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Farland and nobody should ever know if it.

Great God, in all this universe, has not made a single nook or corner where can be ever safely hid the crime of murder. The human mind is so situated that murder in the mind and heart is repugnant to every other natural faculty or natural thought. It is at war with all your desires. It is at war with your very nature, and when a man thinks he can commit murder and because, forsooth, he does it in the night, when no man sees, when no man knows, that therefore it is locked from the world in his own brain and heart, he makes a mistake.

Why that secret was in Monday McFarland's mind. It had coursed through his blood. It had permeated ever fiber of his body. It beamed in his eye. It was in his countenance, so that he thought that every man, woman and child who saw him could see it; could read it in his face; could detect it in his eye. He knew he was suspected. He knew that 1,000 eyes were searching and looking upon every inspiration and every [net?]; till the secret took possession of him and lend him where it would. This was why Monday McFarland made the confession. That confession forced itself out of him. It broke down his manhood, it paralyzed his soul, until the only relief that Monday McFarland could see was to unburden his mind of that deadly inhabitant. And that is why he told it. He told it, not because he was afraid of Jim Malone nor the mob, but because he knew he was guilty. It was an unwelcome occupant of his mind. And I will venture the assertion that he never felt so good since this murder as when he had vomited forth his awful confession. When he had got rid of it, got it off his mind, got it off his heart. Then is the first time that Monday McFarland straightened up and felt that he was a man again and could breathe. He had been oppressed and could not sleep. Do you think you could sleep, gentlemen, were such a load as that on your mind, the first night after doing the deed? Do you think you could be composed or collected? That part of the programmeseems to have been left to Mrs. Sheedy. She is the only cool, calm, collected, indifferent, serene person in this prosecution. Why, from her conduct during this trial you would be led to think she was not one of the people on trial. So calm, collected and serene, so absolutely unconcerned relative to this prosecution is she, that you would think it was not her. She has played her part well. But remember while she was playing that part, she omitted to play the part of the heartbroken, grief-stricken wife. While that part of the programme has been well maintained, I ask you whether her conduct in this court room during this trial has been that of the loving, affectionate, broken-hearted, bowed-down woman, whose husband has been brutally murdered. It is a pretty difficult thing to play a double part. It is pretty difficult to be a woman of iron nerve and to be a loving, affectionate wife at the same time. To brace up, to be resolute, to be firm, to be undaunted. Why the defendants would have you believe that nobody could mention John Sheedy's name without tears would gush forth and this woman would weep and mourn, filled with emotion. Has she manifested any of that here? No, she was playing another part. Do you think the woman that lost her husband and was broken hearted on account of his murder, do you think a woman of that kind can sit here undaunated and unconcerned under what has been going on in this case.

Mr. Hall then said that he would spend no time in answering the argument that the confession was not voluntary and thought that the defense could much more appropriately have offered to prove that it was not true.

He took up the confession and showed how in countless instances it was corroborated by the testimony. Anna Bodenstein corroborated it in that Monday went often to dress Mrs. Sheedy's hair. Mrs. Hood and Mrs. Carpenter corroborated it in that they had seen Walstrom's picture in the photograph album. And Mr. Hall dwelt upon the fact that Monday knew this as proof that Mrs. Sheedy had taken him into her parlo, told him of her lover and showed him the picture.

Monday's confession was corroborated by the finding of the gold ring he said she had given him; by the testimony of Goldwater and son as to the purchase of the cane and by its identification, agreeing with him even as to the price: by testimony of Goldwater and son as to the purchase of the cane and by its identification, agreeing with him even as to the price; by the testimony of Mrs. Sheedy when she told of having gone out to get a pitcher ofwater on the night of the assault; by her own testimony as to the window curtain of the east window; also by Tyndall; by Stepney, Monday's cousin, and Mattie McNeal, as to the exchange of overcoats; by the same witness as to his going to George Botts' after the murder, getting his wife and going home; by William Chinn as to his subsequent whereabouts that night, and his lameness from his fall just after he struck the blow; by Courtnay and Anna Bodenstein that he went to the Sheedy house next day to see Mrs. Sheedy and get part of his reward; by Mrs. Coil to the effect that he had hund around the Sheedy residence [aw srang?] a chance to commit the crime; try Mr. and Mrs. Hosman to the effect that he fell down at the corner of the porch after he fired the shot early in December. These ate but a few of the many details which Mr. Hall showed that Monday's story was corroborated by the other testimony.

The speaker, before closing his address of over three hours, denied that a dollar of Dennis Sheedy's money had ever been illegitimately used to secure conviction, and contended that it was but natural for a man to seek to avenge the death of his brother.

Mr. Stearns for Mary Sheedy.

Mr. Stearns in opening at 3:55 congratulated himself and the court upon the fact that so many ladies were present, as it was undoubtedly sure to inure to the inforcement of justice tempered with mercy. He dwelt upon the fact that Malone, Doctor Childs and others had been around strengthening the suspicions of Mrs. Sheedy's guilt, so that the poor grief-stricken widow would get none of the estate of her dead husband. Dennis Sheedy is not here, it is true, but his money is here and serving every purpose that his presence could serve. The defendant was unable to please the prosecution. If she shed tears one of the counsel called them deceitful, crocodile tears. If she was calm the other attorney said she was unfeeling and a woman of iron nerve.

Mr. Stearns then offered to read from Judge Maxwell as to the duty of a public prosecutor, but the state objected and the court ruled it out, to which the defense excepted. He contended that the duty of a public prosecutor was as much to prevent the persecution of the innocent as it was to secure the punishment of the guilty, but in this instance the county attorney had sat there like a bound boy without an effort to direct the case and taken a secondary part in the proceedings.

He denounced the sort of brotherly affection spoken of by opposing counsel as having been exhibited by Dennis Sheedy. The $550 he had put in bank to her credit had been obtained by the transfer of some property he had no authority to transfer; he had taken away John Sheedy's gold watch, worth $300 or $400, and all of the dead man's clothing.

Mr. Stearns took up the confession and pointed out the fact that Monday claimed that Mrs. Sheedy met him on the back porch that fatal night, hugged and kissed him, gave him a goblet of whisky and did a number of other acts which it would have been impossible to perform in less than ten minutes and yet the testimony shows that in less than ten minutes

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Farland and nobody should ever know if it.

Great God, in all this universe, has not made a single nook or corner where can be ever safely hid the crime of murder. The human mind is so situated that murder in the mind and heart is repugnant to every other natural faculty or natural thought. It is at war with all your desires. It is at war with your very nature, and when a man thinks he can commit murder and because, forsooth, he does it in the night, when no man sees, when no man knows, that therefore it is locked from the world in his own brain and heart, he makes a mistake.

Why that secret was in Monday McFarland's mind. It had coursed through his blood. It had permeated ever fiber of his body. It beamed in his eye. It was in his countenance, so that he thought that every man, woman and child who saw him could see it; could read it in his face; could detect it in his eye. He knew he was suspected. He knew that 1,000 eyes were searching and looking upon every inspiration and every [net?]; till the secret took possession of him and lend him where it would. This was why Monday McFarland made the confession. That confession forced itself out of him. It broke down his manhood, it paralyzed his soul, until the only relief that Monday McFarland could see was to unburden his mind of that deadly inhabitant. And that is why he told it. He told it, not because he was afraid of Jim Malone nor the mob, but because he knew he was guilty. It was an unwelcome occupant of his mind. And I will venture the assertion that he never felt so good since this murder as when he had vomited forth his awful confession. When he had got rid of it, got it off his mind, got it off his heart. Then is the first time that Monday McFarland straightened up and felt that he was a man again and could breathe. He had been oppressed and could not sleep. Do you think you could sleep, gentlemen, were such a load as that on your mind, the first night after doing the deed? Do you think you could be composed or collected? That part of the programmeseems to have been left to Mrs. Sheedy. She is the only cool, calm, collected, indifferent, serene person in this prosecution. Why, from her conduct during this trial you would be led to think she was not one of the people on trial. So calm, collected and serene, so absolutely unconcerned relative to this prosecution is she, that you would think it was not her. She has played her part well. But remember while she was playing that part, she omitted to play the part of the heartbroken, grief-stricken wife. While that part of the programme has been well maintained, I ask you whether her conduct in this court room during this trial has been that of the loving, affectionate, broken-hearted, bowed-down woman, whose husband has been brutally murdered. It is a pretty difficult thing to play a double part. It is pretty difficult to be a woman of iron nerve and to be a loving, affectionate wife at the same time. To brace up, to be resolute, to be firm, to be undaunted. Why the defendants would have you believe that nobody could mention John Sheedy's name without tears would gush forth and this woman would weep and mourn, filled with emotion. Has she manifested any of that here? No, she was playing another part. Do you think the woman that lost her husband and was broken hearted on account of his murder, do you think a woman of that kind can sit here undaunated and unconcerned under what has been going on in this case.

Mr. Hall then said that he would spend no time in answering the argument that the confession was not voluntary and thought that the defense could much more appropriately have offered to prove that it was not true.

He took up the confession and showed how in countless instances it was corroborated by the testimony. Anna Bodenstein corroborated it in that Monday went often to dress Mrs. Sheedy's hair. Mrs. Hood and Mrs. Carpenter corroborated it in that they had seen Walstrom's picture in the photograph album. And Mr. Hall dwelt upon the fact that Monday knew this as proof that Mrs. Sheedy had taken him into her parlo, told him of her lover and showed him the picture.