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Show LAWYERS PLEAD FDR IT1MSCIIDT Prosecution to End Argu ment today, Case May Go to Jury Tonight LO& ANGELES Dec. 9 Attorneys Nathan C Coghlan and Job Harrlman occupied the entire session of court today to-day with their pleas to the Jury to save Ma the K Schmidt from conviction on the charge of murder which grew out of the Loe Angeles Times explosion October 1 131ft. Coghlan was In the midst of his argument when court adjoumeh and will eojhplet hip address tomorrow morning From present indications, Thomas Lee Woolwtne. district attorney, and: t&clAat attorney to address the jury wQ end Ma argument coma time tomorrow afternoon and the c&se will be given to the Jury, shortly afterward. Both Coghlan and Harrlman comment ed at length In their arguments on the i fact that attorneys for the prosecution did not cross examine Schmidt when he waa on the witness stand. "We threw , the door wide open and they were afraid was the declaration of both speakers Coghlan referred to J B. Mcamara, who confessed to placing the dynamite under the Times building and who was sentenced to a life term In San Quentln a3 a consequence declaring that If he did place the bomb according to his con fees on that be never Intended one life should be lost He spoke of the charge made by the prosecution that McNamara s crime was part of a g gantlc conspiracy with scores of explosions in the east. In which not one life was lost. 1 stake my professional reputat on continued Coghlan on the statement that If that man In the penitentiary was guilty I of any crime It was not that of murder but that of mans aughter In closing bis address Harrlman argued that It had not been proved that the Times bu Idlng was blown up by 80 per cent dynam e He Interpreted the test! mony of Will am Mulhol and and Frank Garbutt experts for the p osecut on on exp oslves to show that It probab y was gas which destrojed the build ng al though both witnesses expressed the r pos tlve be lef that the disaster was caused by dynamite Harrlman dec a ed It to be his belief that the bombs which witnesses testified were found at the homes of Felix J Zeehandelaar secretary of the Merchants and Manufacturers association and Harr son Gray Otis own er of the T mes the same day as the T mes bul ding was b own up were plants placed there he contended to bo ster up a dynamite theory |