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Show ACQUITTED, ' The Charges Against Marshal Parsons Dismissed. jilt. VAItlAVS CI.OS1M1 AUDUHSS ) 1U lnrttliir .Irrriimsril, (nil or rcrnnllllr noil sarcastic It'tisrlif. eoMMissioNcn prtATTtxpninors HIS VIEWS ON THC CASC Itnrtliol l-arsns,llis llsrnnUnM mi-nrKlnUlxl mi-nrKlnUlxl r "I" Islsmls Ilia Il l Ittary Initsllsjalloii Itrstlit'it Hi I ssl At5 10 Imt f tenluic tlie curtain fell Un Hi" last act In th l'arsoijs drama, srlilch (or l(lit m holo days lis. I liail an altuo.tuiiliitrrnitsil run In Conunls-alousr Conunls-alousr Pratt's court UommUsioDer, counts), wllursara In waltliiK, anil all otlitrs eDRagwl in Ilia alTalr liaj grown wratj of llittnlnir, day after day, to It naiiaeallnir, Ota Hi as lliey wtre joured fourth from llio wllnru stand, ami It was welcome: rslkf to nil whin triatniloinie. rbn vstillct lia Kut u favor of Ue defendant, and Ilia coal-mlloner coal-mlloner (whose remarks wo glvo rer Mint III tills Isllie) stall il clearly anil coucliely tho reasons which ltd him tu arrive at thnt conclusion. When llio XlttS went to press jesltrlsy afltriiooii United Males District Attiiruey Varlan wss rocn.il-Ing rocn.il-Ing with nil ilo-lnn audit's for the I rosccutlou, a jiorlloii of w hloh was re jortcd In our columns. Tho btject of thl Intestlgatlon, raid he, wan to (certain lha tiuth an 1 find If tho tfjeliH) alleifed had been committed, allJ If llieru waa probable iiumi to I-Have I-Have tho direndantcimiiiltliil It. All thmuKhthli taxi an ill ait had been nude- hi lira Into It that which did nolleloni; here, mil to drag Into It !iona who weru not parties to the In-Tftlntlon. In-Tftlntlon. Much Until J. had bten liken In IhU direction by counsel on tho other slip, Juign llatidersoti, for Inttance, suegirttd thai thin wa some, motive hehlnd th! frosetutlQii which Mould not liar lu'itlloii,atii while -ludu Henderson siinke or tho iliarlty that shoulJ be extended to"Hili i-Olclal," he forgot to lake other important considerations Into a count, lie aakenj intt (continued Mr. Vnrlan) what I would do were I lu tills ilff.nl.nl'" k. tlon. 1 can euy w hat 1 would nor do If uch chargta wiru hruuKht aitatust me. 1 would nut endtavor to blukun tho watrraof IlivvstlKalloll with tho black tluudol the cutllullah III order that I tnlKlit escape In darkness. 1 would not trytoscreen injwlf behind the petti toata of my wlfo or my rclulvts. rurthenuorr,.l would ut my own word against tho word of tuy accu-ers. 1 wouU not aeek to mould uhllo oiln-lou oiln-lou or to ascertain hindrance heforu what itiaiilslrate tho tu.e would be heard. I hen,BKaln, a i arallel haa Ucn drawn betstecua catn which 1 took ittaomealK tearj ago an I Ibis, a had tieen foreshsitoWl by a subslJIxed nss, ow, tho lasts aru nut at all similar. In thn former n great con tlrat) wuatntiroulnui hrr,,lii Mlttrri were engaged the mayor of tho illy aud other ctUcI.,!.. Thn Inn km lu Uxk hoiiM-awlth lniiorUd harlot aud i ntlro Ueutlle theie In order to brills about an expoiurt. The plan wua arrled uut, a u I even the Kovt rnor and other IiIkIi olllclnla wtro aoutht aa I rvy to I a drawu luto (hli trap. At la-t enuie two hundretl coiuplafnta wtro lllod. IheioliQiuea wire tlotid aud thiiH)conalralorx wero brought In to teitlfy aa tu the very thlnga of which thiy lomplnliied Thoea complaint! wererilmlued llooiuio nil law,humau find divine, forbid that the law ahould l iroatltuted. Tho women were Irouiiht baik and a couvlctud at lea.t ono arc'i cotni Irator, whoairvrdn term lu the luunty Jail. Tho truhtcutlng attorney heiv real from hUicrantioolc ot niwapapcr clip-I clip-I lugaaa to wlmt waaeald lu court on the occaalou relern J to, and, cuutlnu lug, eald It waanot for him to any what thuouleitof tho dcfeim, waa lu ill Uea voting lu cover thu caw with mat tela foreign to the Inveallgatlou All through thla cao thu ilileuve had chargetl him wlih i rommtlng n ca When they knew It' waa uiekaa. It would not be it feaalulial then II tho IroucuUuu replied thla Imlnuallon. It would aietu to him, according to autementof counml, that no charge ma le hy any rlnouir was worthy of crtdeiici llio aUtute under which thla prucetdlng wua brought waa do-alguedforthoprotertiuii do-alguedforthoprotertiuii of the help. le-a, Tho oj preMlou of cltlxena at largotocltlreuaatlureotiould I a met lu another way, but tho aUtuto waa de-f-lgnvd for thiwe who aulluod uudir the cruhlng uilKLt ! their ml-furtunea ml-furtunea tho Kor rteaturea who wero detandint upon their guarda for wen Ihilr poor prlvl. lege of loniiuiiulcatlng with tho outthla world. Would Mr, C'rltchlow have him sat when thla atorycaiue to hliu that tho woman wai not to ho believed? lhat when alio entarul tho doora of the iniiltuntlary tho aacnd garhof woninii waa alrlcken from her, mid alio hecatno only a lonvlct to ho kicked atuiult He illd not know that when thla woman wanputlu thonl teiillury ahu waa lutlut a dm ot liar lot", rile i nudltluu ot allalra thuro waa not revealed until afterwards. It wan tiuo that a crawl Jury nf tho luatahal'a owu eeleitlou did not llnd an In llct luent, but that waa no tea ill why uu Inviaikitloii ahould not he had. If coiimI wero of tho opinion that Ihire waaniiyionaplracy lu the matter, that tho dUtrlct attorney an I governor wero oncerned lu folding ifijtin Juvldouiu on the ( Hurt, wh dlan't they proho it to tho liclloin? lie (Mr. VnrUn) had hi Id n puhlloofllto lunger than Judge ltcndirroii, an 1 never jit ha I inch a thing luen InlhnatiMl In rtgard to him. If the liiiluunthiii were true, what I ear Ing mil I It have on tho furl.f Magglu l'orkner waa almply dilaluel In the Knltentlary aa u nltiira", und tho . marihal haa no more ilsht to throw lier Into a lell than ho haa to throw Ille there. And the aanoclatea of Auulo 1'duJlo whllo at tho peultou tlary weio Ihmn among whom "lie waa thriiit Idaggle I oikncr rouII haviioobect In making thli charge agnlnit thomtnhal, tut It wa tug Ktilel lhat Annie l'rlndlo wantid a lardon Theuiititlou of pardon waa on tho otheralde. It waal.ailo llanka, not Anna rrlndle, who lialmudoap. I llratlou for n pardon. It waa alao auggeated that Anna rrlndle who" llpa weroaraled when called for acn-leiic acn-leiic , (referring to (lead guilty to making thoaamo derenw that waa made In tho Uloeu caao wnnlid no torleiy. If thla "cool, calculating woman" deilud through thla uotor hty to get n pardon, alio mutt have known, of courar.lhat then thlnga which had been rought out would arctire It for her. It waa rldlctiloua. Now, If thla wooan waa a cool and calculating, a type of all that waa bat In tho worl I, aha ould have til I'd lha occalon of there aavaulta when others might not hare mil what took place. Ilullnench tmtatico there wcroothera aliout who might hnvvaeeii It all. If tho waa o cool and calculating, why did alio tako audi chaucea7 Coitniel then entered uon n mlcroacoplcal ro view of tho ovldenco throughout, lis flrit took up tho ttttlmcny of 1'rlndle and Kotkuer, and adverted to the Ural meeting of the marahal nnd Mln l'rlndlo lu the private olllce of the former on Hettember R!nd, Mr. Varliu lal I iiclal aircia uu thu tiatl nionyof Mr. M. K. l'ariona.whow re-cullrrlloii re-cullrrlloii na to that one particular day ho Riked the comml"loucr not to place loo much reliance upon. It waaatraug that he ahould lio able to recollect all thai he (ltd and all that tranrilred on that ono afternoon and yet be unab'e toiall to mind thlnga that took place on other occaftlona. If Mr. I'nrsonahal been there, would not Mim l'rlndlo havo aeen hlru? Counael for tho difrndant had rait "Vou muat Louvlot Mr. M. 1C, I'ar ona of down-right I 'Jury In order to auiluln thla w omau'a aiory." Hut It waa not neeiiwary to do an Hung nf that kind. Mr. I'araona might have leeii honea ly tnlataken after all thla lapeeoflltne. lu tally hla feellnga were greatly w toil ht up, family ride aud honor alepie I lu, an I ho waa thus unintentionally led away lu hla belief. be-lief. Mr. Varlan mentioned the clr-ciiniitanie clr-ciiniitanie of thu marahal t lllng Mta. (lli-ay when he took I'rludlo tu her houno that the Judge and l foaecutlng atlortey deelreil her to be received there, aa the was uullkoau ordinary t rlaoner. Hut the tune In that ngard ha I since tieen changed. And why IhoUiange; Why should the marahul havo sal I to Mr. Vanderoonk, "If lle don not go bick to Ulcay'", eend her Into the cell?" Coul I iouu.il give hla motive for that? The a lory of me drive to Hie tunl'tntlary waa re-ralloJ, re-ralloJ, and olu the alhgid Inlirfer-emoof Inlirfer-emoof thv tnatahal will, Anna l'rlndlo l'rln-dlo at the omen In tho nltentlarj . It waa stated that they wire liitertupted. Wholutrrruitrd Hum? (Ili-a)'s son, It was said, a Uiy of fourteen, who had never been called h) tho ilefiuac, though (lllte old enough to give ovl-ill ovl-ill lice, llio ooiallon or the g llherlllg of relatives at thu Qleay reel leiice wua once more rakoil up, audataoineltngth the dlatrlct attorney analye I theevl dence of the various wltnis'te, with tho olject of showing that they wero mistaken If thla nutter had never come Into question, Mfs, It. A (llisy who was S) vcrj tiosltlve In what sho said could not, to save her llfi, as a matter of Imlejieudent recollection, havetold whether the door ltwceiithe kitchen and silting room wua ocn or ahuL With her general character for Intelligence, waa it at all prubable that Anna I'tiiillewoull have named suih a place and time for theansiult If she were relating a concocted stori? Tho seicud time on which the marahal was alliged to have assaulted her III hla prlvalu ofllce lu the Waaatch bull ling was riferrid to, aud couusel argued that the fact that Mill l'rlndlo was aeen walking alone In the hallway near the corridor went to ahow that alia hd eiaiwd from soruchod), Mr.Ulesy, tho marshal's brother In-law. Iilssut. ordinate, hlsdiclldrnt, had been lent out of ttieofllii, uu an errand wlille Miss l'rlndlo was then; but ho had not been called to lite wlt-nesa-stand. The marshal's vlalt to Mlsa I'rlndle's cill was next taken uj Hhu had Uen thrown luto that cell, Into thatcorrldor,wlth prostltulis. rtiere waa no escat a from those associations. associ-ations. Hhe waa atsolottl In Uie txiwer of the marshal. He could have tut her In the awest-box or uuywhete e!e. rso tiowir more despotlo over tlio rionuf thecltlleil existed than the ntatshal pos.-eistd there, nnd she knew It. Was It surprising, then, that she hesitated and deliberated long beforo telling her story? Hliu knew she was standing atom, sutrouudvd there ly the marshal's tusloiiers, dijiiudetita, numbers of his family ilrcle, and shu hit a hard load to roll. Nothing I ul iiiaiutelongnnd rciealid could have Induced lu r to bring her naniu out lu the way she had had It brought out. Hhe know too well tho position In whllll sho would place Inrnlflr shu Uld of the marshal. Alter giving vent to hla feellnga In ngard to tho gen-eru) gen-eru) conduct ofallalrsat thu penitentiary Mr. Varlau rttuarked that so niich astothoiuauugeiiitiut of that lliitltu. tlon had cropd up durlug this Inquiry that they were mauled to form n tolerably fair Judgment us to what thu matshul's Ideas were conttrutng Huso tlilnga Msggle rurkuir was in custody simply aa a wltmss, and ihould have been j laiod In llio county Jail or some houio of detontlon; for uvon If sho wi re a prostitute shu had a rliiht to control her uwn iieraon and her own associations. Hliu was taken and I land lu thuwouieu'a ward with tv,o or three others, nnd keit thire. The marshal knew that during this time It was rumored In Hie ii'iiUentlnry that at least one of the tonvlcts had u key which admlttid hlin(ortlieinlntu the wotnin'a ward. He knew It ho-cauie ho-cauie thu warden hail Informed hlru that Hie guarda had ltrn In the Iiahlt of allowing these convicts to gu down and talk with the women through the lara of their w Indowa. Among tin, rlvlleged cinis was Loomts, the twelve- ir tertu burglar bur-glar from Ugden, Ksslo Hanks' lovir, who took art III tho l h lilt s in the i of-rldor of-rldor lu the day lime. Hut when Mlsa l'rlndlo came up n tho sceuo Hit rt w as anew trttueni Introduced that the did not want. Could aiihody Imagine such n stale of things ticeslhle lu a rt formatory liiklltullon? Tho conditions were suili that not only the cnuvlcts hut possibly the guards were teriultttil to have acciss to these woiut u III order to refoini thetnl It was an liislltiilloii more like a refurmatory of lieusta than humnti beings, llonieocllmhe,) to his Juliet on thu t aloony, but It rt mnluoil for the convict I.oomls, In this j rlsuu par ixcellcntM, to ias througti Iron lars nnd windows to nauh hlalmle. (Ijiueliler.) What nines by ill), wliaiLoiiteiiilatlonsby nlghll The convicts furiilihed with keys ol their owu making! Mr Vaudercook was warden there, I ut only In name. He reported e.erjtulug to the uatihal, as he did the complaint! ol theie woman. No attention was aid to him. Holiad iiollheaipolntmentof a guard; when he ma lea report agamat one ;'' giisrdswholiananel to l relstle of the marshal no regard was raid to It, and when he gave an order, It was countermanded by "tho man IJ;" l...e llsnks waa sarcastically described de-scribed by tho district attorney as "the queen of the dally satunnlla who covered this model rlson with glory." It waa sho who was sal I to i ha.o heard llio conversation between (Jusrd Burk, 1'rlulhi and 1 mkiier concernliig the mstshal, and her as.ertlons hereon Mr. Varlan brandi'd as a lrte of uiihlushlng rjury. Thla woman was iK-rmltted to go upon tho itali I and tover her lotil all ovir with Hs, to drag down the reputation nnd destroy the oharactt rand iredlhlllty not onl) of AnnBl'flndhinnl Msgi,le lorkuir, but of Mr. Htark a'so. 1 1 her teslhuony had Imiii truo Mr. Htaik woiil I litvn Itoo I branded III this community, nt tliooiil.it of III" I right eucir, as a perlurid stoundied whom no honest man coil I fuogn teas he walked ly hint. There was a reckliis, an utter aud fatal rigar I for men and soclity inhibited In thla uttaok Hiat waa 1. jond hla ioni reheusloii. Mi, In Uod'a name, should a man who was nA lonmcted with this atlulr, who stood liejoud reproach, be silectcdas ona of thosu to bo ilrsRge.1 down Into Infamy and degradation with them In the counter attack? He could only account for It on tho trlnclple that the drowning man clulchid at every straw. It woul I go on f ecor I for many years yet to como thst this marshal, charged with Inhumanly In-humanly opireaalng hla femalu prisoners, pris-oners, set up a defense whit h lie knew to I e falae, and contacted with It the fair name and chtrorlir nf a )ouug mail ho lis, I stood hitherto above re-t re-t roach among his fellows. When the de ense started III lu attack the character charac-ter of Anna I'rludlo lliey sought to do so through the guaids and prlsomrs; butllfailed. Mverwasthire suchn total collate n lu lhat particular aa to Anna 1'rll.dle when Ihe ittfelisu look the maulloi flslo Hanks aud attempted at-tempted through cross (.lamination to line it upuu htr shculdiri. Hut It didn't III; to they threw that aside, dcsicndcd Into the stums, and I rought forward that fillew Wellington Well-ington a parrot, a bird of pre),arcAvengtr In theconimiinlt. Willi Hie little Information ho had he canto Into n touit of Justice and undertook under-took to diag down an uii rotectel and lielplns woman by attacklug her character. char-acter. "Woll" Hut should Ik Ills name knew nothing, he wassluily at the saloon ke t by Mastoraou for olio week admitting his statement to bo tme. C'ouiihI knew no' what this Masterson mystery was. No man could it search a woman's heart and dlvlue what was pa.lu there. That Miss l'rlndlo waa dcapeiali ly attached to Masterson -a man unworthy of her he doubted not; hut lhat Hiiro were criminal rehtlois bitwren Hum he denied. There was no 1 root lu this caiuworth a moment's consideration that It was so "Dili fillow" (said Mr. Varlan, referring to the witness Wellington), "this dlity dog who conns front the slums, who has no builurss, who hag Ueu trltd once fur murdir, who, according to Ills own confession, hss Ueu arristcd here ami held to answer for an assault with Intent to kill, w li i comes from ttowhtre and Is going uo-whert, uo-whert, who has no antecedents, no prldu of aiicvetry, and, Ud grant, no hosi of tioslerlty he comes hire aid drags down a womau whom he saw for a week and knows nothing about, nnd In noes examination says that all hu knows ol her lie heard from Hclirll aud lioueusUln." And they wire nobody. no-body. Counsel for the defendant had the audacity to a.k In thla court room, "Vt here la Maaterson? Why Is he not hero?" Wbereaa lliey themselves had him for hours In their otllcr, upstairs, lu that building. "Was It for me to bring hliu Inn;" uskid Mr. arlau wltii scorn. o testimony had bctn glvtu to rovu that Anna l'rlndlo was an unchaste woman; noliody knew any-tlilrg any-tlilrg about It txcrntas Itiamefroiu the mouth of the "Wolll" Masterson himself denied It to far as he wua concerned, Tho qutatlon for the commissioner todiclde now was, "Is tliero I robubla cause to believe that this man is guilty of the uflVnso charged?" "Wo are totd"(contluued the irosicutlng attorney) "lhat the grand Jury has alieady determined this sulject, Has It? We troposoto havo a grand Jury selected ly somo other itrsonthau the matt Immediately In. ttris.ed In tlieiliarge, and If an lu-dlctminl lu-dlctminl should be found, sultult It lu theroirway. ItwIllnutUo to undertake un-dertake to say that a case like this with a masa of leitliuouy supporting the alllrmatlvi- tan be laughetl at nnd hissed down lu this community, io limn Uvea Into who Is gnatuud strong enough to stun 1 up ogulnst It. Nothing Noth-ing but the clearest, the most searching search-ing tun ligation will sat'sfy tho law, It Is not an ordinary iai, It Is not u simile caso of the Individual violating vio-lating the law. It Is a case, If It be triu, where a gri at ofllclal, u trusted ofticer of the gnutest government on the face of tho globe lias to far prostl. tilled hli ofllce ami to far misused his lower as to mistreat, and humiliate, und oppress poor unfortunates confided to his care. It Is aoruilhlurr lhat tills communlt, mux the world, Is Interested Inter-ested lu. fhelr voices must not lo stilled at tho Hires hhol I of the tnvi stl-gallon stl-gallon or the Inquiry, They are fn hie. It is true; )ou laanothear Hum above Hie ordinary winds thst How. riiev are women's volcis, hut they sj-csk t , iiinsthuiigh our mutiiiriundour sisters spoke. We owe to them more than to men a lender ngard and careful con Mention, and we should be more carrtul und more deliberate In Investigating coiiilalnta mailo by these women than where nun are allVctod, 1 submit, without saltig what my conviction li, that there Is reasonable and robsblo cauie to send this rae to the grand Juiy, I submit that If I or Mr. (,'rltchlov stood In the imaltliin lhat this man now does, we should si, "I want thu verdict of u trlsljurj; 1 cannot allord tu lilllils itory lu wtlttiiihero In Ihocontiiu. ixiraneous history of Utah, tostsnd aa an ever living tt prom.li uiumo und luydisciudanls. .Votlilng but an acquittal ac-quittal will satisfy me. I want the op-t op-t orlunlty to go upon the stand, to look twelve ofmy fellow citlzslu lu the file and ay to them, holding up my hand lelote (lod Almighty, that I am In nocent." And so 1 ay In this ram, believing that lu tho end all things como right that the right al ays comes uppermost If justice Is done. Iiilhlseilrlt 1 iiibmlt thlsianu on U hall of the Koverumont or the United Htatil," Mr. Vurlau spoke forauout two and uhalfhuurs. He had laslud hlniulf Into such it fury of ixritemont during the delivery of mauy paiaigts In his addriss that his thruts were Almost (.UuifmueU wi J'age 3, (Jbnfinueo?rirrt i'aoe 6 AlltUITTKll. deafening tfi thore acateJ leaMe him, and Ba a conaeijucuce bla volcu tAAarua aoliuiky when Hearing tho clew or hla riraatka that ho waa uom pelted to ceao apcaklns fur fully twenty mlntitea Iho court during tbla Interval took n ffcria, anil when Ma voice got clearer the eirakcr waa alio to tilk uninterruptedly until hlaroration waaconcludid. The Commit! loner.whcii Mr. Varum had readme I lilt eeat, aald The do. fellitnntauinJi chanted here wltlitbei crime, under Iho atalult of our Torrl-tory, Torrl-tory, of wilful and lubum'in treatment of prlaonera while In hla care an a United HUtca Mar-hal The qtmtloli fr Ihla court In itcierniliie, In the word nf the rtatute.li whether time Uautllclent cau.e to bvlloTu from the evidence that Im tii iirmilcl In thh care that tbla crime haa been com. milled, and, Ifai, viliether Iho di feud-ant feud-ant la guilty thereof. Thla la nue lhattwtulil gladly have ahlrkcJ Iho retfoualtlllly of hearing tho evidence upon and of ditormlulng thequeatluu Involved. Itlancaie that ahuuld be decided uton the evidence atom; 1)0 outride bla ftlitl rejudlco ought ti le allowed (o enme Intuit. No political lutluemv, orauy othtrklml or Influence", can wclgli a feather In my dei lalou. I profmre to dtternilnnltlnthollghtoHheevldiiite which haa been adduced here. I ahall not gu very clowly Intu the del ilia of the teetlmony, for they havotvncrl ill Hid brio n patcdly iluniig Ihla In. vetllnallon, but there are a few valient polnu to w hlcli 1 would like tu call attention. at-tention. I will go over the evldeuce of the wttnriAeaaomn of them 111 tho order preaeutcd, taking flrat that of Anna i'rlndle. Hhe teatinea that on May 2nd rhe waa acnteuctd to Iho lenllenllary. Ou that day alio went tu the tuariual'ecrilce,anil while there, aa well aaun the way to the penllen llar, the ) Ihemarihal took Im. protie r llbertlea w llh her. Hhe leatlllea thai ahe went In the Oleay holine, i(lnl worked there until October lTlh. On the day when the vitltora were nt the tJleiy hoio Mie claim that Ihemar. ahal came Intu the kitchen and took lmprojr llbertlea with her. 'Iho next nccaalon evuiilatued of waa on Octolwr Snel. Xow I want to lay right hern that my dcclilon In thla taeo deuda enllraly ujajti the credence to be glvru Auna i'llnJIo In thla caae. II aha la not crnJIble, the defendant ahould lieiiie. charged; irahelAtlicahcutd t halrf.Now linlrtermlulng what credibility ahould t given to a wltneaa, we hnvu to lake Into cnnilileratlon hla or her manner and drjartuienlupo thortani. When thla wltnrai (i'rlndle) went upon tho aland ihelmpreaaedlue at tho time as Icing r fair, candid wltncai, and onu who wai dlijicaeU to tell the truth. There la one other ad dltlonal fact, uatuoly, that alio atatea ahe told Oacar Vonue rreok,the warden at the i.ltenllary, that while ahe waa at the (limy Uouie the mtrihil had loiulteil her. Mr. VauJirtook corrohorated that aUtemant. There are the itrong jiolntaiif the promjeu. tlon. Now, It atruck me that the weak polulaof tho iroeeeullou were, flrat, thopuhlio manner In which the wit-iicm wit-iicm allegeil thoee iudeceut llbertlea were taken by Hie defendant, olie U-a llfled tbatthe flrtt occattou waa In the marabal'a utllcc, with the dooropeu. The next ocenalon, alio aaya. waa at tmipetiltelltltry, In the puUlo ofllce, where everybody had arcvM; aud Iho third occtaioii' waa at Iho Uleay houir, when tell or twtlve jiereona were about there. Three attacked thli kind at leait were made ufion her, If her teatlmony ll to t-o believed tie fore ahe told auyono auythlng about what had hud occurred. Hut ou the udday of October, while on thu way tu the enllcnllaryaletold the warden that the marahal had niiaulted her at tbe (Jley houie, and that was the rea. eon why alio would not go lack (here, Hhe aald nothing nlwiit tho axuulbi made ereivloue to that, and nothing about theoaaault made by the marshal on that very day. It aeeime tome that Ifahe was telling the truth, ahe would have told hi in of all the asitulta. Thli 1 consider uue of the weak polntrt. With regard to the teatlmony of Mr. M. K. I'arinna, the only weak olnt ol hla evidence would be tho faot that he li related to the marahal mar-ahal and Interested to the extent that he ahould not want to see the family name tarnished. Now aa to the atTalr at tho Uleay house. Mra. William Olcey entitled that when the marshal came ahe saw him, and as hu ste.ed Into the kitchen sho called to him and he went to her at once. Hut I must confeia that tho teatlmony which lmprtaAid mo most waa thatut Mrs. It. A. (liny. Hhe heard the mar ahal coming while he wu yet on the road. Then she returned to tho lilting ruoui. Hbe had him In view from thn llnio he entered tUckllclieu, practically, until he went Into the rcllar whare hla wife was. Hue te.lllled pisltlvely Hist It would have beeu utterly lmalble fur Hie mirshel to hive teuched Mlai 1'rludlo without her knowing It. Bhu Save tier l-alltnouy with earuestueas. he (truck rau a being a candid, alrulghtfurwarl wllneas. If her vl denceia true and I have no reason to doubt It on excouutuf her Interest lu the case Attuu I'rlridle'f taotlmony la, to lay the lent, discredited, and that condltliin has beeu lorced upon me that her testimony lu many ro-ape-cta won't bear the light nf duy. I must say there Is not a aufllcleut cose he re to hold thu defendant to tho gran 1 Jur; Iherefotu bell discharged. The moment the result wai announced an-nounced the crowd of apectatoraataud-lug apectatoraataud-lug outside the open window ol the conimltsloner'e room gave vent to their frellilg by breaking lulu a loud "liur-raid" "liur-raid" A smile of relief and latlsfao-tlon latlsfao-tlon passe-el over the marshal's lace, and aa he left Hie court wllh hla counsel coun-sel quite a number of hlasympathlxera nenl forward tu meet lil in, grasiH-d bhu warmly by tho hand, and congratulated congratulat-ed him upon his acquittal. Judge Ilenderron was not present during thn proceeding cf )esterday, I ring occupied ou legal bualutsa III Onden. |
