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oetdcd far it was evld.nt that (be grist
heart acd soul of Col. Rutherford we* in
fiv * cr .k* Ld w “ lendirg atrergth ,nd mo.
me to the workiega cf his wonderful intel-
ltot.
Col.
workings cf bis wonderful Intel.
Hu'herford read fxtrocta from
Svidtxice, pufte
o justify infer-
circumstantial evi-
Sms were they, gentlemen of the jure? oom Ilo bm«>. ot ,h 'n nt " 1 cI M *"
HU MM. vm tbtt ba fnnnrt! “ d ^,fpp^S Skdtoffi
t d- e 1( 6 8, WIICBI naND IB THAT?
(Jed Almighty kDOwe, hue you can only
^limine by the means of tbe law. Men
ir.! ffi eeaohtd and true bare told you whore
j^Vjt was. There was another band-
l5“t found there that day. It was not
ftzvsrjrtsngz ipb«X'»i“’S
lion roust be equal to a nor 1 certainty in
order i° justih us iu bill gtng in s verdict
of guilt, and this ’« not enough, for nothing
n.UBt be Inferred, but every ether possible
supposition by which tbe facts may be tx
plained consistently with the hypothetic of
Innocence, moat ba accepted, and when
life and liber'y are at stake, the
evidence ebi uld be such as to
remove every possibility of guilt
The learned gintleman, Mr. Guerry, bus no
less faith in circumstantial evidence than I
have, hot I am diacnsalng tbe rales by
which mistakes are to be avoided.
Here is a very short rule that may, if fol
lowed ont, save inneoent life:
“MaDy adverse appearances may bo out
weighed by a single favorable one.”
The prossonlion ask you to find Tern
Woolfolk guilty cf the muiderof nine per
sons.
The orator went on to give a description
! the Woolfolk household on the night and
hour of the tragedy. He picfyid them ae
ttny misuipeotingly elumbered in their
beds, little dreaming of tbe fate that was
harging imminent over their inneoent
heads.
''Gentlemen sf tbe jury, Helen,” said he,
and continued to portray tbe awint picture
Tno occupants in Captain Wooifnlk’s
room were killed in their bed. Mrs. WiBt
was killed In her bed also, as she slept
But the awful struggle and piteons plead
iug of beautiful Pearl and little Annie f r
life end mcr. y wta touching In thesxtreme.
Every witness says that Captain Wool
folk was killed is he slept and that Mrs.
Wooltolkreceived herd*alh blow trying to
save him, like a noble true woman that she
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jjde there that night between
Id. guilty murdirer and his vio’ima.
ISL,. was a teriible struggle
Ise-evben the voice of a woman was beard
Kang for her life andptrnggling to escape
% deadly blows of her 'inhuman assesuiu.
t:vu tben that tbe female voice was heard
* XXCTAIMIKO OB LOBD, OH LOBD,
ait Wta then that the bsnd print wos
(jeon the prisoner’s ^leg, and that poor
,I struggling with the binte placed her
j[{s (here.
[Butthat was not oil, gentlemen, there
U mother circnmstsnoe.
r There was blood somewhere else.
| TuH in the ear of any of those negres?
Sc! It wee in the ear of Thomas G.
Jftoltolk. The defendant exp'ained it, but
Lj,j he ba, changed his explanation,
[l( that blood was spattered on his ear
Vm tbe distant room of bis father, it most
ipo been worse than wo have been told,
[trtiioly it was bad cnongh. He tells yon
tit be lifted bis mother up and placed her
gibe bid, al bough tbe witnesses tell yon
tit tt was hatdly possible that he did so.
in that blood osme in Tom Woolfolk’s ear
(ben bis father was attack. There wss
ici], be claims, on his bands and feet,but
.sieves none discovered on hie clc'.hee.
Jtclaims be got it on his hands and feet
|biD he went in and moved the bodies,and
o in Lis ear, but washed his hands and
tit afterward. There is aiso evidi nee tnat
bad the axe concealed for tbo
larpose, and every otreamstsi.ee like
of the axe goes to show
goilty party.j^^The defer dint
ti tbe sisters of the defendant
Ed God knows I wouldn't add to the ohrnd
£it already bangs over their trou' led
art. are trying to prove that the guilt
► np-n another person, and yet, gentle-
Dot the jury, they are now administer-
ion ike estate while they are tryiog to
itui the prisoner, and no attempt has
a made to find out tbe guilty oue it T -ur
| innocent. Tbe court, ore all open
b honest grand juries and pelit juries
id justices of the peace areplenty tbruugh-
foorb odors, aod yet no steps have been
Asa to feret ont «"d bring to justice the
Elly one, if Tom Woolfolk is innocent,
[Sow, gentlemen, I will nay a law words
"you on the aubj ot of motivs.
Ibey bare brought out much teatia ony
I tii'jiv the good feeling on the pari
I the defendant toward hi.
iist pTother. But tbe trsllmooy of the
Ut»n Howard testifies to tbe latest <vi
gMwnen he repeats the conversation
iUw n himself and his d .nghter- When
• told him that abe was afraid of 1 om
folk, she was afraid he would kill her.
kipoke roughly to her and made her
n dren stand around.
Cot we will go back to the time when
[in Owens wui there and white washing
klhad tbo conversation with Tom, when
■ told J ihn that property belonged to him
J be should bare it.
[beu the threat to Bone Davis when be
d that Us father was independent and he
■ impendent, biff by fire ha oonld m*k«
i is dependent aa he was. Now, this
not be enough in itself
let ns go book to tbe
►"nation with Mr. Dsnenberg.
, when he asked him couoerui' g the
i of inheritance. Than come down to
► present moment, when he sits here in
Itaurt a defendant under the ohsrgs of
f • imp, not only bis father, but also his
p-.le family, and is not only a claimant for
• estate of his father, bnt also for
smuidered step-mother'* eeta'e.
INCIDENTS or TBE TEIAL.
Hr. Walker made tbe opening address for
► defense isle last night, after Lnpont
tny finished his argument,
leorge Caldwell, the oonvtot who wss
it upon the stand by tbe deie- se y.ster-
I', made LU testimony eat both ways be-
’became down.
lou. W E. Simmons, Judge Emory
wrscdCol Nat Hammond, of A lanta,
i among ibe dignitaries seen in the
dtcom yesterday.
Klchth Day,
P'-'iday was* a great and momentoua
r Thomas U. WooUdk. It waa
• in hia history that happily never
s to most men. Before tbe coart o.me
9:30 yesterday morning some
a or twenty minnUa the unhappy man
t seat before the jury box with
pa at his rear, whose duty it was to
? kit eye upon him.
tbe jury filed into the room, pre-
sod followed by bailiffs, and took
places. By lhU lime
room wss filling rapidly
ike steady jam of people coming
■fit the door in a steady stream and
Ming the yet empty seats as fast
? Mold reach them. There were many
i in tbs throng, and before long there
ttbundreds of the fair sex sprinkled
‘wdicuca. The galleries word filled,
the floor below, bnt largely byool.
j* People, and as the day advanoedtbe
F*bite people who at first tried to mein-
th'ro witLdrew sndyielded to tbe
P" colored people, wboee sea of face*
r> tut: mental of the interest taken by
Moored people, as well as all olber olti
■cilltoon and Georgia, in this very
Lsalcaae 0 f dime and the sola'inncf
[f"Mem involved la tbe question, "Who
granting that it was there, although Mr.
York could net positively sec it, no more
could Ur Btiley, it must have been made
by u hand rearing thtre for a considerable
time or Ibe impr<.rsion wonld not have gono
through the febrio of the garment.
Gol. Bntberford wmt on aid in a most
ingenona way argued the impossibility of
the baud print having been mi.de in any.
other way than that ixpiained by the prig,
oner iu bit state mint He tben wont on to
ixplain farther the circumstances cf tbe
murder and the state of the neigh-
borhood at the time of
the tragedy and aiked why the only two
wemen who heard tbe cries of tne murdered
>eopie on that night, wero not brought
nto court snd allowed to testify? That it
might interfere with the theory of tbo State,
' I km.w that there isn’t a father in ail
Macon or in the borders of oar bread land
hut. whose heart wonld leap for joy to know
that this son waa not guilty of ao unnatural
a crime."
"1 know that there is not a brother in
this broad land who wonld not feel drawn
to this young msn if be were pronounoed
innnoentof lb's fraternal blood."
During an *loqu"nt appeal to the jury
which was made with all the nice attention
to detail of fsot and sentiment of which
C 1. Rutherford ta capable, there were tiara
in the eyes of many of tho auditors and
also in those of several of the jury.
Attain as the irator nsnmed
and wove inio his argument from time to
time vivid portrays a of the agony and ter
rors of the murdered people during the last
few terrible moments of their lives, and as
he told of the death blow of old Mrs. West,
as the lay qnietly and peaocfnlly, sleeping
the sleep oc innocent snd honored old age,
Mrs. B ack, her daughter, who sat at the
right of old man Howard, in the court
room, was seen to shudder violently, so
that the dark high plumes on her hat shook
like aspen leaves in a breeze. Agein the
orator osme down in an alternation of
praotioal argument, interspersed with ridl-
culo of his antagonist’s logle. It was inch
emotional psss-gfs a- these that showed
the sympathies of the ladies were exoitid.
He sstd the negroes were reticent sbont
g'itig there to tbe Woolfolk honso that
morning aod preoeeded to ahow who those
who refused to go might have had good
reasons for being afraid to gotbefe, insinu
ating that some one other than Tom Wool-
folk kn>w abont tbe state 'of tbioga in
those blood strewn rooms and g itstiy halls.
At I o'clock the oonrt ordered a recess of
an hoar and a half.
my room, and 'hen I washed my bands , hr.ve acted naturally, and ihst is all tho law
and feet, where I had gone into my room . requires ne to do.
to wssb the night before." The suggestion to drug tho well was first
Avain ny honorahio adversary wss mis-! made by Oebnrn Jeff, a brother of John
taken. He told yon that Tom Woclfulk j Jiff, who had, only two weeks before tbe
never said that he went into his murder, been discharged by Captain Wool-
own room, and his mistake shows you folk, farther than that I ifm not permitted
that ev<n a learned'.msn like Mr. Guerry by the oonrt to go.
can,la mi,taken. Who had the opportunity of pairing those
N.iw, gentlemen, I come in natural order clothes there between that hour 10 a.m.,
to lhe_sbirt and drawers taken from the and 1 p. m., when they were found?
■ ri* the railing were many dlstin.
- 1 1 represents ivet of the bar of Geor
n l -d aiso some of the press, t c g lbtr wi 1
f • # f th, ir lady friend* and seme of the
F -'-cnt mm of the city in other oro
't who hv pnnrtMT w«n allowed on
"t special cccOMun to intrude upon
s of tbe bar members."
■« -pi-tv and annt of the prisoner were
'"> kiog worn and anxious vetl*d aa
-tri) in their heavy crape which
, * !? onevated their asd faces. M s
t*“*d bar 11 Ale girl with h*r, a bright
*’ r,r v o’ eight ,.r r.ineanmmera, who
■"' ■iMiah innocence oi l net seem to
■'h. rn-.oreof her Ti-.it to the cunt.
’ V 'J ""t processings around her.
/•" Wsiker, the attorney for tbe
[■•■nt. hid nearly finished hia opening
A^ 1 * 1 *°r th# defenos on Monday night,
P, the oonrt waa esilad to ord-r
»vio took tbe floor End nearly
boar longer nrgnid
"uceuce of Woolfolk sad the falseles
•easemade by tbe State. Whra Mr.
L*™*d at five miunttv peat 10, Ool
■ord began to make his preparations
1 i »nd at 10:10 opened np in a mild
Hthe mxt room Mrs. West was kriled
bile ebe elept. All tbe wimes‘es say this
R a- bad in that same bed showed that
lad been aroused by the blow bnt Wss
ki,l> d iu bed after being around.
My Brother Guerry has very graphically
desorihed tbe terrible scene of that swfal
nteht. He has described those awlul
shrieks on that midnight air.
He was right but whose werethoeesbriekp
heard by Lou na Cooper hdf a mile
sway. This witness heard snd bc did othets
l e.r the cows billowing as they sniff.d tbe
blood of the human beings, and the
faithful tunity dog barked and bowled
ike mad and then witneasis a'eo tell yon
that they heard a mighty noise like u great
ecifils tnd the postil g around cf chuirp,
snd tuia st the distance of nearly halt h
mile.
N >, geutlemen of the jury, those people
were not all killed by one person
Mors than one wi'.ntss had heard the
•means of those people and even went so
Ur uh to identity tho voices of Pearl aid
lit'le Annie.
Colonel Bnlbertord oalled for the ax*
and illnstratid tbe impribablllty of the
person while in a hand to hand encounter
stopping to turn tbe ex., around and said
tbs entire testimony g ive to rbow that on
several of the bodies there were wonnt's
made by two different sides of Ihj sxe.
No geutlemen I tall jon two or more per
sons entered Captain Woolfolk’s room that
r.lgbt, and a* soon as it is estab
lished that there were two
persnne in that house the theory of
be Btate is polled down and tbe chain is
broken.
At this juDotute, 11:15, the court inter,
rupted Col Rotherfo-d and aenonneed a
brief reotts f r the nenefit of tbe jary.
Daring this intermission th* prisoner and
his ait ar aat together converting quietly,
W.olfolk sit.iug wi'h bts face toward the
audience, and It waa not long befoto the
bnzz of voioee in the oonrt room and the
sight of hundred* of people, moat of them
ladies, standing upon their aeaU in order to
get a betu r look at the all Interesting pris
oner, caused his Honor to pound hi* desk
with his gavel and call upon the sheriff to
maioUtn order in Ibe conit room.
Tb" jury baviog returned to their places
Col Rutherford esumed:
A timber fallacy to wbiob olrcumstartial
evidence ia exceedingly liable: Tbe human
mind ia like an nmven mirror, and nfi.ote
the deposition of tbe mind upon things it
is fixed upon.
Tne testimony ba* in this ease ail gone to
show the most revolting circumstances
around the crime and my learned brother
has pictured to you tbe bloody hand*
THE BUI DT hand! THE BAOODT HAND!
But wnere u the bloody bsuo? Where is
lb* blo.dy hand? My brother his vividly
told you how the bloody hand print was
made on the ntked flub of tbe priavrer,
when that pooi girl, pleading and strug
gling for her life made that band punt! <u*t
lliody hand print! "B it gentlemen there
was uot * ftiogle one of tbe mnrdered Tic*
rims who had a panicle of blood on his or
her hancL"
The orator went on to picture the im-
petooeity of Mr. Jerry Hollie and the bts*
of his mind in tbe giving of bis tMlimony
as shown by tbs expression that if
AU THE ANOELS IN HEAVEN
should come down and tall him that Tom
Wooiioik waa innoocut he wouldn't boiler e
it Now, gentli men, that ia the exprewion
of a man who has testified to the most
damaging evidence or goilt against the
young man there in the pitionir'a chair.
That ia tbe man who on tbe next morn
ing thought he discovered the bloody hand
puma on these drawers. Although, if tin-
great number of p« none who were precept
when those drawers were taken from the
well and every thread of them waa exsm-
lied, not one, even Mr. Hollis,
saw the print if .the Wo® 1 )
band until the mxt morning when Mr.
U,iUi dUot,Tired it at hia owu house. The
lair Diver admit* if an infer i c* from an
inference, or a presumption from a pre
sumption. Now, gentlemen of the jury,
ibrow’.rg out the te-Umony of Mr. Yuk
and Mr Bailey, anil taking the testimony
al Mi Holt'", you bars i.otbiog out inf r-
encts that ibe Lw won't admit sod 'hat s-j
to tne Iwsrred pria'cation yon mn*t
SET AtlOB IOUE BtOODr BAND,
for you ceoin t m-ke it pUy no pslt in the
i«fcUHI of U;IS tlWb .. _ _ai i .
but tbeie were o'brr bloody ortiebr,
(here was the bloody towel in wb cb lb
Lnt't wet wrapped, the aht.twiico toe
nrwiiJr W« oimp*ll'd to taka off, w.«
wbitti.'whrn br ogut here to tb*^art. w«
all o. vt red wito blood, stLh ev..y -1
vii ur‘f^^“ w&udTS^bt
DOBING THE BECESS
there were many lirile iucidentsthat tended
to show the high pr ssure of interest taken
tn tho trial by. the people
After the oonrt bad dissolved the ladies
crowded tnetr way forward aod stood on
tiptoo to get a good look at the oenter of
attraction and the sobj ot nnolens of the
ooosaton—Tom Woolfoik—whom, if they
had seen on tbe streets before tho morel,r,
th* y probably wonld never have looked at
a second time.
lha curious throng remained iu tbe oonrt
room uuUltbe sheriff took tho pr.sontrto
the little upper jury room, where he takes
Li* dinners, and then tho lode atone being
gone they gave way and the room below
was soon empty, but not so in tbe Hel
lenes. The nows h.d abroad in tbe olty
tLat the galleries were for colored people,
and the colored people were otr ainly there,
for the galleri-e, in spite ot tho bailiff who
stood at tbe door and tried to keep the
crowd in hand, were jammed daring the
a’ter part cf the forenoon under about the
highest pressure that it qould he a He for
ordinary human beluga to pises themielves.
But when the reocaseame aud the crowd
broke and ataried to cL«r out, thero wire
some of them who were tong-ho ,ded enough
to go without their dinners aod long-wind
ed enough to a ay behind and wait in good
trout seats for the afternoon session so as
to be sure and have testa.
*S3SESrJm»
TIIIJ AVrKItNOOsN fcUSSIO.V.
Tho Long Array of Daftly Drawn Argn
moats Continue*.
At half pu-t two the oonrt room was again
picked to suff oation with human beings,
who were packed into every possible toot of
standing or sittir groom as thick as sar
dines in a box, tbe steps of tbe btnob even
heir g prcistd into service, the witness stand
and w*li nigh the railing ot tbe jury b x
nos invaded several times by the ptisime
of the throng.
"Prooetd, 0>p‘ain Ruthnflrd," said
Jodgt Guano as the oonrt cams to order.
“May it please your Honor and gentle
man ot iba jury, yon will pardon me for one
word more on that 'fatal half honr.' The
liarned counsel for the Btato spoke with
poaitiveutss aa to Urs positions ot Green
Lockett and Anderson James.
Mr. Gutrry used with greet power the
argument based npon the fact that Wool
folk when be left the borne and rtn down
to Green Lockett’s honae and oalled Green
Lockett and Anderson James.
I thick that I have satisfied your minds
that no witness in this oase save the da-
faudant himself has stated that he oalled
Anderroc James.
I have shown you that the half hour ss
as Add Johnson crilod it wss ootaimed by
thi prisoner in a manner that is fully ac
counted for.
Not that my learned brother would mis-
ripria'ct the foots for ho is an honorable
man aud no one has a brighter miod than
Le, listening as he did to that testimony and
gathering iu every bit ot the evidenoa he Is
mistaken snd if it can be proven that he
• aa mistaken on matter* of only a few daya
standing, and each being the u so I appeal
to you aa intelligent meu whether
or not yon should not with
great oautlcn accept the testimony of men,
tome uf it the result ot yean of n cj)lection?
It is itid that there was blood stain in that
defendant's rrom end the prosecution there
* or. 2 Steka to prevu that they were evi.
eenees of guilt cf the prisoner. That tbe
pnaonar triad to aernb them up. That he
went iu there to oleau biru-clt after baviog
done tbe blocdy work. there waa note
wi ne** who told you there was anv effort
made to wipe up ibe blood in tbs father'e
rn in, in the b.II-way, in tha sister's
r out Wai i] oue killed iu Tom's
r.iou ? I take my iesrnod bio.het’s *tati-
tue .'. on tu*t pent. H> do>s not claim it.
He tvld you ihat tho bodies ,f Richard
C-aqi i were f uud in tl>» room if their
uiucr * baa tbe wiiueasea all tb-ught they
were all kibed-
Wuv ih-n if no one was killed in there
ill i be have soy motive in destroying the
bl o i ata>n there.
What i.ftrcco.a of guilt do you draw
from the fact save those that may lure been
iduuctd by the Btate?
Ur. O.terry says that Tom
>V it? Ik never slated that he
went b.ck into bis. own room aod there
washed Li- iu.-.d* eta f.ce, snd ytt, gentle-
men of tbe jury, you heard him say on
y 0,1 r Rtend that be did go in tb«r and
*, t iius.it in these words. AndCoiouei
Uato-rliir,', picking ap a copy of yesterday
. n irg's Txlkobaph, read from it spot,
line f ite publisher! account of Tom Wocl
folk’* atatemch t, a* f illowa: "I told Smith
uuw tTeryrbtng coentrtd; teld him bow 1
bad bl i>d ah over my hand* and feel, aid
ih t I wonJd go iato the house aud wash it
cff. I went to tbs well and drew a bucket
or water, but 1 could not get ail tbe blood
i ff - itbont soap, and I rtmemhetid 1 av.
iigt .i ac*i i my room the uigL: b, (
I tcik tbe pan and tbe water and tent into
will. The shirt has be*n proven to you by
Stats testimony to be Rishard's abirt. Tbe
washerwomen do not reoopnize the
drawers as those of Richard. Tney were
not aa well made end aid not bsve s partic
ular pi- c j of cloth to strengthen them, as
R'cbar .'a did. The cooks were not R ch
ard's, bnt who>e they were abe eonld not
sey. Now tho State oanuot show that thoao
garments belonged to Tom Woolfolk, and
Ibis being true, how then oan yen draw
any presumption against him? When he
wss sconced he had i n the shirt that is now
before you. He was com polled to take it
off because seme of the witnesses thiught
there was blood on Ik The people txsm-
itiog him asked him where was
tho shirt he took off the night
before; and he told them it was on the box
in tis roim when he took his bath and
shaved the eight before.
Now, gentlemen, tbe accused has ac
counted tor every artiole of olotbing that bo
waa known to have at his father's honae.
Tbe only blood on the shirt taken taken
from Tom wss on the wristband and the
only blood in the shirt taken from the
well waa on tLe wristband and the person
ia oalled npon to explain how it came there.
He e»2 s it came on bis wristband when he
removed the bediet of his mother and sis
ter.
The State o'sims that the blood in the
hall was that of Featl and I think so too.
This gentlemiu in the point that 1 tell
yon has troubled me. It has given trie a
f ;reat deal of tronble, I have worried over
t and hoped that the prisoner would ex
plain it Bat he has not, and why?
Simply because be oould not say positive
ly that it waa from the hall that bo took
the body of bis sister Pearl, and had hoped
hs Tcsld jssjEsb?? sbont It, bn! bn
not and, wonld not say anything that he
did not know. His statement waa that of
honest man.
There waa a pool of blood in the hall
way. A sadden blow oonld not have made
all that blood if Aho form killed then had
not lain there lang enough to have the life
blood oczifrom the body.
You will remember tbe testimony of Mr.
Chitty ounoeuilog the converratiou with
Mr. Sylvester Chambliss Id the oonrt room.
Mr. Chambliss who married a relative of
Mrs. Woolfolk, aud whose wife it waa that
first said Tom Woolfolk wss tbe murderer.
You will remember the tvident bias if Mr.
Chambliss’ testltunoy.
The tes.imouy ot John Owens on that
stand when bo said he did not make the re
mark abint “painting tha honae of Cept.
Woolf jlk white, bat ne wonld soon ptint it
red."
Solioltor Hardeman interrupted CoL
Ruthei ford aud asked the oonrt to notice
that tbe oonrt baa already tulod out that
testimony and tbe gentleman ia out of or.
der, to bis argument ao far as be was dis
i sing tbe testimony.
The oonrt told Ool. Bntberford that he
oonld not prcosccMn tbe disonssion of the
evidenoe.
Col. Ru hsrtord stated that he was not
discussing it.
He than prooeeded to read authorities o
eitoumsUnriti evidenoe, and then went o
to take np the argument on avldenoa. The
hat found iu tbs well waa proved to have
blood on it ail over it by expert testimony
of Dr. Clifton. And yet, says the State,
the bat was that of a little boy, a negro
boy, tb* son of Hilaa Wooiioik, the men
who heard not tbe eall of Tom Woolfolk on
that night (aaresatioally) until be had oalled
again, again and again. Tbe negro
who bad worked for Capt. Woolfolk
and been diaeharged and bad not been
paid by Oaptain Woolfolk, bnt who had
■aid “I will get even with him before I dim”
The State aaya the hat bad bsan there
aino* three weeks before Christmas and
bring forward the boy'a grandmother to (*.
Ubllib tbe foot, aa Ibe only witness.
The hat they claim waa
NOT TOll WOOUrOLx'l HAT.
but was tbit of a negro snd they leva never
proved th* olothas to be his either, although
they are offered as evidenoe sgalnst him,
standing scoured of a oiima with tbe Infa
my of wbiob there ia no death commanau-
rata.
Tha hat belonged to one of the fimily of
Silas Woolfolk. the negro! the father-in-law
of George Caldwell, whom Captain Wool
fold had pnt in tha chain gang, aud who
escaped from tha chain gang only three
week* betore the mnrder and bad visited
bra father-in-law. Silas Woolfolk.
Captain Woolfolk said to Mr. McKay only
a abort time before bis death that be feared
that Qoorge Caldwell or bis friends wonld
do blm some injury.
But thero is something more. Emma
Jonis beard tbe cries of three female voloea
as they cried, "Oh Lord! Oh Lord!" a loop
halt a mile away, and yet no on* aver heaic 1
bis sister cry "Oh. Tom! Oh, Tom! Have
mercy, Tom!" These women heard those
shrieks a lang half mils away, and yet
Greene Lockett and Tom Banks, who only
lived a few yards away, say they heard no
noise or shrieks. They say it with an em
piratic no!
My learned brother Quarry asks if Tom
Woolfolk is innocent and someone else
committed this crime why did not these sta
ters nse tbe courts to ferret ont tbo guilty
ont?
Those slaters, one of them deprived of
the one npon whom she he bad leaned tor
support—a vrHow; another one living in a
far away town and thtlr brother ohained in
a prison oall in a distant olty, I le»vo it to
you, gentlemen, to decide whether they
eonld do anjtuiug for themselves or for
him?
Itlsohiuged that whan they earn* into
this room and press tb*ir lips to bis it is all
done '.or effect. GtnUemeu of tbe jury,
bis fsihsr was their father and he is their
brother.
Do you thiok that woman is eapahle of
inch hypocrisy? They charge that this
young man titling here charged with mur
di r U o ,ol and aelf-posaesaed, and they say
that he takes * deep intereet in all that is
going on.
If he hs gully of this crime he baa no
more *ffeotio’>, no more feeling, no more
heart, no more soul than tbs dumb earth
wbiob be eneumbi ra. Bnt it be ba inno
cent, then be ean afford to look those wit-
ms*** in tbe face, as be has done, with un
flinching eyes.
That, gentlemen ot th* jury, brings me to
iDothtr phase of tho oue,
Where, in the history of all crime, did
you ever hear of a murderer golrg back to
tb* scene of bln crime and putting hia
hands on bis victims, as no one denis* that
ba did?
That tb* defendant acted tha eoward
when tb* tragedy first happensd, and tben
tb* bravest man whau ba maned to tha
boose Ur. Brown ever saw. according
Mr. Brown's testimony, is claimed by
tiiste to prore that be did net act loI
idly as a man would he expected tn do un-
1 r : ■ r :j.M iuCi-s. S.,i\ llulliullE r
the jury wo have proved, and I think I Lave
demonair*t*d it that we acted ualurady.
At le^At vr have shown you that he may
Here the oonrt interrupted Ool. Rather,
ford and slated thstasit was now tix o'clock
A BECBrS UNTIL 7:30 O'CLOCK
would be taken.
But at tbe hour of 7:40 the court room
was again packed to suffocation, and Ool.
Butheiiord, who waa a little late in com
ing in, k snmtd hia argument some tin
ruinates later.
May it please yonr lienor and gentlemen
ot the jury: I know Ihst Ood w 11 pardon
me for the weariness I may have caused
you, trailing that you will take into con
sideration the wearintis under which I aui
laboring tnd the tremendous importance of
this otse, end if I am not mistaken yon
gentlemen of ths jury will take inty con
sideration all the olicamBlanoes and grant
me the pardon I humbly ask.
Ueutlini'D, there ia a missing link in the
evidenoe which has been brought against
the prisoner. But don't understand me
that I wonld underestimate the Importance
of that evidenoe already produced, cr that
there is a violent presumption against aome
one to be drawn. Bnt to aay that tb«
prisoner tmd to oonoool tho evidinoe cf
his gnilt by pairing those garments
In the will la inconsistent with
the fsot that out in tho
dark save by inch light is the moon may
have given, before the neighbors had oomo
with th* exception of one be, himself, vol
untarily oalltd attention to the faot there
wss blood on bis person, to Mr. Smith.
Why did he do sc?
The fact that there vai tliod npon hia
K ataon and that tin re were bloody garments
> that well is weakened by the faot that he
• a* the dial to unit sUeiiUuu to tiia fsOt
that there was blood on him. Ths drawers
snd shirt and socks found iu tho well might
bsve been ths one* Biohsrd was killed In,
and which may have been throan in
thete by some one to direct suspicion
upon Tom or divert it from someone else,
istunsllv tbe custom ly mnrdcrira.
Colonel Rutherford theu read a long ex
tract from Phillips, pagi 1, on cues of cir-
enustanrial evidenoe.
I siezo npon that axe, that family axe,
one of the atrongaat evidence of the in.
nooeooe of Tom Woolfolk, It hs bod
ohosen an instrument to conceal for tho
inrpcae of commuting that tetribie deed
le wonld Dover bare taken tho familj axe,
with tis little short, lot ae handle.
Aud after th deed a guilty eonaoienoo
would hsve suggested as tbe very first step
of preo-turion iho hiding of Ihat txo, like
tbe State claims be did throw olothea in the
welt.
That axe was not the only weapon mod
on that oooaaion.
There waa another weapon of a similar
oharsoter, perhaps several of them need in
the murder of that family.
OoL Rutherford continual to argao in
bis forolble eltqnenee till 8£5, when the
oonrt ordered adjournment until 9 o'clock
this morning.
FIJNtHflL OPAIR. WELLS.
Ilurlal at Rosa Rill by tbo Grand Lodga ot
Masons.
Th* fnneril of the late Joseph E. Wells
oeonrred Tuesday afternoon.
Shortly before 9 o’clock tbe Grand Lodge
of Masons, ot wbiob Mr, Wells htd been
treasurer for a number of years, waa es-
oerted by Maocn Lodge No. fi and St Umer
Oommandery No. 3 Knights Templar, tn m
tbe grand lodge bniidiog to the late real-
danee of th* deceased on Second tin ot,
and thenoe to tha First Fraaby i#rlan church.
As tbs doors wet* opened Beethoven's
funeral maroh waa played on (ha organ by
Mrs. 8. A. G. Everett, and Revs. W. B Jen
nings, pastor of (he ehnreb, and Robert
Adams, pastor of tba Second Presbyterian
church, walked slowly down the state to
the pulpit. Follwlrgth'm ware the eldi rs
of tbe chureb, Dr. P. H. Wright, Dr. J. P.
Btevena, Jadge Clifford Anderson, Judge
John J. Gresham and Mr. E. H. Link.
Thenoamo the pall-bearers, George B. Tar-
ECZEMA.
And Every Specie* of Itching;
aud Hiirniittr l>if«a<cs
Cured byCuttcura.
rcz«mc» or 8*U Rheum, with it* agonizing Itrh
log tnd burning, lQbUbtiy rellerea b? » warm
h»th with Curicuba kmp and a single appllentlou
Of CcTicfiu, ihu grakt ekin Core. ThU ro tated
daily, with two or Ibreo dura of Cutictba Rkaol-
ymjt, tbo new Bloop Pariflt r, to k«»p tbe blood
cool, tbe perapiration pure and nnlrdtitlng, tbe
bo we] a open, tbe liver and kidneys active, w.U
■peedlly rare Eca*m«. Tetter, Ringworm, Paorla'le,
Lichen, Pruritoe, Hcald Head, Dwucrnff, and* vary
fpecUa ot Itching, Kcaley and Pimply Humor* of
tbo dcalp aud Skin, when the beat physic! tba and
all known remcd!e« fait.
FOZKUA.
I gratefully acknowledge a cure of Ecztma, or
8fflt Rbeum* on bead, neck, face, arms aod leg* for
■evonteen year*, uot able to walk,»xoept on bands
and knree tor one year; not able to help mjeelf for
eight years; tried bnnored* of remedies; doctor .
ironounced my oaee hopelcai; permanently cur#
>y tbe CUTKUEA hEMimta.
will McDonald,
2812 Dearborn Htrtet, Chicago, X
ECZEMA* gg
Nome few month* ago X bad ih® pleasne# to \
form you of my Improvement in tne u«e of tbo
r uticura Rkmxdiea in & y cate of »evere Obr n Jo
Eczema, Erytbtnuuw, at d to-day cheerful y con*
firm all I then aaid. Ioon»id*r my care per too ft
and complete, an \ contribute entirely to yonr re ru
ed lee, baviog need no other*.
FEIIS4N E80ENGIXARDO,
83.d Fauna Avtnne, 8L Louie, Mo.
ECZEMA.
I have Auffertd from 8alt Itienm for over eigh
yean, at time* ao bad that 1 c nld not a* tend to
my huainea for waaka at a time. Thro* h* i»« of
Cutxclua and four bottle a of Hvolvixt have en
tirely cared me of thi» dread ful dlaeaae.
JOHN THIEL, W l.k.a arre, Flu
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fti-'eud lor “How to Core 8k n Dtreaw
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'IKKBKi.ANAtTX. lYHJrnt State EaUanal Hank.
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CAUL Kuhn, Pmtarot Cnlti hatteiul Bank.
pin, 1, L. Maaacnburg, James llioon, John
0. Dtliz, 0, M. Wile; and Oootg* S
Obear, btailig tb* easket Then earn*
th* Grand Lodge, Macon Lodge and tb*
Knlglite Templar, and following them weie
the member* ot tb* bereaved family.
After a prayer by Mr. Adama. Mr. Jac
nlng* read a selection from the Bible—1st
Corinthians, ]6tb -chapter, and then was
song the hymn brgtning
Ailtap In I**na, biassed ilatp.
Prom which non* avsr wakia to wasp,
A calm and undlatucbad repots
Unbruk*a by Iba Ual of (oa*.
Mr. Jenning* took for his text the 18th
verse of the 88tb chapter ot Mathew: "And
Jeans asm* and spake onto them faying,
All power is given nnto me in Heaven and
in earth." Then in a brief sermon he
tllnded moat tonchingly to the life cf lhe
deceased and of hia connection with tho
church.
The 330thhymn was then dung, and after
a prayer, the paator announced that the
tertiote wonld ba concluded at tba grave.
The large congregation arose aa tbe re
main! were taken away by ths Masons.
The proeeasion wooded Its way to Rose
Hill, wbero the beautiful and lmpreisive
masonlo serviced were condncted by Hon.
John S Davidson, ot Augmta.
The mntiu at the church was rend ered by
Mrs. D* Jarnette, Miss Brocks snd Messis.
Irvinoand Everett
The following members of tho Orand
Lodge were present and officiated in the
burial service:
Hnn. John K. Dav'daan, oraml master,
Augusta; George W. Adam*rdeputy grand
master, Forsyth; Charles E. Dsmour, grand
seuior warden, Macon; Charles It Arm.
atrong, grand junior warden, Eastman.
B*v. James R. Winchester, grand chaplain.
Macon: 0. T. Latimer, grand treacnrtr,
Eastman; A. M Wotlhtn, grand secretary,
Macon; E B. Itiger, grand senior deaeoo,
Gibson; W. B. Daniel, grand junior deacon,
Mseon; George 8. Da*her, grand marshal,
Macon; J. T. Coiecrd, first grand steward
Eastman; C. Maateraon, aeeood grand
steward, Mseon; W. W. Solomon, third
grand steward, Macon;Charles H. Freeman,
grand tyler, Hsoon.
The Otand Oommandery of K-ighta
Templar was represented by Sir Knlgtt
Thomas W. Chandler, ot Atlanta, psat
grand commander of Georgia.
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