Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 4, 1881, Page 2

" ASTORY OF THF_ LAW. iiadelphia T ould o THE the ground, and gave sufficient | pors r runnin th | rec T never w mviet a man on | dred ' «“"_1"‘7\"'] \ AL, circumstantisl evid ence if 1 were a |l (0 AN M Qi juror-—never: ne' er! { decased, who was in uniforn The speaker was a distinguished [ pany with one of his squad. She criminal lawye.r of nearly forty years'[Swore that when the corporal called eotirss, and ‘wi P “halt,” Short, whom she had netive practite, and whose fame ex-|. o intimately for gears, replied, tended far ‘veyond the limits of his| <G to h—1," and while standing at own state | her side, #0 that their elbows were We had been discussing a recer nt | | touching, both being immediately un | der the gaslight, he pulled out a pis cause evlebre in which, upon purely | {4 z ol pointed it the deceased, who cireumstantial evidence, a man h.uI\“M fowr or five fost from him, and born convicted of an atrocions mur- | fired and then ran down the alley, the der, Familiar with the cirenmstances of the <case entertained the gravest doubts about the justice of hisconviction, and he had been swung off into eternity | protesting his absolute invocence with his last broath, and calling upon God to send his soul straightway to hell if he were not telling the truth, As most of our party were lawyers, the conversation naturally enough drifted gers arising from convicting accused , whose own mouths were upon purely circumstantial evidence, in the absence of any direct and positive proof of guilt, and case after case was cited in which, after conviction and execution, the entire innocence of the supposed culprits had been clearly demonstrated. Most of the laymen present agreed with the distinguished lawyer, whose very pos- itive expression of opinion has been quoted, while the majority of the lawyers contended, with that earnest- ness for which lawyers are moted when advocating their own side of any question, that justice could never miscarry when careful judges guard against the possibility of unsafe ver- dicts by refusing to permit a convic- tion except when every link in the chain of circumstantial evidence has been established beyond deubt, and the whole chain been made 80 per- fect and complete as to leave no room for any consistent hypothesis of cence, “‘The first caso T ever tried,” said one of them, ‘‘was stranger than fic- tion, as you will admit, and is quiteas remarkablo as any of the.cases you have referred to where innocent men have been wrongfully convicted mpon circumstantial evidence. Tt ought to have been reported as an example of the unreliability of the direct and pos- itive testimony of eye-witnesses, who tell what they believe to be the truth. He then related the main points of what was certainly a most remarkable and: dramutic trial, and which con- stitutes a fair offset to somo of the memorable cases to be found in every work on circumstantial evidence. The narrative produced so strong an im- pression upon my mind that subse- quently, with his consent, T put it into the following shape, having first care- fully compared it with his notes of testimony taken upon the trial of the case. It can be relied upon as abso- lutely correct, with the exception that 1 have used fictitious names, for rea- sons which will readily be appreciated when it is known that most of the ac- tors in the drama are still living. One winter evening about 8 o'clock, in the early days of the war, in the Yuiot Litila sown -l.. W w)uln poatrol- ling the streets to ) stragglers from the camp on t he uutn irts of the town, Corporal Julius Fry was shot and killed by oue of three men of bad character, w{:o were in compauy and upon terms of *open enmity with the soldiers. The men were arrested, committed to prison and brought to trial at the next term of the eourt. Two of them were gamblers and des- peradoes, and supposed to have more than once had thewr hands stained with human blood. The third, whom I shall call Short, though bearing an un- enviable reputation, was regarded as one unlikely to slay a fellow-man e cept under compulsion of cireu stances. On account of the character of the men and the trouble they had already brought upon quict, law-abid- ing citizens, the sentiment of the whole community was strongly against them. In order to clearly understand the force of the testimony given upon the trial and the subsequent result it is important to bear in mind the physi- cal peculiaritics, dress and general ap- pearance of each of the three pris- oners, Short was a smali man of not more than five feet six inches in height, slonder, weighing searcely 130 pounds, with bright, fiery red hair and side- whiskers, and at tha time of the mur- der wore a white felt hat and an old light-blue army overcoat. Ryan was fully six feet in height, of mbulr. frame, with black hairand mus- tache, dressed in dark clothes, and wore a black Derby hat. Grey was a heavy, broad uldered man u{modlum height, weighing full, 200 pounds, with a full black iou Jy reaching nurly to his waist. But as evidence subsequently showed that he had not fired the shot, it is unnecessa- ry to describe his appearance more minutely, Certainly 1t is difficult to imagine two men more unlike than Short and Ryan, or less liable to be mistaken for each other, even by strangers, much less by their acquaintances. There was no possibility here for a case of mistaken identity, Short and Ryan were tried together with their consent—Grey having ask- ed for and obtained a separate trinl — and each was defended by separate counsel, After the preliminary proof relating to the post-mortem examination, the cause of death and the indentification of the body of the deceased us the per- son named in the indictment, the com- monwealth called as its first witness a woman, Mary Bowen, She bore a bad reputation for chastity, but, no- body questioned her integrity of her purpose to tell, reluctantly, it is true, the whole trath, The prisioners were all her friends, were constant visitors to the drinking saloon of which she was the proprietress. She was & woman of powerful physique, almost masculine frame, great force | of character and more than ordinary intelligence. From her testimony it appeared that a colored woman with whom she had had some dispute had. hit her on the head with a stone and ran, and the three prisoners, coming up at the mo- ment, mrtod with her up the strect in punult of the fugitive. Although the night was dark there was snow on although many of those most x- into & discussion of the dan- | | deconsed pursuing him, She heard | four wr five more shots fired, and im mediately the €cceased returned wounded, and Short disappeanad | While the shots wore being fired ehe saw both Ryan end ( standing at the corner some fect away from he |and after that they separated and vhe went heme It was also proved that this aliey was| | bounded on cither side by high fences difficult to climb, and led down | to astream of water about fifty feet wido and threo or four fect deep traces of footsteps were found in the | snow except those of one man leading | down into this stream, and it was evi dent that the person who had fired had not ¢ ll)llhm{ either fence, but had waded through the stream and disap. ared on the other side, The next witness was the soldier | who atood close by the deeeased whan the first shot was fired, and who, not knowing either of the prisoners, de- seribed the person who had fired and ran down the alley as the man with red hair and side whiskers, dressed in a light-blue army overcaat and white soft hat, and upon being directed to look at the three prisoncrs, immedi- ately identifiecd Short as the man whom ke had seen do the shooting. The testimony of these witnesses | was in nowise shaken upon cross-ex- amination, Then the sworn ante-mortem state- ment of the deceased, taken by a magistrate, was read to the jury. He said that he had known Short person- ally some time, but had nover had any difficulty with him. He fully identi- fied him as the man who fired the first shot and then down the alley, firing one shot after another until he fired the last and fatal shot almost in the face of the deceased. He also fully described the clothing worn by Short as it had been described by the other witnesses. These were all the witnesses to the oceurrence, except the prisoners them- | selves, and, of course, they could not be heard. The case against Short seemed to be as conclusively made out as thoughascore of witnesses had sworn that they had seen him do the shoot- ing. Neither the judge, the jury nor the spectators entertained the slight- est doubt of his guilt, and when the commonwenlth, at this point, closed its case, it seemed as though the fatal rope was already around his neck and his escape impossible. Ryan heaved a sigh of relief which was audible throughout the whole court room, for he was safe; there was not one word of testimony against him, or any circumstance tending to show any previous arrangement or concert of actiom betwaen him and Short, After a whispered consultation be- tween the counsel for the defence, one of them rose and moved the court to direct the jury to forthwith roturn a verdict of “not guilty” as to Ryan, in order that he might be culluj as a witness for the other prisoner. This was resisted by the district attoracy, and, after length and elaborate argu- ments, the court decided that it was bound to grant the motion, and, ac- cordingly, %{yun was declared “‘not guilty,” and the verdict recorded. Then came a scene as dramatic to those present as anything ever w on the stage. Without any opening speech by Short's counsel, Ryan, in obedience to a nod from his attorney, stepped out of the prisoners’ dock and into the witness-box, looked around the court-room, took up the Bible and was sworn to tell ““the truth, the whole truth and noth- ing but the truth.” ery head was bent forward, every ear wason the alert, every eye was fixed on the wit- uess-—-something startling was ex- pected, Would he attompt to show that Short had done the shooting in self-defense! That seemed the unly possible. But how could he be believed in the face of the positive tes- timony of three witnesses, two of them living and in the court room, one of them dead—murderod? Ryan stood for a moment looking down, and then slowly lifting his cyes to thu bench, in a silence in which the falling of a feather might have beon heard, he said: "Mny Task the court a question?” The venerablo judge, evidently sur- ed at being interrogated, looked ut him and said: *‘Cortamnly, si ‘I understand that I am acquitted,” said Ryan, pausing for a moment and then continuing, “L want to know from the court whether anything T may say now odn ever be used against me in any way/(" What did he mean? What need for that question/ Every one looked at his neighbor inquiring; The Hlushed fate of tflu judge show- ed that he, at least, understood what it meant—an attempt to swear his guilty companion out of the hangman’s grasp. Then, in a tone of unmistuk- able indignation, came the ansyer ““I am sorry to say, sir, that noth it ing you may say now can be used against you; thut is, on a trial for wurder, ~ You have been acequitted,” Ryan’s face grew pale and then red, and he said, slowly and distinetly ““It was T who fired all the shots— not Short.” Most of the faces in the court-voom wore looks of incredulity; some of in dignation at the hardened wickedness of the man who had just been declared innocent, and who, by his own state- ment, had been guilty of murder, if he was not guilty of perjury. But quietly and calmly, without a tremor, as coolly as though he were deseribing some trivial occurrence which he had casually witnessed, Ryan went on, step by step, detailing all that had oceurred, and when he had finish- ed his story there was probably not a person present who was not fully con- inced not only that Ryan had told the simnle truth, but also that he himself had fired the fatal shot in self-defence, | traced his steps OMAHA DALLY BE} s ve led ry n s r “m\.w vithout any jury exeept to give his challenger a scar nd then n o« the all and upon being ¢l pursued by the de ceased with sabre drawn and ready to strike, he was compelled to pull out a revolver and fire several shots toward his pursuer, who was rapidly gaming on him, to keep him back; and that | whken he had but one shat left he stambled over a large stone and fell on his knees, and at this mement the decoased struck at him with the sabre, cutting him slightly in the check, and, being thus pressed, he aimed and fired the last shot, which subsequently proved fatal. He further told how. on recovering his feet, he ran, waded through the stro am, and, finding that he had lost his hat when he fell, r serossed the stream, | found the hat and then went to ahotel | where he seen hy several ses to dry his wet clothing. His man ner, his bearing and his story con vinced his hearers that he was telling the truth | But, sothat nothing might be want ing if any doubt remained in the minds of the judge or jury, witnesses of undoubted vera woerd led who corroborated him as to the condi tion of his clothing and the cut on his check within fifteen minutes after the occurrence. Besides, it was shown | that, although the man who had fired | had waded through the stream, Short's | clothing was perfectly dry Tt is unnecessary to say that Shor was promptiy acquitted and warmly congratulated on one of the narrowest | escapes ever made by any man in a court-room. Nothing could have saved him had the court refused to di rect the acquittal of Ryan and allow | him to testify. The deceased corporal, the soldier and Mary Bowen were—mistaken. That was all there was about it. So much for the occasional unrelia bility of the direct testimony of hon- est eye-witnesses, And so much, also, for giving the | accused an opportunity to bo heard on | the witness stand, the denial of which by the law is one of the relics of bar- | varism which still disgraces its admin- | istration in some states at this ]MU| day. [ witnes IMPIETIES * ission, Ka rom l]n wicked neighborhood in which it is situated. A Buffalo Sunday school teacher is in trouble because she gave her pupils | tickets instead of the ordinary merit cards, The following sip was in aletter fron we have two Lord's prayers w will s harder;thia. aver for | ter, Uit is the | on the ~lln1( and all the fe and collar-hutton o1 « nmu.mlnn Vanderhilt once bit a nt—still pre- which ALy exchange t ina churel h w hu he must b canse, our son ‘I|<| )lubl(uml' with my \Lm lm- un- other night at the f a citizen who had his hair vaph taken, was measu for a suit of clothes, and had a toath ex- tracted all in_one day without saying mill- dam. —[Detroit Free Press. kes it his bus- against all who il about 300 of his ~d his eyes and iness to enter comp use profane langange, fellow-t n have e are undonbt- than horse “Inquit dl» uiore Sunday school p o vear, - 1t s difficult to say whather you would be Justified i post- | poning o nflicted with a | trotting meeting. Write to Robert Bon- uer. Colonel Ingersoll has mac ing the past thice monthy the B Hundreds of wen have not made g the same period, ng in favor of the hle. But the all I not prosper, all the sune, rald, conference nt 1o the During lowing dialo, o newsboys: , the fol- Bnll lh\rt. ex-negro minstrel, 1 York preacher. says about the hardest task in his new vocation is to suppress, while in the pulpit, the old habit of ask- ing his congregation one of those gray- haired conundrums, such_as *“What is the difference between the Prince of Wales, a bald-headed man, an orphan and & mon- key's mother Two years ago the Rev. Mr. Norris, a Baptist clergyman at Guilford, Me., hid trouble with {Ii congregation because of his greenback views, and the Baptist con- ference sent him to Burmah a8 o mission- ady; there lately the natives killed and ate hitn, s the wifted De La Matyr? "Tlhe heathen pine § e i, When The Chicago Times comes to pub- lishing the revised Old Testament in full, » Boaton paper, The unseript, predicts that it will oduce the volume with h.mnum e these “Creation U u Tnteresting Toothsome Scandals!” Josh Billings has revised his prayers, which are henceforth to read as follows: From tu many friends, and from things \\l\h luce ends, deliver from a wife who don't luy s, dren who don't Took like us, delive From wealth without charity, from pride without sense, from pedigree worn out, and from all welations deliver us? From snaix in the rass, from nails in wtes, from torch-light processions and all tu rum deliver us! rom pack-peddlers, from young folks in luy, from old aunts without money, and Lu'l\l\ morbis, deliver us! Im.\.;l....-m‘ 2 nd pills that ain’t from females who faint, and men who flat deliver us! From virtus without butter that smells, from u *, und from cats that fisil fragrance, from v kawp meet are courting, de- liver us! From other folks secrets, and frou | our own, and women counnittees, deliver | us who won't laugh, and from them who i, from tite Im\.- easy vir- tue, and mutlon, deliver us! They had & rare thne raising the pastor's salary, or rather making up the deficiency, at the St. Paul's African Methodist church in New York the other night. Jugs with m big enough to admit » silver n previously passed around the neighborhood and everybody asked to or at least under such circumstances of contrlbute. On the night referred to the jugs were to be broken, and the person whose jug contained the most mouey was to receive a silver watch as & prize. s let up on suspenders | ¥ | pick SATURDAY, Twenty-fi © broken., One |,.\‘ thing in th ine « i It 1t It comtain it s ) 2100, T} It wn 1 when the ceTetary ring in_ with the live | bird pie” e said the person who vas ng to bake the pie had inted Lim, and he hol to g0 to work bake the pie himslf S fenic in n ’ i All ; wons, an gentleninn, 1 his young and hand ame wife, W of suspicion andd the jealoney were consuming him, hi little oy cane running up to him' and s “Oh, papa, 1 think the dominie's | coling sick. “What makes you think } ne off walking all PEPPERMINT DROPS. — | “I'm i noyon,” remarked mosquito t voung ladly, as she <lapped | it The best thing for a b Lot these days, is a nice bunch of axparag [New Haven Register Debating clubs are anxiously \\n|v\im] the I lem, which has | | the or & 50c shad? Youwon't finda an fooling around with pasti or muscilage to make a postage stamp stick. He sits down and sews the blamed thing on The footgoeth out in a sailboat when he breaker, but ¢ man picks up pebbles on the shore, ts with the girl in a pink dress. ine becomes a useless luxury ary steam-boiler of comi- a 1nan seven hundred feet, y motor could hardly Wi uu! f Nitr. when mere An untam at that. i K Some of the mail route jobbers are billed to pls ar engagements where the audi- \th { from the worst elements of commodated with private ulnll\’l *lut she put her little french heeled shoe on & banana peel, and ip a flash was transformed into a lady slipper, and then arse Dlushing like a peony.— rk Sunday Call, n 1 was a y a s alw ry to hold the big end f the loy o all " the lifti {now I am older, I seize hold of the small end and do all the grunting-" It is not safe to argue that a rival of usiness is ‘u hand just hecause your wife has 8 <posing of your second. best suit ‘.( .L-v.lu~ in exchange for a great f-paris parrot with a tomato-color- says Bil- ed man at Clarion, sther ni A ball was ? ople of the town, and he wasn't i He ;:nlim.u There.is as a i Tow xpress has discovered ent. He ix o Philadel- il twenty-pound chunk and when the indig- Litn, hie hits his foot phian andgvear of iron in | s tr vant citfrin und makes him misapply serip- ture is a cautio \\ln en o telegram comes from the far st and states that a fire “destroyed e y Lusinees louse save in the town,” we fiel sorry for the town. Buv when, next day, we fearn that the “business houses of consisted of a beer saloon and the town' ward of ¢ d. iderable, tristown Her ur fivst wife w erable force of charact force,” he said, scouring e 8pot on s waisteont vith, Lis (i, 51 vertul mental mgehinery?” “Well, T don't Jegb antch§Tm s-ilet, but she had fo never liked t ler in anything there was a 4 wood handy."—[N Haven Register. At the dance, the other evening, he was introduced to a becoming miss, and so, of course, was doing his best to merit his good luck. 'Feeling a_sudden indisposition, he excused himself for a minute, and on re- ing, was in the act of removi a few rmels of coffee from his vest po , when astonished him by saying: ew that, T had rather smell the new rum.” He didn't apologize. The complaint that a man who has been president of the United States cannot find any proper employment afterward, i -pre 2 woman of consid- “Yes, she had Cincinmati ~ Enqui cannot’ tum_ his aything. Ho is + rrounped by phere of dignity. V cesiden weould ke to milk-wagon in ease he woul time and not water the milk of this city ure rich, but they When we st eabbage plant is green at pre memory the little trip we took so ago, when we thought wee were pumpling,” We walked fifteen and hth miles into the country to girl, and after arriving at her home, the girl's mother g us i piece of cheese and @ cracker and sai v, run home konny, like a good "oy Fact is stranger than fiction, —| Derrick, The meanest thing was done at Keokuk, Ia., the other day, by the heirs of the Ma- goun estate, who got_together and settled their diffcrences. The estate is worth fully £75,000, and the lawyers had only got 814,500 of it It is believed there has been trickery. The Buffalo gives us the dler at the c Pennsylvani Sapple Mister, {ent driving a round on people not proud. ) to gave upon the trees, and cverything else which nt, something e € an ex-pre [Milwaukee Sun, Commercial Advertiser Apple! Sapple! 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