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VOL. VIII.
GLARE, MICHIG-^N, MAY 22, 1885.
NO. 3.
ATTORNEYS.
T7J   D. WHEATON,   •
ATTORNEY at LAW,
Ol»HtCU  IN  Till'   ShAVBK   lltQCK,
CL A It B,        -       -        MICH
/^ W. PKIiRY,
ATTORNEY at LAW,
Ol'I'tCK OVKK  GlhKKHON'S  STWHB
CLARE,       -      -        MIOH.
JI. BROWNE,
LAWYER,
HARBISON,     -
MICH.
Concerning Carr's Case
WIKE OF TEE JURORS SAY
THAT   HE   KILLED
FRANKIE,
Mr.
TPottM's Opening?   Address
tlie Jury, «lerleTk-lMjr the
TuMtliiiony.
to
w,
V. GBEKN,
ATTORNEY
HARRISON,
AT
LAW
MICH.
•CTLOYD L. TOST,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
OL.C1TOR IN CHANCKRY,
and KKAL ESTATE AGENT
COLEMAN,      -      -      MICH.
mar 8j iy
QJEO. J. CUMMINS,
Atty-at-Law and Solicitor,
FARWELL,     -      -      MICH.
DR. 31. TOOLEY, Physician and
Surgeon. All calls piomptly attended to, day
or night. Ofiice-.it hi* residence, 5th st., Clare.
Mich.
"PLENTY OK OLD PAPERS ON
-««      hand now at Tjik PjtBSS office.   10 cents a
dozen.
GROWIMJ lUSSATISFAf'TION WITH
JU1>«E H.1KT.-.-0PIJCI0XS
OF  CITIZENS.
It. rJl MAYNARD, has opened
hjs. office nt his residence on Main street.
' - PROFES8JONAI.   CAU.S
pro* ptly attended to day or night.
CtAKE,        -      -      -      -      - MICH.
V»T .  -     -»/*r
'f^Alt^j&SS 'SHt?"P."- ""I    '
C.N. GOODENOW & CO.
Making and Repairing   Light
Heavy Harness by.
and
Whips, blankets, and in iact everything to be found
in a first class harness shop will be
kept in stock.
9@»The patronage of the public i
respectfully solicited.
NINK TO THREE.
Thejury in the Carr murder case
went out at nine o'clock on Saturday
morning and were called in hy the
Judge at 1:1*1. They hail not agreed
upon a verdict tl'iough their second
and lust ballot showed two less ior
acquittal than on the. iirst ballot.
Immediately after the jury was discharged, the fact wus telgeraphed to
The Press and extras were soon issued, announcing theirdisagreement.
The names of the jurors who voted for
acquittal are here given:
lyman \v. leach,
david \v. denno,
james Mckinley.
On Monday Judge Hurt admitted
Carr to bail in §-1,000 and ordered a change of venue to Gratiot
county, where the second trial will
take place. A. 3L .Root and 11. Deid-
ricli of East Saginaw beeamesureties
on Cam'.s haiU>osid. If Aitkin \y])p
helped, defend Carr,-is "ji 'fair representative of the bar of Flint, that
town will protect its reputation by
keeping him at home hereafter.
flHAS.
A. LYON,
INSURANCE AGENT,
FARWELL,        -       -        MICH.
/COOLEY
& WELCH.
Painters; Paper Hangers and Kafso-
miners.
SHOP' AT W. GOODMAN & CO'S.
HARDWARE STORE,
Best of Paints and Oil Furnished and Lowest Prices.
Estimates when desired,
Orders left at Goodman's
store will be promptly attended to.
Q     SHELDON,
CARREHTER & JOINER.
£g&°*Satisfaction as to qnalit: of
work and charges guaranteed. Plan
and specifications furnished if desired.
ESTIMATES
:F5JI&SJ2SH2E» WSUEN 2BES21KL3E».
Residence, Sixth  St.
Union School.
3i-dec-85,
in  rear  oi
/CHOICE CIGARS
A2*I»   TOIBACCOES
 AT	
SP<
.gSfThe best oc and 30c cigars in
the market.
OWE US A TRIAL.
Speech of Kir. Potts.
ol»EXIX« ARGUMENT.
Mr. Potls made the opening argument for the People and spoke as
follows:
i     (ientteuwn ofthe Jury:    This case
! is not without difficulties for the rea-
j son that the crime ii.scl f waseommitt-
| ed in one of those  dens of infamy
i where every endeavor was made to
j conceal the criminal acts of its  inmates, and it is only once in a great
while that a woman will   come  out
from among her sisters in crime and
reveal to the  world   the  damnable
outrages they perpetrated behind the
scenes, as Daisy Young has  done  in
this case;   hence  it  is  exceedingly
difficult to get evidence of the specific acts and learn to a certainty who
the guilty purty is.
That a foul murder has been committed cannot be denied, for Dr.
Scott'sitestimony proves it beyond a
doubt. Ho sat by the bedside of the
wounded, bruised, suffering and dying girl, as she related to him the
fiendish treatment she had the day
or two before received at the hands of
Murphy within this respondent's
house of shame—colored it is true in
favor of Carr, but equally true in
proof of the fact that Frankie came to
her death by the fell
HAND OF AX ASSASSIN-.
The defense have claimed tliat Daisy
was not there; that the horrible tale
she told you from the witness stand
was only a fab relation, a thing that
existed only within her own mind.
Now, gentleman, was she there?
Did the eyes of Daisy Young behold
the horrid picture she so vividly described?   Let us see.   Her evidence
STANDS rNIMPEACHED. *
Probe after probe has been thrust at
her by the eminent counsel for the
defense upon cross examination, but
they only served to convince the
minds of all who heard, it, of the
truth of her statement; and sift her
as they would they have not varied
her testimony in any material point.
She 2ias given a perfect account of
herself and you have followed her
footsteps since, in lier purity and
spotless virguinity, she crossed old
ocean's heaving billows at the ago of
nine, from the si?midland of Spain,
until you find lieri'^fc'ige of twenty-
two a prostituted ,Wh?cK, un inmate
of this respondent^? brothel. She
does not deny that she has led a life
of shame, but I believe for all that
SHE TI'XLS THK-'mUTir.
But wo need not take her testimony
alone, she is corrnbomted by that of
another, one w'heseiiips are' now sealed in deatli* In yonder cemetery is
a little mound Jmllt by that great
mound builder, Death, on the IGth
of last June. Under it rests nil that
is left; on earth of the murdered girl
Frankie. She Iii|.v'i5i&iii before you
and has given lHT..Icstiinony. Up
at Meredith iu one of the front rooms
of James Carr's Ih'otliel, in the presence of uo one hut Uh Scott and her
God, and the srriiti' yisaged specter,
Death, she relab'd'l ''that she was
struck and knockijl . down, then
kicked and sfunnied'-upon, lifted by
the hair of the he-Ail find again kicked and .stumped upou. That she was
unable to arise but did uru» herself
to a bench and was t?ien assisted to a
loom by two other girls and placed
on a bed," She gave this testimony,
gave it in this court room through
the person of Dr. SeQtt, and, upeak-
ing as best .she eouI J,1{for she could
not control her Hjw). «Iio said that
"Murphy was her murderer." Daisy Young was noj*. in this court room
when Dr, Scott gave in his lestimo-
ny und did not liVitr'him state it,
but when .she took tin;.stand she told
tlie wime story—sjMdw of her "dragging herself to tliu l>e/i<;ji and them being ■jssistwj !»?^«^a t*3?*»T- "J§**'
BeliefBidcer to n rfyom "iind placed
upon n bed," She only differs in
this that she claims tliat this respondent did the striking and  kicking
Carr is innocent why need he be cast-"'
ing around for some defense before
he w charged with having committed a crime and after being charged
why need he be trying to suborn testimony for surely an innocent man
would scorn the telling bf a lie to
prove his innocence, and I firmly believe that a man who would willingly and without any compunctions of
conscience suborn testimony und
heap opprobrium on the head of the
silent dead who cannot in this court
defend themselves, would not hesitate to the taking of a human life on
the slightest provocation.
But Cnrr must have some defense
and tailing to get Dewey
TO   1AK IT   TJfl!OU<!ir
he produces his runners and they
•seek aiiionj; the sporting houses of
Saginaw and find three women who
have come before you and said that
Daisy was not there.
Mr, Potts then discussed   the  evidence of Mrs. Lufover, Biddy Casey
and her daughter .showing the absur-'
dity of Mrs. Lafever's testimony and j
the unreliable character of that of the |
other.    Also the evidence  of May I
Harvey, Nettie Evans and Bell Bak- |
er who swore tliat they sawno marks j
of violence on the !»erson of Frankie j
though they bathed her nt the time
they laid her out,  when   the  doctor
swore that the girl wus        *
lM,AClv AX I) muijb
from her ankles to her throat, showing they swore falsely in that and
hence could not be believed when
they swore that Dnwy.?wus not- at
Qtrr'rt t hi-«lt»r Frankie di.^1.
- ffe chased" r»y'»i.^#rHiVg ii'.vbeiltjf^n
the guilt of tUe prisoner snid sliid:
If guilty, he deserves the severest
punishment that human law can in
flict on earth and if there be a
until out-of breath and then turning j G()(, who presides over theaffiilrs and
to Murphy says. "JSow, God damn i tll,stlllierf of ,,,„„ c.in. wiU vet fw>1
her, you finish her!" that Muridiy t|,e hwivy hand of u rightieus judg-
then struck kicked and tramped up- j MlL.llt rL,stin<, „, vengeance on his
on her, wholly legardlessof her blood-stained and guiltv soul.
KKAXTIC C'lUES FOR MEKCV. j 	
Speaking as Frankie has through the
lips of Dr. Scott, is it not probable
that the  treacherous faculty  called
memory, has failed to remind him
that .Frankie said that Carr as well
as Murphy was instrumental in her
death, or is it not likely that the dying girl thought only of him who
last made this terrible outslaught upon her? The witness Daisy Young!
being thus corroborated I think Gentleman, that you must be satisfied
beyond all reasonable doubt that
she was there; but that is not all, for
Tracey tells you that he saw her
there on tho morning of the IGth of
June, when he went lo Meredith
with the coffin to get the body of
Frankie to bring to Harrison for burial. If Daisy was there I believe
Carr was there and I believe
he is GUEi/rr
for I believe Daisy tells the truth.
But what is the further evidence?
It is said on good authority that
when one commits a crime he immediately takes oteps to cover it up.
Thus we find Carr, even before the
Grand Jury was in session, saying to
the boy Dewey that "you can not
hurt a dead man and why not lay the
murder of Frankie onto Murphy?"
After the indictment was found and
Carr was arrested and put in jail and
Dewey is there also awaiting trial on
a charge of larceny, Carr and Dewey
by chance are thrown into the same
cell. Again Carr says -'you cannot
harm a dead man; what is the matter with laying the killing of Frankie off on Murphy?" and then tries to
get Dewey to swear that such was
the fact when Dewey was in Harrison, and not in Meredith, at the time.
Dewey is a lad to whom
CRIME IS NOT A STRAXGEIl.
He has been educated in Carr's
school for upwards of three years,
but even t.o him the thought of perjuring his own soul and heaping calumny on the head of the "dead was
too awful for him to contemplate
and ho tells Carr he cannot do it.    If
Crl-iclxiitif Jmelite  Hart.
AX' INCOMPETENT .TUIXiK.
The motion to admit Jim Carr to
bail was argued before Judge Hart
at Harrison on Monday, ancl the
Court grunted the motion, fixing bail
at $-1,000. This occasioned no surprise among those who know Judge
Hart whose skim milk treatment of
criminal cases has earned for him
considerable discredit in tliis part of
his district, but the fact that his decision was expected does not in any
degree lessen the intensity ofthe feeling of dissatisfaction. This feeling is
not confined to any particular set or
class but appears to be widespread
and general. A Press reporter interviewed thirty citizens of Clare
Monday evening—men representing
the professional, merchantile, mechanical and laboring classes and
failed to find one who had aught to
say of Judge Hart's decision save to
censuio hi.s course. Said one gentleman whose relations with the Judge
have been such as to acquaint him
thoroughly with his conduct: "This
admitting Carr to bail is in the line
of Judge Hart's action heretofore,
He is at any rate consistent, but to
tell the truth, he has no business on
the bench when criminal cases nre to
be tried. It may be tender hearted-.
ness which moves him to take the
course lie does, but it looks very
much as though he did not dare take
a chance, when there is a probability
that the Supreme Court might be
called upon to review any decision of
his."
Said another prominent gentleman: "Judge Hart has seemed to
lack courage in his treatment of persons charged with crime. It makes
it hard work and almost impossible
ble to do anything. Why, even before this trial, when Carr was first
arrested, ho intimated that he would
fix bail and no doubt would have
done so if a couple of the officers had
not stiffened his back bone a little by
some plain talk  as  to  the outrage
sueh a courso would be."
Another gentleman said : "I feel
disgusted. Thia trial has been a repetition ofthe course pursued in the
trial of Texas Jack. The jury was
called out after a few hours' deliberation, and discharged, thus putting
the county to another enormous bill
of .expense, just because it was Saturday afternoon and the Judge must
go home."      ' '
Still.another said: '\Iudge Hart
ought to resign. This is not his first
evidence of weakness but one in a
long train of acts which prove him
unfit for the position he holds. I do
not want to be understood as impugning his motivesorsuggeslingthathe'
is anything but an honorable gentleman, but he does lack the elements
of a'good trial Judge in criminal
cases." _.
COVJJTV   CHH1>?»CI.SS.
The People of Dover sire not at all
satisfied with the Carr verdict .and
they do not hestitate to express siir^-'
prise that one of their citizens, who a '
fow weeks ago Advocated lynching
Carr, was so- opinlonless when questioned by tW attorneys striking the
jury, and so suddenly Hiauged ail
his views, ,fiomo persons ascribe it
to the diet Canfield put him oil when
lie boarded at his house a. few days
liefore the trial commenced.
Bev. Mr.   Gilpin   of Clare,   Free
Methodist, is conducting a series of.
revival   meetings nt   the   Bradley-',
.j«sbfi6L!!<>uiUa',iHj5*^
right in the midst, of a' meeting, some
evil disposed person shied abigstcno-
tlirough a window into the building-
with the evident intention   of hurting the preacher.   The stone  struck
Mr. Gilpin after its force   was  somewhat spent.
One year ago last Friday a circus
visited the county seat,. the county
treasurer was robbed of $4,800, the
soap swindlers under the protection
I of the officers did a flourishing business, and not   the  first   move   was
I made to detect and arrest the crimi-
! nals who got away with the county's
j cash.
l    C. W. Sinclair  foreman   for Sam
I Sias of Midland, has put in over  o,-
I 000,000 feet of logs for the   Hoyt   es-
■ trte in 17-G, at Crooked Lake, besides
1 putting 1,2.10,000   in   the   Muskegon
! river.   He employed about ;3o men.
i
|    Presiding  Elder Sprague   visited
! Harrison last week and talked $300
j out of the people to help pay the
• church debt. But Sill) is back now.
j In the Circuit Court "Wednesday
! afternoon the jury rendered a verdict
j against Herbert Allen iu favor of his
I father David P. Allen, for $1203.
'    Prof. Palmer formerly of Clare, a
brother of Ex-Supervisor of Sheridan
j has gone into the newspaper business
: at Norwich, N. Y.
t
j    Bev. M. S. Gray formerly of Clare
j and Farwell,   has become  a   magistrate in the county of  Dufferin,   Ou-
j tario.
The Harrison dramatic company
| threatens to turn itself loose on the
I unsuspecting population ofthe county
i .';eat.
i
j A village ordinance prohibits busi-
; ness in Harrison on Sundays and the
j post office is kept closed on that day.
| Mrs. John Clark was voted the
j most popular lady present at a recent
; church social in Farwell.
j    Farwell has her off eye stenlfastiy
fixed on the proposed  railroad from
' the south.
j Twenty five hogs dedicated the
j new   pound  at   Harrison   the   first
i week.
i
; Green & Canfield, attorneys of Har-
| rison, have dissolved partnership.
Wheat is reported ia good condition-in all parts ofthe county.
Post Master Sears of Meredith,
moves back to Harrison,.
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