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culminated in sending him to prison for three long years.
He’s the man who led the aesthetic movement; he was &
scholar, a literary man, cool, calm and cultured, and as I say,
his cross examination is a thing to be read with admiration by
all lawyers, but he was convicted, and in his old age, went tot-
tering to the grave, a confessed pervert. Good character?
Why, he came to America, after having launched what is
Known as the ‘Aesthetic movement,’’ in England, and
throughout this country lectured to large audiences, and it is
he who raised the sunflower from 8 weed to the dignity of a
flower. Handsome, not lacking in physical or moral courage,
and yet a pervert, but a man of previous good character.
Abe Reuf, of San Francisco, a man of his race and religion,
was the boss of the town, respected and honored, but he cor-
rupted Schmitt, and he corrupted everything that he put his
hands on, and just as a life of immorality, a life of sin, a life
in which he fooled the good people when debauching the poor
girls with whom he came in contact has brought this man
before this jury, so did eventually Reuf’s career terminate in
the penitentiary. I have already referred to Durant.
Look at McCue, the mayor of Charlottesville; a man of
such reputation that the people elevated him to the head of
that municipality, but notwithstanding that good reputation,
he didn’t have rock bed character, and, becoming tired of his
wife, he shot her in the bath tub, and the jury of gallant and
noble and courageous Virginia gentlemen, notwithstanding hia
good character, sent him to a felon’s grave. Richardson, of
Boston, was a preacher, who enjoyed the confidence of his
flock. He was engaged to one of the wealthiest and most fas-
einating women in Boston, but an entanglement with a poor
little girl, of whom he wished to rid himeelf, eansed this man
Richardson to so far forget his character and reputation and
his career as to put her to death. And all these are cases of
circumstantial evidence. And after conviction, after he had
tought, he at last admitted it, in the hope that the Governor
would at least save hia life, but he didn’t do it; and the Mas-
sachusetts jury and the Massachusetts Governor were cour-

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