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Show ONLY MURDER CABE That Ilia tnorhrea r.ier ltat Waa Won Urn llr.rrl.nri. The scars nre always healed. The small liy ot the civil war period are growing gray, and Iloosler who used to be afraid to go Into Kentucky, and Kentucklans who dared not cross Into Indiana, now "Jug" for catfish from the fame skiff and swap war lie and plug tobacco In perfect amity. The war mutt be ovej Hen Harrison' appearance appear-ance In on ot the greatest lawtulta In the world's history the boundary dispute dis-pute between Venezuela and Great Ilrltaln It not his first cause celebre by any means. He may recall one In I which he participated when he waa twenty-five year younger than he I now, with Dan Voorhee a opposing counsel. He may remember It because It waa one ot the few murder cate Voorheea over lost. The state of In-dlaiin In-dlaiin had found fault with one II 1 II Smith that was not hit name, but 'twill serve became 1)111 had killed a farmer. It wna a most unprovoked murder, for Hill and a party of royster-Ing royster-Ing companion had stoned the firmer' firm-er' house, and when he appeared without with-out the moat to mako physical protest they eet upon him most savagely. He waa stabbed to death with n Jackknlfe In the hand ot Smith. Harrison was called In to assist the prosecuting attorney. attor-ney. It waa a great day at tbo county teat and tho courthouse waa packed to witness tho battle royal between tht two giant of the forensic arena. Smith was a very unpromising candidate, candi-date, for nature and a bad ancestry had mado n low-browed degenerate of blm to begin with, and hit own efforts had not Improved hit mako-up. While the witnesses were being examined he leered and grinned and spurted tobacco tobac-co Juice vigorously extracted from a quid, which, from tho swelling In hit cheek, teemed to bo ot about the size of the ordinary egg of commerce. Voorhees, calling each Juror by his first name "nill," "Jim," or "Jack," aa wo his wont made a most Impassioned Impas-sioned plea for tbe young man, begging bis twenty-one peer to "give him Just one more chance," Ho rung the changes chang-es on that text for three or four hours, and tho more eloquent Voorheea became be-came the more Smith grinned and expectorated, ex-pectorated, When Voorhee had fln-i Isbed, Harrison walked close up to the prisoner, regarded blm most attentively attentive-ly for a length of time that seemed an hour to Jury and spectators and an age to the culprit, and after he had finished his survey, exclaimed In mock continuation contin-uation of Voorheea' speoch, "Ye; give him one more chancel" And the deadly dead-ly sarcasm In his tone was like a thrust to the heart to the defendant. With malignant dellberatenea Harrison aired up the degenerate again for an Interminable length of time and the Jury could not help doing tbe same. "Give him ono more chancel" hissed tbo cold-blooded, cruel Harrison, and then the flu) Ing began. If ever a man was verbally skinned alive that tamo Dili Smith woe, and Voorheea acknowledged acknowl-edged otter the trial that hit client's fate was sealed when Harrison first mutely called tho Jury's attention to the prisoner's utterly depraved appear. ance and then sneered, "Olve blm one more chancel" Smith got twenty year, which Mr. Voorhee declared wat a light sentence, considering all tho clrcumilancci. Minneapolis Time. |
