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ENLIGHTENING THE JURORS.

Oratorical Attorneys Firing Eloquence at the Intelligent Twelve.

DRAWING THE SHEEDY TRIAL TO A CLOSE.

Picking the Testimony to Pieces- Ball's Address and Review of the State's Case-Defense Well Argued.

Lincoln, Neb., May 25. -Special to The Bee.]- The day in the great Sheedy case was devoted almost entirely to brilliant and pointed oratory. Captain W. H. Woodward ended his argument and attacked stronglt the evidence for the prosecution and intimating in almost as many words that the real murderers had not been arrested, and startled the great crowd by mentioning the names of certain persons whome he believed might have committed the murder. Mr. Frank M. Hall followed in a remarkable speech that consumed the greater part of the day, and held the spectators spellbound with its eloquence.

At 9 o'clock this morning Mr. Woodward resumed the thread of his argument, which was interrupted yesterday. He reiterated his statement that the alleged confessions were the invention of some mind other than that of Monday McFarland. He declared that had Monday McFarland borrowed for murderous purposes the revolver that was referred to in evidence, the negro would have remembered from who he borrowed it, but he does not remember from who he did get it. "I defy the gentlemen on the part of the prosecution," he continued, "to tell me why they had a shorthand reporter behind the curtain at the time that the alleged confession was made if they believe, as they claim, that my poor colored client is guilty."

The attorney then drew a very vivid picture, in which he endeavored to make it apparent that Special Officer Krause must have been the murder. "The fact that he was standing near a tree in front of the Sheedy residence," he continued, "waiting, as he claimed, for the electric car half a block away, is very suspicious. Why was Krause standing there at that time? He says that Sheedy fired at him once and he had to get behind a tree. He says that the man who assaulted Sheedy ran south to the alley and ran around the block, where he was stopped by two officers. Then he told the officers that Sheedy had been assaulted by somebody, and that somebody had run down through the alley. It was like the fellow who cried 'stop thief,' when he was the thief himself."

Mr. Woodward then declared that Hyman Goldwater never had the cane in his possession, and asserted that the whole story of the sale of the cane had been manufactured by Detective Malone and Goldwater. "The whole story," he continued, "shows the ability of Goldwater to lie. He wanted money, and that is what he was after when he dipped his tongue in perjury. Goldwater claims that in 1888 he sold the cane for the first time to Mr. Taylor. Where is Taylor? Why haven't they brought him on the witness stand? The prosecution has utterly and miserably failed to prove any part of the confession. They have failed to show that the curtain of the window looking out on the porch was up. They say that the fact that Stepney and McFarland changed coats signifies nothing, as that was a common occurrence, and the exchange was made on the preceding Tuesday. What witness is there who has sworn that the ring found in the pawn shop was the one given to Monday McFarland by Mrs. Sheedy? Mr. Hall," said the speaker, "tell me, if you can, where Frank Williams, the gambler, was on that fateful night. He is not in the city. 'The wieged fleeth when no man pursueth.' Where is Frank Williams, the short, chunky fellow, who corresponds in every way with the [desc-tion?] of the man who not only struck Sheedy but also shot at him a week before. Dr. Winnett, the physician who twirled the skull of John Sheedy so deftly, was put on the stand by the prosecution. The evidence of this doctor shows that he was one of the conspirators who are after the blood money of Dennis Sheedy."

Mr. Frank M. Hall then addressed the jury on behalf of the state. He apologized to the jury for appearing before them, as he had never previously been connected with a criminal case. He then launched forth into one of the most brilliant and stirring speeches ever heard in the district court room.

"The defense has been trying," said he, "to make you believe that the prosecution has been working in this solely for blood money. There has been more said about this than any action of the prosecution would warrant. I have naught against the prisoner at the bar. I would not lift my finger to harm them in any manner. But this is not a time for morbid sentimentality. You have a duty to perform, and so have I. I am willing to perform mine and have attempted so to do. Id there has been more vigor exhibited by me in the prosecution of this case than the defense had liked, let me assure you and them that it has been prompted by an honest motive.

"Our motives have been continually impugned by the defense at every opportunity. First they cry that a reward was offered for the conviction of the murderers. Are we to be abused and slandered because a reward was offered? Why, gentlemen, what would you expect would be done when a great crime has been committed? Must we do nothing for the apprehension and punishment of the criminals? This crime we believed was planned by a woman, and the negro McFarland was merely a tool used, to consummate this cold blooded assassination. She planned it in the silent hours of her meditation in her home, and we believe that Mrs. Sheedy is the woman who planned this terrible crime and Monday McFarland was her pliant tool in the accomplishment of her dreadful purpose. He had the physical strength to strike the terrible blow, but she had not. But she had the nerve, wicked intent and heart to have stood by that door and slugged her husband if she only had had the physical strength. I have some sympathy for Monday McFarland. My heart goes out in sympathy to any man who has lost the power of controlling his own wishes and desired for such a crime as this. Monday McFarland had no murder in his heart until it was put there by this woman.

"If you can find any mitigating circumstances in this case, in the name of God give it to Monday McFarland. Just think of the devastation that will be caused by this crime. Think of what it will probably bring to the home of Monday McFarland. The husband hung, the wife left a widow, the children orphans. Think of the want, distress and agony that will be brought to that home. This ought to deter any desperate woman from hiring a man, and particularly a man at the head of a family, to commit a murder. This crime was planned so that this woman could satisfy a guilty love. Her's was the mastermind, her's was the genius that planned and arranged this crime. You don't believe that Monday McFarland went there and murdered his best friend out of motives of revenge. There must have been some other motive. It was only when this woman infused the passion of her mind into the mind of the negro. This woman had the nerve of iron and from her own she steeled that of the negro, and when it failed at almost the last moment she strengthened it with liquor. But they say, such a crime is unnatural. Did you ever hear of a murder that was natural? Are not all murders unnatural? The community is shocked, your minds paralyzed to read the account of a great crime. You recoul when you hear of a woman planning the murder of her husband and aiding in the same. And yet such things have happened. And gentlemen of the jury does not the iron nerve and iron will of this woman and exhibited in this court room show that she was the required coolness in planning such a deed. But her face and expression are not a true story of the purposes that lurk in the heart.

"When a crime is committed you naturally look for the motive. What was the motive in this case?

I don't believe, gentlemen of the jury, that that there is one of you but who believes that Monday McFarland was induced by Mrs. Sheedy to commit this murder. The inducements offered for the commission of the crime were put in a more alluring form and shape that were those offered by satan to Christ. She first offered him money and sparkling diamonds, but these failed to have the effect on the negro. Her next step was to tell him how she was abused by her husband and thereby tried to work upon the sympathies of the black man. What next? She then offers to barier away her virtue and her womanhood for the purpose of securing the murder of her own husband. Great god! was virtue and womanhood ever bartered for such a damnable commodity? But the defense affect to abhor the idea of criminal intimacy between Mrs. Sheedy and the negro. Do you suppose that a woman who has murder in her heart would hesitate to commit adultery with a negro? She finally gained the poor negro's affections and prevailed upon him to commit the terrible crime. Monday said that it was easier to go forward than backward. Mrs. Sheedy had threatened to kill him if he failed her. It was death to him in either case. He was coaxed, coerced and pushed until this crime was committed."

Mr. Hall then reviewed the facts leading up to the murder, Mrs. Sheedy's intimacy with Walstrom, her alleged reasons for wishing to have her husband put out of the way. McFarland's confession and the certainty of its truthfulness, after which court adjourned until the afternoon.

In the afternoon Mr. Hall resumed his argument:

"Now the learned advocate who addressed you yesterday tried to convince you that this prosecution was being waged against Mrs. Sheedy a venal purpose, and he thought that if the spirit of John Sheedy could speak from the great beyond he would say to Dennis Sheedy, for God's sage, stop that prosecution of my beloved wife. If John Sheedy's spirit could speak from that place, he would tell a different story. I have no doubt that John Sheedy's spirit has visited this woman in her solitary confinement more than once since it took its flight, and I would to God that you might know the story that John Sheedy's spirit could tell. I would to God that you might know the story that John Sheedy's spirit could tell. He would tell a story that would stir a story that has not been told by the witnesses upon his stand. He would tell you what occurred in his home circle after he was assaulted and unless that spirit tells the story, I fear you will never know it since the only people who do know it, do not see fit to tell it.

"You have ehar of the murder of King Claudius. how his spirit returned and chided his only son for not prosecuting his most cruel and fould murder. Do you believe Dennis Sheedy is prosecuting this case for the paltry amount that will fail to his share of the estate of John Sheedy? Why, if a wife can murder her husband in an enlightened, Christian community, and the brother would not raise his arm to defend it, to avenge it, to prosecute the guilty party, he would be unworthy the name of a brother, and I think John Sheedy's spirit would come back to haunt him and chide him for the brotherly duty neglected and unfilled.

"Mr. Courtnay tells what Dennis Sheedy did for this woman before she was suspected, before she was arrested, before the finger of suspicion pointed to her, that he arranged everything in the most systematic order. He replenished her bank account with $550 that he had collected from different people who owed his brother's estate. Did he sweep it down in his own pocket and skin out home?"

Mr. Hall spoke in this strain for about an hour longer.

Mr. H. D. Stearns, counsel for Mrs. Sheedy, next addressed the jury. He characterized the action of County attorney Snell in this prosecution as that of a bound-out boy. He scored him for playing a secondary part and not doing more questioning and cross-questioning. He condemned the alleged charity," said he, "when we remember that he took home with him a valuable gold watch and chain and other articles not belonging to him. This action is to be investigated later. What credence can you give to Goldwater's testimony after he told the story that he did to Burr about Jim Malone offering him a reward of $200? It would take a magnifying glass of 2,000,000 power to find the veracity of Goldwater, particularly if Jim Malone had polished him up. This man did as he did because he wished to stand in with the officers, and was after gain.

"A remarkable instance in this case is that several persons had passed and repassed on the porch, it had been scanned in search for blood spots, but the cane had not been found? Fully twenty minutes had passed before it was discovered there. Why don't the prosecution prove that the cane was not put there after John Sheedy was taken into the house? Another remarkable circumstance is the fact that the prosecution has not proved that the ring had been given to Monday McFarland. Could not they have proved this by half a dozen witnesses.

"The prosecution would make you believe that Mrs. Sheedy is a monster of wickedness. The face of Mrs. Sheedy indicates that of a cultured or at least refined woman. If you have scanned the face of Mrs. Sheedy you cannot help but see that it is a refutation of the scandalous, cruel and wicked lies that the prosecution are so glib in relating. You cannot find anybody who can believe the story of illicit intercourse with the negro. It could not have happened at all. It never did happen. Just think to what depths of degradation a woman would have to sink to be guilty of such a thing. Nature herself refuted, denies and condemns the awful story.

"Just think, gentlemen of the jury, of the absurdity of a lover being willing to kill a man so that another lover might supplant the man who did the killing. Is such a thing probable? And yet that is the way that the prosecution would have you believe. They claim that Monday McFarland, out of his love for Mrs. Sheedy, killed Mr. Sheedy so that another lover, Walstrom, might carry her away. It is out of the range of human reason.

"The presumption of good character [?] that of innocence is always held until proven otherwise, and the attorneys for the prosecution have no right to have you presume other wise."

PHILADELPHIA'S TREASURER.

The governor Names One and the City Commissioners Another.

Philadelphia, May 26. -The city commissioners met this morning and ignoring the appointment of Governor Pattason's successor to City Treasurer Bardsley, proceeded to elect Richard C. Oellers, business manager of the Record, to fill the office. The question as to who has the power to fill the office of the city treasurer has given rise to much controversy and it will undoubtedly he left to the courts to decide.

Bardsley is under guard at his house, his condition still being too serious to warrant his removal. He is unable to obtain $50,000 bail.

THE WEATHER FORECAST.

For Omaha and Viculty - Fair; warmer.

Washington, May 26. -Forecast [?] 8 p. m. Wednesday: For Missouri - Generally fair, except fair Wednesday in extreme southern portions; warmer by Wednesday night; variable winds.

For the Dakotas, Nebraska, Iowa and Kansas - Generally fair; warmer; winds becomin south.

For Colorado - Light showers; slightly warmer; winds becoming south.

News from Hawall.

San Francisco, Cala., May 26. - The steamer Zealandi arrived this morning, seven days from Honolulu. The Hawaiian Gazette announces the prospective appointment of Walter Hill, ex-journalist, as postmaster general of Hawaii.

Wenezuela [?] Exhibit.

Washington, May 26 -Venezuela has formally accepted the invitation to participate in the world's Columbian exposition.