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EAGER TO HEAR THE CLOSE

A MULTITUDE AT THE SHEEDY TRIAL.

Three Advocates for the Defense Consume the Entire Day in Appeals to the Jury.

Juror James Johnson Causes an Adjournment by Illness--Strode and Lambertson Have an Exciting Spat and the Court Interferes.

To-day Will Close the Argument.

Lincoln's magnificent court house has been tried and found wanting. Its large and handsome law court room was by far too small to furnish accommodations for the crowds of Indies and gentlemen who assembled there yesterday to listen to the arguments in the greatest criminal trial in point of public interest ever held in the state of Nebraska. Long ere :he opening morning hour hundreds of the choicest seats were taken, and the session had not far advanced ere every seat was taken and the aisles were full of standing people willing to forego all comforts and conveniences if only they might hear the pleas advanced for the lives of the two unfortunate and widely contrasted prisoners at the bar. A bevy of ladies were even seated in the private office of Judge Field listening to the impassioned arguments through the open door. which commanded a near and direct view of the jury, the creators and the prisoners.

Bailiff Lou Franklin was at his wits' end and the perspiration steamed from his furrowed brow as he hastened hither and thither guarding the entrance to the inner circle, and at the same time gallantly endeavoring to see that the ladies were accommodated with seats as far as the seating capacity of the room would permit. Finally he gave up in despair, and instead of hunting seats for them [he?] was compelled to devote his entire energies to prevent them from overcrowding the space usually reserved to the court and attorneys, but which, during the later progress of this case, has been given up reservedly to the use of the ladies, who have encircled the august tribunal daily with banks of fair faces peering out from a varied assortment of the choicest and richest work of the milliner's art. All of the ladies, old and young, rich and poor, white, yellow and black, have evinced a desire to perch as near as possible to the throne of justice and the supplicant thereat. And when the ladies start with such an aim and determination, there is no gainsaying them. They are sure to get there. It was noticeable that few of them sought an entrace by the great door freely open to the common herd until they exhausted every chance of getting a place in the inner circles.

At the afternoon session there was a crowd that was truly remarkable. All over the vast court room was presented a sea offices, those of the fair sex apparentlypredominating. All around the walls were banks of humanity pressed too closely together for comfort or convenience. The wide aisle at the doors was crowded with ladies who had arrived too late to secure seats but just in time to shut out great numbers of still less fortunate ladies who had come too late to even get in.

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EAGER TO HEAR THE CLOSE

A MULTITUDE AT THE SHEEDY TRIAL.

Three Advocates for the Defense Consume the Entire Day in Appeals to the Jury.

Juror James Johnson Causes an Adjournment by Illness--Strode and Lambertson Have an Exciting Spat and the Court Interferes.

To-day Will Close the Argument.

Lincoln's magnificent court house has been tried and found wanting. Its large and handsome law court room was by far too small to furnish accommodations for the crowds of Indies and gentlemen who assembled there yesterday to listen to the arguments in the greatest criminal trial in point of public interest ever held in the state of Nebraska. Long ere :he opening morning hour hundreds of the choicest seats were taken, and the session had not far advanced ere every seat was taken and the aisles were full of standing people willing to forego all comforts and conveniences if only they might hear the pleas advanced for the lives of the two unfortunate and widely contrasted prisoners at the bar. A bevy of ladies were even seated in the private office of Judge Field listening to the impassioned arguments through the open door. which commanded a near and direct view of the jury, the creators and the prisoners.

Bailiff Lou Franklin was at his wits' end and the perspiration steamed from his furrowed brow as he hastened hither and thither guarding the entrance to the inner circle, and at the same time gallantly endeavoring to see that the ladies were accommodated with seats as far as the seating capacity of the room would permit. Finally he gave up in despair, and instead of hunting seats for them [he?] was compelled to devote his entire energies to prevent them from overcrowding the space usually reserved to the court and attorneys, but which, during the later progress of this case, has been given up reservedly to the use of the ladies, who have encircled the august tribunal daily with banks of fair faces peering out from a varied assortment of the choicest and richest work of the milliner's art. All of the ladies, old and young, rich and poor, white, yellow and black, have evinced a desire to perch as near as possible to the throne of justice and the supplicant thereat. And when the ladies start with such an aim and determination, there is no gainsaying them. They are sure to get there. It was noticeable that few of them sought an entrace by the great door freely open to the common herd until they exhausted every chance of getting a place in the inner circles.

At the afternoon session there was a crowd that was truly remarkable. All over the vast court room was presented a sea offices, those of the fair sex apparentlypredominating. All around the walls were banks of humanity pressed too closely together for comfort or convenience. The wide aisle at the doors was crowded with ladies who had arrived too late to secure seats but just in time to shut out great numbers of still less fortunate ladies who had come too late to even get in.