Show ARGUMENTS TO JURY ARE BEGUN I Closing Coing Scenes in Ellison Case Graphic and Pathetic t I WOMEN ARE MOVED TO TEARS 4 I PASSIONATE PA PLEAS MEEDS MERoY AND VINDICATION I The TIle closing clos arguments to the Jury in inthe inthe Inthe the Clyde H Ellison murder case ca e were begun yesterday morning at 10 18 It Is Ia not expected that District Attorney Attorney ney Dennis Dennie C win wm make the appeal for legal vindication until Thursday morning Then Theu will follow the courts instructions to th the jury which will probably consume an aD n hour or more in reading When the case cane ca e does reach the twelve Jurymen tt It will likely be late Thursday afternoon Judge O 0 W Powers Power the special pros proP prosecutor in tn the ease case made the opening ope lq address addreen addre yesterday afternoon He spoke for three hours He began shortly after atUF court opened at 10 and was wan not through when nhen the noon recess was taken At 2 he continued and ancl argued with the Jury until 3 J At that hour Attorney D S Truman began big aig hi opening statement for the defense e eThe The Closing cosing Arguments From that time until 5 when court took its ita afternoon recess until 10 thi morning he held the midi undivided vided attention of the Jurymen He will conclude his hla arguments this morning When hen he will be followed by Judge Wil Wi liam ham H King The latter hitter will probably consume n ume the remainder of DC the day On Oft the following Thursday morning Dis Dig Attorney Eichnor will close clo e the tM case It will then devolve upon Judge Jude Morse Mor e to instruct the Jury how to arrive at t a verdict in accordance with the evident evIden submitted Then the ease case goes oes to the tle jury and aM from froni that tbt the tile ate e of the defendant rests in tn their hands Judge Powers made on one of oc his life char characteristic dh r addresses He spoke with great earnestness painted his mental pictures with such oratorical or clear clearness clearness ness flees that the women of the two families interested in the outcome of the case frequently cried To the mother of the th young man the enormity of the crime crimi wag was probably never neer set setout setout setout out so vividly before the picture over overcame overcame overcame came her the possibilities P of the satis satisfaction satisfaction satisfaction faction of the law Jaw convulsed her h l her ber sobs shaking her whole body With Mrs A S Watson Wat on it was the manner in which he be spoke of her dead husband that brought the tears to toller her ller eyes and caus d her to weep with witha a feeling feell g that touched the hearts of those who sat around her Carefully Analyzed the Evidence The eloquence of the Judge had Its effect upon the spectators and aDd Jurors alike his oratory moved their feelings I In more ways than one Step by step he took up every particle of evidence sUbmitted by the state and analyzed It by comparing it with the defense submitted by Attorneys King and Tru Truman Truman Tm man luau He picked out o t the discrepancies as they appeared to him dilated upon them and showed to tl the jury from the states point of vl T how faulty they were Alter After disposing dl with the facts as adduced against t the defendant Judge Powers Pew rs attacked the insanity In and Justification plea of the defense defeA e eHe He showe as the case ca e is Js viewed by the stat th t they their are so 80 IK In it conflict that the ther v is not the t e semblance of har harmony harmony harmony mony between them that t at th the one is fatal to the other and unable to stand upon both at the same time tim the fight light of the defense eten e has hag been futile On the question of Justification ju the Judge endeavored to show that the yeung yeun mat mac let too much time elapse between the realization of the alleged wrong done him and the hour of the shooting to warrant his putting up such sucha a plea Had the shooting occurred im immediately immediately mediately after some IOme of the facts had come to attention then mat matters matters mattern tern would woud be different but he hOe commit committed committed committed ted the fatal fa tal error of waiting too long to avenge the honor hono of his wife The Insanity Inanity Plea Then Th n came the insanity in plea The A Judge p ked it tt to t pieces declaring that throughout t the two weeks prier to te the murde the defendant said d and did c thing which proved that his mind was wasse se bright and active even at the time of the shooting his mind was in such a normal condition as to permit him to tomake tomake tomake make remarks that an insane man could not be credited with Immedi Immediately Immediately Immediately after the shooting he had ha presence pre of mind sufficient to remark as he handed banded his hi revolver to a that he be had bad no further use for it Then he attacked the tile testimony of the defendant when he was on the witness stand showing that the young man by his shaded and aDd carefully guarded an answers answers to t questions qU put to him then had bad full tun command of his faculties in conclusion he asked that the law of or orthe the state be vindicated Attorney Truman made an equally passionate pa lonate plea pine His Hla position po was just the opposite to that of Judge Powers His feeling remarks upon the life and 1 character of Ellison caused the mother to shed tears tear his picture of the broken borne home and wrecked reeked life moved the de defendant defendant defendant and had its effect e upon jurors and spectators alike His denunciation denunciation denunciation tion of at the man who was the cause of the although not DOt directly made I moved Mrs Irs Watson to tears and ap appealed appealed pealed to the sympathies of every man manin manIn manin in the court room Appealed to Hie His picture of th the distorted mind of the defendant when he learned what i had bad transpired in ln his hie own home was w I graphic in the extreme Step by step stephe he be painted the growing friendship I which he said d the evidence ence brought i out between b tween Watson and the wife of oft the t defendant He lie retold how the wife wite I had begged for bow how Watson Wat on had bad admitted his hia guilt how the latter had bad broken his word with the young man never to see eee his wife again n and aad I asked the jury in the face of it all if they had it in their hearts beats to condemn a 8 man who as the Ute statutes gives given the right had done nothing more than seek to protect his home and the fair name or of his ht wife He appealed to the manhood of the jury asked them In so many words to change place with the defendant clet and see whether they would not have done doneas as he did He told how bow mind ha had slowly but surely given way under the awful affliction which had befallen him how he suffered su ered agonies and toe tor tortures tures until he be lost all reason n and com corn committed committed the act He argued that the act was not that ij of a mind bent upon cruel revenge it was a mind unbalanced by a wrong which was not fancied the ue ier ment men t was as brought about by facts cool I and deliberately committed commUted by bT the de do deceased ceased It was w a an act of or a man who sought bt vengeance enge nce In hi the biblical way Wayn not n t revenge of a brute b |