| Show THE CLOSE OF uhe une CLA CLAWSON AYSON CASE m if flo tiie tue rudger clawson took a sudden turn tuis this morning as will be seen from our minutes of the court proceedings in the testimony of bf lydia spencer her ner OP lioA tion I 1 irom from I 1 arn oln the nirra niria refusal to testify last ladt evening to the open oper acknowledge M meu af this morning of 01 her lep I 1 carriage marria e with ine tre q no ilo i 0 9 e sion slon much surprise surprise and the reasons for it will be asked for IV we e can give nive them ihm te ta e you oglady espos hessed 0 f justas ju t as much muth self will and determination as bellu harris or nellie W we a iii ili have haxe a r redoubt odou odon bt borne any punishment that thac might have kave been inflicted upon ner her with unflinching fortitude determined to stand ny DV her and engaged special competent counse to ald aicher aid her they put ail ali all the tha pro and con before her her ber but jailed up to the alime jime she went into the witness box to learn what she shoo intended to do shu shy remained tirra in her resolve buttler but ner husband husbands s wish was thau Aliat she shoun give way and acknowledge the truth and lathim let iet him take the consequences instead of iler liep her being placed in ill bodily jeopardy by refusing to testify her bodily condition atso also wasi wasl such that protracted imprisonment would have injurious i we wd believe thae that the community will wiil say aay that under tinder hll bli all ali the circumstances she did just right W ve e know that the clawson jamily family think so and that she ts Is fully by thein them in I 1 a giving givin gher ghen her hen testimony is now as asi i aut apt with a jury juny selected as this has been beeri and W with atlary the threat of violent aud nud unstinted newspaper abuse it if they failed to I 1 convict no other verdict could louid b 4 expected acted ec ted even teven if th tb 4 t essential witness declined tote to testify s aila and wedi went to rison prison for tor contumacy macy her refusal i been beer taken by tha jant ury uny as as ey q 1 M lic ilc ence against al 1 ast th the defendant fe although a I 1 h av bl legally 1 A it is not evidence and the result would doubtless have hate been becil the same kil kii t 1 I an appeal be taken and the various errors in the h 6 proceedings be lestny among amon these ailiese the most important is the method resorted to of am if au an open venire can e issued w when the regular list la is exhausted we might as well have no ju jury listak list at ail all all ail the methods by which it tain I 1 ube ba exhausted hausted have been abundantly exe exemplified during thel atif cepres present ent terin of the third district court if the common law jaw in the presence ge of opposing statutes what chatis Is the usa uga af pf enacting ithem the coh troverse tro Versy is an interesting one and ma may go up to the court of iol last resort fl all ali any tha that ye lve asforis ask ak fonis foris foEls th atthe thattie tha tithe prosecution and execution of the law lav shall shan itself be legal legai then whatever the result may be we ve shall not bo be found repining or disputatious but when tha those se who vrho are arc so nealous zealous for to t the enforcement eaf of ond particular aty kaw avy are themselves evaders evanders or laborer la of other lawave law sye I 1 lire ivre expect to be found on the side shie of hose who are singled singled out dut for attack and against a adust the cawles pretended champions of the law |
