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Show friend surpassed any other crime on record. The speaker cited many cases, among them Siekles-McKee of Washington, McFarland-Richardson, McFarland-Richardson, Cole - Iliscock of New York, all cases where the outraged husbands killed the seducers and were cleared on the ground of right. With a ringing peroration Mr. Strode closed his argument for the night, and at 10 o'clock the court adjourned until Saturday morning. MR. CRITGHLOW RETURNS. lie Is Confident That Irvine Will be Acquitted Ac-quitted An Error Corrected. E. B. Critchlow, who has been attending the trial of his friend, W. II. Irvine, at Lincoln, Neb., returned home this morning. To a Times reporter the gentleman ex-Dressed ex-Dressed the utmost confluence on the result of the trial. Irvine's friends expect the jury to return a verdict of not guilty in a few minutes after the case is submitted. Irvine's testimony produced a very favorable favor-able impression on every one who heard it. He was frauk and made no effort to conceal con-ceal anything connected" with the tragedy. One mistake contained iu the telegraphic re-, port was where Irvine was quoted as saying that his wife excused herself by saying that other ladies living in Salt Lake and friends of hers had done the same thing. As a matter mat-ter of fact, he testified that his wife gave him the names of two iedies in Indiana, mutual friends of theirs, who had been dire-lict, dire-lict, and whose husbands had taken them back. Irvine told Mr. Critchlow privately that his wife in no way cast any reflections upon any woman in Salt Lake or in Lincoln. One of the strongest points brought out in the evidence for the defense was the testimony of one Jackson, who stated that he saw Montgomery reel out of the dining-room, and was struck by the asrony shown in his face. An iustHQt later Irvine came out and the look of suffering in his face was so intense in-tense tha the witness' attention was attracted at-tracted from Montgomery to him. This, Mr. Critchlow said, "was the kind of testimony testi-mony that was introduced as to Irvine's mental condition, and it indicates that it was of the strongest kind. Judge Towers is hand!iughis part of the case admirably. IRVINE WAS 'fi In Slaying- the Despoiler of His Home BY VIRTUE OF THE DIVINE AND MORAL LAW. Montgomery Was a Cheap Sacrifice to Justice FROM THE MOMENT HE VIOLATED HIS FRIEND'S CONFIDENCE. That Is tho Powerful Plea of t3ie le-IViise le-IViise to the Jury, in Which the liolJ Outrage of t3ie libertine i;i tiie I'rfsiMoe of littie F!os5e Is Vividly lepicted Arguments Will Sic Keumed Tomorrow. Lincoln-, Xeb., Oct. 21. Special. At 4 o'clock yesterday Hon. Jesse B. Strode of Lincoln continued his address for the defense de-fense and until 5 o'clock there was a vindication vindi-cation of defendant's actions, up to the time of meeting his wife in Chicago, which had been attacked by Adams as a me-thcdicul me-thcdicul premeditation. Such an excoriation of their efforts has seldom if ever been heard in this court room. At the hour named Mr. Strode asked fur an adjournment until the evening session, as this was his first uppearance since recovering from severe illness. ill-ness. He closed with the ringing assertion "that the man who would use the name of his sister to accomplish the ruin of his friend's wife deserves t- Skilled." Immediately Immedi-ately after adjournmcr .,' the ladies ' FAIRLY. SfKKOCN'DED MR. IRVINE, 'and after au introduction expressed kind words of sympathy, more than one thanking him for acting as he did on the fatal morning. morn-ing. This reception was shared in by Flossie, who remained by her father's side nutil he left the courtroom. v Long before the lights were lit for the i evening session the audience commenced to assemble, and before the hour of opening court there was not a foot of standing room. Over a thousand were present. Seldom a more select assembhiga is found in Lincoln than that which filled this beautiful and brightly lighted courtooora. After the jury tiled into the box Mr. Irvine, in company with Mr. F. T. lliatt and"judge O. W. Powers Pow-ers of Salt Lake, entered and took seats among counsel. Flossie soou followed, and sfttr climbing to her father's knee, sat quietly listening with both arms around her lather's neck. Amidst a most Drofund silence, si-lence, Mr. Strode made his argument, districting dis-tricting the charges, imputations and insinuations insinu-ations of Adams, after which he minutely reviewed the evidence in the case. The licentious and unholy desires of Montgomery were shown up in their MOST GLARING AND IIIOEOC3 CHARACTER. The heuest and just, yet generous, consideration con-sideration of the libertine by the defendant, when he thought at all of Montgomery, was brought out to show the real desire of the defendant, as it is in evidence tiiat he never thought of him except wi:h the idea of, "Oh, how could you, my friend, have done it after I was such a good friend to you as I have been." As the speaker progressed aud referred to what Adams had designated as the "deadly aim," he said: "It is a most singular fact, gentlemen of the jury aud counsel for the prosecution, too, that when the man who is sceaiug to avenge the wrongs of his family upon the adulterous adulter-ous scavenger who has ruiui-d hi hv'.iic, his aim is always fatal. At otie p ,nt in the argument Mr. Strode referred to the fact that Montgomery was in Texas up to the d iy prior to the killing. To this conns I for prosecution objected, as this fsr-t had not been brought out in ti e testimony. A discussion dis-cussion followed 'n wLu-h Mr. Strode, in a leud voice, exclaimed: "", it is a fact, but if you are afraid of fact then I won't 'cfer to it.". "We are not afraid of facts," bawled out MeCdllough. "If you are not, what are you kicking at?" answered Mr. Strode. This brought forth a round of applause, tut when the baliffs succeeded in securing quiet Judge Hall said: "Ladies and gentlemen, gentle-men, this is a court of justice aud not a theater, and I will have to tell you that if there is a repetition of this applause for cither of counsel I will have to order the room cleared." In a low voice Mr. Strode recited to the jury the scenes in the chamber cham-ber of II. tel Grace, pathetically drawing the picture of little Flossie arousing from her slumbers aud XJ1SCOVEKINO MONTGOMERY IX UNHOLY RELATION RE-LATION with her mother. The denunciation which followed this review was a caustic and emphatic em-phatic endorsement of defendant's action, and the bold assertion of "Gentlemen, if I hud been the victim of Charles Edward Montgomery's licentiousness, I say candidly tli.it I would openly and above board have hilled him." The silence which followed this ringing assertion could almost be felt. He then reviewed the divine law on the crime of adultery, and said that from the very moment Montgomery violated the eunctity of his friend's home his death knell was sounded. Alluding to , the Banctlty of American homes, he said they have to be kept inviolate, invio-late, and if the defendant had, as the prosecution prose-cution claimed, deliberately come here and shot Ed Montgomery, he did right, for the man who would not fight for his home is ntt worthy of having a home. The death of Montgomery was a cheap sacrifice to save the young mother from the fearful abyss of adultery, and who is more fit to put the adulterer to death than the husband of that young mother. Notwithstanding this counsel 'for the prosecution will say a murder or manslaughter has been committed. The bold effrontery, meanness and infamy of Montgomery in indulging his lecherous de-tires de-tires in the presence of the daughter of his . |
