| 245ALL RESTS WITH THE JURY
[WORD?] ARGUMENT IN THE SHEEDY CASE.
Mr. Strode Brings His Brilliant.
Earuest Plea for the Life of His
Client to a Thrilling Close.
And Mr. Lamberston Reviews the His-
tory of the Crime With Telling El-
equence and Vigo---litracing
Up the Jury.
A Passionate Outhburst of Consel.
Never in the history of the city has public interest in any event been so thoroughly demonstrated as was Thursday the interest in the Sheedy case.
Pepole began to arrive at the court house before 8 o'clock. hoping theraby to secure desirable seats ere court opened at 9. As the hour of opening approached long lines of pepole were to be seen pouring from every direction en route to the court house.
Every neighboring hitching post as brought into service for the lethering of horses and vehicles.
At 9 o'clock it was almost impossible to crowd one's was through the court room.
No regard was paid to the railing enclosing the large space usally alloted to the court and bar. Every foot of standing room in that large court chamber was filled, and more than filled. The ladies, who largely predominated, had invaded the very steps of the throne of justice, and Judge Field's platform was flanked on either side by banks of feminine faces and gay and fluttering readger. If there was a single inch of [word?] space in all that crowded room outside of the few feet square in front of the jury box, it was imposible to locate it by a veiw from the judicial dais,
Even the defendants were brought into uncomfortable proximity with the eager thronge. Whose chairs were crowded directly up against them. No such assemblge of beauthyy. fashion, wealth, integnce. Mixed with their various reverse has even been witnessed in a lincoln court of Justice, or anything nearly approching it.
while hundreds were turned away, not becouse the doors were closed, but because it was utterly impossible to push one's way in. There was a musical but deafening hum of conversation as the jostling. Pushing audience pushed into more or less uncomfortable positions.
content even with the poorest accommodation, glad even that there were permitted to stand up to see and hear the procedings. Such as audiance was well calculated to bring out every latent power of logic and eloquence from the brains and lips of the gifted consel, and most truly did it exert its full capabilities in that line. There were old ladies and old gentelmen there, whose wrinkled visgers and while locks had never adorned so impressive a scene. There were young men and youths who were arderning their views on the case. Young and fashionable and young girls. stood along in rows and veiwed with critical eyes.
the rattent of each other. Hundreds of marriel ladies were there looking out for best seats, fluttering their fans and holding themeselves in readiness to be ouched to tears. Their readiness in that direction was brought to frequent proof.
It was a little remarkable that with such multiude crowded and pressed into slight a space the order through out the day was, with one exception, beyond crticism or reproof. Only once was the court called upon to indulge an admonition. That vast audience was most thoroughly impressed with the gravity and solemnity of the sitution and the alliness of death reigned through most of the day, broken only by the impassoned pleadings of the counsel to the jury. The crowd in the afternoon to hear the closing argument of Mr. Lamberston was simply beyond description. So dense was it that one middle-aged lady standing up in the aisle fainted late in the afternoon and it as actully impossible to take her out. So intent was the crowd on hearing Judge Field's in instrution to the jury, then being delived, that few noted the incident and those in the immediate vicinity, with the assiatance of Bailiff Taylor, applied restoratives and in a few minutes had her so that she could sit up and renew her interst in the proceedings.
When Mrs. Sheedy came into court in the morning her sisters fairly carried her along the narrow passage made for her through the crowd. She was evidently very ill and weak. Her attorneys had consulted as to the advisability of bringing in a couch for her, but the [dr?]hearted, resolute little woman had insisted that she would be equal to the ordeal. As she came in it looked as if her attendants support was all that kept her from reeling and falling to the floor. During the pathetic argument of Mr. Strode she alternated between expression of absoulte exhaustion. During the afternoon session while lamberston was relentlessly picuring the evidences of her guilt and arraiging her in no tender terms and tones for the crime charged against her . her old calm and determined strength appeared to have returned. She resolutely faced the conunsel and jury. but no expression of feeling, of approval or disapproval, was seen to flit across her paliid face through all that terrible impeachemnt, and when she left the court room she walked erect and firm and a bearing that indicated the dauntless spirit that has marked her demeanor through the twenty-two days of the trail. Mrs. Morgan and Mrs. Dean joined in her tears at the mention of their mother, and were much more easily moved to tears than was she.
Monday McFarland wore the same dared, atolid experssion he has worn since the argument of the case began. He appoars to realize that there is absolutely no hope for him. The sympathetic appear made to the jury had had no refernce to him. He has had to gain all the consolation vocuchefed him in the arguments from the efforts of his consel to prove him a negro who was much abused in order to get him to confess and a monumental liar when he did so.
He has seen his counsel conternding that his confession could in no way impicate Mary Sheedy even though it consigend him to the gallows. And he realize the meaning of it all. He has had tthe finger of denucation pointed at him and again as the murderer of John Sheedy. but his sodden eyes evined no sign of fear or recognition. He sits surrounded by a group of colored women, but he never appears to be aware of their presence.
Mr. Strode's Last Urgent Apeal.
Every breath of sound in that crowded room vainshed when Mr. Strode stepped before the jury to resume the argument he had begun the previous evening. He recounted briefly the points he had made on opening ere he branched off into a correction of Mr. Hall's refernce to " the murder of King Clandius." In the latte connection he said that as he remembred having read the story, King Claudius was not murdered, but that it was his brother, King Hamlet.
Mr. Strode then recounted a well known case in Vermont where two brothers had confessed to having murdered a brother in-low, were convicted and were about to be executed years after the missing man's disappearance, when by more chance the latter was discovered living in New Jersey. He also refered to the case Winduagel, The Randolph street butcher, who at tempted sucide, to prove the reliability of cricumatantial evidence, conteding that his room-mate, Kyle would probably have been convicted of his murder, had her not recovered. He detailed these two cases with all the fervor he could command to impress the jury with a lack of fiath in confessions and ericumatutial evidence. | 245ALL RESTS WITH THE JURY
[WORD?] ARGUMENT IN THE SHEEDY CASE.
Mr. Strode Brings His Brilliant.
Earuest Plea for the Life of His
Client to a Thrilling Close.
And Mr. Lamberston Reviews the His-
tory of the Crime With Telling El-
equence and Vigo---litracing
Up the Jury.
A Passionate Outhburst of Consel.
Never in the history of the city has public interest in any event been so thoroughly demonstrated as was Thursday the interest in the Sheedy case.
Pepole began to arrive at the court house before 8 o'clock. hoping theraby to secure desirable seats ere court opened at 9. As the hour of opening approached long lines of pepole were to be seen pouring from every direction en route to the court house.
Every neighboring hitching post as brought into service for the lethering of horses and vehicles.
At 9 o'clock it was almost impossible to crowd one's was through the court room.
No regard was paid to the railing enclosing the large space usally alloted to the court and bar. Every foot of standing room in that large court chamber was filled, and more than filled. The ladies, who largely predominated, had invaded the very steps of the throne of justice, and Judge Field's platform was flanked on either side by banks of feminine faces and gay and fluttering readger. If there was a single inch of [word?] space in all that crowded room outside of the few feet square in front of the jury box, it was imposible to locate it by a veiw from the judicial dais,
Even the defendants were brought into uncomfortable proximity with the eager thronge. Whose chairs were crowded directly up against them. No such assemblge of beauthyy. fashion, wealth, integnce. Mixed with their various reverse has even been witnessed in a lincoln court of Justice, or anything nearly approching it.
while hundreds were turned away, not becouse the doors were closed, but because it was utterly impossible to push one's way in. There was a musical but deafening hum of conversation as the jostling. Pushing audience pushed into more or less uncomfortable positions.
content even with the poorest accommodation, glad even that there were permitted to stand up to see and hear the procedings. Such as audiance was well calculated to bring out every latent power of logic and eloquence from the brains and lips of the gifted consel, and most truly did it exert its full capabilities in that line. There were old ladies and old gentelmen there, whose wrinkled visgers and while locks had never adorned so impressive a scene. There were young men and youths who were arderning their views on the case. Young and fashionable and young girls. stood along in rows and veiwed with critical eyes.
the rattent of each other. Hundreds of marriel ladies were there looking out for best seats, fluttering their fans and holding themeselves in readiness to be ouched to tears. Their readiness in that direction was brought to frequent proof.
It was a little remarkable that with such multiude crowded and pressed into slight a space the order through out the day was, with one exception, beyond crticism or reproof. Only once was the court called upon to indulge an admonition. That vast audience was most thoroughly impressed with the gravity and solemnity of the sitution and the alliness of death reigned through most of the day, broken only by the impassoned pleadings of the counsel to the jury. The crowd in the afternoon to hear the closing argument of Mr. Lamberston was simply beyond description. So dense was it that one middle-aged lady standing up in the aisle fainted late in the afternoon and it as actully impossible to take her out. So intent was the crowd on hearing Judge Field's in instrution to the jury, then being delived, that few noted the incident and those in the immediate vicinity, with the assiatance of Bailiff Taylor, applied restoratives and in a few minutes had her so that she could sit up and renew her interst in the proceedings.
When Mrs. Sheedy came into court in the morning her sisters fairly carried her along the narrow passage made for her through the crowd. She was evidently very ill and weak. Her attorneys had consulted as to the advisability of bringing in a couch for her, but the [dr?]hearted, resolute little woman had insisted that she would be equal to the ordeal. As she came in it looked as if her attendants support was all that kept her from reeling and falling to the floor. During the pathetic argument of Mr. Strode she alternated between expression of absoulte exhaustion. During the afternoon session while lamberston was relentlessly picuring the evidences of her guilt and arraiging her in no tender terms and tones for the crime charged against her . her old calm and determined strength appeared to have returned. She resolutely faced the conunsel and jury. but no expression of feeling, of approval or disapproval, was seen to flit across her paliid face through all that terrible impeachemnt, and when she left the court room she walked erect and firm and a bearing that indicated the dauntless spirit that has marked her demeanor through the twenty-two days of the trail. Mrs. Morgan and Mrs. Dean joined in her tears at the mention of their mother, and were much more easily moved to tears than was she.
Monday McFarland wore the same dared, atolid experssion he has worn since the argument of the case began. He appoars to realize that there is absolutely no hope for him. The sympathetic appear made to the jury had had no refernce to him. He has had to gain all the consolation vocuchefed him in the arguments from the efforts of his consel to prove him a negro who was much abused in order to get him to confess and a monumental liar when he did so.
He has seen his counsel conternding that his confession could in no way impicate Mary Sheedy even though it consigend him to the gallows. And he realize the meaning of it all. He has had tthe finger of denucation pointed at him and again as the murderer of John Sheedy. but his sodden eyes evined no sign of fear or recognition. He sits surrounded by a group of colored women, but he never appears to be aware of their presence.
Mr. Strode's Last Urgent Apeal.
Every breath of sound in that crowded room vainshed when Mr. Strode stepped before the jury to resume the argument he had begun the previous evening. He recounted briefly the points he had made on opening ere he branched off into a correction of Mr. Hall's refernce to " the murder of King Clandius." In the latte connection he said that as he remembred having read the story, King Claudius was not murdered, but that it was his brother, King Hamlet.
Mr. Strode then recounted a well known case in Vermont where two brothers had confessed to having murdered a brother in-low, were convicted and were about to be executed years after the missing man's disappearance, when by more chance the latter was discovered living in New Jersey. He also refered to the case Winduagel, The Randolph street butcher, who at tempted sucide, to prove the reliability of cricumatantial evidence, conteding that his room-mate, Kyle would probably have been convicted of his murder, had her not recovered. He detailed these two cases with all the fervor he could command to impress the jury with a lack of fiath in confessions and ericumatutial evidence. |
