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Show CORRUPTER Of MORALS 1 1 iBrilliant Labor Attorney I ; Bitterly Arraigned by the Prosecution Lob Angoles, Aug. 13. Alternately denouncing Clarence S. Darrow as a corrupter of men and lauding his br'I-! br'I-! 'llancy of mind. Assistant District At-'torney At-'torney W. J. Ford made the openjug argument in the Darrow brihery trial .yesterday. The denunciation extended (to others connected with the defense of the Chicago lawyer to Job Harri-ortan, Harri-ortan, whom Ford maintained was an accomplice in the alleged bribery of furors ;to Lincoln Steffens the designation desig-nation of a Christian-anarchist, and rto other defense witnesses of less im-iportance. im-iportance. Time after time Ford assailed Darrow Dar-row personally because of his philosophic philoso-phic teachings or his conduct of the IMcNamara defense. Throughout .the day the man -long regarded as the country s foremost champion of or- , iganlzed labor listened to successivo (arraignments of hlmsel his friends i land the cause he ropresei. ed with at- . iparently studied .unconcen ine climax of the.prosec .tor's personal per-sonal denunciation was reached in his charge that Darrow by, his teachings was responsible for the blowing up' of the Times building and Its attendant fatalities. J. B. McNamara, he -said i had been deluded by the doctrines ad--jl vocated by Darrow. At another timo the, speaker referred to the defendant as the "brilliant gladiator, of" the courts." The theory of the defense that Franklin and John'R. Harrington .were actors in a "frame-up" to ruin Darrow were ridiculed by the prosecutor. "H there was any 'frame-up in. this esse, -he said, "it was between -the district attorney and Lbckwood to trap Franklin, and they did iC" The-prosecuting attorney asserted that the testimony of Lincoln Steffens , as to the so-callod "peace negotla-tions.' negotla-tions.' was ridiculous and not to be L believed. Steffens wns denounced "nn I i man who believed a man should not f be punished for mere murder he said J :he men should have gone free be-1 be-1 :ause it was a social crime." '. II Ford closed with a pica Tor conlc-. conlc-. lion, telling the jury that it was the B only verdict compntibilc wllh tho evi-W evi-W dence Jn the -case. He concluded at- 1 30 o'clock after talking four and a .L naif hours. Court adjourned until 0 1 o'clock this morning, when Attorney I Horace II Appel will make the open-, open-, ! ing argument for the defense. |