Category: AMERICAN STATE TRIALS VOLUME 10, NINETEEN EIGHTEEN
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94 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.Worrell’s manner of travel. No misplaced eunning of an oldand skillful detector could long keep him from the track ofthe prisoner.The cireuit attorney was embarrassed by the first step afterthe homicide. He tells you that at…
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EDWARD D. WORRELL. 95going and the color of his skin, and fixing his identity by acombination of ‘‘remarkables.’’ A ‘‘remarkable lump,’’ or“‘wen,”? or ‘knot,’ gay all the witnesses, under his chinattracting the attention of the most careleas observer; a re-markable…
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96 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.gotten him; promenades the town with the landlord; visitsoften the depot of the trains from St. Louis, and attends apall held in that depot! He talks freely of Western affairs,shows an intimate acquaintance with the troubles…
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EDWARD D, WORRELL. o7remarkable beard, his remarkable military pants, his mili-tary cap and the not remarkable saddlebags of Gordon, keephis company without change until he reaches Pittsburgh.There McGee induces him to have his mustache taken off,and the change wrought is…
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98 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.said to McKee. Well he did! he went to both Dovers; butwherever he went he wore the cap and military pants andGordon’s watch with the watch paper in it, and Gordon’ssaddlebaga and the one boot with…
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EDWARD D. WORRELL. 99eution, You do not find it a0 when left to himself. You seethat, Broft away, he is always Worrell, conspicuously Wor-rell, without an alias. But little can attach to the fact if itwere otherwise. The moment you…
132 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
4100 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.“the blood of Gordon on his soul’’ he could sit in a theater,finding an interest in ita mimie scenes. He is horrified thatGordon’s specter had not power to drive him from the ball-room. Let him look…
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EDWARD D. WORRELL. 101.duct of the prisoner there worthy of particular observation;and so do I; but we draw opposite conclusions from the samepremises. So soon as the travelers enter the house of Hutchin-son, Worrell pulls ont his pistol, loads it…
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102 X. AMERICAN 8TATE TRIALS.without a cause, and with a frantic look scattering 2 fright-ened multitude. You see him passing, after night, a sentinelwhose duty compelled him to shoot, You see him the victimof insane impulses, which ho has no…
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EDWARD D. WORBELL. 103the poor prisoner had no superior. What is insanity but thesudden and prolonged departure from the normal standardof character, without any known external cause?In 1853, Worrell enters the office of Attorney Morris, nearFort Leavenworth, to procure the…
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104 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.speak for themselves. There is a power in their presenceand mode of testifying which drew from the cireuit attorneythe exclamation: ‘‘I believe every word they say!’? Butwe can’t educate away disease and misfortune. His epilepticdisorder came…
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EDWARD D. WORRELL. 105and it shocks the moral sense to assert it as a rule of judg-ment. ‘‘Murder must be committed by a sane person.”? Thelaw has so far shifted the onus, as to presume sanity. Itis but a presumption—an…
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106 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS,ing, if the answer should be “‘alive,”’ to crush its life out;if ‘‘dead,’’ to open his palm and give the captive liberty,with this difference in the cases: The life of the bird hungupon the caprice of…
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EDWARD D. WORRELL. 107limita of tho circuit, and some few beyond the limits of theState.To have imposed therefore the preparation of the case uponthe cirenit attorney would necessarily have required him totraverse the whole country in search of testimony, at…
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108 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.to commit a felony, and as he is not so charged in the indiet-ment, he cannot be convicted of murder in the first degree.3d. That there is no evidence of express malice, whichis essential to constitute…
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EDWARD D, WORRELL,. 109were surprised to find that Gordon had not arrived. Severaldays elapsed and they began to apprehend something hadhappened to him. Walker learned from a Mr. McDonald, arailroad contractor, that Gordon bad been seen on the 24thon the…
142 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
110 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.about two miles east of Ferguson, in company with two othermen, all riding horseback, one of whom was Braff. Witnesswas on his way to St. Louis in company with Mr. Hervey.This was about 2 o’clock in…
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EDWARD D. WORRELL. 111they recognized me. Prisoner inquired about my family andabout the condition of the road. The body of Gordon wasfound two and one-half miles east of my house.I would here remark, gentlemen of the jury, that Gordonwas never…
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112 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.would like to know if he suffered after he was shot. PrisonerTeplied (hanging his head), ‘He did not.’? Several daysafter this I again saw prisoner in jail; told him that Mr.Gordon was a particular friend of…
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EDWARD D. WORRELL. 113until the 6th, when he left in the train for the East. BruffJeft two days before. They brought three horses with them,two bays and a chestnut sorrel. The sorrel had a knot underhis jaw. Prisoner sold the…
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114 X, AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.was any blood on the cloak and said, ‘‘That eloak would tellthe tale.”Mr. Morgan testifies that on the 13th of January, in St.Louis he let Mr. Gordon have a chestnut sorrel horse, to goup the line…
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EDWARD D. WORRELL. 115against this character of evidence by parading before you theease of the servant girl who was executed in England for themurder of her mistress, when the homicide in fact was com-mitted by another. He has also quoted…
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116 X, AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.not lie; but witnesses may, and often do, and the experienceof mankind shows that jurors are often imposed upon bywitnesses who testify under strong bias or prejudice, and by80 doing give a coloring to the case…
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EDWARD D. WORRELL. 117are almost invariably committed under circumstances of se-erecy. The murderer abides his time and goes forth in thedark hours of the night to do his bloody work. Consciousthat no eye is upon him but the Almighty’s, he…
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118 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.persons confederate and engage in a common design, the actof one is the act of all.’’ If a blow is given, the blow of oneia the blow of all. This law has been recognized by our…
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EDWARD D. WORRELL. 119any arson, rape, robbery, burglary or other felony. In thefirst and second class express malice ie essential, and formsa necessary ingredient in the offense, while in the third classit ia not supposed to exist. If A breaks…
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120 X. AMERICAN 8TATE TRIALS.meanings, but in its legal sense, the only sense in which weare to consider it, signifies an evil design in general, a wickedand corrupt motive, an intention to do evil. Blackstone, inhis Commentaries, says, ‘‘That it…
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EDWARD D, WORRELL. 121vate person endeavoring to suppress an affray or appre-hend a felon, knowing his authority or the intention withwhich he interposes, the law will imply malice. So if oneshoots at A and misses him and kills B, the…
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122 XY. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.Supreme Court of Missouri have said the same thing in caseof State v. Dunn, 18 Mo. 419, and State v. Jennings, 18 Mo.435.I will now, gentlemen of the jury, call your attention tothe several facts and…
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EDWARD D. WORRELL. 123In the case of the State v. Bower, 5 Mo. 364, in which thedefendant was convicted of murder in the first degree, malicewas inferred from the character of the weapon and wound.The proof was in substance: That…