063 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:EDWARD D. WOREKELL, 31There is no proof establishing that he knew of the design prior to the act and participated in it. If he is a responsible being, the evidence establishes the offense of…
059 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:EDWARD D. WORRELLThe purpose of this text is to address the case made by the prosecution and to outline the grounds of the defense.The defense will be presented under two general headings:I. I shall…
061 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:EDWARD D. WORRELL. 29What may be considered murder in the second degree in other states may only be manslaughter, or justifiable or excusable homicide here. Amidst this confusion, one thing is certain: murder in…
064 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:382 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS,A firm of pork packers at Washington, where one member of the firm makes a contract with you, binds every member of the firm because each member has made every…
060 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:28 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.In my defense, I submit that the proof has not established the proposition.The indictment contains two counts. On its face, a want of knowledge of who killed Gordon is manifest.…
056 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:24 X, AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.On about the 26th of February last, around 11 o'clock, Couzins arrived about 8 o'clock in the evening. I had no warrant for his arrest and was not present when…
054 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALSWe purchased the horse, saddle, and bridle from Worrell after he sold him again. All three horses were sold in Vincennes. Worrell then left on the train for Terre Haute and…
057 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:EDWARD D. WORRELL, 25We traced this description until we got to Pittsburgh, where we learned he had shaved. After this, the description was the same except for his beard.Captain J. E. D. CousinsI reside…
058 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.We did not want them to see it. He then said he was very glad. He afterwards told me he had been expecting it. He seemed to go willingly. He could…
055 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:EDWARD D. WORRELL23**George A. Signer:** I know the horse and saddle which Mr. Gordon rode away last January. The horse was a chestnut sorrel. The saddle was mine. It was a black English tree…
052 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.I was in the wagon with Mr. Pace when we saw two men. I did not see them again until we reached Hickory Grove, about two miles from Mrs. Stevenson’s. At…
049 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:EDWARD D. WORRELLI was going east, towards him, and could have seen the body, if he had not been covered, at about 40 yards before you came to him.**Cross-examined:** If there had been no…
050 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALSI found him to be tolerably well, though he seemed low-spirited. I thought it best not to prolong the conversation, so I said to him, "Mr. Gordon was a co-laborer of…
053 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:EDWARD D. WORRELL,21Hartwell Richards testified that he had seen the prisoner near the corner of Broadway and Mullanphy Street in St. Louis. Richards kept a boarding house and recalled that on about January 25th,…
051 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:EDWARD D. WORKELLThe back part of the head is more fatal than the front. Suppose this wound did not touch the spine, which would produce death, but judging from the description, it severed a…
044 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALSWe had our daguerreotypes taken but left before the pictures were finished; and it was arranged that Gordon, on his return, should take one to Wentz's office at St. Charles, and…
046 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:14AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.At Grove Prairie, the nearest house west of it being Mrs. Stevenson’s, the feet of the corpse were lying nearly east, head west, and twirled over very much. I saw the body…
047 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:EDWARD D. WORRELLI saw a pony mare, a sorrel. "A man claimed the horse as stolen," (objected to and excluded by the court). I identify Bruff, who is now brought in.**Cross-examined:** I had never…
045 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:EDWARD D. WOERRELLCaptain Couzins handed me this watch (here shown). Captain C. is a well-known police officer of St. Louis. I know this watch was Gordon's. Under a piece of black silk, there is…
048 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:16XY. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.I saw Worrell's face, two and a half or three miles off. Since then, I have seen Worrell in St. Louis jail. I recognized him, and he recognized me. This was…
042 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:10 X, AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.It is unnecessary to mention that each party is trying to convict the other. It would make no difference. Both are equally guilty. However, I know from depositions on file…
040 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:8 XY. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.At the time the act took place, and also prior to it, the murderer intended to commit the deed.I desire in this opening to be very brief, and therefore shall…
043 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:EDWARD D. WORRELLEccentricity of conduct in any man's life can never be considered an excuse for willful crime. It never has been.But I deny that the prisoner is crazy. If at previous intervals he…
041 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:EDWARD D. WORRELLGentlemen, a bullet passed through the brain of the victim. The nature of that wound was such that he must have been summoned in an instant to eternity, without a moment's preparation.…
035 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:EDWARD D. WORRELLTHE TRIALIn the Circuit Court of Franklin County, Union, Missouri, January 1857.Hon. John H. Stone, Judge.Edward D. Worrell had, at the May Term of 1856 in the Circuit Court of Warren County,…
036 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:4 XZ, AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.On May 6, the defendants appealed to the court for a change of venue on the grounds that "the inhabitants of this entire judicial circuit are so prejudiced against these…
039 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:EDWARD D. WORRELLThe jury members empaneled against him were: Joseph Woodruff (foreman), Thomas B. Renick, David M. Tyree, Burrell Roland, Reuben Bledsoe, Dorsey Waters, George Woodcock, Moses V. Kean, Jeremiah Pierce, William T. O.…
038 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:6 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.January 20.Mr. Coalter asked for a continuance, which was refused. The following jurors were then selected, after Judge Stone had ruled that the opinion formed from rumor, in order to…
037 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:EDWARD D. WORRELLJanuary 19Today, the special term of the court opened for the trial of Edward D. Worrell, following a severance of the prisoners who had been jointly indicted. The prisoner was brought into…
032 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:TABLE OF TRIALSPAGEThe Trial of Mrs. Herman H. Hirsch for Blackmail, Atlanta, Georgia, 1918666-688The Trial of Pedro Gibert, Bernardo De Soto, Francisco Ruiz, Nicola Costa, Antonio Ferrer, Manuel Boyga, Domingo De Guzman, Juan Antonio…