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$fele 1017E '' zD4011 esti relay the Aa in
the great 1t1•;rWarder arder trial lilttenedt
to "tae im,ppasllloned and eloquent top-
»eatsp of M. JObnettOkl and Mr. Xesune '
.0 Pehalt zit they twins who, are-- ace
elated et the xinitx4er of Willie wow.
Che Owing. pconef Qt.thia great tris
are Aa remarkable as those teaturee
whlcit have ail'gady tjtstingutshed it
AEI Qxie of 'the'2494 IVItl.axtele ih ortmt.
xta1 recorebl: rt'1to addr'es3 of /Be. Johfl-
titort occUpicti -012;„livors in nit, and
When etatrt.. adtaurned last evening
Mr. Lounte veho le recognized as ,ung
Of the most brilliant orators of the
Canadian Bar, , had spokenfor , two
boars, scarcely teaching, even in that
tilne. the great body o,f evidence
which hat; been piled Up day after day
fgr three weeks past. His address will
occupy all of to -day's sessions, Mr.
Osler opening to the jury Saturday
morning. ,
Thousands of • people yesterday
Sought admission, only to be turned
away. not even a foot of standing room
being available In the Assize loom.
The gallery was crowded more than
on any previous day by ladies who
were anxlons to hear the addresses of
the counsel. Mrs, Francis L. Wellman
occupied a seat at her husband's side
by the barristers' table. Mrs. E. F. B.
Johnston was present and heard the
pathett.tosing words of her husband's
greatAtthe close of Mr. Johnston's ad.
dress, Mr. Lount arose and began his
eloquent plea for the life of Harry Hy-
ams.
He said : ” It now falls upon my
shoulders to undertake a responsibility
which of itself alone is sufficient to de-
ter even the bravest man; a responsi-
bility which, while it is charged with
the very gravest consideration, I must
not avoid. I must give my very best
efforts to It, even though in the doing
of it I may to some extent be weari-
some in detail; and I may be obliged,
by reason of the long and splendid ef-
fort of my Learned friend who preced-
ed me, to repeat at some length, to
present to you in repetition, argu-
ments advanced by him and facts to
which he has alluded; yet I have to
pray your very best consideration—
your best attention—if I do appear
so wearisome.
" There is one thing at least I can
say In which you will agree with me,
that this long river of evidence that
has been flowing for the past three
weeks—rocks ahead, shoals and quick-
sands all around, troubles and diffi-
culties facing uee-is at last present-
ing, at least to me and I hope to you,
the prospect that we are at last out
in open sea; that the mysteries that
have surrounded this case as present-
ed by the Crown; that the ditiiculties
that have enshrouded us in the mas-
terful presentation of this case are at
last cleared away, and that there is a
harbor of refuge; that there f3 a rest-
ing place at last an sight; that the
agonized lives of these two men for
the Last nine months with the gallows
facing them; the rope dangling around
their necks, with the awful horror
of their situation; the terrible punish-
ment they have undergone; sufferings
Which outside of hell itself can scarce-
ly be more strongly depicted than
when ou have one man or two facing
deat after day, hour after hour,
night fter night; haunting them in
their sleep—ever with them—never
leaving them. I say it is a glorious
chance indeed and a glorious prospect
for them when they can safely feel
that all the efforts of the Crown to
bring conviction home to them have
failed. as I trust that you and you all
at last will say.
" Suspicions, almost only suspicions,
have magnified, built up and formu-
lated in the shape and the shape only
of crime, against these two men until
suspicion at last In the minds of many
takes the form of substance and of
facts; until suspicion engendered and
fostered by the press for the last nine
months has more or less, perhaps a
great deal more than there was any
right or cause for. produced in the
minds ofs many who have not heard
the cold, clear, unanswerable truth
which has been presented to you here;
and I implore you one and all to dis-
pel from your minds any one impres-
sion, any one thought, any one belief
that any one of you might have had
before you entered that fury box.
"I.do not ask it from sympathy. I
ask It as a right; I demand it for my
clients; it is your sworn duty and
obligation that, when yop determined
to try this case according to the evi-
dence and the evidence alone,
you should render your minds clear
and free from the slightest impress of
Past thoughts or past belief.
" The man who permits, on a trial
like this where life Is at stake, any
one thought, . any one impression to
prevail, does to himself a great in-
justice. It Is to ,these prisoners the
foulest wrong, and, as my learned
friend who has preceded me has said,
would be adding to this wrong legal
nyder. And I am sure I am talking
t elve gentlemen. who, having as-
s ed the responsibility to try this ir
question, will try It as the law directs,
and without the slightest influence pre-
vailing.
" One matter which I desire you to
have in full consideration is that we
are now on a trla1 after two and a
half years from the alleged, gftence;
that the memory of all those
who might have shed light
upon it is past and gone, and that the
Crown have here undertaken the re-
sponsibility of furnishing to you at
this date the treacherous and doubt-
ful memory of the past; the dangerods,
shifting, doubtful testimony of wit-
nesses who have shown their weak-
ness, shown their defects, shown their
impossibility to retain almost from
hour to hour that which Is, of import-
ance, and how can you trust memory,
so doubtful and so unworthy of confi-
dence or belief?
"When this young man died, when
there was suspicion in the air, when
the detectives were at work, when the
Crown officers were investigating,
when the Insurance companies were
giving their moat Important consider-
ation and thought to this death, when
all things were open and there was
no occasion for a doubtful memory,
this matter was investigated by that
class of Investigators and Investigation
which such an occasion demanded.
"Theft the doctor called upon
the scene, having before hint
all the circumstances as far as
eye'and ear could obtain ; the coroner.,
called for the same purpose and exer-
cised his beat judgment; and when De-
tectives Cuddy and Davis called and,
at the instance of the insurance com-
panies, I believe, applied all the skill
with which this force Is said to be
possessed of to the investigation of
this matter, and the answer to all that
investigation was absolute innocence,
no cause of suspi'Cion,no idea of wrong-
doing ; these prisoners remained here
In this city without the slightest at-
tempt at leaving ; they iived as they
had lived, they acted as they had act-
ed, they remained in their business.
they remained In their homes, they
did not flee from any suspicion of
guilt within themselves, but they were
here until February of title year, when
the arrest took place. Now, I ask you
with confidence to assume that when
these men Were asked to gg.o and in-
form the uncle, it being said here was
.Qmethtnt the ;Otto talked of% by the
toot that Mr. Cuddy~ woo tlnAktng stile«,
eq1 enquiry regarding -thleaUrefice,
that i9tetr tang hero, toting all,.
S1hAncee• rltltning 44 440, le enc: of the
strongest indloations ox .annetpel}ee that
You can po?ritl!lY Navel, eetleciully
where yon have then like these. that
.were hQund.,under no-olaligatipn to re-
main in this country ; glen who had,
according to .the Crown, Within a very
siert period atter the death of Wella,
obtained a large proportion Of this;
money ; Who were largely in debt, as
the Crown alleges, and who, if die -
honest persons, were at liberty tQ .6'O,
taking the fruits of their fraud with
them.
Innocence will stand and face the ac,
curer or face danger, but guilt will al-
ways, . more or less, seek some escape.
The very gltilty soul itself v'ould drive
the guilty man to flee from the place
Of danger to a place of safety,, We
have to take the proposition of the
Crown; It is for you to see how far we
Meet it.
"The press took it up and wrote those
villainous articles so their papers could
be sold upon the streets, or. to be at-
tractive. I ask your keeping that In
censideratlon, and endeavoring with all
the ability I possess, I appeal to you
not for their forgiveness, not for a
verdict resting upon any doubts you
may have, but an absolute acquittal
on the ground that they have been
shown to be wholly innocent."
Continuing, Mr. Lount said that it
was the duty of the Crown to establish
that there had been an unlawful death
before they dare impeach his client
with the guilt of murder. "Where is
the evidence upon which any man in
that box can say that an unlawful
death has taken place?" At the close of
the Crown's case, Mr. Lount cliamed
.there had been no such case made out,
and he asked for a verdict of acquit-
tal independent of the evidence for
the defence.
The theory of the Crown as to the
scheming of the prisoners for the plac-
ing gf the Insurance upon the life of
Wells for the purpose of slaying him,
and the succesful consummation of
these, plans in the death of Wells on
Jan. 16, 1893, was reviewed by Mr.
Lount, who said that if these circum-
stances could be satisfactottly ex-
plained by the defence, the whole Po-
sition of the Crown would be swept
away.
TILE WOULD OF SPORT.
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New Orleans, La., Nov. 28.—A Targe
crowd attended theraces to -day, and suc-
ceeded
uo-ceeded In making four favorites capture
the purses. Proverb, at 10 to 1, was the
only outsider to win. Summaries:
First race, mile—Norman, 2 to 1, 1; Tan-
ered, 15 to 1, 2; Major McLoughlin, 8 to
1, 3. Time 1.43.
Second race, 51/4 furlongs—Nythotas, 4 to
5, 1; Arsenic, 15 to 1, 2; Georgie Smith, 15
to 1, 3. Time 1.09x/%.
Third race, 11/4 miles—Lightfoot 0 to 1.
1; Marcel, 5 to 1, Peytonia, 4% to 1, 8.
Time 2.39.
Fourth race, 1 1-10 mules—Buckwa, 3 to 2,
1; Logan, 2 to 1, 2; Chattanooga, 3. Tim*
1.48.
Fifth race, 3g mile—Proverb, 10 to 1 14
Adahl, 15 to 1, 2; Elreno, 8 to 1, 3. Time
1.30%.
St. Asaph results : First race, 5% fur-
longs—Kitty Van, 6 to 5. 1; Balmoral, 2 to
1, 2; Bloodstone 3. Time 1.10%.
Second race. 434 furlongs—Penbrook, 2 tS
1, 1; Nantucket, 1 to 3, 2; Arabella, 8.
Time 56%.
Third race, 01/4 furlongs—Patti, 8 to 1, 1l
Avon, 2 to 1, 2; Joyeuse, 3. Time 1.281/4.
Fourth race, 6% furlongs—Con Luce
even, 1; Tribute, 3 to 5, 2; Dillon J., A
Time, 1.23'4.
Fifth race, % mile—Sonora, 7 to 10, 11
Eclipse Jr., 2 to 1, 2; Annie T., 3. Time
50.
Sixth race, % mile—Glorlana, 2 to 1, 1;
Ponce de Leon, 4 to 5, Billy Boy, 3.
Time 1.30%.
Lexington results : First race, 154 mile—
Ida Wagner 1, Chatterbox 2, Feast 3.
Time 1.00.
Second race, % mile—Font d'Or 1, Crum-
bnugh 2, Amy T. 3. Time 1.23.
Third race, 414 furlongs—Lode Lew's 1,
Bramble Leaf 2 Martin 3. Time: 1.80.
Fourth race, �i'4 mule—Mlllboy 1; Glad 2,
Annie M. 3. Time 1.20.
Fifth race, % mile—Myrtle 1, Rupee T.
2, Jennie Mills 3. Time 1.22.
Pimlico results : First race, % mile—
r'lorrle, 5 to 2, 1; Venetia, 8 to 1,
Heresy, 2 to 1, 3. Time 1.06.
Second race, g11 mile—Little Tom, 3 to 1,
1; Dlabolus, 2 to 1, 2; Sun Up, 8 to 5, 3.
Time 1.30.
Third race, 1 mile—Lady Atlanta, 8 to 5,
1; Fatal, 0 to 5, 2; Kerry flow, 10 to 1, 3.
Time 1.53%.
Fourth race, mile—Premier. 8 to 1. 1;
Levina, 2 to 1, 2; Volley, a to 1, 3. Time
1.481/{.
Fifth race, % mile—Shakespeare II., 4 to
1. 1; Whippany, 7 to 1, 2; Tremargo, 3 to
5, 3. Time 1.10%.
Sixth race, 1 1-16 mile9—Eelipse, 1 to 4,
1: Phoebus, 3 to 1, 2; Antidote, 10 to 1, 3.
Time 1.50.
Coaxing Corbett to Fight
Dallas, Tex., Nov. 28.—Dan Stuart de-
parted this morning fur New York to per-
sonally ask .)tunes J. Corbett to sign ar-
ticles for a light with Fitzsimmons, to
take place near 111 I'aso. Stuart will be
at the Great Northern Hotel, Chicago, on
Saturday.
TORONTO 3I t 1111.1 8.
Flour—There is very little doing, and the
feeling Is rather easter, owing to lower
prices of wheat. Straight rollers are
quoted at $3 to .$3.10, 'Toronto freights.
u
Bran—Market Is nehaaged. Bran Is
tooted at $11.50 to $12, Toronto freights.
Shorts. $13 to $14.50.
Wheat—Offerings are fair and the demand
restricted. White and red winter offer at
08c. but this 16 too high for millers. A
car of No. 1 Manitoba hard sold at 69c
west, and 73c Is asked for grinding In tran-
sit. No. 1 Is quoted at Ole, Midland.
fens --The market Is unchanged, with
sales to -day at 50c outside west.
Oats—The market is steady, with demand
moderate. White sold to -day at 2314,c to
24e. the latter middle freight. They aro
quoted at 251/4e on Midland.
Barley—There Is a moderate demand for
malting barley, and prices are flrm at 45e
for No. 1, 40e for No. 2, 35e for No. 3
extra. Feed barley 29e to 30c.
Buckwheat—The market is quiet and
prices steady. Sales we're made" to -day at
82e east.
Oatmeal—hominess quiet, with prices un-
changed at $3 on track, and small lots at
$3.25.
Corn—Trade dull and prices nominal at
3.3c outside.
Rye—The mar' l et is quiet, with the price
unchanged at 45e east.
Commission prices : Butter, choice OM,
16c to 171<4e; bakers', 10e to 18e: pound
rolls, 18c to 20e; large rolls, 14c to 151.42e;
creamery tub at 20e to 201/%e, and rolls nt
21c to 22c. Eggt are firm at 17c to 1714a,.
per dos. for ordinary, 141/2e to 15e for
limed, and20e for new -laid. Cheese,
Sept., 9'/c td 10c.
BRITISH MARKETS.
Liverpool, Nov. 28,—Wheat—Spring• no
stock ; red, 58 241 to 5s 38; No. 1 Califor-
nia, 5s 3d to 5k 4(1; corn, 38 334d; petty,
4s 118; pork. 55s Od; lard, 27s 9d; heavy
bacon 27s 6d; do., light, 28s Od; tallow,
no stock; cheese, white, 44s Od; do., col-
ored, 45s.
London, Nov. 28.—Opening—Wheat off
coast nothing doing, nn passage rather
worse. English country fftnrkets steady.
Maize ott coast quiet, on passage dull.
Liverpool—Wheat futures steady at 5s
1%d for Nov. and Dec. and 58 21/4d for .inn.
Maize quiet at 3s 8%d for Nov. and Dee.
and 8s 21,ld for Jan., Feb., March and
April. Four l7a 38.
Paris wheat 18f 75c for Dec. and flour
41f 50c for Nov. and Dec.
Liverppool-Close—Wheat futures steady
at 5s Nyd for Dec. and 5s 21,01 for Jan.
Maize steagqy at 8e 81/4d for Nov. and Dec.
and 8s 2eed for Jan., Feb. anti March.
Flour 17s 38.
London—Close—Wheat off coast nothing
doing. Maize off coast nothing doling, on
passage easy.
Paris wheat dull at 18f 40e for Dec. and
flour weak at 41f 25o for Nov. and Deo.
LATEST CABLE NBP
The Sultan Be Itataa: About
AUmttting Warehlps.
STILL MORE MASSAiGRES`SEPURTED
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An Italian Weedily Stopped tit elite sham
er the 1Mrdauellee—The Ilergple or
Ililte Doiegle>Allgount reel—lord
War'ltworth Elected for South
lien inrt•u.
Constantinople, Nov. 28.•—Despite the
assurance given to, Sir Philip Currie.
the British Ambassador, by Tewfik
Pasha, the Turkish Minister of For-
eign Matra, that each power would
be permitted to send an additional
guard -ship to the Bospherue, the Sul-
tan has not yet granted the requisite
permits for their entrance through the
Dardanelles. The hesitancy of the Sul -
turn in the neatter, it is understood,
Is due to his fear that the movement
of the powers to increase the number
of their guard -ships in the Bosphorus
is merely designed to mask an ulterior
demonstration of the naval forces. It
Is thought, however, that the Sultan
will yield to the demands of the Pow-
ers in view of the unanimous pressure
they are bringing upon nim, otherwise
it is probable that the powers will
send gun boats into the Bosphorus
Without waiting any longer for the
Sultan to issue flrmans permitting
them to enter.
The Italian despatch boat Archlmede
has arrived at the entrance of the
Dardanelles. 'She has not been allowed
to pass in and is now awaiting the
instructions of the Italian Govern-
ment,
Another Frlehtful Massacre.
London, Nov. 28.—The correspondent
of the United Press in Constantinople
telegraphs under date of Nov. 27, that
a second terrible massacre has oc-
curred at Marash and five houses
have been pillaged without regard to
who their occupants might be. It is
reported that thousands of persons
were killed and many hundreds wound-
ed. The American theological semi-
nary was plundered and burned and
two of the students at that institu-
tion were shot, one being fatally
wcunded. The hotels and boarding
houses also were plundered. The
Christians at Marash and in that vici-
nity, thousands of whom are destitute,
have appealed for aid.
M. Nelidoff, the Russian Ambassa-
dor to Turkey, has had an audience
with the Sultan, during which he
warned him that if serious disturb-
ances should occur at Constantinople
the foreign fleet would penetrate the
Dardanelles. The Sultan admitted to
M. Nelidoff that the powers had a
right to the admission of a second
guard -ship to the Bosphorus, but re-
newed his request that they should not
insist upon that right. He urged that
the promised reforms were progress-
ing and that the approach of an era
of reform. was shown by the appoint-
ment of six inspecting Judges, of
whom three were Christians. Despite
the assurance of the Sultan to the con-
trary, the arrest of Armenians In
Constantinople has been renewed,
though there is no sign of an uprising
or resistance to the laws on the part
of Armenians in Constantinople. Thou-
sands of them,however, are reported
to have been frightened into conver-
sion to Moslemism.
The United Press representative in
Constantinople telegraphs tinder yes-
terday's date that news has been re-
ceived from Zeltun that on Novem-
ber 13th a force of 15,000 Armenians
under a Russo -Armenian leader cap-
tured the fort occupied by Turkish
troops. In the attack upon the fort
dynamite was used by the Armenians
with great effect.
Twenty thousand Turkish troops are
said to be advancing upon Zeitun from
all sides, it being the intention. It is
understood, to raze that place to the
ground.
Rumors are in circulation In Con-
stantinople that a dreadful massacre
occurred at Alntab on Nov. 17th.
The Government has prohibited all
telegraphic communication with that
place so it is impossible to get any in-
fc,rmation in regard to the reported
massacre.
IBALFOUR. BNTEVCED.
The Wrecker of the Liberator Ralldln¢
Society Gets Fourteen Years.
London, Nov. 28.—Phe court -room
was crowded this morning when Jabez
Spencer Balfour and his fellow -de-
fendants who have been twice found
guilty of frauds in connection with
the Liberator Building Society and
other kindred companies were arraign-
ed for sentence. Balfour was very
gloomy and spoke not a word to any
one near him.
The court sentenced Balfour to 14
years' imprisonment, seven years for
each conviction. Brock was sentenced
to nine months' and Theobald to four
months' imprisonment. Wright and
Dlbley were discharged. The jury
found them not guilty. The remaining
charges against Balfour and his as-
sociates were dropped.
Vlseount Peel Defeated.
Edinburgh, Nov. 28.—The Marquis
of Bute has been re-elected Lord Rec-
tor of the University of St. Andrew's.
H13 opponent was the former Sir
Arthur Wellesley Peel, now Viscount
Peel, late speaker of the House of
Commons.
Floods In the Caucasus.
St. Petersburg, Nov. 28.—Extensive
floods prevailing in the Caucasus have
caused great damage to the Trans -
Caucasus Railway. Communication .is
entirely suspended between Tiflis and
Batoum.
Lord Warkworth Fleeted.
London, No 28.—Lord Warkworth,
eldest son of Earl Percy. has been
elected to the seat in the House of
Commons for South Kensington, made
vacant by the elevation of Sir Alger-
non Borthwick (now Lord Giencorse)
to the peerage. Lord Warkworth. as
In the case of his predecessors, is a
Conservative and was elected without
opposition.
Faster Time with the Malys.
London, Nov. 2.—The mails landed
by the steamer Fuerst Biamarck at
Plymouth this morning were deliver-
ed in London six hours earlier than
her mills were accustomed to be de-
livered when they were landed at
Southampton. The Hamburg-Amerl-
can steamship officials are welt satis-
fied with the result of this first ex-
periment of their ships calling at Ply-
mouth, instead of Southampton on the
eastward trips and will make the
change permanent it the next trials
are as satisfactory as this one.
Dr. Attlwardt C•mleg to America.
Southampton, Nov, 28.—Dr. Ahl-
wardt, the anti-Semitic leader in the
German Reichstag. is a passenger on
board the steamer Spree,- which sailed
from Bremen Nov. 26, and Southarilp-
ton Nov. 27. for New York.
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Is quite as nice or as highly prized by your best
friends as a
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And no no Portraits are quite as nice as FOSTER'S.
We make allsizes from Sunbeams to 20x24
direct from life, without enlargement.
To. small sizes .we have some very pretty
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Mountings
for Christmas Plaques, Shells and Horse
Shoes. We ordered a lot but only succeeded in get-
ting a few.
e Has it occurred to you that it is only three
W
e ks till Christmas Day . You had better come
in NOW and sit for yours, that we may have
plenty of time to get them finished.
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HORACE FOSTER, Photographer,
Beaver Block, Clinton..
PLUMSTEEL Et. GIBBING&
Retiring
Sale, ■
Many wonderful Bargains the outcome of the gigantic
—Clearing Sale.—
Don't forget when looking for Bargains that we haye lots of them, prices that cannot
be got outside of our place. Profits are not considered. Our object is to sell our
whole Stock as quickly a -s possible. We have sold a large quantity of Goods but our
Stock is yet large in most departments. We mention below a few lines that are sell-
ing away down below anything ever offered before in this Town.
MANTLES. . .
Ladies' Mantles, less than Half Price.
DRESS GOODS.. .
Large Stock to choose from, less than wholesale.
MILLINERY. . . .
Full and desirable Stock of Millinery, (fix your own
Prices.)
TWEEDS... .
Full Stock of Tweeds, Worsted and Scotch Suiting at Im-
ported Prices.
Many lines in Ready made Suits and Overcoats.
See our heavy Frieze Overcoats at $6; they beat every-
thing. '
BOOTS and SHOES. .
We still have left a lot of Boots and Shoes at less than
they can be made for. .
If when buying you fail to buy from us you are losing money; come at
once, as the Bargains won't always last.
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PLUHSTEEL & GIBBINGS.
Clinton, Nov. 29th, 1895.
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