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you and I haven’t the physical strength, but there is cer-
tain language and certain statements and assertions made in
this statement by this defendant which merit some considera-
tion. This defendant stated to you, after His Honor had ex-
eluded our evidence and properly, I think, that his wife visited
him at the police station, He says that she waa there almost in
hysterics, having been brought there by her father and two
brothers-in-law and Rabbi Marx—no, ‘Rabbi Marx was
with me, I consulted with him as to the advisability of al-
lowing my dear wife to come up to the top floor to see
those surroundings, city detectives, reporters and snap-
shotters.*” He doesn't prove that by a Hving soul and re-
Hes merely upon hia own statement. If they could have
proven it by Rabbi Marx, who was there end advised him,
why didn’t they do itt Do you tell me that there lives 5
true wife, conscious of her husband’s innocence, that
wouldn’t have gone through snap-shotters, reportera and
everything else, to have seen him—-

Mr. ‘Arnold. I must object to as unfair and outrageous an argu-
ment as that, that his wife didn’t go there through any consciousness
of guilt on his part. I have sat here and heard the unfairest argu-
ment I have ever heard, and T ean’t object to it, but I do object to his
making any allusion to the failure of the wife to go and see him; it’s
unfair, it isn’t the way to treat a man on trial for his life.

The Covrr. Is there any evidence to that effect?

Mr. Dorsey. Here is the statement I have read.

Mr. Arnold. I object to his drawing any conelusions from his
wife going or not going, one way or the other, it’s an outrage upon
lew and deceney and fairness.

The Covzr, Whatever was in the evidence or the statement I
manst allow it.

Mr. Dorsey. “Let the galled jade winee”—

Mr. Arnold, T object to that, I'm not a “galled jade,” and I've
got a right to object. I'm not galled at all, and that statement is
entirely unealled for,

Frank said that his wife never went back there because
she was afraid that the mapshotters would get her pictare—
because she didn’t want to go through the line of enapshot-
ters. I tell yon, gentlemen of the jury, that there never
lived a woman, conscious of the rectitude and innocence of

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