Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 August 1912 — FORD SCORES DARROW [ARTICLE]

FORD SCORES DARROW

PROSECUTION MAKES OPEN CHARGES OF PERJURY. Declares Accused Lawyer Partly Responsible for Destruction of Times Building. Los Angeles, Cal., Aug. 13. —Open and bold accusations of perjury on the part of Witnesses for the defense, and the assurance that the district attorney will investigate the facts and circumstances in connection with the case, characterized the opening argument, made by Deputy District Attorney Ford to the jury in the trial of Clarence Darrow, the Chicago attorney charged with jury tampering in the McNamara case. ' Ford, in drawing his deductions from the testimony that has been introduced in the Darrow case, accused the attorneys connected with the McNamara defense, excepting Joseph Scott and the late Judge McNutt, with complicity in the alleged bribery transactions. He severely arraigned Darrow, comparing him to Judas Iscariot and Benedict Arnold; drew an analogy between lvim and Francis Bacon, who was convicted of receiving bribes; accused the former McNamara chief counsel of having been a traitor to his client and of having ‘sacrificed” J. B. McNamara to save himself. By his writings and his attifude toward what he regarded as “social crimes,” and his willingness to defend perpetrators of such crimes, the assistant prosecutor declared that Darrow had been, in a measure, responsible for the destruction of the Times building and the loss of twenty-ose lives. In closing his appeal, the assistant prosecutor declared there was no question as to the guilt of Darrow. He asked the jury to return a verdict of conviction.