Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 September 1910 — Page 3

WRITTEN EVIDENCE.

It Is Better Than Any Other. By EDITH V. ROSS. [Copyright, 1910, by American Press Asso* . ciation.J “No one with a human soul in his body would take advantage of the law to force a woman, to marry him.” “I consider it my duty to prevent her from marrying such a contemptible cur as you are.” “Were you my equal in any respect I would make you pay for those words even if I had to take your life.” “Why not do It anyway? You’re capable of it. Then you could get the fortune intended for me.” This brief dialogue was made the basis of an ingenious theory concocted by a state attorney, which led logically to fixing the murder of Roger Cruikshank upon Adrian Dresser. The words were overheard a few days before Cruikshank was found shot

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through the heart in his own house. For defense the prisoner’s attorney had elaborate diagrams made to demonstrate that Cruikshank died by his own hand. There is a point made mnch of In such cases—the motive for the crime. It is certainly an important matter for consideration, but has too often been mistaken for proof. It does not follow that because a man has had a motive for murder he has committed murder. But an ingenious prosecutor, taking such motive for a basis, may weave in with it certain other circumstantial evidence and with the two convict an innocent man. Adrian Dresser and Florence Pitman had been brought up together. That is, they had from birth lived in the same neighborhood, had been playmates and eventually lovers. Any one looking at Florence would say, “That girl would love her lover with her whole heart and soul.” There was something in the wonderfully expressive eyes, the contour of the face, that indicated this. And any one knowing her would arrive at the same conclusion as that reached merely by seeing her.

There are people of an entirely different makeup from this, people who cannot understan^F’’any snch spiritual depth. Such was Cornelius Pitman, Florence’s uncle. He had been a money getter all his life and when he came to die, having no children, left his fortune to Florence. But his passion for accumulation lived, so to speak, beyond his natural life. He saw in a relative, Boger Cruikshank, one capable by shrewdness, foresight and meanness of increasing the estate intended for a young girl whose heart would rather lead her to scatter than add to it He therefore left a provision in the will to insure Cruikshank’s management of the property. Florence was to marry him. By the terms of the will Cruikshank had only to refuse to marry the legatee to enable her to inherit without him included. This he refused to do, and his action called forth the scathing words with which this story begins. If they had not been spoken Creikshank's sudden death would have solved the problem for the lovers, and they might have been united, the bride inheriting the fortune bequeathed to her. As it was. Dresser was put on trial for his life, and that life depended upon which had the greater ingenuity. the man who built upon the theory that the accused was guilty or the man who by his diagrams was trying to prove that the dead man shot himself Tin* result in this case was that • ’henry of the prosecutor wah est-i’. " Ito the satisfaction of the jury. : he showed conclusively by his ipt !ont's diagrams that a shot fired .eiordSnce therewith would miss fnark by two and one-half inches. . ; As accessory to his theory counsel for the defense proved that there was insanity in the family of the deceased and that his grandfather had shot himself. He further proved that the day of the death or the suicide had beam

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FARMER GETS HIS EYES OPEN

One Mai Begins To Sense the Fact That He is Misrepresented in Congress. WANTS TO SEE A CHANGE. Crumpacker’s Utterances Do Not Harmonize With Facts and Conditions. Farmer-Say, John, as I was riding into town this morning I was thinking how long Judge Crumpacker had been in Congress. Do you know? Merchant-Oh, he has been there six or seven terms, I guess. Why? Farmer:—Well. I thought it was about time he was getting outMerchant:—What’s the matter with the Judge? Fanner:—You,see, some of the republicans out in my neck of the woods got a copy of one of the Judge's speeches in congress that'said: “The .tariff has little to do with the cost of living,” and they thought this was begging the question when the great body of the republican party in the West had been demanding a reduction of the tariff, the Republican National Convention at Chicago had pledged a revision and Taft had publicly declared: “It is my judgment that a revision of the tariff in accordance with the pledge of the republi-

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can platform will be. on the whole, a substantial revision downward.” ~ Merchant:—AVhy. Crumpacker never said that the tariff had nothing to do with ; the cost of living did he? Farmer :—You read the speech and see. About the time the Judge sent out his speech saying this the, neighbors ail got a little speel of Senator Dolliver’s delivered in the Senate and that Opened their eyes wider on what the Judge had been saying. Merchant:—Say. did you ever hear Dolliver speak at the Chautauqua? Farmer:—No. But my repub lican neighbors always thought a lot of Dolliver. They say he is of old Virginia stock that came from the mountains; that he is a great orator and not a, mossback. They didn’t have to see him as they know all about him. He believes that the republican party ought to have kept its pledge and he speaks right out in camp meeting. M erchant:—Didn’t the Senator agree with Judge Crumpacker?

Farmer:—Not by a dam sight. Us fellows who had seen price of clothing going up every year read the Judge's speech and he said there were some little increases in the duty on cottons and some reductions. He said there were some women out of a job wbp had been making 25 cent socks and Aldrich and the gang, just to accomodate the women, put on a little increase, and all the women were busy again and socks were selling for the same old price. Then he closed up his remarks on cotton by saying: “The other changes in the cotton schedule I regard as insignificient. Outside of hos-

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iery the cotton schedule in the Payne law, taken as a wheqe, is about the same as] the cotton schedule ip the Dingley law.” Merchant:—«What did Dolliver say about cottoh? t * Farmer:—He tore the whole tblamed thing to pieces in five ! minutes: said all countable cot--1 ton cloths taken together had been increased 27 per cent, and cited us to the September number of the Review of Reviews for proof, where an expert onto things down at Washington, gave the whole thing away. He held up a piece of black muslin down there in the Senate and showed them that there was a duty of 61 per cent, on it, and then - told how a sleek manufacturer and mill-owner by the name of Lippit came down to Washington and said there ought not be any reduction at all. Merchant:—l suppose none o r the farmers put your way had anything to say down at Washington?

Farmer:—lt don’t look that way. does it? We thought the Judge was down there to speak our little piece for us, but he says this Aldrich law a good thing and wants it pushe 1 along Merchant:—Say, that man Dolliver did kind of give the Judge away, didn’t he? Farmer:—Well, I should Aay so. Let me tell you something else he said right in near the close of his speech. He said: “What a farce to send men around telling about the rules .f the majorities, when before the eyes of all men, and with no depute of the truth of it possible, the most important business of the American people has come down to the bargain countet ; and men authorized to say ‘this is the citadel of p otection; if

i any of you have constituents tljfit want anything, come here; we are the dispensing power; support what we want, and take atgr thing you need/ and the man who doesn't like it, and has no stomach tor the fight, is requested to depart?’ - Merchant:—That looks like Dolliver had got tired and was giving away some of the mysteries in the committee rooms. The old-timers like the judge and Cannon wop't like that. Farmer:—Neither do the people. They have been suspicions for a long time that the high protectionists were trading knives for marbles and now this proves it. The Judge has got a lot of things to explain.

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