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JULIA MORRISON ACQUITTED
Jury Declared Her “Not Guilty” of the flur=
der of Frank Leiden.
CLOSING SCENES DRAMATIC
After the Verdict Was Rendered
Hiss Morrison Made a
Speech of Thanks.
The Julia Morrison case, which has
been on trial in the circuit court at
Chattanooga, was given to the jury at
noon Wednesday iu an exhaustive
charge from the court. Great inter
est was taken in the closing scenes of
the celebrated trial. The courtroom
was packed with curious humanity
long before the judge called the law
yers to attention and ordered the trial
to proceed.
The morning hour was. taken up
with the concluding argument of coun
sel, two for the defense and one for the
state. The first speaker was William
Cuinming, for the defense, who fol
lowed the same lines pursued by his
associate counsel of the day before.
The great speech for the defense was
made by Colonel Joe Clift, the patri
arch of tho Chattanooga bar, aud in
his time one of the most powerful
criminal pleaders in tho state.
The entire interest of the morning
centered in this speech, and whou
Colonel Clift arose to begin his argu
ment, ho was greeted by loud and pro
longed applause, which brought an
order from the judge to tho sheriff to
arrest the men applauding.
“J will liuve to arrent the whole
court room,’' answered the sheriff', and
there was another burst of applause.
After a brief exordial, Colonel Clift
proceeded to a review of tho evidence
which he brought out into powerful
light, aud the jury was at all times at
tentive aud thoroughly impressed.
He began with tho company at Peeks
kill, N. Y., where they started on
their tour and followed them to Chat
tanooga; recited the daily insults and
foul epithets Leiden had applied to
the woman; his threats to do her bod
ily harm, and finally at Chattanooga
his knocking her down and threaten
ing to kill her.
And then when she w as going to tho
stage to appear iu her part, though
late on account of sickness, to which
several witnesses had testified, he ad
vanced upon her with a drawn stick as
if to strike her. She had no pistol in
her hand as was testified by several
witnesses, and no one saw the pistol
until after Leiden had cursed her aud
threatened her with his cane.
Then it was, goaded to desperation,
in fear of her life or great bodily inju
ry, that her mind became surcharged
with the weight of her injuries, she
lost control of herself, and drawing
her revolver, which she always carried
for protection,she instinctively as even
the dumb brute would do, used it to
save herself. No proof bad beeu ad
duced to show that she was a violent
woman; all the testimony was to the
contrary, aud this was to be taken iu
her favor.
At tho conclusion of Colonel Clift’s
speech Samuel B. Smith closed for the
state, summing up the evidence, and
making application of the law iu such
cases provided, lie made no new
points, but argued the case purely on
the provisions of tho law.
He made a strong arraignment of
the accused, and made an effort to
show by the testimony that Miss Mor
rison knew what she was doing; that
she had gone to the opera house on
the fatal night to kill Loiden; that she
had bided in tho lower part of the
stage for an opportunity to kill him
where it would not be witnessed, but
no opportunity coming to her she had
gone to the stage with murder in her
heart and the instrument for carrying
out her purpose in her hand; that
■without warning or a word she had
iired upon a defeuseless man and had
killed him.
At the conclusion of Mr. Smith’s
speech Judge Estill, although the
noon hour had arrived, proceeded to
charge the jury, which occupied about
an hour. The charge was long and
was given to the jury in writing after
it had beeu read at 12:50.
Court the!) adjourned until J o’clock.
FLO Dll NOT CONTRABAND.
Knalnml American Food Stuff*
Sviimi Off DeliKo Hay.
A London special says: The Amer
eau flour seized off Delagoa bay has
been released.
United States Ambassador Choate
had an interview with the Marquis of
Salisbury Wednesday afternoon and
received a verbal reply to the repre
sentations of the Washington govern
ment. The British note on this sub
ject was sent later to the United
States embassy. The gist of it was
cabled to Washington. In brief, food
stuffs are not considered contraband
L of war unless intended for the enemy.
Before 1 o’clock the courtroom was
agaiu crowded to its utmost limits with
men and women, and among them
there was but one general expectation,
the verdict would be an acquittal, in
which events proved the belief was
well founded,
At 3 o’clock the prisoner arrived at
the courtroom and exhibited an air of
supremo confidence that she would
leave it free to go where she pleased,
instead of retracing the unhappy route
to the Hamilton county jail.
While the jury was deliberating the
court was busy with other cases on the
regular docket.
At 4 o’clock the Morrison jury was
ushered in. A deathlike stillness en
sued and their faces were searched and
researched by hundreds of pairs of
eyes that the verdict might be read, if
possible, in the countenance. For
seven days that same group of twelve
men had been scrutinized by thous
ands of spectators in Judge Estill’s
court to note the effect, if any, upon,
them by each tolling piece of evidence
und each convincing point of logic
enunciated by the lawyers who spoke
in justification or condemnation of her
alleged crime.
Never perhaps in any courtroom did
a more mobile, stoic and expression
dess set of human faces appear in a
jury box. The best reader of char
acter was set at defiance, for not in a
single instance did one of the twelve
faces in the jury circle betray the feel
ing of the heart and head. So they
came through the aisle before the
judge and when, after responding to
their names, Judge Estill said:
“Gentlemen, have you agreed upon
a verdict?”
“We have,” replied Foreman Mc-
Nabb.
“What is your verdict?” asked tho
court
“Not guilty,” was the answer.
Miss Morrison, who had leaned far
over in her chair, caught the low re
sponse of the foreman, and the effect
of his words upon her were dramatic
in the extreme. She leaned back iu
her chair and closed her eyes, while
her face turned from the whiteness of
death to almost a crimson hue.
The crowd in the court room cheer
ed aud a rush was made toward the
woman to congratulate her.
Advancing to a position just in
front of Judge Estill, Miss Morrisou
delivered in a most touching and elo
quent manner a brief speech, which
she had evidently prepared, for she
spoke rather rapidly and without hes
itation. She said:
“May it please your honor, I wish
to thank you and the gentlemen of
the jury and all who were instrumental
in my acquittal today for your just aud
generous decision. May God in His
mercy be ever as just to you and yours
as you have been to me today. In tho
same measure I wish to thank my
attorneys for their noble efforts in my
behalf. As for the prosecution I wish
to say that I fully forgive them and
bear them no malice for their strenuous
efforts for my conviction.
“As to my persecutors (turning to
ward Mrs. George J. Antz, the beauti
ful sister of the dead actor, who was
overcome with emotion aud suffused
in tears), I leave them to their con
sciences aud their God. To the poor
bereaved sister I say that God knows
that were it in my power to restore
her brother to her I would certainly
do it.”
Air. and Mrs. James at once repaired
to the Tschopik house, where they had
stopped on tlie first night of their ap
pearance in Chattanooga, and where
they will remain for a time.
ROBERTS REACHES DESTINATION.
Ilia Advent at Seat of War Jixpected to
Alter the Situation.
A London special says: During the
interlude of apparent military inactiv
ity and official secrecy, Lord Roberts
and Lord Kitchener have arrived at
tho seat of war. It is assumed that
their clear vision, supported by 80,000
fresh men who are due to arrive iu
South Africa within thirty days, will
alter the situation and that the fourth
month of the campaign will witness
the beginning of victories for the
British arms.
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