542 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document

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tent, that Mr. Adams, in order to check it, told him that if
he would not desist, he should decline to have any thing
farther to do in the cause.’ The prisoner and hia friends
were alarmed, and consulted about engaging other counsel ;
but Mr, Adama, sensible that there was sufficient evidence to
obtain § favorable verdict from an impartial jury, had no
intention to abandon his client; he only felt for the honor
of the town, which, he apprehended would suffer yet more,
if the witnesses were examined too closely and particularly,
by which means more trath would be drawn from them than
hed an immediate connection with the soldiers’ firing, by or
without the orders of the captain. When the trial was end-
ing, Judge Lynde, toward the close of his charge said:
‘‘Happy eam I to find, after such strict examination, the
conduct of the prisoner appear in so fair a light; yet I feel
myself deeply affected, that this affair turns out so much to
the disgrace of every person concerned against him, and s0
much to the shame of the town in general."* The jury at
onee agreed on 8 verdict of not guilty. After his acquittal,
Captain Preston retired to the castle, and remained there
until he sailed for England.*

*Chandler’s Crimina] Trials, Vol, 1, p, 3H.