OCR Text |
Show - SMSSBaBaMaiaBBSBSasaaMSSaSBaBasasaSHBMasSBSSBlBSSMHSBaBlBBBaBBaSBaBiSSBBBBB Prc:eci:t:r Byrd's Con- cludiri Speech Severe v Arraignment of Exist-) Exist-) in: Conditions in the " Tovn of Jackson. ' BULLS TUT. . " a - i JACHSOIT, Ky., June 18. The case ef Jett and Wilts was given to the jury at 11:30 this morning. - i JACKSON, Ky;, June 18. There was another - "circus .crowd" here today to hear the closing arguments In the case of Curtis Jett and Thoma White. The pleadings of Judge J. B. French, John D. O'Neal and B. B. Golden for the de-fense de-fense and of Capt. W. T. Hurst and Thomas Marcum for the prosecution yesterday and last night had attracted so much attention that all wanted to hear Commonwealth's Attorney Byrd ; close the case this morning. The moth-ers moth-ers of the defendants, widows of feud victims, and other ladies were again present. ' Extra Precautions Taken. . . - While all men who entered the courtroom court-room were searched every day for con-. con-. cealed weapons, extra precautions were taken today by the . soldiers, as there are grave . apprehensions as to 'wbat may happen with such a crowd In the town after the trial is concluded. . If it is a hung Jury, it Is said that . . Gov. Beckham, who has State Inspector Hines here looking on. will not have the next trials in Breathitt county, nor, fudge Redwine sit in other cases. In-pector In-pector Hlnes came back to investigate he attempt to bribe witness Ewen. , Ewen had five witnesses to the attempt tV bribe . and threats . of . assassination ' and the destruction of his property. i newspaper Ken Run Out. , , There are grave fears today for some newspaper men. Two correspondents left yesterday and their papers. have , sent new men who are not known to ! the assassins. It is dangerous -for one man to remain bere long if his paper has a circulation In the town. ' When court convened today B. B. Golden concluded for the defense and Commonwealth's Attorney Byrd made . his argument. Byrd has a reputation as a fearless prosecutor. When this case opened he announced that he proposed pro-posed to do bis duty, it mattering not who was hurt. Byrd has purchased a home In Winchester. Ky.. and is preparing pre-paring to remove his family to that place as soon as these cases are over. Prosecutor Reprimanded. ' , Byrd spoke of how Ewen had to be 'protected by soldiers, fearing that he would be assassinated if he Ventured from his home unprotected and how he had been forced to remain nnder the protection of the soldiers since the trial. The defense objected frequently to his statements and in some instances was sustained and the prosecutor reprimanded repri-manded by the Judge. " . ; Attorney O'Neal objected to a state- ment by Byrd that a motion had been made to dismiss the Jury which was sustained and Byrd proceeded. The ) case -will go to the Jury about noon. Pair "Warning to Feudist. Byrd asked the Jury to be willing, if necessary, to make the same sacrifice that Capt. Ewen had made for Justice. Raising his hand aloft and shaking it ' fSireatenlngly toward two prominent iNn who sat In' court, ho said: Ll want to give warning to you and illbf your followers that your bloodthirsty blood-thirsty duels must stop In Breathitt county. Leave this county and Its people. peo-ple. God knows they have suffered enough; God knows the day ha got to come when the arch-assassins, the men who are the controlling powers behind the Jetts and the Whites, will be exposed ex-posed to the world and either sent to " prison or tothe noose." Appeal to the Jury. ' With clenched fists and shaking with . emotion. Byrd walked toward the Jury and said: "Gentlemen, you are on trial as well as Jett and White, and you must answer to the bar of public opinion as well as the bar of the Breathitt Criminal court. ; You have got to do your duty or be pilloried pil-loried by public opinion." Byrd followed the testimony with merciless mer-ciless precision and lauded Ewen as a man. the superior of whom In manhood does not live. He was fierce in his denunciation de-nunciation of certain witnesses and oth- |