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Show FATE OF IM GOES TO JURY LUTE TODAY i Attorney P. T. Farnsworth Scathingly Arraigns Alleged Murderer in His Closing Speech to the Jury. DENUNCIATION MAKES PRISONER NERVOUS Counsel Declares Allegil Dragging of Niece Into Attempted At-tempted Jailbreak Worse Than Crime Charged. Tho fate of Caleb A. Inlow, on trial for his life on a charge of having murdered mur-dered Thomas E. White last October, will be submitted to the jury late this afternoon. The state has mado its opening argument, and the defense has replied in part to that. The defense's final argument, which will be made by Attornoy Willard Hanson, will be started at 9:45 o'clock this morning, and District Attorney E. O. Leather-wood Leather-wood will then close for tho state. Judgo Morris L. Ritchie will give his charge and instructions to the jury immediately after Mr. Lcatherwood closes, and the jury will then be intrusted in-trusted with the case which has been on trial for twenty-three court days. Tho state's first argument was made by Attorne3r Philo T. Farnsworth, assistant as-sistant to tho district attorney, and the defendant's first reply was delivered by Attorney E. A. Walton yesterday afternoon. Jury Is Thanked. Mr. Farnsworth thanked Uic jury for its patienco and courtesy during the long trial, in Iiib opening sentence, and proceeded at onco to a review of the case, in which he declared that only one tenable motive existed for the murder mur-der of White, and that Inlow was tho only man who could havo had such a motive. Piece by piece, item by item, he reviewed tho state's case, which lie said had woven about Inlow 's neck a noose so strong that it would not be broken. During bis speech, in which he bitterly bit-terly assailed lulow and characterized him as "tho most damnable, cowardly cur over prosocutoci by tho stato, " the object of his denunciation appeared to bo cringing undor tho verbal blows that, wcro struok at him. Nervous, trembling at times, ho seemod to grow moro despondent as tho prosecutor continued. con-tinued. Evon the answering speech of his counsel. Attorney E. A. Walton, did not seem to entirely rovivo his spirits. .Occasionally he would look up at Mr. Farnsworth, but when tho latter would turn on him vindictively, ho would clutch at the table before him and drop his cj'es. Stopped Automobile. Mr. Farnsworth reviewed the conditions condi-tions under which the cab and White's body were found, declaring that the cab itsolf and tho position of tho body and tho character of the wounds pointed point-ed unmistakably to tho fact that White was shot from the loft side and that ho had recognizod his assailant before tho first shot was fired, had stopped his cab and had attorapted to escape tho bullet. "Doad men do not stop automobiles," automo-biles," Mr. Farnsworth said dramatically, dramati-cally, thus indicating his reason for belief be-lief that White had seen and recognized recog-nized his assailant. No weapons woro found in tho cab, ho said, and none on White's body. Ilis mono, his diamonds, his other valuables valua-bles were not touched, thus indicating thnt robbery was not tho motive. Ho then demanded to know what the ino-livo ino-livo was. Ho said that White was driving driv-ing north on tho wrong aide of the streot and asked why. Because, ho said, the decoy in tho cab had tola him to, in order to find tho man in waiting. Says Man Waited. "Thero was a man lying in wait," ho said. "When tho appointed place was roached, when sho saw tho tall dnrk figure, ho Btopped. There was possible recognition and tho boy tried to got away but the tall gaunt form who wns lying in ambush was too quick with his gun and the boy was slain." Mr. Farnsworth declared that no friend of Inlow 's had acted as his do coy, that it must have been his weak and yielding wife, perhaps unconscious of tho purpose for which sho was luring lur-ing Whito to that lonoly plnco. "The tall gaunt figure pullod the wiring out of tho cnr. What is more natural to suppose," Mr. Farnsworth asked, than thnt in lenniug over to tho right side of the car his long dark coat drnggod in his victim's blood T Who would not try to wash that blood from - j" (Continouod on Pago Xwo.) INLOW'S FATE GOES TO THE JURY LATE TODAY (Continued from Pngo One.) the coat?" ho asked. "Only one spot on that coat -was analyzed that was blood. "You know what kind of blood it wua. " Mr. Farnsworth wont into a detailed analysis of A. S. hollo's testimony, declaring de-claring that it was corroborated at every ev-ery salient point by oral witnesses and by tho mute testimony of the cab and ot White's bodv. Taking up the matter of motive, he said, that it was necessary to look lor a tall man, wearing a dark ovor-coat, ovor-coat, and who had a motive. With any one of those cirenmstauces .tho finger of suspicion might be pointed at a man, but when they wore combined com-bined the accusation was too powerful power-ful to bo resisted. He then reviewed the testimony concerning tho burglary charge and Inlow's fear that White would 6end him to the penitentiary by his testimony, and then declared 'that this furnished the motive. Abbott Is Assailed. "Add to this the blood on his ovor-coat. ovor-coat. What else do wo want?" ho asked, The testimony of E. W. Abbott was referred to in a scathing manner. "It would have boon better, more sportsmanlike, to havo kept that man off the stand," iFarnsworth snld. "White is dead and in his grave. The only thing left to him by tho brute who took his lifo is his name. And they come hero and put such stuff in hero to tarnish the dead man's name. Counsel should bo ashamed to put-stuff put-stuff in here in such a way." Jnlow's movemonts and thoso of his wife woro reviewed ill detail, and all of these, Mr. Farnsworth do'clnrcd, pointed to the cnrcful preparation that Inlow made fir his crime. All pointed to his guilt and to his plans to cvado suspicion. By thoix very elaborateness, and 'by their weakness, too. ho asserted, thev pointed to his guilt and had caused nis undoing. After Inlow and his wife were lost sight of, about midnight, Mr. Farns-worth Farns-worth said that tho next seen of them was when they woro boarding tho street car nearest tho scone of tho crime, He dwelt in detail on all of their movements as related by tho witnesses, and then turned his "attention "atten-tion to the cscapo from jail. Escape Mentioned. "Then there's tho escape," he said. "Any man who is worth his salt would wish" to slay and protect his good name. "Wliy did Caleb A. Tnlow try to break jail 7 What construction can be placed upon that attcmpt7 "I will rofor to that later and the means employed by him in That at-i tompt his sister 'b little girl." Mr. Farnsworth referred to the testimony tes-timony of State Chemist Herman Harms, and said that wnilo Mr. Harms was not permitted by the defense de-fense to tell the .jury his Best judgment judg-ment as to what kind of blood it was on tho overcoat, the jury know. Returning to Mrs. Inlow's nlloged part. Mr. Farnsworth said that by the testimony of many witnesses she was seen waiting for White's cab and would have none other. Ho domanded tho defense to answer win- that was. She entered his cab and was driven away ."just a few minutes before White's death. Sho was the wife of the man in the long, black coat who had inquired so persistently concerning concern-ing White earlier in the night. "Was thoro any ovidence of White's alleged friendship for Inlow when In-low In-low looked for him the whole evening and did not know him from his day driver? Is there anything more natural nat-ural than Inlow telling bis lawyer that White was his friend, while he was planning and plotting 'for While's death?" Had Good Friends. Mr. Farnsworth declared that Tnlow Tn-low had cood friends here, tho Sny-ders, Sny-ders, at whoso homo he had a room. He asked why ho had takon a "room in a downtown rooming house and why ho had registered under an assumed name. "Because ho wanted a place easy of access from the cars at Main and Second South street to which he could come after ho had murdered the boy," Mr. Farnsworth said. f Tnlow did not want his Trends to know he had stayed at such a rooming house, why not have left the fictitious name on the register? Why erase it and thus by his actions Tivct attention ujioj himself. It was one of many weak places in Inlow's plans, Mr. Farnsworth Farns-worth said. "That boy. unsuspecting hio fate, was lured to that lonely spot and shot like a dog," Mr. Farnsworth said. "The inhuman brute who committed that murder was not content with shootlnc. but when he was mortally woundf-d, beat that boy with a heavy, blunt instrument. wTTlle he was dying, or after he was dcauTr' Refers to Statement. Mr. Farnsworth referred to Inlow's written statement to-thc.chiof of police, which Tnlow afterward destroyed, but which was patched together during tho trial. He pointed to Inlow's reference to N. Thompson, named by Inlow as a man ho met at about the time tho mur-dor mur-dor was committed. Thohrpson was never located. Inlow did not make good his declaration that ho would show an alibi. "What about Tnlow's statement to Sheriff Sharp that he would explain all about the blood snot on tho overcoat?" over-coat?" Mr. Farnsworth said. "Has It been explained? What witnesses have testified?" Laying aside all question of motive, Mr. Farnsworth said that if it. could bo supposed that 10,000 bloodthirsty gunmen gun-men wero seeking White's life, how would any of tliciii know just whore ho would bo, in n lonely spot liko that where he mot his death, unless ho had been lured there. Tho evidence was uncontradicted that the man who slew White knew that he would come to that spot, and was lying in wait for him. Dramatic Denunciation. "Caleb A. Inlow sank to oven lower depths than that in this case," he Haid dramatically pointing his finger accusingly accus-ingly at the prisoner. He attempted to break nail, itself a felon y. Who tool: tho key to the locksmith? The little girl Ins sister's littlo girl. Can you imagine anything moro coutomptiblo than for this great coward to drag into the meshes of his infornal crime this littlo girl? Even tho lowest brutes respect re-spect their own blood. Yet this man, endowed with reason, took that littlo girl and involved her in a fclonv. "What has boon his conduct"? Head hia statement to Chief Grant and see how tho coward does. Ho lets himself into the clear, but he savs ho and his wife were not together. "lie hasn't tho manhood to lie liko a gentleman and give tho wife the benefit of his por-jurcd por-jurcd word. "Now as to his escape. Any man of honor, if innocent, would stay nnd. f aco tho music if no one oleo woro involved. That woman, his wife, whom ho had led to the altar, who had dona what she has dono for him in this case, who had let him hide behind her skirts he soek9 to desert her, to leave her to her own fate- and make his own gotaway. "Caleb A. Inlow. what kind of a creature are you?" Mr. Farnsworth demanded, shaking his finger at Inlow, who only grinned. Inlow Is Assailed. "Think what his escape would havo meant for her. That act itself was moro dastardly than tho murder of White. That sneaking murderer, who killed by lying in wait, ho would lot her defense suffer by his oscape, thus placing plac-ing tho noose about hor neck. He is tho most damnable cowardly cur that was over prosecuted in this state. How ho can look any man in tho faco is boyoud my comprohensiou. "Why show mercy to him? Did he show it to Eddlo Wnito whom ho boat on the head after ho was dead or mortally mor-tally wounded? Did he show it to tho littlo girl whom ho compelled to compound com-pound a felon)"? Did he show it to his wife who has gono so far for him? I submit these things to you, gentlemen of the jury." E. A Walton for tho defense Baid at tho beginning that he know the jury was wean- of the long spoech thoy had , i .lust heard, and. he would make his ad-dress ad-dress as briof as possible. He declared that ho would speak without passion and without prejudice. He said that he would not snarl like a coyote, nor would ho appeal to tho passion of the jury. "There is such, a thing as blood-thirstiness, blood-thirstiness, and it matters not to the state -who is tho victim," ho said. Ho declared that the state had failed to show Inlow guilty, but had pounced upon up-on tho first victim at hand and domanded do-manded Hits blood. Ho admitted that thcro might have been suspicious circumstances cir-cumstances in Inlow's case, but those circumstances were as consistent with innocence as with guilt. 'Burglary Charge Reviewed. Ho declared that the state had not shown adequate motive in the first, place, for man do not commit great crimes to hide lessor ones. The rovorse, ho said is tho rule. Mr. Walton reviewed the burglary charge, and demanded to know what was communicated to Inlow in relation to that charge as affecting White. He reviewed Patrolman Downey's testi-1 testi-1 mony and declared that Inlow had said that White had been mistaken, and that White would not testify in a manner to injuro him. "It is impossible to consider con-sider that any man would seek White's lifo bocause of that testimony he might givo in that case," ho declared. Ho assorted that it was necessary to show that Inlow was at or near the scene of the crime whou it was committed. com-mitted. This, ho said, tho state had failed to do. "The state has not ehown. you that ho was anywhere save up town that night," ho said. "Ho was not identified olsewhoro. Identification Identi-fication is a very important matter, and tho state's alleged identification was lacking in merit, incomplete, inadequate and inaccurate. Such descriptions as woro given of the person -who leaped from that cab or who was said to have been seen at other places, would fit ten thousand men in Salt Lako City." Denounces Police. Mr Walton referred briefly to tho way in which tho police handled, tho case, declaring that the police had made no Ehowincr against Inlow, but had manufactured ev;idonce, with the unconscious aid o the drunken mau who was arrested whilo Mrs. Tnlow was bu'ing taken to, jail in the patrol wagon with the evidence. Tie characterized Hollo's testimony as a vagary of the imagination, based upon what ho had seen when he visited vis-ited the sceno of tho crime the next morning, and upon what he had rend. He did not give to Bollo a false motive mo-tive and did not believe, he said, that Rollo was wilfully distorting the truth, but declared that it was all imagination imagina-tion fe "You cannot guess a man to the gallows, to the riflemen's chair or to prison lor life," he declared. "Thoso things must bo done by facts and by ovidence. You cannot hang a man because be-cause he has tried to break jail. We do not object to the stalbV zeal iu trying to find and punish offenders, but no matter what act they can find of Jnlow's, the state declares that it points to his guilt, The stato is willing will-ing to have tho life of this man and that of his wife, for thoy have no conscience in that respect. Thoy do not care how 3"ou guess this man's life and liberty away. Thev want to add another scalp to their belt they want to win their case. Coat Unidentified. "There's tho matter of the blood on that coat. Tf there is anything the)' love it is blood human blood. How hard they tried to get Herman Harms to come through and say that this was human blood, but Harms, true to his own nature and to science, testified testi-fied that this was mammalian blood. Tf the stato claimed that those were human bloodstains on that coat, win-did win-did they not have it determined'? They woud rather have you guess this mac's lifo away than to take the troublo to demonstrate scientifically that it was human blood. They have failed to show the identity or ownership owner-ship of that overcoat. No' witness has testified that Inlow ever had it in hia possession." Mr. Walton then referred to tlic alleged actions of tho police in placing plac-ing the drunken, wounded mSn in tho patrol, and thus getting the blood on the coat. , "Ask yourselves, gentlemen of tho .lury," ho said in conclusion, "if the state has excluded ovorv reasonable doubt of this' defendant's guilt. If you ask yourselves that oue.ition you will be convinced that the defendant i is not the right man, and you will give, him your verdict." " I |