILduip-nt."' M ii J em I y of tin I. tot. In cl -dr.;T his argument, MaJ. C idn referred to Ids position i.s the representative of the law in th tnost piweifid p isaga of eloipient oratory c vi-r In ai d In the state lie raid: "I f tan 1 b f re you today for the law. I rtand against those and tho:e i I ly who

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have broken it, and who ask you to break it. I .tar.d opposed 'to force and brute violence, and ask that the law may be enforces! for their fuppression and punishment; for upon the law and Its faithful enforce meii't depend all the Interests of the people of the indlvdual and the conununPy at large. If we abändern the law we shall Und ourselves at once uxn the grtttt ocean of chance and uncertainty, adrift, driven by the winds and the waves of Individual passion and interest against each other; and like the miserable victims of shipwreck, sinking each other Into the soundless depths of wretchedness and woe. "Tho law was hefore us nil and will survive when we shall have passed away. It ante-dates all exlrflng wie tics, and will remain when they shall have, given place to new forms. It is related to each of us before we know that It exists; and defines beforehand the rights that we nhall enjoy and the duties that, we shall perform. It looks forward with prophetic vision ard paternal Solicitude, and provides for our safety and wellbeing before we have passed the gates of life. It graciously meets us nt our coining and folds our naked and helpless Infancy in Its protecting and motherly anus. It recognizes our rights, and shields them from Invasion or harm, long ere we have any knowledge of their existence or any power to defend them. It leads us forward, supporting our tottering steps, until the first duty 13 laid upon our shoulders. Thla It lmioses with due regard for our -weakness, and wdth a gentle hand. I (Vouches und trains us In c.ah Ftage of our being for the du-Mcs of that which lies next before us. In a word, It goes with us through every stage of our lives, fro in the cradle to the coüln. and when we Hre burled defe-nds our graves from desecration, and our p or dust and ashen from outrage and Insult. And so It makes sabred the place of our llnal repoae until the morning of the resurrection. It will not allow even th- ruse, that the hand of love may pi int. or the wild flower that may bloom there, to be touched or destroyed by any ruthb ss hand. "The law grows out of the great nnd cv-neroiis heart of th- people. It Is framed and adapted to their wants by the common mind, it 1s tlnlr will, expressed In the manner nnd form which the constitution has imposed for their security ngaln-t oppression from wh itever quarter. It must, therefore, rely upon the ),,pi, the ordcr-lovlng. law-abiding to keep It strong and steadfast, ngilnst th" disorderly and the disobedient who strive to de-.ii-oy It. atid to abe'd'h the social order and' personal safety and happiness It was ordalaed to establish and maintain among in-n. II- who i .lairs It finds his offense measured and Its punishment prescribed; nnd stei-ty and Its creature, the state, nnd all who exercise Its functions, must ab in loa tlwdr duties, and set at

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naught the principles upon which focdu order dejnds for Its existence, before they can allow the guilty to escape without that punishment." Cuuko of Mngunllon In Piidiirm. And 11 this stagnation In busln-e-s can be traced directly to this atrociously' dstruetlve and Insidious drlnk-traiUc. It can be seen in th fact that It robs the people by exhausting their financial resources to the enormous extent of on, thousand millions of dollirs annually, with another thousand millions required to tuk cars of its awful consequences, making, altogether, a drain on the resnurr- of the lab-r of the country of J.'.eoo.'-oo.eo annually a tax of more than cluht t'.rrrr tho Income from the tariff, and amountlm? to five times the cost of running th- whole government, being an nverar- yearly tax of over on hundred and sixty dollars, or J3 per week, on every family in th? United States! The enormous tax on six of the largest governments of Huron required to supp .rt their armies amounts altogether to .', in.ooo.Oi'O. and Is truy a tremendous burd-n on th resource of the people; yet this stupendous tax on the Industries ef six governments vi Furope Is only one-fourth of tho amount spent for the liquor tratlle in the United States! This terrible waste can also be teen in the fact that the annual consumption of beer, alone, in this country, has increased from 2,W0."to) barrels to Sä.OOO.O'iO barrels, within a few years, while the population has enly double-i. PuHlo. vice und criminal arrests have also increased nearly five-fold, anl all this loss cd hard-earned capital, vhkh is wors . than wasted, amounts annually to more than th oomplef destruction of several large cities overrun and entirely swept away by lire and pestllenov. Demorest's Magazine The (.rent nr Comet." The wonderful "war comet" of lOt sprang so sud lenly Into view and blazed with such unexampled brilliancy as to astonish th astronomers and frighten those unlearned in comet.lry 1 re half out of their wits. The unlearned declared that the civil war, which was Just getting well under headway, must have som-thlng to do with it. However thti may be, it burst forth, unheralded and uninvited, shining with greater brilliancy and magnitude than any phenomena of a similar nature whl h that generation had ever seen. On th' night of July 'A of that year it exhibited a most wonderful rpeotacle. In the evening tho nuc:ws did not appear to be larger than a rtar of the find, or second magnitude. As the small hours of th- morning approached, hwevr, th- nucleus vJs.bly increased In both mtgnltude and brilliancy, Thtail moved back nl f rth over oar llttlworld In a most threatening manner, at times sending rays alnio.-t to the zenith.

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On he rnorninar of July 3 the astronomers Announced through the diiiy papers that the heal of th great comet was only separated from tho earth 'by a distance cf 12.u-o.Cv m'J'-s. Aoordtngto a report sent out from lh Cambridge observat -ry the eemet appears to have passed Its ascending node between the 27th and 29lh of June. In longitude 273 degrees, the longitude of the lorth belüg 277 degrees at the same time. On October lo Its tail extended over a space of CO.Oäo.ooo mil", an I at several points was r.ot lcs3 than. l'J.CO.Ot-O miles in width. At first It was generally conceded Ciat It waa the famous cornet of l'r.-l, the one which cause J the Umperor Chir'.es V. of France to resign his imperial throne, he takln? it to be a-warnlng from God, All surm!s-3 were subsequently -"et at rest by the discovery that It was thj famous That -her cj:iiM, disc tvered bv l'r-.f. A. F. Thatcher at ta- P.alLerforj obserwatory In Now York C;;y.

Confrtlernt Conpr' Utile. "It Is a singular thinr." said Julg P. W. StroLher of VirslaLt. "that tho confederate conrTess did not have a tngli prlrrted copy of tho rul-js which governed that bIy, so far as I hive Leen able to ascertain. Of course liia representative of the south?m sia-tta at nicnmonl were "bound hy ruls Jtist .ts nnch as the federal congress tod.y, but for some roasoa they were not put in type. "I rememoer very ill in ISC", when member of th tat vn?t that John H. Ilaldwin, who was spejrir of th JiOuse of tleates, fashioned the ruls ot the house exactly afur tho? ne.l in the confederate congress, in which he had been a represent ttive. Tlo-se ru'.-'i provided for counting a quorum by counttnj those present who refused to vo:- and r--eordlng them in the negative. I am almost aure that It was n:t imitation cf the confederate plan that Kjii ijlph Tucker proio.st-d when a membt r of conrress In IS.-). He then off-Ted a quorum counting system exactly like thit In us. In ltichmond during th day. ef the rebellion." Washington lc. Ittitl otlilnic Morn to Sny. "Jack, you must st-p cuarrelin with Jlrnml Thomas," j ;,,., m.-ks "Well. I waa rU-hf.- said J.a.Jc. "I don't belive "." all Mr. Hicks, "What were you lighting- nbo'it?"He e.il I hi pup i ku'w innre r rth his little r.nger than you Ui 1 WHIi-bota hands. JIhj p;r's l.av ar. Tin Kind of X lit f. A Trht Int. n wbP.o 1--i t. With h-:s id! "reeii 1 f T P1Oti. t'.ts ii th- hit. h- it r-iinl Vr flat. 'iha.i's tunit f r t'.rild ver. St Loa. l osi Ii.VpatcH. fRm lepps World's Fair Photographed Containing TrJorc Than 00 Pages and 256 Fliotcgraphic Views of His Great Cctaub Exposition. Handsomely Bound Li Eiüc and Gold. Tb only original, authorize! nnd mm plete photcgrai hlo pftnoranva. of the marvelous bulk'.lngs, exhibits, nctnes and furroundlngs of the .Vorld's Culumbl&n Ei position. A aublUno cpectacle. autllmely illuatrated. to pi Ul! This mairnlflcet work haa recHred the unqualified endorsement of the leadlnc pa pert of the country aa the greatact and moat artletlo pbotographlo reproduction of . the World's Fair that t befora tba publio. Tha Boaton Trae--cler Toioea tba snUment cf tba prtaa tbua: ... , This rem of pbotocraphlo work Is now offered vrtth one venr'a njbscrlptlon ta The Indiana State Sentinel.

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