Author: Mary Phagan
597 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:ORRIN DE WOLF. 565Someone told him that Stiles wished him to go and see his wife, and he visited her. After some days, as she did not get better, he said, "If she does…
598 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:566 X, AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.I knew the man, but I told others that I found him in the street. Accompanied by the sexton, I carried Stiles home. His wife asked me if I had…
599 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:THE TRIAL OF ALEXANDER WHISTELO FOR BASTARDY, NEW YORK CITY, 1808THE NARRATIVEIn New York City, a dissolute woman charged a negro coachman with being the father of her child, which he denied. When the…
600 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:568 &X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.August 19,A complaint had been made on June 9th to the Commissioners of the Alms House and Overseers of the Poor of New York City, stating that they were charged…
601 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:ALEXANDER WHISTELO, 569In the case of Alexander Whistelo, it was argued that to contradict a positive oath should be received with many grains of caution—the more so, as those opinions would probably be opposed…
602 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:570X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.Dr. Hosack: From the appearance of the father, the mother, and the child, and the laws of nature which I have uniformly observed in such cases, I certainly would not take…
603 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:ALEXANDER WHISTELO571The black man, Whistelo, took the child, but at the same time said it was not his.**Dr. De Witt:** Have no doubt it is the child of a white man.**Adam Ray (a black):**…
604 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:572X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.There are three distinct effects that can be observed when a constitutional change manifests itself in the skin of a black, white, or other variety of color. First, when the cause…
605 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:ALEXANDER WHISTELO573I take this to be an exception; for if I have no knowledge of any matters which go positively to contradict the woman's testimony, I should naturally lean towards it. Do you consider…
606 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:574 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS**Mr. Sampson:** Was there not some other case which you mentioned before the police office?I mentioned somewhat jocularly the loves of Theagines and Chariclea. Chariclea was a beautiful and fair…
607 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:ALEXANDER WHISTELO575Alexander Whistelo followed the profession of an attorney, or a scrivener, who had a very amorous wife. However, he did not have the leisure to attend to all her gaieties. Once, unable to…
608 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:576X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.Direct and cross-examination meant only an indirect examination. The ignorant, who take things in the wrong sense, often show ill-humor and put themselves in an attitude to be cross, because they…
609 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:ALEXANDER WHISTELOB77The other side will not fail to avail himself of your opinions to the utmost extent, perhaps beyond your intention. I wish, therefore, by taking your opinion touching the probability of other facts,…
610 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:578X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.Some children will be witty. Some do have a great deal of wit, but I don’t know how they come by it. Do you think, doctor, as the counsel on the…
611 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:ALEXANDER WHISTELO579There is a general rule; for instance, wherever the complexion partakes more of the white than from the known parentage, it should be expected, then it would be found that in some other…
612 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:580 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.The white man, because of the matter, I have found the old fighting; it would be good to see practice good enough for me, whether the pistol-barrel could end. Have…
613 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:ALEXANDER WHISTELO - 581It has been only one month from the time she swears to his having gotten her with child. All the physicians agree that the symptom of pregnancy does not take place…
614 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:582 X, AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.Enough evidence has been presented to discredit her. What she said at the police station is of little importance, being easily reconcilable with what she has sworn here. She said…
615 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:ALEXANDER WHISTELO. 583Lastly, the woman's testimony serves to support the supposition that the influence of fear or surprise, and the sudden appearance of the white man armed with a pistol, combined with the ensuing…
616 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:584 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS,The first wonder is that the child, though black, is not of the color of the mother, nor yet of the African—but strange to tell, of the most degenerate white.The…
617 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:ALEXANDER WHISTELO, 585Some prefer the darkness rather than the light, though we do not know why.It is said that her evidence was meritorious and beneficial to the community, charitable, and advantageous to the Almshouse.…
618 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:586 X, AMERICAN STATE TRIALS,If it would be any satisfaction to him, we will retract that saying. We will admit that there was first and second fiddle and bass accompaniment. But as he is…
619 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:ALEXANDER WHISTELO. 587Sport is a quit rent which the learned owe to us small wits; it is an indemnity for the shade they cast upon us, and we seize upon it by the title…
620 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:588 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.We passed on to Aristotle; but with all his form and substance, his matter and motion, his cause and effect, he could not inform us how, without violating probability, the…
621 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:ALEXANDER WHISTELO. 589It is suggested that the Calipoedia, or the art of begetting beautiful children, as well as the art of procreating males or females, may be taught by affecting the imagination of the…
622 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:590 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.Who made it black, and not rather be taken to be his who made it white? Even upon legal principles, such an act of ownership exercised by a man over…
623 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:ALEXANDER WHISTELO. 591As for whether it was a dancing master, I would not undertake to say: it was, however, a merry-begotten devil, and probably a dancing one; and it is not impossible that it…
624 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:592 X, AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.According to Censorinus, supported by the single argument of an egg, the ancients argued that no egg could be produced without a bird, and no bird without an egg. As…
625 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:ALEXANDER WHISTELO. 593Doctor Mitchill observed a full-grown man in the very act of metamorphosis, a sight that one would think could not be influenced at that stage by any affection of his mother to…
626 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:594 2%, AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.Harlequins playing about! But for the ignorance of our fathers, we might have been burnished like game cocks, and had wives like birds of paradise, and daughters like cockatoos. Now…