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Show mm mm IKE USUAL P!B ! Entered Into Unconscious Con-' Con-' spiracy of 1918 Through Pa-. Pa-. triotic Motives Only j GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., March 17. Martin W. Ljttleton, of New York, J today closed the case for the defense j in the Newberry election conspiracy jtr'al, pleading for some three hours j with the jury which is to decide soon I the guilt or innocence of Senator Tru-man Tru-man H. Newberry and 84 other state political leaders. i The day's proceedings opened with a brief conclusion of the plea which James O. Murfin, chief counsel for the def-sise, started yesterday. The final summing up of the gov-ernment gov-ernment starts at 3 p. m., with Frank I Daney, special assistant attorncy-gen-. eral, in the role of last orator. It was' understood this morning that unless,1 Mr. Dailey concludes by tomorrow noon, Judge Sessions will not instruct' the jury until Friday morning. This! wou'd put the case In their hands! about neon that day. j i - i ! GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., March 17. ! iOnly patriotic motives, according to ar-' jguments of the'defense, impelled the! So Newberry elections conspiracy trial1 : defendants to enter into what James 0. Murfin. chief counsel, told the jury; was "the unconscious conspiracy of. ,1018." ! Mr. Murfin told the jury that " as a I thought for overnight" he would let them ponder "whether a man can unconsciously un-consciously become a party to a criminal crimi-nal conspiracy." Previously he had said ! "I am here fighting for the vjndica-1 tion of Truman H. Newberry. If he i rere charged with spending or caus-1 jng to be Spent more money, than the . laY allows I would not waste mej breath, or your time. But he and the ; other men are charged not with that offense but with being conspirators, with working subterraneous!)' in the dark with vile hearts and unclean minds. Counsel Lauds Newberry. "It is humanly incredible that a man with Truman H. Newberry's record of service In the Spanish-Ame'rican war, with his honorable record in the caui-net caui-net of President Roosevelt and who with his brother and .two sons again offered his life to his country in this last war, should while in the naval sevvice, plot to destroy those very in stitutions which he was pledged to defend de-fend jvith his ljfe blood. Such a man can not all at once become a crook "Nor was therein the United Stales senatorship anything to prompt his ambition. When a man has been in the cabinet of the greatest American of our history, associated with Elihu Root, William II. Taft and others of ! their stamp, the United States senatorship, sena-torship, honorable 'as it is, is aS distinctly dis-tinctly a -step backward as it would be for Judge Sessions to leave the bench in this tribunal to preside over a police court. People Rallied to Militancy. "When Heury Ford announced his candidacy on June 14, 191S, Chateau Thierry, had not been fought. Belleau Wood was not a part or our history end the Argonne forest was unheard of. Those wore dark dajs and It was no wonder that the voters of Michigan rallied then to a militant American iiistead of to a non-militant candidate. ' oo ; I |
