The Wrong Man — page 73: what you’re looking at

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Iming evidence that has come in like the resistless tide of the ever-sou ose, ocean, I have been nearly overcome. Used as Iam to attending on the most extraordinary criminal cases that has ever come before the courts of this continent—used as I am to witnessing the most revolting cases of anarchy and crime on record—used as I am, I say, to all this, never, gentie- men, never in all my extensive practice, have 1 sot on a case that has harrered up my nature like this one. No, gentle- jaen, never. re Mr. Scroggs crooked his fore-finger and gouged his right eye, as if some of the saw-dust had worked its way into it.] * When we consider the character of the unfortunate deceased, his many virtues, and few, if any, vices—when we consider these, | say, the horrible magnitude of this crime makes its enormity unparalleled in the records of our nation, He who has fallen by the assassinator’s knife, gentlemen, is Mr. Edward Overton, a gentleman well known to you all [a voice, supposed to be Nathan Dodge's, ‘ Known a little too well] And all who have thus known him can testify to his many virtues, too nu- merous to mention, Mr. Edward Overton, gentlemen, was a man sucb as is rarely met with now-a-days. [* Thank the Lord fer that!) The voice resembled that of the tin peddler.] A man without a family, he never forgot the widow and the fa- therless; their wants would ever be uppermost in his noble thoughts. “Though unconnected with any church, I understand he was a regular communicant, dispensing his charities with as al hand as does the dew of the morning. Rising with the k, his time, until the setting of the sun, was occupied in en- deayoring to ascertain by what means he cuuld benefit his fel- low-creaiures. Further than this, gentlemen, he was in the habit of making extensive journeys through the trackless for- ests. And you, gentlemen, will be surprised when I tell you what I have just learned was the oblect of these extensive jour- - . meys through the trackless forest, The reason why these exten- ; an journeys through the trackless forest was made, was in order to accumulate, gentlemea, enough means to found a re mgt yee should stand as an everlasting monument afler wee th!” og _ ‘.. Mr, Scroggs here paused, and took a chew of tobacco, in or ze. to notice the effect of this wonderful fiction. Great us was _. the respect. the villagers entertained for their attorney, he was going it too strong” for them. Had Mr. Edward Overton heard his own eulogy, he must have protested. But, Mr. | was working on the feelings of the jury; working on ings of the jury, Mr. Scroggs considered his particular ‘es, gentlemen, to found a church, which, through ning ages, should stand as a living monument of the ” : all *