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"
We
admit
the
existence
and
charm
and
potent
love
spell
of
the
mysterious
Miss
X
and
her
letters
,
which
we
have
not
been
able
to
introduce
here
,
and
their
effect
on
this
defendant
.
We
admit
his
love
for
this
Miss
X
,
and
we
propose
to
show
by
witnesses
of
our
own
,
as
well
as
by
analyzing
some
of
the
testimony
that
has
been
offered
here
,
that
perhaps
the
sly
and
lecherous
overtures
with
which
this
defendant
is
supposed
to
have
lured
the
lovely
soul
now
so
sadly
and
yet
so
purely
accidentally
blotted
out
,
as
we
shall
show
,
from
the
straight
and
narrow
path
of
morality
,
were
perhaps
no
more
sly
nor
lecherous
than
the
proceedings
of
any
youth
who
finds
the
girl
of
his
choice
surrounded
by
those
who
see
life
only
in
the
terms
of
the
strictest
and
narrowest
moral
regime
.
And
,
gentlemen
,
as
your
own
county
district
attorney
has
told
you
,
Roberta
Alden
loved
Clyde
Griffiths
.
At
the
very
opening
of
this
relationship
which
has
since
proved
to
be
a
tragedy
,
this
dead
girl
was
deeply
and
irrevocably
in
love
with
him
,
just
as
at
the
time
he
imagined
that
he
was
in
love
with
her
.
And
people
who
are
deeply
and
earnestly
in
love
with
each
other
are
not
much
concerned
with
the
opinions
of
others
in
regard
to
themselves
.
They
are
in
love
--
and
that
is
sufficient
!
"
But
,
gentlemen
,
I
am
not
going
to
dwell
on
that
phase
of
the
question
so
much
as
on
this
explanation
which
we
are
about
to
offer
.
Why
did
Clyde
Griffiths
go
to
Fonda
,
or
to
Utica
,
or
to
Grass
Lake
,
or
to
Big
Bittern
,
at
all
?
Do
you
think
we
have
any
reason
for
or
any
desire
to
deny
or
discolor
in
any
way
the
fact
of
his
having
done
so
,
or
with
Roberta
Alden
either
?
Or
why
,
after
the
suddenness
and
seeming
strangeness
and
mystery
of
her
death
,
he
should
have
chosen
to
walk
away
as
he
did
?
If
you
seriously
think
so
for
one
fraction
of
a
moment
,
you
are
the
most
hopelessly
deluded
and
mistaken
dozen
jurymen
it
has
been
our
privilege
to
argue
before
in
all
our
twenty-seven
years
'
contact
with
juries
.
"
Gentlemen
,
I
have
said
to
you
that
Clyde
Griffiths
is
not
guilty
,
and
he
is
not
.
You
may
think
,
perhaps
,
that
we
ourselves
must
be
believing
in
his
guilt
.
But
you
are
wrong
.
The
peculiarity
,
the
strangeness
of
life
,
is
such
that
oftentimes
a
man
may
be
accused
of
something
that
he
did
not
do
and
yet
every
circumstance
surrounding
him
at
the
time
seem
to
indicate
that
he
did
do
it
.
There
have
been
many
very
pathetic
and
very
terrible
instances
of
miscarriages
of
justice
through
circumstantial
evidence
alone
.
Be
sure
!
Oh
,
be
very
sure
that
no
such
mistaken
judgment
based
on
any
local
or
religious
or
moral
theory
of
conduct
or
bias
,
because
of
presumed
irrefutable
evidence
,
is
permitted
to
prejudice
you
,
so
that
without
meaning
to
,
and
with
the
best
and
highest-minded
intentions
,
you
yourselves
see
a
crime
,
or
the
intention
to
commit
a
crime
,
when
no
such
crime
or
any
such
intention
ever
truly
or
legally
existed
or
lodged
in
the
mind
or
acts
of
this
defendant
.
Oh
,
be
sure
!
Be
very
,
very
sure
!
"
And
here
he
paused
to
rest
and
seemed
to
give
himself
over
to
deep
and
even
melancholy
thought
,
while
Clyde
,
heartened
by
this
shrewd
and
defiant
beginning
was
inclined
to
take
more
courage
.
But
now
Belknap
was
talking
again
,
and
he
must
listen
--
not
lose
a
word
of
all
this
that
was
so
heartening
.
"
When
Roberta
Alden
's
body
was
taken
out
of
the
water
at
Big
Bittern
,
gentlemen
,
it
was
examined
by
a
physician
.
He
declared
at
the
time
that
the
girl
had
been
drowned
.
He
will
be
here
and
testify
and
the
defendant
shall
have
the
benefit
of
that
testimony
,
and
you
must
render
it
to
him
.
"
You
were
told
by
the
district
attorney
that
Roberta
Alden
and
Clyde
Griffiths
were
engaged
to
be
married
and
that
she
left
her
home
at
Biltz
and
went
forth
with
him
on
July
sixth
last
on
her
wedding
journey
.
Now
,
gentlemen
,
it
is
so
easy
to
slightly
distort
a
certain
set
of
circumstances
.
'
Were
engaged
to
be
married
'
was
how
the
district
attorney
emphasized
the
incidents
leading
up
to
the
departure
on
July
sixth
.
As
a
matter
of
fact
,
not
one
iota
of
any
direct
evidence
exists
which
shows
that
Clyde
Griffiths
was
ever
formally
engaged
to
Roberta
Alden
,
or
that
,
except
for
some
passages
in
her
letters
,
he
agreed
to
marry
her
.
And
those
passages
,
gentlemen
,
plainly
indicate
that
it
was
only
under
the
stress
of
moral
and
material
worry
,
due
to
her
condition
--
for
which
he
was
responsible
,
of
course
,
but
which
,
nevertheless
,
was
with
the
consent
of
both
--
a
boy
of
twenty-one
and
a
girl
of
twenty
-
three
--
that
he
agreed
to
marry
her
.
Is
that
,
I
ask
you
,
an
open
and
proper
engagement
--
the
kind
of
an
engagement
you
think
of
when
you
think
of
one
at
all
?
Mind
you
,
I
am
not
seeking
to
flout
or
belittle
or
reflect
in
any
way
on
this
poor
,
dead
girl
.
I
am
simply
stating
,
as
a
matter
of
fact
and
of
law
,
that
this
boy
was
not
formally
engaged
to
this
dead
girl
.
He
had
not
given
her
his
word
beforehand
that
he
would
marry
her
...
Never
!
There
is
no
proof
.
You
must
give
him
the
benefit
of
that
.
And
only
because
of
her
condition
,
for
which
we
admit
he
was
responsible
,
he
came
forward
with
an
agreement
to
marry
her
,
in
case
...
in
case
"
(
and
here
he
paused
and
rested
on
the
phrase
)
,
"
she
was
not
willing
to
release
him
.
And
since
she
was
not
willing
to
release
him
,
as
her
various
letters
read
here
show
,
that
agreement
,
on
pain
of
a
public
exposure
in
Lycurgus
,
becomes
,
in
the
eyes
and
words
of
the
district
attorney
,
an
engagement
,
and
not
only
that
but
a
sacred
engagement
which
no
one
but
a
scoundrel
and
a
thief
and
a
murderer
would
attempt
to
sever
!
But
,
gentlemen
,
many
engagements
,
more
open
and
sacred
in
the
eyes
of
the
law
and
of
religion
,
have
been
broken
.
