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A STARTLING ARRAIGNMENT

EXTRACTS FROM HON. F. M. HALL'S ARGUMENT.

Mr. Woodward Closes His Long Plea For Monday and Mr. Stearns Begins.

The Fair Defendant Sits Unmoved Throughout the Pointed Address of Mr. Hail on Behalf of the State--A Crowded Court Room.

Will Hardly Close To day.

The wonderful interest which has been aroused in the public mind by the great Sheedy trial was yesterday more fully demonstrated than at any previous time since its opening twenty-two days ago. At an early hour the large room was crowded, and a majority of the audience were ladies, among them being many of the most prominent in social leadership, wealth and fashion. Seats were at a premium throughout the day and many ladies who, it was suspected, would never deign to express their thankfulness for the privilege of a seat in a street car, stood up for hours around the walls while intently listening to the eloquence of the contending counsel. In spite of the unusual size of the crowd and the paucity of accommodations, the utmost good order prevailed, and it was not until Mr. Stearns, near the close of the day, aroused the [resibilities?] of all by several facetious remarks, that there was the necessity of even a call to order by the bailiff.

During Mr. Hall's argument, which was very pointed and at times severe upon Mrs. Sheedy, the face of the demure defendant was a study for a physiognomist or a mind reader. She appeared to pay no more attention to his castigatious than if they concerned someone whom she did not know and were delivered beyond her hearing. Not a smile or a frozen, a wink or a look betrayed her slightest interest in the discussion.

Monday McFarland was hardly less stolid and composed. His features were rigid in their composure, and while he seemed to hear every word uttered, the effect was imperceptible.

It was 9:15 when Mr. Woodward resumed his argument in behalf of the defense. He reviewed briefly the points of his argument of the evening before and immediately waded into his discussion of the admissibility of the confession as evidence.

"I challenge these gentlemen to explain to me one thing: If Monday McFarland had made that confession voluntarily to Jim Malone, why did they subsequently secure a stenographer and have it reduced to writing?"

He went over the entire testimony tending to show that the confession was scared out of his client by threats and promises.

"Was there anybody else connected with this assault? I claim that the evidence points to the fact that there was: that it points more unerringly toward somebody else than it odes toward my poor client."

He reverted to the fact that no one saw Monday McFarland around the house at that time, but on the contrary Henry Krauss was seen running, not toward the alley, but the southwest corner of the yard, and he had said that the man ran down the alley. How did he know? Krause says that John Sheedy shot one shot at him, and that he got behind a tree. The testimony of Krause wherein he explained how he came to be at that point was commented upon in ridicule.

"I don't say that Mr. Krause had anything to do with the assault, but I do say that his conduct on that occasion can not be explained upon any other theory than that he was connected with it."

The speaker took up the testimony of Hymen Goldwater and contended that no credence should attach to it whatever; that he never saw that cane and that his testimony was manufactured by himself and Jim Malone. Goldwater had said that he did not want to go upon the witness stand as he had too many enemies. The latter proposition no one would question, but the first the speaker begged leave to discredit. Goldwater did want to go upon the stand because he had his blood-money nestling at the bottom of his pocket. He showed the cane found in Monday's possession after the assault, how similar it was to the cane found at the Sheedy residence, and contended that Malone had procured Hyman Goldwater to identify the cane found as the one he had sold to Monday. He dwelt upon the testimony of L. C. Burr, wherein the latter claimed that Goldwater had told him that he had never had the fatal cane in his shop.

The exchange of overcoats asshown by Stepney was a very ordinary circumstance, and occurred several days ere the assault, and according to Henry Gerner and Dr. Ruth M. Woods the east window curtain was not down before the assault, so that Mrs. Sheedy could not by it have signalled Monday as claimed.

The state had harped upon the finding of Monday's gold ring in a pawnshop as a circumstance in corroboration of Monday's confession to the effect that Mrs. Sheedy had given him a gold ring, but there was not a single bit of testimony to identify that ring as ever having belonged to Mary Sheedy, which would be very easy to show if she had ever had it in her possession.

He then took up the testimony of Krause again, referred to the testimony implicating Gleason, Jetes, Bradeen and Williams in the suspicions entertained by John Sheedy.

"And there is one thing I want to ask the counsel for the state, and if they know it will take very little time for them to tell this jury. Where was Frank Williams on that eventful Sunday night? Where was he, I say? Have they told us?" No. One witness says he was at work at Bradeen's and another that he was somewhere else. Now, where was he? I don't know where he was at the time of the assault, but I know where he was a few moments afterward. Across the street, not a block away from the Sheedy residence, at the same place where Monday McFarland was also, at Hud Lindsey's. Don't you believe, gentlemen of the jury, that Frank Williams knew something about that crime? I don't believe that Gleason had anything to do with it. Ab Carder swears that Sheedy meant Gleason when he said the 'big man.' I don't believe it. If he had meant Gleason he would have said the tall man. When he said the big man he meant the heavy set man. And it is a little remarkable that Frank Williams.

A STARTLING ARRAIGNMENT

EXTRACTS FROM HON. F. M. HALL'S ARGUMENT.

Mr. Woodward Closes His Long Plea For Monday and Mr. Stearns Begins.

The Fair Defendant Sits Unmoved Throughout the Pointed Address of Mr. Hail on Behalf of the State--A Crowded Court Room.

Will Hardly Close To day.

The wonderful interest which has been aroused in the public mind by the great Sheedy trial was yesterday more fully demonstrated than at any previous time since its opening twenty-two days ago. At an early hour the large room was crowded, and a majority of the audience were ladies, among them being many of the most prominent in social leadership, wealth and fashion. Seats were at a premium throughout the day and many ladies who, it was suspected, would never deign to express their thankfulness for the privilege of a seat in a street car, stood up for hours around the walls while intently listening to the eloquence of the contending counsel. In spite of the unusual size of the crowd and the paucity of accommodations, the utmost good order prevailed, and it was not until Mr. Stearns, near the close of the day, aroused the [resibilities?] of all by several facetious remarks, that there was the necessity of even a call to order by the bailiff.

During Mr. Hall's argument, which was very pointed and at times severe upon Mrs. Sheedy, the face of the demure defendant was a study for a physiognomist or a mind reader. She appeared to pay no more attention to his castigatious than if they concerned someone whom she did not know and were delivered beyond her hearing. Not a smile or a frozen